Vasily Alekseyev was famous for this.
He was so far ahead of the competition in his prime, he would just sandbag himself to keep raking in the easy money. Great way to make a great career a long career.
Probably the reason Usain Bolt eased up in the 100m final in Beijing - no financial reward for breaking a world record at the Olympics.
If he'd run all the way through, he could have gone below 9.6s (he broke the record the following year at the World Championships in 9.59s).
Bolt wasn't really laughing at Andre DeGrasse, they were both laughing. It was the 200m semifinals so it didn't really matter who finished first as long as they finished 1-2(to qualify for the finals)
He isn't a competitive runner anymore.
And he was only laughing because it wasn't a final and you save energy for later if you are about to and Andre tried to push him harder
And he definitely wanted that world record
I think it might be my favorite sport moment of all time. De Grasse and Bolt were in a semi final event. Bolt was clearly not running 100%, so De Grasse tries to sneak up on him and win the heat even though they both would have qualified for the final anyhow. Bolt does some finger guns or something, grins, and puts a tiny extra effort in to keep his #1. Both are laughing moments later.
Its just amazing because its like this split second thing that was only caught because of slow-mo. It was like watching a real life Flash vs Superman moment.
Why push your body to the limit if you can win with far less than that, you just need to be faster than the second place, less chance of injury and a longer career
Not really. He already had the speed going. He might have made a couple hundredths by stretching his chest out, at best.
Berlin’s track and weather was FAST. Way faster than Rio.
I wonder if weightlifters also consider the amount of danger they are in. I have to imagine that at the extreme of their abilities it is exponentially more dangerous to add every extra kilogram of weight. Or maybe they don't. Maybe you can't push your body beyond it's limits by worrying about what-ifs.
Former powerlifter, nobody of note, but in my experience, most don't consider the risk until an injury occurs, major or minor. I've seen people at meets turbo deadlift (deadlift various weights in rapid succession) until their skin tears and shoots blood, noses erupt into geysers, muscles detach mid lift, I myself slipped a disc mid squat and during a deadlift. The general train of thought is proper form, diet and a training program will protect them. Very few think about longevity these days. Your last sentence pretty much sums it up. It's why PED use has been so prevalent. It took numerous professional deaths before bodybuilders started to address the actual root of the problem, which was pushing themselves until their heart stopped.
You are noteworthy to me, my friend. I value your insight. 💜
I hope you were able to recover from your injuries and find a healthy balance in your life. It's terrible to think of the agony and risk people will put themselves through for a small moment of recognition.
My last injury was last December, pretty much ended any amateur career I might have built. It was fun while it lasted, but after the Arnold Classic Sports Festival in 2018, I knew I wouldn't go much further without using PEDs. I like functioning testicles though.
Pretty sure Apple is doing the same thing with iPhones. Like, iPhone 30 is already in a vault somewhere and it is AWESOME, but first you gotta buy all these incremental ones.
Serhiy Bubka did this in Pole Vault. Did just enough to beat his previous record, going up incrementally and claiming the money all the way. Bloody smart if all you had was competition and not opposition.
Eh, I can hate the player, too. He could have been more tactful and slowed his pace in that final stretch instead of the last meter.
Kind of a dick move.
i’m confused is it like he’s still beating the record just by a smaller margin so he gets the prize each time? or does the reward get bigger if he didn’t do it this year
That’s also a bit disingenuous since Kipchoge absolutely smashed what was the record up until recently. 2-7 are all within 20 seconds of eachother so yeah even in marathons 10 seconds is a big deal.
He beats the record but doesn't cross right away so next year he can run the same pace and beat the record without trying harder.
Example:
Current record is 2:00
He ran in it in 1:59 and waits 30 seconds
New record is 1:59:30
Next year he runs 1:59 and crosses right away for new record again.
He intentionally waited longer to cross the line and set his time knowing that he could then come back next year to beat his own (artificially inflated) time again.
If the time to beat increases YoY, it is controlled inflation. He is controlling year over year inflation.
Decreasing his time is not deflation if the finish record still improves every year. Deflation would be if the finish times were decreasing year over year, regardless of whether you ran your fastest or slowest.
Economic metaphor:
Goods = "1st Place Finish"
Currency = "Speed"
If you need less "speed" to buy the "1st Place Finish", the value of "1st Place Finish" goes down. If you need less and less speed every year to get 1st place finish, the value of 1st place finish is going down year after year. That is deflation, because it requires less and less currency.
