A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course
A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course
A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.
A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.
On the one hand, seems he earned his place. On the other hand, they should have stopped him running when there was still a chance to protect the (maybe literal) sensitivities of other racers and observers. Enforcement only after he finished is just stupid.
Put another way, if he does it merely to do it, as many runners do, what's to stop him doing it again and again, knowing his personal results will not only be shared with him, but likely the papers?
They wanted him to fail so they could bemoan the evils of smoking. When he succeeded the resorted to bureaucracy to rob him of his prize.
fastest runner I've ever run with (in the army) chainsmoked two newports before running the 2 mile apft. He ran 4:19 the first mile, 4:46 the second. My lardass was lapped. Fucker was already on cig #3 when I crossed the finish line @11:30. Had mercury wings tattooed on his ankles. Shit blew my mind.
Petty little people. Give the man his due!
Yeah who cares what he smokes . Is it evwn in the rules . Just give the man what he earned
No mad lads allowed
Smoke is bad but nicotine is an upper. Maybe that makes is less bad in the short term? Or maybe when helpful?
it's also a vasodilator/bronchodilator. Not a good one, not one you'd want to use for performance enhancement, but yeah.
As someone who stopped smoking when I was 12y old I'm impressed
Why do I feel like I have seen this photo before? So weird.
This happened two years ago, and was a Twitter meme. You may have saw it in 2022
It happened this year on the 7th of January, at least to my understanding:
Uncle Chen, nicknamed the 'Smoking Brother', managed to complete the Xiamen Marathon in three hours and 33 minutes on January 7 this year.
It does feel very familiar, glad I'm not alone. I feel like he looks like some asshole business exec who was disgraced for some reason? Could be way off though
Man proves that smoking is a massively propagandized topic and all the popular rhetoric really amounts to prohibition and behavior control.
Gets behavior controlled.
Exceptions to the rule don't make the rule obsolete. How many smokers do you know that could reliably run any distance further than 800m? I don't know any, but I do know plenty of people that quit smoking because it was inhibiting their exercise. Being a human that grew up in an area that normalized tobacco consumption and played sports, I've tried cigarettes. It absolutely affects performance in a very negative way. He completed the marathon in spite of his smoking, and would have performed better even if he stopped for a couple weeks beforehand and immediately resumed smoking after.
False equivelency.
How many Karens and Kens soaking their undies in bleach do you know who could reliably run any distance further than 800m?
Fuck off propaganda guzzler.
Don't feed the troll, guys. Either this guy is just playing with you, or he probably also believes the earth is flat or something. There are few things so well scientifically explored as the plethora of different negative consequences of smoking, so if he would be interested in realistic insights, he would stumble across studies and answers everywhere himself easily, so that is definitely not the case. Also, there are plenty of longterm extremely harmful drugs that might even increase ones performance short term, so this runner obviously didn't prove anything to anyone.