Why did the World Marathon Majors for making Lauren Fleshman remove a temp tattoo before the NYC Marathon? How do they have the power to do that? What fines and penalties would she be subject to?
Why did the World Marathon Majors for making Lauren Fleshman remove a temp tattoo before the NYC Marathon? How do they have the power to do that? What fines and penalties would she be subject to?
What the hell are you talking about? Link?
She wrote GoldenPalace.Com on her face before NYCM.
She was advertising a website that is operating against the law in the US. I'd say they can do whatever they want in that scenario.
Dude, your first sentence makes absolutely no sense.
Really? A bunch of marathon organisers have jurisdiction to police international cyber law?
You really should go back and read what you wrote.
Check this out and then check out the Flo track vid & NY Times article that mentions it.
http://trackandfieldathletesassociation.org/news.php?id=39
- (via @Nsymm800)
Sheesh, people.
"I had a bit of a traumatic pre-race experience. I misunderstood the rules of the marathon. I start I could promote Picky Bars with a body tattoo because in some races you can. But with it being a World Marathon Majors, I can't. So I had a doctor with alcohol pads chafing the crap out of my arms, legs and back. It took about 20 minutes and because of it I only had 8 minutes. It's my fault because I had the rule book, but it is kind of stupid. I can't even promote my own company."
She graduated from Stanford?
M M M wrote:
"I had a bit of a traumatic pre-race experience. I misunderstood the rules of the marathon. I start I could promote Picky Bars with a body tattoo because in some races you can. But with it being a World Marathon Majors, I can't. So I had a doctor with alcohol pads chafing the crap out of my arms, legs and back. It took about 20 minutes and because of it I only had 8 minutes. It's my fault because I had the rule book, but it is kind of stupid. I can't even promote my own company."
She graduated from Stanford?
Where'd you graduate from dumbf*ck?
M M M wrote:
"I had a bit of a traumatic pre-race experience. I misunderstood the rules of the marathon. I start I could promote Picky Bars with a body tattoo because in some races you can. But with it being a World Marathon Majors, I can't. So I had a doctor with alcohol pads chafing the crap out of my arms, legs and back. It took about 20 minutes and because of it I only had 8 minutes. It's my fault because I had the rule book, but it is kind of stupid. I can't even promote my own company."
She graduated from Stanford?
Elaborate. Are you implying that no Stanford grad would ever overlook a section of a rule book?
Joe Mama wrote:
How do they have the power to do that? What fines and penalties would she be subject to?
They have the power to do that because they are a private organization which has the right of association (and not to associate).
Fines ane penalties would be limited to such things as forfeiture of prize money, disqualification, not being allowed in future races, etc. Unless there were specific monetary penalties in any sort of appearance contract she signed, those would have to be enforced through a civil breach of contract action.
M M M wrote:
"I had a bit of a traumatic pre-race experience. I misunderstood the rules of the marathon. I start I could promote Picky Bars with a body tattoo because in some races you can. But with it being a World Marathon Majors, I can't. So I had a doctor with alcohol pads chafing the crap out of my arms, legs and back. It took about 20 minutes and because of it I only had 8 minutes. It's my fault because I had the rule book, but it is kind of stupid. I can't even promote my own company."
She graduated from Stanford?
What does her college have to do with it? You expect Stanfor grads to not ever make a simple mistake?
Why would she even be worried about the WMM rules if she is not in the running for WMM prize?
Seriously? You believed the GoldenPalace.com joke?
She was slightly misquoted in that transcript, but you expect them to talk like Victorian royalty?
joho wrote:
What does her college have to do with it? You expect Stanfor grads to not ever make a simple mistake?
Why would she even be worried about the WMM rules if she is not in the running for WMM prize?
I'm sure she was paid an appearance fee and had travel costs covered, which gave ING the leverage to enforce their rules with her. For the average shmoe, you can dress however you want.
I'm saying her quote is borderline incoherent. What is "It took about 20 minutes and because of it I only had 8 minutes" even supposed to mean?
joho wrote:
What does her college have to do with it? You expect Stanfor grads to not ever make a simple mistake?
Why would she even be worried about the WMM rules if she is not in the running for WMM prize?
It is not a WMM major rule, it is a IAAF rule and because the event is adhering top IAAF standards (presumably because it is a WMM event) then her breaking the rule would cause her to be disqualified and forfeit certain parts of her appereance contract / incentives.
She was prepared to start her warm-up with 30 minutes to use. It took 2 minutes for them to spot and realize the violation. Then it took 20 minutes to remove the tattoos and that left 8 minutes for her to warm-up.
That was pretty easy to get, not sure why you had a problem with it. Maybe you are just slow.
Rules are over-rated.
Picky Bars are really good, by the way
"She was prepared to start her warm-up with 30 minutes to use. It took 2 minutes for them to spot and realize the violation."
Where does it say that?
"Where does it say that?"
We Ivy League, Stanford and Chicago grads were able to infer it pretty easily from the context of her statement. Sorry it passed you by.