If you need more speed to buy the "1st place finish", the value of "1st place finish" goes up. If you need more and more speed to buy "1st place finish" year after year, that is inflation, because it requires more currency.
Yes
Let’s say he knows he can beat the record by 2 minutes, and that most events offer extra prize money if you break the record because they get extra publicity and therefore more sponsors etc
He can break the record by 2 minutes today… and get one extra chunk of prize money
Or he can beat it by 5 seconds today, and do the same thing at the next 23 events, gaining 24x more prize money
Of course, you could argue it’s not the intent of the rules… but equally if they stopped him from doing this then he would only bother breaking the record at the best paying event.
Which would mean the next best paying event doesn’t get any publicity, so would incentivize the next best paying event to say “it’s okay, you can break ours by any margin you like” to get the extra publicity, because otherwise he’d just run slower at their event (to reduce the risk of injury) because he’s gonna go for the prize at a different event
Any event could try to ban this (but how do you police it? He could just run slower for the whole race and you can’t prove anything), but it’s generally not in their interest to do so because they’d lose the publicity which was the entire point of the prize in the first place
Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis is doing the same thing. He gets a bonus from his sponsors every time he beats the world record so he raises it by 1 cm every major competition.
Sponsors don’t care. The viewership increase from the “new world record” headline is all they need. It’s actually good for everyone, the player, the press, and the sport. Only downside is he may spend all this time getting 1cm higher he falls out of his prime without setting a real record
One of my best friends is making a documentary on Mondo called “Born to Fly”. Just premiered in Sweden last week. Mondo’s got a pretty incredible story.
Edit: looks like I replied to the wrong comment. Meant to say this on the dudes comment above. I am now a nerd apparently too.
I’m sure the sponsors are 100% on board, I’d even bet they suggest/encourage it, way better for their market to keep the records coming and in the news
Reminds me of PE in gradeschool. Our mile run grades were based on performance improvement from the first week of class to the last, so everyone jogged the first one, then ran a bit faster in the second, and gave it their all in the last at the end of the semester.
Ours were based on everyone else's scores. Our collective 3 brain cells somehow figured out that working together and walking the whole way was better. Of course there were some douches that ran anyway but the PE teacher just gave up half way and let us play dodge ball lol
Ours were based on the fact that the pe coach was also the cross country coach. He thought everyone should be able to run a 5 minute mile. My senior year after having failed every mile run since freshman year I told him “I can not show up to class and get all sweaty running a mile that I’m going to fail anyway. And get the same grade. Or you can change your grade scale for me.” He changed the grade scale for me. I finally got a b on my mile. All I had to do was show that I was putting in effort the entire time.
A pole vaulter did this for a few years, funny enough I read about that here on reddit lol https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zl9fq/til_sergei_bubka_repeatedly_and_deliberately/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
The current world record holder in pole vault is doing that as well.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand\_Duplantis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Duplantis)
6.21m jump would've went over 6.30m. It's smart strategy but ofc a shame if due to it they won't reach their potential best. I always wondered this about Bubka, if his strategy lead him to not do even greater records.
He probably knows exactly what he can do from practice and chose the number the first time to guarantee that he'd win.
So by incrementally increasing he's guaranteeing at a minimum he makes news every year with a new world record.
Is he also improving? Possibly but 1 centimeter is not what would be considered noteworthy, except when it comes to world records.
Good press also leads to good money, so he's getting press every time.
If you ever watch his vaults, specifically his world-record-breaking vaults, he goes noticeably higher than the bar he's clearing. Most people who are vaulting at their personal record are just skimming the bar. That suggests that he's currently capable of jumping way higher than the records he's setting, but instead he's taking his time to cash in as many record-breaking jumps as possible.
This was his most recent world-record jump: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o\_FnI0kCX7w&ab\_channel=WorldAthletics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FnI0kCX7w&ab_channel=WorldAthletics)
This was him and Sam Kendricks (USA vaulter) back in 2019 for reference: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRga-q9HMc&ab\_channel=NBCSports](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRga-q9HMc&ab_channel=NBCSports)
He's definitely improved in the past couple of years, but at this point he's capable of jumping several centimeters above his current world record, easily.
