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/
Bix 7 Winner Silas Kipruto Attempts To Slap Competitor During Race
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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.
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Africans are weak. I wish directors would allow more "incidental contact." Would love to have seen a bigger American give them love taps.
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If someone is clipping your heels he probably deserves to be slapped.
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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 -
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. -
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. -
I'd like to see Leo Manzano have a crack at them.
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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. -
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. -
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? -
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. -
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. -
That sh1t is funny as he11
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He learned from the master.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7o6gnP98g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbxfKavcCdA -
Wimpy punch...his right is not nearly as formidable as Alexa Efraimson
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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
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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.
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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.
