Poor dude lost wrote:
Where was he supposed to go?
Behind the guy holding the tape
Poor dude lost wrote:
Where was he supposed to go?
Behind the guy holding the tape
i'm special wrote:
who cares about tape? wrote:
I don't really understand why breaking the tape is important. Most races don't even have a finish line tape. I've won lots of track and road races, and have never broken a finish line tape myself. Never once did the absence of a tape for me to break bother me.
Some people want to feel special. For some it's breaking the tape. For others, like you, it's a sneaky little humble brag (or more likely a fabrication).
What is objectively more special about winning a race with tape than a race without tape?
Why is she lingering at the finish? She ran a 2:52. She is a hobby jogger. Just shuffle on and get the heck out of the way!
Watch Here wrote:
...Doesn't seem to be intentional, but how do you not see the tape and know it's not for you? ...
Yeah, it was intentional. Did you see his fist pump and smirk on his face?
Amateur code wrote:
This is the same race that got hoodwinked by the Russian manager and her doped-up Kenyans a few years ago. Another time the half-marathon leaders were sent off course. It’s amateur hour.
And there was this screw up as well:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6472338Slow Men Versus Fast Women wrote:
I watched the video and she is emoting exactly what I feel when Mr. Slow Random Back of the Mid Pack sprints past you, just to get to the finish line ahead of your high placing in the womens' race. I sometimes shout at them to race the other men, which of course they can't, because they're too slow, but I usually reserve that remark for that annoying man who sticks to my feet like glue, so that I act as an unofficial pacemaker for his effort at sub 20 minutes.
However, if you ever develop breasts, periods, a wide pelvis, shrink in height to nearer the average woman's height, have a tiny amount of testosterone but large amounts of oestrogen and progestogen, and all the other biological differences that make men faster than women but unable to give birth, then do feel free to criticise my running performance compared to you. Because you are much slower than me, comparatively. Men who can't race the other men, who get gratification out of sprinting in front of women at the finishing line and calling women 'slow' are pathetic. You have all the physical attributes to be faster, but you're still the same speed as a woman who is biologically very different from you.
Just race the other men.
Excellent post. Post of the year!!!
Men who find themselves finishing near women are deserving of our ridicule. They should immediately stop trying their hardest and run right behind the woman to ensure he doesnt accidentally finish in front of her. Men who kick in hard at the end of a marathon are pathetic unless only men are near them. Trying to run your best despite not being the best in the world is absolutely pathetic.
In fact, we should have a cutoff in races where if a woman is in front of you at the mid way mark, you are required to tie a hobble around your ankles to handicap you and ensure that you cant sprint into the finish line.
It's a good thing we have people like "Slow men versus fast women" capable of reading men's minds so that we know the intention of the men around her as she runs her blazing, world class "sub 20 minute 5k."
Watch Here wrote:
https://twitter.com/steveslivka/status/1122537848685592576?s=20
Seems like a lot being made of nothing. Guy kicks in hard to finish his first marathon. Tape is in the way, filling the entire finish line, so he has no other way to finish but through it. He just finished a marathon, he isnt going to be thinking really well.
Woman who was womens winner says "@sshole" one time and then drops her hands to her knees to catch her breathe.
Man comes back and appears to apologize. Woman appears tired and doesnt respond initially.
Woman recovers a bit and shakes man's hand and walks away.
I'm not seeing either of them doing anything wrong. Had he been thinking clearly, I suspect he would have maybe tried to duck the tape or something, and after he has recovered a bit apologizes. Woman appears to have just said "@sshole" as an outburst in the moment of the end of a race. Also probably just a heat of the moment thing. A minute later she shakes the guys hand without any suggestion of being angry with him.