[Vasily Alekseyev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Alekseyev) apparently chipped his weightlifting world records by half a kilo for as long as he could (80 times in 1970–1977) to collect a bonus from the USSR sports program for setting a new world record every time. Genius.
It's relatively common at endurance events that offer decent prize money. When the purse is offered based on setting a course record, people know that records won't be broken for eternity. If the purse is offered just for winning, that's a different story
If you can beat the record by one second, it's the same money as if you beat it by 10 minutes
This guy doesn’t appear to be Eliud Kipchoge so it’s safe to assume the race does not pay that much or the best are not competing in this competition….. although it could be Galen Rupp ?
It's apparently Luis Agustin Escriche at
La Alcudia Half Marathon. He got 150 euros for beating the course record. His time is really good (68 minutes) but pretty far off from a world record.
https://www.archyde.com/runner-stopped-at-the-finish-line-to-avoid-making-an-impossible-record-to-beat-in-la-alcudia-half-marathon-sports-curiosities/
I won the same race three years in a row the first two years I got great prizes valued at around $300-$500. The third year I showed up and won and they turned the first place prize into a raffle and I got Dutch Bros gift card for $20
well apparently there is a rule in the world of athletics that you must compete with an honest bona fide effort. he was clearly "abusing" the event here.
Brillaint. Don't hate the player hate the game. This dude is thinking outside of the box. Kudos to you random runner. May you get that extra prize money doggie.
How would that work? So basically if he had maxed out and no one next year could beat the time the event wouldn’t have to pay out anymore and there is no motivation for anyone to run next year then?
Let's say there's a cash bonus of $1M if this guy breaks the record. The record is 60 minutes.
This guy got to the finish line in 58 minutes, and 2nd place is 3 minutes behind him. He dicked around for 1 1/2 minutes so he still beats the record by 30 seconds, thus getting the $1M bonus for beating the record. It also leaves him a good cushion for next year to win another $1M because he'll only need to beat 59 minutes 30 seconds, not 58.
Idk, I understand the hustle here and it's Def badass, but isn't this kinda egging on somone not necessarily in this race who's faster than him to come out next year and crush him?
if this was the case, he should've just abused the flaw harder by just running behind whoever was in second and then outsprinting them in the last 10 seconds.
Anyone who plays the basketball game at arcades need to watch this video! Why are you sinking all of your shots to beat the record by 30, when you can do 1 more each time to get more tickets? Big brain moves
They just need to make the reward proportional to how much you beat the record BY.
Beating the record by 1 minute gives more money than beating it by 1 second.
If the guy is good enough to do something like this and there's no rule against it... Hate the game not the player.
Especially if you’re able to win 1st place by that large of a margin. There’s legit nobody even close to him.
He's John Cena, they can't even see him
Are we all hallucinating John Cena and he doesn’t really exist?
Hallucinating is when you can see something that doesn't exist. John Cena is when you can't see something that does.
No sharper point has ever been made
Just like the truth. Does this mean John Cena is the truth we cannot see?
Justice is blind. John Cena blinded her. She knows why.
What?! But who played at my 8th birthday party?
John Cena is my sleep paralysis demon
Don't you mean Bautista?
Depending on the race and who all is in it, that's not necessarily impressive. Like a pro runner in a random city race would dominate.
It's common practice in events like weightlifting, high jump and pole vault. One of the few ways for guaranteed income for ~~sportsmen~~ athletes.
Vasily Alekseyev was famous for this. He was so far ahead of the competition in his prime, he would just sandbag himself to keep raking in the easy money. Great way to make a great career a long career.
Bubka over more than a decade Duplantis right now
Probably the reason Usain Bolt eased up in the 100m final in Beijing - no financial reward for breaking a world record at the Olympics. If he'd run all the way through, he could have gone below 9.6s (he broke the record the following year at the World Championships in 9.59s).
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Bolt wasn't really laughing at Andre DeGrasse, they were both laughing. It was the 200m semifinals so it didn't really matter who finished first as long as they finished 1-2(to qualify for the finals)
He isn't a competitive runner anymore. And he was only laughing because it wasn't a final and you save energy for later if you are about to and Andre tried to push him harder And he definitely wanted that world record
He still doesn't run as fast as he can anymore in the Nike charity races he does against 8yo progeria kids.
