Alan Webb was extremely rude to the flower girl

take the f***ing flowers assho wrote:

after the race that girl keeps following him around trying to give him the flowers and he just keeps turning away. what a f***hole webb is

Well, that effing french audience lived up to it's appalling reputation once again, by being dead silent once Webb had won. Taking the flowers under these cicumstances would be odd, imho.

Webb wins, thrashes the world, runs a PB, and LetsRun wants to know about the flowers. Fvck me!

marijuologist wrote:

I like the flowers, there's something elegant about giving flowers to the winner of a race. it's kind of like the olive branch wreath used at the olympics

Ask Baala how elegant it was when Webb beat his ***. Does he need flowers to commemorate the event?

Maybe the flowers should have been given to the grieving Baala.

I am all for traditions, so give the winner an olive branch wreath. Do not give victorious men flowers!!! Women? No problem. Men – no flowers!!

If you want to give the men flowers on the victory stand to throw to some girls in the crowd, great! Just don’t do it after a guy just beat some of the best on the planet!

marijuologist wrote:

I like the flowers, there's something elegant about giving flowers to the winner of a race. it's kind of like the olive branch wreath used at the olympics

Ask Baala how elegant it was when Webb beat his ***. Does he need flowers to commemorate the event?

Maybe the flowers should have been given to the grieving Baala.

I am all for traditions, so give the winner an olive branch wreath. Do not give victorious men flowers!!! Women? No problem. Men – no flowers!!

If you want to give the men flowers on the victory stand to throw to some girls in the crowd, great! Just don’t do it after a guy just beat some of the best on the planet!

AdamLocked wrote:

Totally agree. I wouldn't take the flowers either. I would spike them on the track. Or I would hand them over to the second place finisher. Seriously, did Webb just finish a ballet or a 1500m?

There are more elegant ways to do it--toss them to the crowd, for example. Nearly as quick, a much better gesture.

It's not his fault if *they* don't want flowers.

The only person who he can take water or drink from is the drug test escort. He or she carries a bottle for the winner.

BTY that is who I though the flower girl was and I was wondering why she had flowers. The drug escort is annoying in how closly he or she follows the athlete around making sure nothing is taken eaten or drank until the test..

BLCH wrote:

marijuologist wrote:

I like the flowers, there's something elegant about giving flowers to the winner of a race. it's kind of like the olive branch wreath used at the olympics

Ask Baala how elegant it was when Webb beat his ***. Does he need flowers to commemorate the event?

Maybe the flowers should have been given to the grieving Baala.

I am all for traditions, so give the winner an olive branch wreath. Do not give victorious men flowers!!! Women? No problem. Men – no flowers!!

If you want to give the men flowers on the victory stand to throw to some girls in the crowd, great! Just don’t do it after a guy just beat some of the best on the planet!

I also noticed how he was ignoring the flower lady, but I think he took the flowers eventually when they gave him the flag. I'm sure he had other things on his mind other than flowers. There is nothing wrong with giving flowers to men.

Stallions get flowers.

Horses really don't have a choice. Even stallions.

Plus that tradition is oer 100 years old. That is actually pretty cool.

I'd say Webb seemed legitimately preoccupied by the momentous nature of what he'd done and he wasn't intentionally shunning the flower girl.

The flowers are kind of a nice tradition, but winning athletes almost never keep them. By almost never I mean... never. Sometimes they just toss them into the crowd. At the Millrose Games once, a winning athlete actually handed them to me. Who was it? Well...the least liked female middle distance runner by this site's visitors. I gave them to my coach to give to his girlfriend.

Well it's now true that that the flower boy is avoiding his gayness so lets letsrun bash him.

HA! LOL you're a little rough on the edges but handing flowers to Baala for his mourning is pretty hilarious.

Yes, flowers would make him gay, which is supposedly not masculine, and he wouldn't win anymore. Good choice, Webb!

The flower girl was just doing her job...it's not like she really cared if he took them or not..I don't know why they have flowers at these things anyway...radition I guess.

Just take them smile and know your helping a flower girl earn her minimum wage.

Blue Poweraid, to be exact.

marijuologist wrote:

THEY DID give him a water bottle after the race! watch the freakin video

BLCH wrote:

I also noticed that he didn't take the flowers.

How stupid are the flowers???? Honestly.

It happens all the time in T&F, but it is VERY lame.

Have you ever seen Ladamnian Tomlinson take a bouquet of flowers after a touchdown? Or Shaq taking a bouquet after a monster dunk??? Or Beckett after he scores a goal? NO! And, you never will.

Why should Alan Webb take a bouquet after he figuratively dunked on the world of milers?

Go Webb. Don’t take the flowers!!

true, but i feel like it would be more like shaq taking the flowers after being the highest scorer of the game. wouldnt that seem a bit more reasonable?

nonetheless, it is rather annoying that someone's trying to force something like flowers (as opposed to water or a towel like someone suggested) right after you just ran the race of your life

I have it on the highest authority that the flower girl is a ho.

Flower girl was cute. If I'd just run a 3:30.54 and wanted to celebrate in style, being in France and all, I'd grab the flowers and give her the sloppiest French kiss she'll ever get. Loads of tongue, right down to the track. That'd give the Frogs something to remember other than their boy getting his butt kicked.

It's fine that he didn't take it right away, but eventually when she's there for the tenth time you should take it and not wait anymore. Bla bla bla he's tired bla bla he just ran a personal best, whatever, its just etiquette to take the flowers regardless of how good of a tradition it is or the situation with the French crowd. He's taken flowers before after tough races, and there was never a problem...

he seems like a nice guy he just won the biggest race of his life. He had a lot going on in his head