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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A video is going viral online of Spanish athlete Garcia-Caro starting to celebrate too early, before even reaching the finish line.

As a result, she was overtaken by the Ukrainian Lyudmila Olyanovskaya. She won bronze

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Both of them had both feet off the ground with every stride. I don't know what the point of race walking is...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia this is somehow acceptable and common. It needs to be detectible to the human eye that contact is lost.

Which seems like such a horseshit rule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It seemed pretty clear to my human eye. The fitness required is incredible, but calling it a fast walk seems disingenuous at best.