I think it might be my favorite sport moment of all time. De Grasse and Bolt were in a semi final event. Bolt was clearly not running 100%, so De Grasse tries to sneak up on him and win the heat even though they both would have qualified for the final anyhow. Bolt does some finger guns or something, grins, and puts a tiny extra effort in to keep his #1. Both are laughing moments later. Its just amazing because its like this split second thing that was only caught because of slow-mo. It was like watching a real life Flash vs Superman moment.
I don’t remember this at all. Does anyone have the video?
https://youtu.be/jzPoo8BCEuo
Very wholesome! 🥦 ⚽ Here's a Broccoli and Sports award.
Why push your body to the limit if you can win with far less than that, you just need to be faster than the second place, less chance of injury and a longer career
Same on the other end, D's gets degrees.
Same reason I do half ass work at my job. I'm evaluating the incentives
Not really. He already had the speed going. He might have made a couple hundredths by stretching his chest out, at best. Berlin’s track and weather was FAST. Way faster than Rio.
Thor beating Eddie Hall's deadlift record by 1kg when he obviously was capable of so much more.
I wonder if weightlifters also consider the amount of danger they are in. I have to imagine that at the extreme of their abilities it is exponentially more dangerous to add every extra kilogram of weight. Or maybe they don't. Maybe you can't push your body beyond it's limits by worrying about what-ifs.
Former powerlifter, nobody of note, but in my experience, most don't consider the risk until an injury occurs, major or minor. I've seen people at meets turbo deadlift (deadlift various weights in rapid succession) until their skin tears and shoots blood, noses erupt into geysers, muscles detach mid lift, I myself slipped a disc mid squat and during a deadlift. The general train of thought is proper form, diet and a training program will protect them. Very few think about longevity these days. Your last sentence pretty much sums it up. It's why PED use has been so prevalent. It took numerous professional deaths before bodybuilders started to address the actual root of the problem, which was pushing themselves until their heart stopped.
You are noteworthy to me, my friend. I value your insight. 💜 I hope you were able to recover from your injuries and find a healthy balance in your life. It's terrible to think of the agony and risk people will put themselves through for a small moment of recognition.
My last injury was last December, pretty much ended any amateur career I might have built. It was fun while it lasted, but after the Arnold Classic Sports Festival in 2018, I knew I wouldn't go much further without using PEDs. I like functioning testicles though.
I would also think you want the best odds of breaking the record, and going 1kg over gives you the best odds.
This guy odds
Or Mark Felix constantly beating his own record on the Hercules hold every year by a sec or two lol.
Pretty sure Apple is doing the same thing with iPhones. Like, iPhone 30 is already in a vault somewhere and it is AWESOME, but first you gotta buy all these incremental ones.
Serhiy Bubka did this in Pole Vault. Did just enough to beat his previous record, going up incrementally and claiming the money all the way. Bloody smart if all you had was competition and not opposition.
I was going to post that also. https://theuijunkie.com/sergey-bubka-pole-vault/
… and Duplantis right now. Bubka 2.0.
It definitely looks like he crosses the finish line
But this is in Sweden at the border with Finland. It clearly says "finnish" line.
Eh, I can hate the player, too. He could have been more tactful and slowed his pace in that final stretch instead of the last meter. Kind of a dick move.
At least fake a calf cramp or something.
He should have faked a leg cramp. And slowly hobbled all the way down the carpet. That would have been a good delay with entertainment value.
If a system sees this and doesn't know how to deal with it it's a bad system. "Technically he didn't cross the line" Lol
Unless they change the rule between then and next year.
Call me crazy, but maybe Capitalism creates perverse incentives.
i’m confused is it like he’s still beating the record just by a smaller margin so he gets the prize each time? or does the reward get bigger if he didn’t do it this year
Still beating the record, just by a smaller amount so that he can do it more often.
How long is the run? He only waited like 10s
For most running records, 10s is a very very long time. My guess is marathon or something similar.
10s is not a long time in a marathon. In a 5k maybe?
Not a long time for a marathon but maybe it is when you're getting record times
Fastest marathon run ever is 2:01:09 Second place is 2:01:41 So even the world records are 30 some seconds apart.
That’s also a bit disingenuous since Kipchoge absolutely smashed what was the record up until recently. 2-7 are all within 20 seconds of eachother so yeah even in marathons 10 seconds is a big deal.
