Oregon's Tanguy Pepiot -- Early Celebration Fail

Soprano wrote:

Slow news month wrote:

Agreed.

Losing an early season race at a triangular by .1 second. LRC keeps it plastered over the home page for 4 days and counting. Pepiot admits it was a learning experience.

I agree with those who are surprised that this has generated so much attention. Even the European websites have picked it up and are showing the video. Things like this have happened before without going viral and this wasn't even the most blatant example of premature celebration I've seen ... not by a long shot. I don't know if it's just because it was Oregon though. I doubt that random sports sites in Ireland care more about Oregon than they do other major NCAA schools. Maybe it is because Pepiot is French.

I resent your comment though, that we've had this "plastered over the home page for 4 days" or that we've only reported on it because it was an Oregon runner. First, it has only been a major story on the home page for one day, today. (I guess tomorrow will make two since I'm not deleting it.) Before the story went viral worldwide today, we had only given it a small mention. Here are our home page archives for each day:

Saturday (when it happened): No mention -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/11/

Sunday: Small headline in the college section, no more hyped than any other article -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/12

Monday: Still the same small headline pushed way farther down the page than it was on Sunday -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/13

Tuesday: A big story as we point out how the video went viral and got picked up by ESPN/Yahoo/etc -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/14

Really, what is more newsworthy than the event itself, is the fact that it has become so newsworthy in general among the non-running media. Getting picked up by ESPN, Yahoo and others was surprising.

messi wrote:

Soprano wrote:

I agree with those who are surprised that this has generated so much attention. Even the European websites have picked it up and are showing the video. Things like this have happened before without going viral and this wasn't even the most blatant example of premature celebration I've seen ... not by a long shot. I don't know if it's just because it was Oregon though. I doubt that random sports sites in Ireland care more about Oregon than they do other major NCAA schools. Maybe it is because Pepiot is French.

I resent your comment though, that we've had this "plastered over the home page for 4 days" or that we've only reported on it because it was an Oregon runner. First, it has only been a major story on the home page for one day, today. (I guess tomorrow will make two since I'm not deleting it.) Before the story went viral worldwide today, we had only given it a small mention. Here are our home page archives for each day:

Saturday (when it happened): No mention -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/11/

Sunday: Small headline in the college section, no more hyped than any other article -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/12

Monday: Still the same small headline pushed way farther down the page than it was on Sunday -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/13

Tuesday: A big story as we point out how the video went viral and got picked up by ESPN/Yahoo/etc -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/14

Really, what is more newsworthy than the event itself, is the fact that it has become so newsworthy in general among the non-running media. Getting picked up by ESPN, Yahoo and others was surprising.

You have no concept of news media if you didn't think this would be picked up by mainstream media. I saw the original broadcast and even Pac12 Network showed it....just the last 50 meters (nothing more).

Good god man, in this day & age of 24/7 media blitzing, of course it was going to be noticed by all media agencies.

You can't hide in this day & age. Do you think anyone will ever forget Anthony Weiner's weiner?

messi wrote:

Soprano wrote:

I agree with those who are surprised that this has generated so much attention. Even the European websites have picked it up and are showing the video. Things like this have happened before without going viral and this wasn't even the most blatant example of premature celebration I've seen ... not by a long shot. I don't know if it's just because it was Oregon though. I doubt that random sports sites in Ireland care more about Oregon than they do other major NCAA schools. Maybe it is because Pepiot is French.

I resent your comment though, that we've had this "plastered over the home page for 4 days" or that we've only reported on it because it was an Oregon runner. First, it has only been a major story on the home page for one day, today. (I guess tomorrow will make two since I'm not deleting it.) Before the story went viral worldwide today, we had only given it a small mention. Here are our home page archives for each day:

Saturday (when it happened): No mention -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/11/

Sunday: Small headline in the college section, no more hyped than any other article -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/12

Monday: Still the same small headline pushed way farther down the page than it was on Sunday -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/13

Tuesday: A big story as we point out how the video went viral and got picked up by ESPN/Yahoo/etc -

http://www.letsrun.com/archive/2015/04/14

Really, what is more newsworthy than the event itself, is the fact that it has become so newsworthy in general among the non-running media. Getting picked up by ESPN, Yahoo and others was surprising.

You have no concept of news media if you didn't think this would be picked up by mainstream media. I saw the original broadcast and even Pac12 Network showed it....just the last 50 meters (nothing more).

Good god man, in this day & age of 24/7 media blitzing, of course it was going to be noticed by all media agencies.

You can't hide in this day & age. Do you think anyone will ever forget Anthony Weiner's weiner?