The tradition of finishing tape needs to end - it cost Kejelcha a WR

Armstronglivs wrote:

video proof wrote:

Sydney McLaughlin agrees with the topic creator:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu1tdTInmIS/

And how many world records has she set? I'd rather hear from someone like Snell, who put quite a few records to rest through a finishing tape. He had no complaints - and nor am I aware of any from any other past record breaker. We are in the realm of fanciful excuses. Typical of this era.

watch the video - she was holding the tape and it tripped someone. Her caption was "I’m sorry.. but I can’t hold anymore tapes. People are falling all over. "

watch the video wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

And how many world records has she set? I'd rather hear from someone like Snell, who put quite a few records to rest through a finishing tape. He had no complaints - and nor am I aware of any from any other past record breaker. We are in the realm of fanciful excuses. Typical of this era.

watch the video - she was holding the tape and it tripped someone. Her caption was "I’m sorry.. but I can’t hold anymore tapes. People are falling all over. "

Are they really? I've seen runners trip regularly without tapes. But wasn't the point of the thread that the tape slows winners down, not that it is a hazard to also-rans?

times change wrote:

it cost Kejelcha a WR...

Technically, Kejelcha not running faster than the world record cost him the world record.

You're a Doorknob wrote:

times change wrote:

it cost Kejelcha a WR...

Technically, Kejelcha not running faster than the world record cost him the world record.

That's too simple and obvious. But right.

More proof that finishing tape is stupid:

a motorcycle drives through the tape in a road race - the driver has to duck under it so it doesn't cover his eyes.

https://youtu.be/ytUriYqAPc0?t=39

more proof wrote:

More proof that finishing tape is stupid:

a motorcycle drives through the tape in a road race - the driver has to duck under it so it doesn't cover his eyes.

https://youtu.be/ytUriYqAPc0?t=39

More proof that the argument is stupid. How many runners are 4' tall, or the tape lined up eye and not chest level?

Armstronglivs wrote:

more proof wrote:

More proof that finishing tape is stupid:

a motorcycle drives through the tape in a road race - the driver has to duck under it so it doesn't cover his eyes.

https://youtu.be/ytUriYqAPc0?t=39

More proof that the argument is stupid. How many runners are 4' tall, or the tape lined up eye and not chest level?

More proof that you are stupid. You don't know how to read, as I wasn't even talking about a runner. I said driver. And you didn't even watch the video.

more proof wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

More proof that the argument is stupid. How many runners are 4' tall, or the tape lined up eye and not chest level?

More proof that you are stupid. You don't know how to read, as I wasn't even talking about a runner. I said driver. And you didn't even watch the video.

Read the title of the thread, moran.

I was thinking about finish tape when I saw a pic of a non-binary runner (jacob caswell) going through one at a road race in NY. I thought, how did they know he was the first nb runner? Did they use diff color bibs? But also, finishing tape can help a female know she wins in smaller races. One time I shockingly won a small local charity 5k, in which there was a 10K that looped the 5k course twice (there were 3-4 women ahead of me, but they were doing the 10k), and I wasn't sure when I crossed the finish line that I had won. Thank goodness for just a couple people in that final stretch who said "first place female!" or something like that. I could have gone home clueless, except I may have stuck around to see if I won an age group medal. A finishing tape would have made it obvious to me. But it also would have helped if someone organizing it came up to me at the end and said "congrats, you were the first female finisher" but no one did that. Everyone knew who the first guy was and were congratulating him. It was kind of a weird day now that I look back on it.

Sorry I reread that and it sounds whiney. I realize smaller races don't do finishing tape and it was really likely the fault of the organizers that I was so confused. My time wasn't that great anyway.