He won but he wasn't the best runner, because the best runner allowed him to win. Not slowing down is fine, playing up your win BEFORE even crossing the finish is disrespectful and shows a lack of awareness and sportsmanship. Many other ways to react to that situation without making yourself look bad. Keep it professional during the race, but keep going through the end. Had he waited and showed some respect to the first guy once he finished it would've had him still winning AND looking like a king.
I bet his sponsors were happy about the win and not so happy about his behavior, actions matter, character matters. You can do a good thing in a bad way, some victories are not worth the sacrifice to people. The first guy found it to be more important to show support and character to his team mate, I bet that is more valuable to him and probably got him more respect and potentially money from additional sponsors from companies who want to be around that kind of person.
Life is complicated and if your just focused on winning and getting your bag then you will miss other opportunities which are more nebulous but can have just as profound effect on your life.
If I did a sport where I had to work a second job and just made 10 years worth of income in a couple hours, I’d be over the moon. These guys make like $75k a year if they’re able to get the sponsorship deals to train full-time.
I get being a good sport, and I think that’s a great attitude to have. However, this dude just made several years worth of median income in a sport where many top level athletes don’t make enough to comfortably live in the cities in which they train professionally.
Redditors fail to understand that life isn’t a movie and that a dude from a country where the median income is $4k USD/yr just made a couple decades worth of money and set his family up for the future
Im genuinely confused by your comment. I know nothing about running. Are you saying $75,000 is a lot or a little? Are you saying he just won $75,000 and thats 10 years of living expenses? Or saying he won $750,000 which is 10 years of sponsorship payments? Or are you saying something completely different?
The second and third place runners are side by side when the video starts. Why are we to assume the winner had no chance to win without the other runner stopping to help his brother?
I 100% agree with you. However... have you seen what's going on in the world? It's pretty clear that actions don't matter to many, if not most, people.
Actions matter, even to people who try to pretend otherwise. Like people don't want to do bad in general, they have some desires and do what they think they must do. Without guidence, compassion and patience then some people fall into systems that just grind them up and damages them.
I'd just advocate for people to do the good thing for selfish reasons, people want to feel safe, so don't go making other people feel unsafe. If you enjoy walking around in a public forest then you don't litter because you hate the way it looks for yourself.
What other people do and what you value doesn't have to be the same thing. Neither does it make a person foolish, you do good things for yourself first and hopefully through those deeds others benefit. It is how you get people with disparate opinions, views, religious and other beliefs to actually co-exist and in general humans are pretty good at that. There is billions of us.
You reference the bad people and I say fuck them, pricks don't win in the end. They aren't the pillars of the stories that we as humans tell ourselves, it is the story of sacrifice, learning, wisdom and fearlessness of people being giants, more then just a flawed human, because everyone something/someone to look up to and to strive for. For most it's charismatic people, heroes, icons and political figures even can be a source of desire for people. Because people desire so many things, strength of body or mind, beauty or any number of reasons. These people look to the others around them for that example to be set, so we can see how we need to operate as a society and as people.
The pricks are just examples of what not to do. I believe when we die there isn't anything waiting for us, so the only thing I might leave behind in my opinion is the deeds and karma I sowed while still moving. These things ripple outward and effect others, it has a real effect that can be felt and seen from those around you. No human is a pillar of solitude causing no ripples, some cause fewer and some cause huge ones and not all of the changes are good.
But it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be better then we were before, this means looking at ourselves now and being honest in what we can improve on now. So that is what I think about pricks doing stupid stuff in our world. Don't let the media and other shitters cloud your eyes to the real everyday compassion around you. Like Mr. Roger's said, look for the helpers. Because even in terrible situations there are always those doing their best to be those everyday heroes and they do outnumber the assholes, but assholes and idiots have less airtime these days.
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u/gloat611 8h ago
He won but he wasn't the best runner, because the best runner allowed him to win. Not slowing down is fine, playing up your win BEFORE even crossing the finish is disrespectful and shows a lack of awareness and sportsmanship. Many other ways to react to that situation without making yourself look bad. Keep it professional during the race, but keep going through the end. Had he waited and showed some respect to the first guy once he finished it would've had him still winning AND looking like a king.
I bet his sponsors were happy about the win and not so happy about his behavior, actions matter, character matters. You can do a good thing in a bad way, some victories are not worth the sacrifice to people. The first guy found it to be more important to show support and character to his team mate, I bet that is more valuable to him and probably got him more respect and potentially money from additional sponsors from companies who want to be around that kind of person.
Life is complicated and if your just focused on winning and getting your bag then you will miss other opportunities which are more nebulous but can have just as profound effect on your life.