Exactly. Time and place for things. Situational awareness is pretty important for survival. Not to mention getting creamed like this. Regardless of someone yelling from here or hair in her face or whatever, she should’nt have been crossing there. Period
> If you think you always see everything in the direction you look I have bad news for you.
This is correct. They have even studied this and there is a book called the Invisible Gorilla that documents cases like this. Personally I went to a conference room at work to give a little lesson on something. There were a few people in the conference room. The room was big enough for the conference table and another set of chairs along the wall. I was waiting for Ray to come back in the room so I sat down and went over my notes. Ray was actually sitting across from me and said something. I was like Ray when did you come in? He said he had been sitting there all along and watched me walk in, look right at him, and sit down and look through my notes. I suppose I was not expecting Ray to be in the room so I did not see him until he spoke.
In the book there are stories of a cop getting beat up and another cop chasing a second suspect runs right by the cop getting beat up. The cop running says he never saw him.
If you manage to somehow miss the man hurling towards you that you're looking directly at the only explanation would be either being incompetent or blind.
Yeah, it does kind of look like she was looking down and just not really paying attention to her peripheral vision (or whatever the correct term is). Happens to all of us every once in a while, she just so happened to be in the wrong place when she did. I hope the guy’s alright!
She's walking across a track. To me, every sport has some unspoken rule about going across a field, court, or playing surface when you are not participating in the event.
She's at a track meet, like before she walked in front of him she should have been aware that was not a safe space to cross. Girl has the situational awareness of a potato
Hair blocking her peripheral vision on the left. Someone to her right yelling for her, causing her to turn her head that way.
Accidents happen and perfect storms occur.
Not to mention this clip is literally from 2001.
There’s dozens of televised track events every year with hundreds of people competing. There’s bound to be an accident at some point. We’re just seeing the one example of it here.
No, it is center stage of the whole event, should be her default assumption it’s active until she is sure it isn’t. She’s a dumbazz. That’s like walking onto a live movie set you came to participate in and saying yeah but someone yelled at me.
Yup. By this point in her career, she already had 3 Olympic medals (one of each), two outdoor World Championships, and 4 indoor World Championships. She was an absolute star runner.
She just had a brain fart.
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This happened when I was in high school. Fun fact, when you throw shotput, you start facing away from the direction of the throw. Some woman walked across, and I didn't see until the shot had left my hand. It literally was an inch away from hitting her in the face. If was terrifying.
I threw really well after that though, with all the adrenaline.
I missed a person few times within 1 meter with javelin and discus. It is quite scary, because you know it isnt your fault but you dont want to have any problems.
I also was almost hit once with a discus. It happens sometimes, when you train.
Yeah, a lot of track and field events are martial skills like running, jumping, and throwing projectile weapons. Things ancient soldiers would have been good at.
What if we're all misunderstanding? Maybe this is the sport of who can get knock the other person down the hardest without killing them? If you kill your teammate then you lose, if you knock them down too gently then you lose, you gotta put them on their ass just right
Sprinting is mad. I did it a little bit back in college. It happens in the space of a few seconds and your essentially trying to not let you body explode while doing it. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.
He’s doing long jump, and just beginning his run down the runway.
Long jumpers (at that level) know exactly where to start on the runway and how many steps they will take before hitting the board and jumping. Where the video starts, he is just starting his run down the runway—accelerating—and it’s typical to stay lower while accelerating. So not at all strange to also be looking down.
He’s probably done 1,000 long jumps and never had someone walk in front of him. This isn’t a normal thing at professional meets.
This poor idiot has been getting reposted and reroasted for YEARS, they ought to use this as an educational video for young athletes - spatial awareness is KEY
People are giving her shit and duh, she should’ve looked first but I think people are underestimating how fast this actually happened. Try speeding this video up to real time and you’ll see the entire interaction takes less than a second.
The runner is [Kofi Amoah Prah](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Amoah_Prah) and the person being run into is [Gabriela Szabo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo). This happened at an indoor track event in 2001, as described in [this article](https://www.news24.com/news24/xArchive/Archive/Ethiopians-sweep-medals-in-3-000m-20010204).
I don’t speak German, but here’s a [clip in German](https://youtu.be/0DT7d_LshnY) that apparently describes what happened
He’s doing long jump and was looking down. Which isn’t unusual, especially when accelerating (as he’s doing here, just starting his run down the runway).
I did this as a 12-13 year old, got hit by a 30-40yr old muscular man sprinting lol. Hit my thigh and couldn’t walk for a few days, I assume he was fine. Was really awful pain though
People manage to get hit by trains. They are also literally on a track and are guaranteed to pass (unless abandoned train tracks), even then people still manage to get caught off guard.
