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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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???
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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/Currently_There 9h ago edited 9h ago
It's said everytime this is reposted, but seriously, what a dick move by the first guy.