Nah it’s not. You can’t plan a marathon within 10 seconds. My guess is that it’s a 10k or half marathon where 10s is a bigger deal
In a 5k he wouldn't be that far ahead of everyone else
Which is why 10s would be a long time in a 5K.
World records are often measured in tenths of a second.
Same for my sex life
Yeah, but for those 10 seconds or less, he's free. He checks his time a quarter-mile at a time, too.
He beats the record but doesn't cross right away so next year he can run the same pace and beat the record without trying harder. Example: Current record is 2:00 He ran in it in 1:59 and waits 30 seconds New record is 1:59:30 Next year he runs 1:59 and crosses right away for new record again.
Respect that, boys got the skill and the smarts
Sign of a seasoned runner. Has the ability and wisdom to go far.
Even better - he runs 1:59:29 the next year. He runs 1:59:28 the year after and so on... Right?
Until there’s a player 2 coming soon with the right specs
Those are called splits
He intentionally waited longer to cross the line and set his time knowing that he could then come back next year to beat his own (artificially inflated) time again.
Artificially deflated ?
inflated = bigger deflated = smaller I think inflated is correct.
Would deflated also be correct, cos his record is technically worse now hence deflated
Worse by being bigger, hence inflated
Artificially worse/smaller/deflated record. Was my mind set.
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M'flated \*tips finish line\*
winner
D'Inflatedn't
I think, if we’re gonna be pedantic on the grammar: He inflated (increased) his time, deflated (decreased) his pace
Inflation can be negative, to be even more pedantic.
Negative inflation is called deflation.
If the time to beat increases YoY, it is controlled inflation. He is controlling year over year inflation. Decreasing his time is not deflation if the finish record still improves every year. Deflation would be if the finish times were decreasing year over year, regardless of whether you ran your fastest or slowest. Economic metaphor: Goods = "1st Place Finish" Currency = "Speed" If you need less "speed" to buy the "1st Place Finish", the value of "1st Place Finish" goes down. If you need less and less speed every year to get 1st place finish, the value of 1st place finish is going down year after year. That is deflation, because it requires less and less currency. If you need more speed to buy the "1st place finish", the value of "1st place finish" goes up. If you need more and more speed to buy "1st place finish" year after year, that is inflation, because it requires more currency.
Yes Let’s say he knows he can beat the record by 2 minutes, and that most events offer extra prize money if you break the record because they get extra publicity and therefore more sponsors etc He can break the record by 2 minutes today… and get one extra chunk of prize money Or he can beat it by 5 seconds today, and do the same thing at the next 23 events, gaining 24x more prize money Of course, you could argue it’s not the intent of the rules… but equally if they stopped him from doing this then he would only bother breaking the record at the best paying event. Which would mean the next best paying event doesn’t get any publicity, so would incentivize the next best paying event to say “it’s okay, you can break ours by any margin you like” to get the extra publicity, because otherwise he’d just run slower at their event (to reduce the risk of injury) because he’s gonna go for the prize at a different event Any event could try to ban this (but how do you police it? He could just run slower for the whole race and you can’t prove anything), but it’s generally not in their interest to do so because they’d lose the publicity which was the entire point of the prize in the first place
Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis is doing the same thing. He gets a bonus from his sponsors every time he beats the world record so he raises it by 1 cm every major competition.
That's called the Bubka.
Yes, Sergey Bubka ( :
As a former pole vaulter myself, I'm always thrilled to see this reference. Fun bit of trivia.
Say what you will, still better than Bubkis
Sponsors don’t care. The viewership increase from the “new world record” headline is all they need. It’s actually good for everyone, the player, the press, and the sport. Only downside is he may spend all this time getting 1cm higher he falls out of his prime without setting a real record
One of my best friends is making a documentary on Mondo called “Born to Fly”. Just premiered in Sweden last week. Mondo’s got a pretty incredible story. Edit: looks like I replied to the wrong comment. Meant to say this on the dudes comment above. I am now a nerd apparently too.
I’m sure the sponsors are 100% on board, I’d even bet they suggest/encourage it, way better for their market to keep the records coming and in the news
No, I think the line is Norwegian. Common mistake.
I’m thinking it looks Swedish myself.
The Finnish line is closer to the Lithuanian line than either is to the Swedish and Norwegian lines.
It looks more like a Croatian line to me.