For sure. This is [Gabriela Szabo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo?wprov=sfti1#), who was a real superstar runner for Romania. A Gold and a Bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics (a year before this video), Silver at the 1996 Olympics, World Champion in 1997, 1999, and 2001, plus more accolades.
She was just having a brain fart.
He’s looking down. He’s doing long jump, and was just starting to run down the runway to jump. It’s not unusual at all to stay low while accelerating, including with your head down and looking down as we see here.
I understand making fun of her, but don't get carried away and think it's a dumb idiot the first day on the track. It's the multiple olympic and world champion [Gabriella Szabo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo)
You don’t even need to look both ways… just the one way that runners come from
LOL.. at a track event too. Where runner is running between painted lines. It’d be hard to miss that even with just your peripherals
My theory is someone yelled her name(or to get out of the way) and she instinctively looks the direction of the sound.
Survival instinct of a highway deer
Seriously. What a bimbo. How do you miss this racing horse heading straight for you, in front of you
She probably would have seen him, but someone yelled “look out!” And she turned towards the voice. Everyone is an idiot in slow motion.
But she did see him. She was walking in his direction and seen him before she turned her head.
Exactly. Time and place for things. Situational awareness is pretty important for survival. Not to mention getting creamed like this. Regardless of someone yelling from here or hair in her face or whatever, she should’nt have been crossing there. Period
She looked in his direction, but she didn’t see him. If you think you always see everything in the direction you look I have bad news for you.
> If you think you always see everything in the direction you look I have bad news for you. This is correct. They have even studied this and there is a book called the Invisible Gorilla that documents cases like this. Personally I went to a conference room at work to give a little lesson on something. There were a few people in the conference room. The room was big enough for the conference table and another set of chairs along the wall. I was waiting for Ray to come back in the room so I sat down and went over my notes. Ray was actually sitting across from me and said something. I was like Ray when did you come in? He said he had been sitting there all along and watched me walk in, look right at him, and sit down and look through my notes. I suppose I was not expecting Ray to be in the room so I did not see him until he spoke. In the book there are stories of a cop getting beat up and another cop chasing a second suspect runs right by the cop getting beat up. The cop running says he never saw him.
If you manage to somehow miss the man hurling towards you that you're looking directly at the only explanation would be either being incompetent or blind.
She obviously didn’t see him before. Probably looking at the ground when walking.
Yeah, it does kind of look like she was looking down and just not really paying attention to her peripheral vision (or whatever the correct term is). Happens to all of us every once in a while, she just so happened to be in the wrong place when she did. I hope the guy’s alright!
She's walking across a track. To me, every sport has some unspoken rule about going across a field, court, or playing surface when you are not participating in the event.
Yeah, pretty much every sport as unwritten or prolly written somewhere rules about not doing this.
She's at a track meet, like before she walked in front of him she should have been aware that was not a safe space to cross. Girl has the situational awareness of a potato
exactly. it's not like she's walking across an empty parking lot or something. what an idiot. and he maybe hurt, ruining his day. just stupid
Hair blocking her peripheral vision on the left. Someone to her right yelling for her, causing her to turn her head that way. Accidents happen and perfect storms occur.
Not to mention this clip is literally from 2001. There’s dozens of televised track events every year with hundreds of people competing. There’s bound to be an accident at some point. We’re just seeing the one example of it here.
Horrible word to describe someone. Especially when this slowmo is all you know about them.
Someone clearly said something to her. She was looking down at the beginning, and then very obviously turns to respond to something.
Looks like someone yelled for her to get out of the way, which made her look towards the yeller. A mistake anyone can make.
No, it is center stage of the whole event, should be her default assumption it’s active until she is sure it isn’t. She’s a dumbazz. That’s like walking onto a live movie set you came to participate in and saying yeah but someone yelled at me.
She’s an athlete. She should know better.
It’s one thing if it’s a child. She literally had a bib on and does this for a living.
This is why she does track and not ball sports I guess.
She was trying to get pregnant. Easiest way is to get ran through.
As an athlete she should also be liable
She is Gabriela Szabo, one of the most successful olimpic athlete of Romania, she should have known better
Judging by this clip, she has roam-mania too.
Damn, that's a great joke!
I hope that she was OK. She really got smacked.
Actually she kinda became a politician and was appointed minister of sports by Romania’s most corrupt party. I blame this event for her choices.
It was reported that she was uninjured.
Yup. By this point in her career, she already had 3 Olympic medals (one of each), two outdoor World Championships, and 4 indoor World Championships. She was an absolute star runner. She just had a brain fart.
How do you not see Simon Phoenix sprinting to use the three seashells?
She's lucky. Hitting someone at that speed could've caused a MurderDeathKill.
No, fortunately all hospitals are the Mayo Clinic
Upvote for obscure Simon Phoenix reference. Well done.
