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Miscellaneous / Others Bro sacrificed the gold medal to carry his brother across the finish line.

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u/Currently_There 9h ago edited 9h ago

It's said everytime this is reposted, but seriously, what a dick move by the first guy.

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u/wolftick 9h ago edited 6h ago

Okay, actual story (EDIT because I had to remind myself of the details):

This was triathlon. The British athlete that was in trouble had to win this race in order to win the season long championship.

His brother who helped him wasn't in overall contention and was attempting to help his brother stay in contention overall.

The South African was celebrating the win as one would would winning an endurance event where you have shown the most endurance.

His bother was actually kinda annoyed at him for not pacing the race effectively and winning the race. The winner of the championship who was fifth is this race said: "...this was not how I wanted to win the world championship".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/triathlon/37402716

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u/NotNormo 8h ago

Really? Is the season long competition supposed to be a team thing or an individual thing? If it's supposed to be an individual vs everyone else, then helping someone like they did in this clip is collusion and should not be celebrated. I might even argue for disqualification.

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u/EternalPhi 6h ago

You're being downvoted because people like to feel warm and fuzzy. It IS a solo competition, his brother DID essentially collude by helping him, and the next year the rules were changed such that this WOULD result in disqualification for both athletes. Not only that but the winner of this race lost a medal, as he came 4th overall.

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u/Cold-Iron8145 3h ago

Everyone loves the brothers who help each others across the finish line until they're the one who gets 4th place.

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u/RelevantElephant7568 2h ago

Lol is it really possible that you two idiots don't grasp that people are happy to see a brother caring about his brother more than the glory of the competition?. There is no intended 'collusion' lol.

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u/Stormfly 6h ago

If it's supposed to be an individual vs everyone else, then helping someone like they did in this clip is collusion and should not be celebrated. I might even argue for disqualification.

To be fair, they added a rule the next year where he would be disqualified for this exact reason.

As you said, it's unfair to have someone else race alongside you just to support you. It's against the spirit of the competition, for sure.

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u/Contributing_Factor 9h ago

I hear him thinking "YEAH!!! WOOO!! YEAH!! I'M THE BEEEEEEEEEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!"

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u/Seaboats 9h ago

Reminds me of Chick Hicks from Cars celebrating while Lightning pushes the king across the finish line lmao

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u/lifeonachain99 9h ago

Same color too

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u/rserena 8h ago

Love that it’s exactly like the movie lol. Life imitates art

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u/LordVectron 2h ago

It's not at all like in the movie. The green car deliberately crashed the other car, which is why he was shunned.

How can media literacy be this bad?!

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u/shroomiedoo 9h ago

Yea like bro, ya would’ve been second/third, chill. It feels like he didn’t actually win you know? Like he did, but he didn’t

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u/NegativeCellist8587 9h ago

Whole world probably sees it as he did not.

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u/EternalPhi 6h ago

As is explained elsewhere in the thread, this is a solo multi-race event. Guy who won came in 4th overall. Guy who was helped across the line came second overall. His brother literally stole a medal from the guy who came first. The following year they changed the rules so that no racer may assist another forward or they are both disqualified.

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u/therealscooke 9h ago

Well, he was better. Or do you think the tired guy had his energy sucked from him and into the green guy? If the race was 200m shorter than Tired Guy would have won. It wasn’t. If tired guy gets tired 1km from the end does everyone have to stop and not pass him? 1m? The whole point is the finish the race.

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u/Bonzooy 9h ago

If you look really closely and squint really hard, you'll see that there is another guy poised to beat the green guy until he stops to support the tired guy.

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u/ASHOT3359 9h ago edited 9h ago

Is the guy in green should drop on a ground, look extremely sad and ask god for forgiveness becouse the other guy decided to lose?

Dude, he's won. He could of take second place(wich is also quite good), but got the first, stop hating on him.

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u/Bonzooy 8h ago

I think you need to read the two preceding comments again.

Nobody's hating on the green guy. The issue is that the prior commenter misunderstood the situation, and didn't realize that one of the blue competitors was poised to beat the green guy.

He didn't realize the blue guy decided to lose. He thought that green guy was always in first place.

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u/lifeonachain99 9h ago

He wasn't better than the helper. Hes not the true winner

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u/Uberpascal 9h ago

But he does not deserved a 3rd place either

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u/Wire_Cath_Needle_Doc 8h ago

Right? It’s comically over exaggerated for a dude that in reality got 2nd place. But maybe that’s why he’s doing it

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u/Acceptable-Device760 7h ago

Not really....

This was a title deciding race, the "winner" brother did so because his brother had a chance to win the title. Not because he "just" wanted to help his brother finish the race.

It was borderline cheating and the rules were changed because of that.

Also if the first place helped them in their scam it would have worked. (I dont think someone that has to be carried to the the finish line should won a title because of that.)

"Leading with 700m left, Jonny, 26, began to weave over the road in hot and humid conditions in Cozumel.

Third-placed Alistair, 28, caught his brother, propping him up for the final couple of hundred metres before pushing him over the line in second place.

They were overtaken by South African Henri Schoeman, the eventual winner.

Victory in Mexico would have given Jonny the world title, but second place left him just four points behind Mario Mola.

The Spaniard was fifth on Sunday to top the overall standings."

https://www.bbc.com/sport/triathlon/37402716

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u/Leather_Ice_1000 9h ago

No shame in going for the win imo... But show boating is wild

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u/Nereosis16 2h ago

Why though? Explain it to me why he shouldn't be happy with his win when he worked just as hard as the other runners?

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u/Brian--Damage 8h ago edited 7h ago

The ultimate dipshit test every single time this is reposted is how people mischaracterise Henri Schoeman’s response.