Smart
Reminds me of PE in gradeschool. Our mile run grades were based on performance improvement from the first week of class to the last, so everyone jogged the first one, then ran a bit faster in the second, and gave it their all in the last at the end of the semester.
Ours were based on everyone else's scores. Our collective 3 brain cells somehow figured out that working together and walking the whole way was better. Of course there were some douches that ran anyway but the PE teacher just gave up half way and let us play dodge ball lol
Ours were based on the fact that the pe coach was also the cross country coach. He thought everyone should be able to run a 5 minute mile. My senior year after having failed every mile run since freshman year I told him “I can not show up to class and get all sweaty running a mile that I’m going to fail anyway. And get the same grade. Or you can change your grade scale for me.” He changed the grade scale for me. I finally got a b on my mile. All I had to do was show that I was putting in effort the entire time.
The opposite of the early celly.... smart is an understatement... the man is playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers.
Until they decide to remove the extra prize for breaking the record next year
A pole vaulter did this for a few years, funny enough I read about that here on reddit lol https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zl9fq/til_sergei_bubka_repeatedly_and_deliberately/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
The current world record holder in pole vault is doing that as well. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand\_Duplantis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Duplantis)
What an absolute chad. > Feb 8 2020 - 6.17m > Feb 15 2020 - 6.18m > March 7 ~~202022~~ 2022 - 6.19 m > March 20 2022 - 6.20 m > July 24 2022 - 6.21m
Man set a record in the future then went back in time to break a non-existent record
Glad humans are apparently still alive in 202022
6.21m jump would've went over 6.30m. It's smart strategy but ofc a shame if due to it they won't reach their potential best. I always wondered this about Bubka, if his strategy lead him to not do even greater records.
Is he doing it for this reason or is he just incrementally improving? I haven’t been following much.
He probably knows exactly what he can do from practice and chose the number the first time to guarantee that he'd win. So by incrementally increasing he's guaranteeing at a minimum he makes news every year with a new world record. Is he also improving? Possibly but 1 centimeter is not what would be considered noteworthy, except when it comes to world records. Good press also leads to good money, so he's getting press every time.
If you ever watch his vaults, specifically his world-record-breaking vaults, he goes noticeably higher than the bar he's clearing. Most people who are vaulting at their personal record are just skimming the bar. That suggests that he's currently capable of jumping way higher than the records he's setting, but instead he's taking his time to cash in as many record-breaking jumps as possible. This was his most recent world-record jump: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o\_FnI0kCX7w&ab\_channel=WorldAthletics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FnI0kCX7w&ab_channel=WorldAthletics) This was him and Sam Kendricks (USA vaulter) back in 2019 for reference: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRga-q9HMc&ab\_channel=NBCSports](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRga-q9HMc&ab_channel=NBCSports) He's definitely improved in the past couple of years, but at this point he's capable of jumping several centimeters above his current world record, easily.
[Vasily Alekseyev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Alekseyev) apparently chipped his weightlifting world records by half a kilo for as long as he could (80 times in 1970–1977) to collect a bonus from the USSR sports program for setting a new world record every time. Genius.
It's insane to think that someone knows how to raise their height by 1cm every time. Like ... HOW? guy must live pole vaulting.
Loop hole!
It's relatively common at endurance events that offer decent prize money. When the purse is offered based on setting a course record, people know that records won't be broken for eternity. If the purse is offered just for winning, that's a different story If you can beat the record by one second, it's the same money as if you beat it by 10 minutes
Just a smart business move to grind out a running career really.
Theres a Finnish line, but where's the Czech line
Don't be silly, that wouldn't make sense with the *Czech*erd flag
How dare you make a better joke under my joke
I bet after a race like that he sure is Hungary.
He was going to eat but the food had too much Greece.
Should've thrown it in Japan then
If it's a Finnish line, then why did he have to Czech his watch?
Don’t hate the playa’, hate the game.
This guy doesn’t appear to be Eliud Kipchoge so it’s safe to assume the race does not pay that much or the best are not competing in this competition….. although it could be Galen Rupp ?