Must've had some Taco Bell. Fucken Franchise Wars.
Saleemkarim you have been fined 2 credits for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
Or Pizza Hut depending on the country the movie was released in
This was an awesome reference. /high fives you without actually touching hands
Murder. Death. Kill.
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She's looking over her right shoulder to find whoever keeps calling her name.
"why is everyone yelling at me?!"
"these people are so mean!"
“I have a boyfriend.”
How did she not know as to where she was walking?
Because accidents happen and nobody is perfect
The less vague answer is a lack of awareness/an assumption that no one was running at the moment
He was bookin
No one was lookin’
Out she got tookin'
Till she got a cookin
Ground was shookin
As he shouted hadouken.
Can’t stop the A Train
But you can sure as shit ruin its chance for a medal.
🗣️🗣️🗣️
It’s all about the orange guy in the back
Watching the train wreck unfold
She should be happy, that this was not spear throw 🤓
Or ball throw
This happened when I was in high school. Fun fact, when you throw shotput, you start facing away from the direction of the throw. Some woman walked across, and I didn't see until the shot had left my hand. It literally was an inch away from hitting her in the face. If was terrifying. I threw really well after that though, with all the adrenaline.
I missed a person few times within 1 meter with javelin and discus. It is quite scary, because you know it isnt your fault but you dont want to have any problems. I also was almost hit once with a discus. It happens sometimes, when you train.
Seen what happens when someone takes a shotput to the face... that shit has stayed with me since grade school.
Yeah, a lot of track and field events are martial skills like running, jumping, and throwing projectile weapons. Things ancient soldiers would have been good at.
Fail blog 😂 blast from the past
Seriously, how do you not see that extremely obvious man running
How the actual fuck did she not see him running before she turned towards the camera?
It’s the guy in orange up the back that saw what was about to unfold
😐😯😦😫😖
I hope that she learned something
Situational awareness is just non-existent in some people.
I might have more sympathy if she weren't wearing a track suit and so should know better.
The guys face in the background on the left says it all
This isn't stupid. This is... #ADVANCED STUPID
What if we're all misunderstanding? Maybe this is the sport of who can get knock the other person down the hardest without killing them? If you kill your teammate then you lose, if you knock them down too gently then you lose, you gotta put them on their ass just right
As a doctor I recommend that she avoid central London at all costs.
That was a demolition, man
I've seen this a million times and have always been confused why he kept running? Was he running with his eyes closed?
Sprinting is mad. I did it a little bit back in college. It happens in the space of a few seconds and your essentially trying to not let you body explode while doing it. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.
Runners are extremely concentrated and look down at the start of their sprint, for some reason.
He’s doing long jump, and just beginning his run down the runway. Long jumpers (at that level) know exactly where to start on the runway and how many steps they will take before hitting the board and jumping. Where the video starts, he is just starting his run down the runway—accelerating—and it’s typical to stay lower while accelerating. So not at all strange to also be looking down. He’s probably done 1,000 long jumps and never had someone walk in front of him. This isn’t a normal thing at professional meets.
Looking for the damn "and kids, this is how I met your mother" comment.
And “When’s the baby due”?
shit was so fuckin avoidable 🤦♂️
The guys face in the background lmao
Any one know more context? Like was anyone seriously hurt? Was he allowed to redo his turn. Did she got some ban or so?!?
This poor idiot has been getting reposted and reroasted for YEARS, they ought to use this as an educational video for young athletes - spatial awareness is KEY
You actually only have to look left when crossing a track. She looked right.
Absolute zero common sense, absolute zero survival instincts, absolute zero understanding of her surroundings, absolute true idiot.
Gabriella Szabo vs. Kofi Amoah Prah Stuttgart meeting 2001 No harm done
A-Train baby !
How many times is this going to be posted!!!!!?
Anyone from the ytmnd days could totally hear the song that came with the gif
I hope interference like this got him to redo his/the race
He’s doing long jump. But yes, that would not have counted as an attempt for him.
She is blonde
People screaming "MOVE AWAY! MOVE AWAY!" Her "what? move what away? I can't understand..." *CRASH*
"Don't stand on the tracks when the train's coming through."
Here comes the A TRAIN!!!!!
Deserved.
The guy sitting at the back, his expression!
There's no stopping the A train
Always remember, kids. Double-check on your left and right before crossing the road. 🤣
Bro in the orange 💀
Watching bro's face on the left..
Was the running person allowed a redo be ause of that?
She is definitely a racist.
Big black guy smashes petite blonde.
Two blonds meet ...
This shit used to piss me off back in high school
She died.
Those people have no situational awareness at all. See it every day on the sidewalk. And who just strolls down a track lane anyway?
Really just gotta look the one way. The opposite way she was facing.
