Bix 7 Winner Silas Kipruto Attempts To Slap Competitor During Race

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  • your benevolent dictator

    LetsRun.com

    Member since 08/12/2009.

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    9 years ago 07/31/2016 7:29am EDT

    Kenyan Silas Kipruto won the Bix 7 road race yesterday, but not after some unusual conflict. Around mile 5, Kipruto took a swing at Ethiopia's Teshome Mekonen who apparently Kipruto felt was making contact with him from behind.

    Mekonen ended up finishing 8th and filed a protest against Kipruto, but officials determined that Kipruto had not done anything “flagrant" and elite athlete coordinator John Tope said he was told it was “incidental contact.’’

    Video of the altercation:

    http://kwqc.com/2016/07/30/bix-winner-silas-kipruto-attempts-to-slap-competitor-during-race/

    Photos:

    http://qctimes.com/sports/running/bix7/photos-kipruto-s-swipe-that-led-to-bix-protest/collection_6e008a93-b1bc-5a7b-958e-078fcdac54c7.html#1

    Race Recap:

    http://qctimes.com/sports/running/bix7/kipruto-s-knowledge-of-course-key-to-third-bix-victory/article_fe233c99-e994-5bb0-9771-2d83366fedec.html

    Results:

    http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/07/2016-bix-7-results-silas-kipruto-mary-keitany-win-elkanah-kibet-brianne-nelson-top-americans/

  • registered

    YMMV

    Member since 05/18/2016.

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    9 years ago 07/31/2016 8:01am EDT
    re: LetsRun.com

    Our sport needs more 118-lb roid-raged Kenyans for the comic relief. Reminds me of the IAAF World Cross slapfight a few years ago.

  • Weak

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 8:10am EDT
    re: YMMV

    Africans are weak. I wish directors would allow more "incidental contact." Would love to have seen a bigger American give them love taps.

  • old guy 70

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 8:11am EDT
    re: LetsRun.com

    If someone is clipping your heels he probably deserves to be slapped.

  • Country Mike

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 8:13am EDT
    re: LetsRun.com

    Potential Quad Cities Times headlines:

    "Kipruto Bix-slaps Elite Field" by W. Earp

    "The Kipruter Film: Frame By Frame Analysis", by O. Stone

    "Kipruto's Phantom Punch KO's Mekonen" by S. Liston

  • RI red

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 8:27am EDT
    re: Country Mike

    Country Mike wrote:

    Potential Quad Cities Times headlines:

    "Kipruto Bix-slaps Elite Field" by W. Earp

    "The Kipruter Film: Frame By Frame Analysis", by O. Stone

    "Kipruto's Phantom Punch KO's Mekonen" by S. Liston

    Touche!

    Seems like more of a "fly swat" than a slap.

  • Gentle Giant

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    9 years ago 07/31/2016 8:52am EDT
    re: Weak

    Yeah like maybe Chris Solinsky.

    Weak wrote:

    Africans are weak. I wish directors would allow more "incidental contact." Would love to have seen a bigger American give them love taps.

  • Davenport Potato

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 9:22am EDT
    re: Gentle Giant

    I'd like to see Leo Manzano have a crack at them.

  • what a guy

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 9:46am EDT
    re: Weak

    Weak wrote:

    Africans are weak. I wish directors would allow more "incidental contact." Would love to have seen a bigger American give them love taps.

    Are you serious?

    Let's look at reality.

    165-pound Chris Solinsky dives into a potted plant when a 120-pound African muscles into his line.

    That was some great incidental contact. Classic video if you can find it.

  • what a guy

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 9:51am EDT
    re: old guy 70

    old guy 70 wrote:

    If someone is clipping your heels he probably deserves to be slapped.

    Exactly.

    Classic Ethiopian to run on someone's heels all race then point like a b!tch when that someone responds.

  • messi

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 9:57am EDT
    re: what a guy

    Is it any surprise it was an Ethiopian doing this AKA clipping of the heels?

    Well? Didn't we just have a thread about World Junior 1500 (girls)? Well?

  • Cody, WY

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 10:02am EDT
    re: Weak

    Weak wrote:

    Africans are weak. I wish directors would allow more "incidental contact." Would love to have seen a bigger American give them love taps.

    Except that the Americans are nowhere near the front, tough guy.

  • Videos available

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 10:05am EDT
    re: what a guy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2trh16OQUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ52NEk-MwQ

    Here are the videos

  • holad

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 11:06am EDT
    re: YMMV

    YMMV wrote:

    Our sport needs more 118-lb roid-raged Kenyans for the comic relief. Reminds me of the IAAF World Cross slapfight a few years ago.

  • holad

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 11:07am EDT
    re: LetsRun.com

    That sh1t is funny as he11

  • registered

    kikKomen Soi sauce

    Member since 10/23/2015.

    409 posts. Last post 5 years ago.
    9 years ago 07/31/2016 12:37pm EDT
    re: holad

    He learned from the master.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7o6gnP98g

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbxfKavcCdA

  • JoJoCo

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 1:12pm EDT
    re: LetsRun.com

    Wimpy punch...his right is not nearly as formidable as Alexa Efraimson

  • walk west

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 2:11pm EDT
    re: LetsRun.com

    Kipsang, Jemima, kamwowor, all have been tripped. I feel like it just goes to show the degree to which Kenyans have their head in the game, now we're seeing a little enforcing, no big deal

  • registered

    Tyrone ReXXXing

    Member since 06/01/2015.

    2,081 posts. Last post 9 hours ago.
    9 years ago 07/31/2016 2:18pm EDT
    re: walk west

    Look, if BB didn't get DQ'd for winding up and shoving Avila, and Teg didn't get dq'd in that road race (Providence, US 5k champs?) where he charged across the road and barreled into the East African dude, then this guy's non-slap doesn't deserver a dq, that's for sure.

  • george oscar bluth

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/31/2016 3:27pm EDT
    re: Weak

    Weak wrote:

    Africans are weak. I wish directors would allow more "incidental contact." Would love to have seen a bigger American give them love taps.

    Tegenkamp shoulder-checked an African runner in a road 5k for similar reasons.

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