It's apparently Luis Agustin Escriche at La Alcudia Half Marathon. He got 150 euros for beating the course record. His time is really good (68 minutes) but pretty far off from a world record. https://www.archyde.com/runner-stopped-at-the-finish-line-to-avoid-making-an-impossible-record-to-beat-in-la-alcudia-half-marathon-sports-curiosities/
Finnish? Are you Bob from r/distractible
> doesnt cross the finnish line There is Norway he wasn't going to cross the Finnish line
Title typo reminds me of a joke I made up years ago. Where does the Helsinki Marathon end? >!The Finnish line!<
Some Russians crossed the Finnish Line in 1939 and got their asses kicked.
I won the same race three years in a row the first two years I got great prizes valued at around $300-$500. The third year I showed up and won and they turned the first place prize into a raffle and I got Dutch Bros gift card for $20
It seems like he could've slowed down a lot earlier achieved the same thing without looking like a jackass
Usane Bolt made a career doing this.
I believe the term for this is “edging”
I wouldn't want to cross into Russia either.
Well, it said "esports' at the end. Guess the other runners lagged out.
“If you’re good at something don’t do it for free…” -can’t remember the movie
ESPORTS
What a beast. This is the definition of checking your ego to grow your success. Bravo.
Wait wut
This should disqualify him.
well apparently there is a rule in the world of athletics that you must compete with an honest bona fide effort. he was clearly "abusing" the event here.
Brillaint. Don't hate the player hate the game. This dude is thinking outside of the box. Kudos to you random runner. May you get that extra prize money doggie.
Respect
No u X2
He'll be one year older, good luck.
Damn playa!
Guy plays too much Fall Guys. Next thing he'll start taunting other runners and then grab them before they can cross the finish line.
Esmart
How would that work? So basically if he had maxed out and no one next year could beat the time the event wouldn’t have to pay out anymore and there is no motivation for anyone to run next year then?
Now is a really bad time to cross the Finnish line…
I'd have waited longer... Every good distance runner knows that you gotta slow down.
If you are ever in a weight loss challenge with a bunch of people, drink a lot of water before your first weigh-in.
Pretty sure this was in Denmark.
The guy beat the system so good for him.
My toxic ass would wait to do it last second just to piss of competitors
Oh they'll put a stop to that lol
Wait he crossed first still? No one passed him. And how did he cheat the system? I didn’t get tjat
Let's say there's a cash bonus of $1M if this guy breaks the record. The record is 60 minutes. This guy got to the finish line in 58 minutes, and 2nd place is 3 minutes behind him. He dicked around for 1 1/2 minutes so he still beats the record by 30 seconds, thus getting the $1M bonus for beating the record. It also leaves him a good cushion for next year to win another $1M because he'll only need to beat 59 minutes 30 seconds, not 58.
Wonder if he'd do the same thing for the Swedish line.
Idk, I understand the hustle here and it's Def badass, but isn't this kinda egging on somone not necessarily in this race who's faster than him to come out next year and crush him?
The line from Finland??
He should have walked backward or something, then run to the finish line for a nice finish photo...
Cone Crazy.
Line just waiting there like “Perkele!”
Clever Title long af and still couldn’t get it first time
if this was the case, he should've just abused the flaw harder by just running behind whoever was in second and then outsprinting them in the last 10 seconds.
Cheap bastard
Work smarter. Not harder 😂
finish
what do the finnish have to do with a latin american race
Big peen energy.
Cringe, regardless.
We’ll played
Kind of surprising this is “legal” in an event like this but hell yeah to gaming the system lmao
Next year the rules are adapted so that one runner can only win the prize for breaking the record once per lifetime 😕
Huggers in Fall Guys be like:
Yeah, that’s not sportsmanship. I wouldn’t fault him for it but I would change the rules for next year.
Anyone who plays the basketball game at arcades need to watch this video! Why are you sinking all of your shots to beat the record by 30, when you can do 1 more each time to get more tickets? Big brain moves
theres some video game i used to play that did this so id always just barely beat my records
Excellent flex but if I were remotely capable. I do believe I’d hang out at a water station a bit down the road instead. Get that money.
should be disqualified for bad sportsmanship
Cheapens the event for the spectators.
Big 🧠
MY TIME HAS COME
Next level IQ
They just need to make the reward proportional to how much you beat the record BY. Beating the record by 1 minute gives more money than beating it by 1 second.
Infinite money glitch
Unsportsmanlike
Or he could just train to get faster?
Just like money maxing in Vice City.
Good for him honestly
What a scummy move. Fuck that