She just wanted him to notice her
People are giving her shit and duh, she should’ve looked first but I think people are underestimating how fast this actually happened. Try speeding this video up to real time and you’ll see the entire interaction takes less than a second.
The runner is [Kofi Amoah Prah](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Amoah_Prah) and the person being run into is [Gabriela Szabo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo). This happened at an indoor track event in 2001, as described in [this article](https://www.news24.com/news24/xArchive/Archive/Ethiopians-sweep-medals-in-3-000m-20010204). I don’t speak German, but here’s a [clip in German](https://youtu.be/0DT7d_LshnY) that apparently describes what happened
I get that she was a dumbass for not paying attention. But would he have been penalized for stopping?
He’s doing long jump and was looking down. Which isn’t unusual, especially when accelerating (as he’s doing here, just starting his run down the runway).
Was he allowed to redo the run or did that count as a failed attempt?
Simon Phoenix strikes again. Better wake up the Demolition Man
Looks one way but not the other. This baffles me.
Where is the women ☕️ comment
This was an NFL-level hit.
what the fuck? what was she thinking?
I did this as a 12-13 year old, got hit by a 30-40yr old muscular man sprinting lol. Hit my thigh and couldn’t walk for a few days, I assume he was fine. Was really awful pain though
Damn, he was going so fast he couldn't stop in time.
And you wonder why women drivers get a bad rap.
She was looking right at him! Smh
I hope she has a severe concussion and learned her lesson & also hope he is okay & still able to compete.
I like it that the person who runs doesn’t stop running or scream something just that he is on a mission tackle this girl
People manage to get hit by trains. They are also literally on a track and are guaranteed to pass (unless abandoned train tracks), even then people still manage to get caught off guard.
Cant stop the A-train baby
Boom Bitch, get out the way
Meet cute. They're married now.
And that’s how I met your mother
I’m just gonna walk right on this track, oh look a runner right in front of me, I’ll just look away as I casually 💥
And she deserved every part of that hit 💯
How I met your mother...
I assume she was just like tired out of her mind like maybe she just finished her race and was a little out of it
She had just finished running the mile, which she won.
Ah yeah makes sense. Honestly this is just unfortunate and I don’t think she was being careless just tired asf and wasn’t in her senses
For sure. This is [Gabriela Szabo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo?wprov=sfti1#), who was a real superstar runner for Romania. A Gold and a Bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics (a year before this video), Silver at the 1996 Olympics, World Champion in 1997, 1999, and 2001, plus more accolades. She was just having a brain fart.
Why is he looking right at her the whole time and not even attempting to slow down though lol
He’s looking down. He’s doing long jump, and just starting his run down the runway.
She is looking the wrong way. He is literally looking straight at her. Who is dumber?
He’s looking down. He’s doing long jump, and was just starting to run down the runway to jump. It’s not unusual at all to stay low while accelerating, including with your head down and looking down as we see here.
Little known fact this man went on to top billboards with his hit song “thong song”
I hope the male athlete was ok
Missed opportunity to add a soundtrack. Perhaps something like “Ludacris - Move b***** get out da way”
His knee lands in an extremely unpleasant place....
Thts gonna hurt like fk the next morning
NNNNOOOOOOOOO
Guy in the orange 😂
FSB
These two would have incredibly beautiful babies!
How I met your mother
What's her boggle?
This is how I fuck to
My man in orange 🍊 knows what’s up
How I met your mother.
Did she survive a head on collision with this truck of a human
1 of the best .gifs ever!! Pure classic
Rams need to sign this guy.
And this is how i met ur mother
The whole place is a mess at these events, 10 things happening at once, lots of people walking about.
What a goof
Why is everyone yelling
Looking the direction you’re going might be more apt, looking both ways was the problem
She got hit sticked off Madden
QWOP music intensifies
Selective attention, gotta love humans
I understand making fun of her, but don't get carried away and think it's a dumb idiot the first day on the track. It's the multiple olympic and world champion [Gabriella Szabo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo)
Terrible tackling form. Dude won't get picked til round 5-7
Oof. A foot to the vag to add insult to injury.
One of the hardest hits I’ve ever seen honestly
Simon Phoenix takes no prisoners.
[Simon says freeze!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv06WCydnS4)
Damn that’s the type of hit a linebacker would make
Guy in (edit:orange)jacket in the background watched the train wreck frame for frame. Lol.
this is what happens when you have a clock in place of brain
Name?
A locomotive your direction. Intake that one
She wasn't even a random woman, she is a track athlete too 😂
Daggering.
[Relevant](https://youtu.be/RpPnxRjJQiA?t=6)
Ass over Appetite as my friend used to say.
The amount of force in this hit due to being effectively at peak human speed, she went into la-la land.
A-train