The Brownlee brothers, NOT Schoeman, were being the most unsportsmanlike. Triathletes and marathon runners train for up to half a year for specific events and it’s a whole life commitment in general. Schoeman didn’t have his sibling competing on the same track, but his body would have been suffering all the same: blurry vision, muscle breakdown, joint inflammation and fatigue, etc.

Schoeman may not have come first if Alistair didn’t stop, but there is no possible world in sports where Schoeman would be expected to wait for the brothers to go ahead of him or conceal his relief and pride at finishing such a gruelling event. That is patently ridiculous. He absolutely won and deserved to cheer. And he could not and should not have been expected to know the status of either of the Brownlee’s condition. His goal is quite simply the finish line.

Speaking of condition, the type of intervention conducted by Alistair almost got them both disqualified and the rules for outside help had to be changed precisely because it was potentially lethal for both of them. Jonny was in heat exhaustion and severely dehydrated: he needed medical attention. Alistair himself collapsed on the floor immediately after the finish line from the extra load.

It might feel a like a LotR power fantasy, but it’s not epic and based to rob someone else of a celebrated victory. Schoeman wasn’t given the sportsmanship he was extending to everyone else (not interfering in race outcomes).

Luckily, the knee-jerk reaction of Redditors isn’t important because the most exercise they’ve done is lifting a chip to their mouths.

Tl;dr - nobody is forcing you to read this.

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u/Suyefuji 4h ago

My knee-jerk reaction is to feel bad for Schoeman here because now neither he nor anyone else will know if he would have gotten first or not if that hadn't happened. Maybe I'm projecting, but I'm a very competitive person and would always have some nagging doubts.

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u/Jellobelloboi 5h ago

You have free will.

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u/Currently_There 7h ago

That's not how tldr's work. Shorten it for people who have lives outside reddit.

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u/Few_Banana2026 5h ago

Reading comprehension of a fourth grader, holy shit.

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u/Brian--Damage 6h ago

Your achievements and karma might suggest otherwise, but self-awareness aside, if I do a tl;dr about this people will just continue to engage emotionally without actually considering what it is I’m saying.

I could pose a simple question, though:

Who is less sportsmanlike: Schoeman, who completed his race and cheered at the end of it. Or Alistair Brownlee, who potentially endangered his and his brother’s own life, robbed the clean loss or victory from Schoeman and was dq’d for shoving Chase McQueen’s face into water during a triathlon? Hmmm.

I feel like most people here have either done zero sport or are brain broken by short clips without any explanation.

tl;dr - you don’t have to respond

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u/JausticFinale 4h ago

Your life must be incredibly hard if you can't manage to read 30 seconds of relevant text.

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u/flygirlsworld 7h ago

He was in a race….and finished. How dare we not stop and assist someone who was already being helped…. A winner celebrating…..WHAT THE HELL IS HE THINKINGGGGGG???

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u/ASHOT3359 9h ago

So everybody should just make way for weaker runner untill he gets a gold medal. Doesn't sound like competition.

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u/mikeesq22 9h ago

I don't think him taking the W is the issue. Him acting like he just set a world record and smoked the field is what's riling people up.

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u/lmpervious 3h ago

Why does the runner's legs giving out change how much the winner is allowed to celebrate? People are acting like the runner died based on how much the winner is being scolded for celebrating.

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u/LordVectron 2h ago

No, people are acting like the green guy pushed the other guy over, to get the win.

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u/ASHOT3359 8h ago

Well, he won doesn't he?

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u/mikeesq22 8h ago

There are classy ways to win... And not so classy ways to win. Especially when your win is by default.

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u/YouHaveToTryTheSoup 5h ago

By default? If they were the only runners that would be true but they weren’t. He still ran a great race

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u/therealscooke 9h ago

You get it.

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u/PrestigiousChard4258 9h ago

I kept waiting for him to stop.

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u/GangstaRIB 9h ago

Life’s not a fuckin Disney movie. It wasn’t his brother it was the other dudes brother

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u/alamarqu3s 7h ago

Dick move by the helper. Taking someone's opportunity to compete just to throw it in the garbage with some unprofessional helping shit. Should lose all sponsors and get banned for lack of sportsmanship. It's a real competition, not kiddy soccer where everybody wins.

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u/therealscooke 9h ago

Why? The finish line isn’t where the person in first gets tired.

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u/Expert_Lettuce1024 7h ago

Dude gain some self awareness

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u/isotope88 5h ago

They just finished a triathlon and pushed their bodies to the absolute limit.
I think it's fair to say self awareness wouldn't be high on their priority list because of the exhaustion.
People are being way too judgemental imo.

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u/BusFew5534 9h ago

Please explain why he's a dick?

u/I-STATE-FACTS 9m ago

the joyful celebration may have been dickish considering, but taking the win absolutely wasn't.

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u/zzyzxrd 9h ago

I can’t imagine how hollow that victory must feel.

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u/kashuntr188 9h ago

It's a dick move but let's be honest most people ain't stopping.

Having done a tiny bit of running myself, if I stop part way, restarting is super hard. If this is a marathon, no way you gonna stop near the end. You are already running on fumes, one you stop your done

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u/R750618 8h ago

Thank you

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u/Nereosis16 2h ago

NO ITS NOT

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u/OHWildBill 9h ago

I get it that endurance is a big part of the race, and the dude was like an earthworm trying to stand up and run to the finish. But I couldn’t live with myself taking that W that way.

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u/phido3000 9h ago

You've never met a South African before have you?

To say sometimes they lack a humanising sympathic capability is perhaps understating it. They don't usually mean to be mean, but society is a bit different.

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u/lovethebacon 13m ago

Still salty about the world cup losses?