6403 wrote:
Jaguartron wrote:
This is 100%, completely unintentional.
They are running in 30° heat with high humidity, the guys hands are probably completely drenched with sweat, the bottles probably have condensation on them, running 3 minute k's, 30k into the race.
The first bottle he tries to grab probably gets knocked out of his hand because he hit the second bottle in the row, he then tries to grab another bottle, causing the same thing to happen down the whole table. The last bottle that he grabs isn't knocked out of his hand, because there is no other bottle to knock it out of his hand. Or maybe he was being more careful on the last bottle. At worst, this is a slightly clumsy move.
There are more water tables that all of the other athletes behind him grab a bottle off of only a few seconds down the road. He has moved well out of the way of the tables by this point, allowing the other athletes to grab water. If he was intentionally preventing people from getting water, why would he grab a bottle from the first table? This event benefitted him 0%, and negatively impacted the other athletes 0%.
Everyone here is making it seem like he slapped the bottles off of the first table, and proceeded to do that at every table for the rest of the race.
If you watch a higher quality recording of this event (plus all of the above), it is pretty easy to see that this is unintentional.
Do you really believe that?
At that point, he was running in the lead pack, so it's not like he had some kind of "seizure" and just did a "woops".
How much of the race did you see? Several runners were acting very strangely.
For example, one of the South Africans stopped running, staggered over to the side of the road and fell head first into the railings. Then he got up a moment later and resumed running at a decent pace for several minutes. Then he stopped and lay down on the side of the road, clutching his stomach and his facial expression indicated he was in significant pain.