Nothing to see here, in my opinion, other than a somewhat humorous moment caused by the staff of a low key marathon not thinking of details.
can't go on wrote:
just some real thoughts wrote:
The volunteers holding the tape should have known better. The guy looks like he also ran the full marathon, not some half marathon waddler, and it looks like they directed all the full marathon runners to that side of the cones. So he might have been confused why there was a tape but he wasn't going to cross the cones to finish in the HM line and he didn't really have time to get out of the way of the tape. But the volunteers should have known they were holding the tape for the first female runner and they appear clueless of that fact as they made no effort to signal them in the right direction.
What a tragedy. How can the volunteers go on with their lives knowing that that've made such a grave and costly mistake.
This was a teachable moment. In the future the volunteers may be able to do better.
ashole wrote:
Watch Here wrote:
...Doesn't seem to be intentional, but how do you not see the tape and know it's not for you? ...
Yeah, it was intentional. Did you see his fist pump and smirk on his face?
Definitely, I saw the same thing . Put the little lady in her place .
No big deal. Semenya does this all the time. Expected to see “her” pic in the article.
Hounddogharrier wrote:
ashole wrote:
Yeah, it was intentional. Did you see his fist pump and smirk on his face?
Definitely, I saw the same thing . Put the little lady in her place .
Actually, probably celebrating finishing his first Marathon and qualifying for Boston.
This snafu was completely the fault of the organizers.
That’s right wrote:
that guy would be a legend if he would of slapped her on the ass then broke the tape
Would of could of should of
darkwave wrote:
you're not special wrote:
So men aren't allowed to kick at the end if they're near a woman? How about a young guy, is he allowed to out-kick a masters runner? Am I allowed to pass the 13 year old that starts like a bat out of hell and fades 1200m in? Just run your own damn race and stop caring about what other people are doing.
As a woman, if you are near me at the end of a race - PLEASE kick. DO whatever you can to beat me and to run your best race - I'll only run better because of it. I HATE it when guys "let me win." (or alternately, when I outkick them and then they claim they let me win)
Breaking tape is fun but jeesh. It really doesn't sound like the guy intended to, and any fault should lie with the race for the set up, not with someone who was simply trying to run his best.
Marry me?!
He had a narrow path even to pass her, which he had every right to do, of course, because you race all the way to the finish in a marathon like any other race, and she was probably as upset that he had just passed her as that she didn't get to break the tape, but he literally had nowhere to go to cross the finish line with them holding the banner across the entire finish line. Moreover, he appeared to wait around until she was upright again to apologize and she appeared to accept his apology. So, he did the right thing all around and she was wrong to get upset. Is this a big enough deal to scrutinize her personal life and running career and to create a thread to criticize her on an international forum? Absolutely not. Get over it. People do worse on a minute by minute basis on a drive into work. And that was actually quite a solid performance for her. She's dropped 15 minutes in the past three years and is now not that far from the old OT qualifier.
This is a bigger scandal than that time Rupp didn't appear to shake hands with the other competitors at the conclusion of a 10,000m race.
Kieruna wrote:
This happened to me in a 5k. I laughed afterwords and asked one of the race workers if they got a photo of it that they could post online. Boys are just dumb and oblivious sometimes.
Lemme guess, you were just doing a 'tempo run'?
This is now acceptable behavior for women but imagine if a man called a woman this regardless of the severity of the offense? The guy would be pushed out of society. Women claim that they want equality but they really want equal pay for lesser performance in sport, they want to be able to curse at a guy but have a guy thrown in jail if he curses at her, and they still want a guy to pay even though they demand equal pay for lesser work.
Systemic feminist wrote:
This is now acceptable behavior for women but imagine if a man called a woman this regardless of the severity of the offense? The guy would be pushed out of society. Women claim that they want equality but they really want equal pay for lesser performance in sport, they want to be able to curse at a guy but have a guy thrown in jail if he curses at her, and they still want a guy to pay even though they demand equal pay for lesser work.
stone cold truth
(except the very last statement about paying maybe)
And being a pediatric doc has you set for life.
veryoldman wrote:
There's a race management company on Long Island that sets up a tape for most of the finishers!
What a shame. Maybe we should boycott any races put on by this company?
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year