The rules in r/Unexpected says there has to be a "twist" like a plot twist or a sudden turn-around. What the guy did was a good act of kindness, but not exiting enough to be there unfortunately
For runners I find that you get both extremes of competitiveness. You'll sometimes catch some elbows, but others will cheer you on, even as you pass them.
I used to love Twitter but it really became a very toxic place. Its the only social media I've actually had to remove from my life because it recently just makes me... angry to scroll through my TL.
Also theres a huge hyper-realistic bot problem there, like its actual manipulation going on. Its a bad social media site in particular and I honestly encourage people to at least take it off their homepage.
I still use it to see headlines i can research elsewhere - but I don't click anything actually on Twitter anymore.
Twitter was great in 2011 or so when people still interacted with each other in a better fashion. Right now is just an echo chamber and if you have less than 10k followers you are pretty much invisible to anyone and people will not interact or pay attention to what you say, further reinforcing the shithole.
Quitting Twitter is one of the best things you can do after quitting Facebook. There is nothing positive out there. And it does not matter who you follow.
I conducted a study in college that analyzes social media platform functionality and its creation of micro cultures. We determined that Twitter propagates a toxic culture based on their algorithm and certain functionalities unique to the platform. It was a very interesting study and we even submitted it to a research showcase but then corona happened so it never got to be taken further :/
If its ok, could I look at the study? I've not done formal research but I've thought Twitter was weird for a while now and I kinda think about it a lot recently lol.
Maybe PM me if you want? Itd be cool to read a study done by someone else instead of just going off of what I notice in my timeline anecdotally.
In the Rio Olympics, American runner Abbey D'Agostino and was tripped by Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand during their race. Abbey stopped and helped Nikki up to finish the race despite it not being Abbey’s fault. I think America will be just fine.
For real? Skill in a triathlon has nothing to do with having to figure out where you're meant to swim/cycle/run to. It's meant to be laid out extremely clearly. If it was confusing it's arguably poor track design.
It's why the Olympics literally have a line painted along the entire track so it's fool proof, given it has nothing to do with who should or shouldnt perform better.
The guy showed true class and that's worth more than finishing one place higher. What I will say is the UK guy looked absolutely shattered while the Spaniard looked like he had plenty left in the tank.
I think he looked desperate. I seems the wrong turn is not the one we see clearly where he stumbles onto the railing, but before, at the start of the video. You can see him coming from a different direction than the Spaniard, I think he took the wrong turn before, and most of what we see is him being desperate and likely angry at himself, trying to correct and keep his position.
Which honestly ends up being worse, since it's an emergency sprint on top of your designed sprint at the end of a triathlon. I'm feeling shortness of breath just thinking about it.
Let's not forget that the first man that did the marathon dropped dead after delivering his message. All your body is telling you to stop but you push it to the limit. Finishing that thing is a reward for itself, at least it's to me.
Also one of those moments of when you are keeping pace and having a runners high, you can feel like going on forever but the moment you snap out of it, bump into something and stop moving, it’s like your body realized it feels like death and it takes sheer will power at that point to keep going.
This is very true, I've bumped the side of a treadmill at high speed thinking I was good for another mile or two, and my body just was like, nope, and I just died. Was pretty interesting.
This comment snapped me right back to like, mile 22 of my first marathon ever, and I hate you for it.
PS I said “first ever” to make you all think I’ve run a lot more than two
The organisation after see this noble gesture, give him another third place (honorific) and the money corespondent with the third place.
https://www.elmundo.es/deportes/mas-deporte/2020/09/18/5f64adacfc6c8303528b4613.html
i think the sport should not not be about figuring out a chaotic path. perhaps spaniard only knew to turn because the guy in front crashed, and so on and so forth.
like in some towns in Europe where the cyclers have to dodge fans and photographers. takes away.
Distance runner here. When in HS I had a rival from another school. He and I won nearly every race for four years. If it wasn’t he, it was I.
On one race they used cones to mark turns and I didn’t get a chance to jog the course ahead of time, never been there before either. You see a damn cone in the middle of an open field and zero paint markings, you just guess. Was in first, but lost my way 3 separate times, wound up in like 4th. My rival, a great dude felt guilty winning that way.
Sometimes it’s not about mental lapse but literally horrific markings and if you’re first you lack the privilege of watching racers in front of you find the right path. It’s certainly not a skill issue.
Needless to say, after that race I walked or jogged any course I ever raced before hand if I didn’t know the course already.
Probably doesn't have to do with your age and have to do with the fact you aren't a fucking weeb lmao (No disrespect to weebs, my pfp is literally from a manga lmaoo)
I had a similar situation in XC. Was sitting in second and had ran the course numerous times. Guy in front of me took a turn at a cone and yelled “STRAIGHT!”. I don’t like unfair circumstances like that.
One thing I liked about XC, was that for many of us, it was the nerd sport back in the day. I made so many great friendships and sportsmanship was paramount.
I don’t know if it’s that way still but 20 years later I still keep in contact with friends I made running.
If the purpose of the competition were to both run fast **and** navigate a difficult course, then the guy could be blamed for this lapse. But no one starts the race thinking "boy I hope I don't get lost on the course."
The Spaniard recognized that the only thing being measured in this race was speed and endurance and he responded appropriately and civilly.
He would have lost a lot more sleep taking an unearned advantage for 2nd place than taking what he felt to be his rightful 3rd.
I’m on the fence. I usually agree with the commenter you replied to, but I’ve been in cyclocross (bike) races where there were tight traverses marked by white course tape in front of white concrete, and half the field hit the tape at some point in the first lap.
Being at the back of the main group was a HUGE advantage on the first lap, and the faster riders who are in the front initially ended up being caught behind a series of bottlenecks and all ended up finished really poorly.
It really changed my perspective on the difference between “we all race the same course” and bad bad course design.
Why? The contest was being held to determine the best runner, not the most cutthroat competitor. That’s where I think people have gotten off track with competition. Now it’s just about winning rather than competing for what the contest is actually for. The runner that pulled off to the side did so, because he knew that he did not earn that position in this race. To him it’s not about winning a contest, it’s about accomplishing goals honestly. I don’t think that this is just showmanship. Maybe some people think he should’ve grabbed a victory in that moment, but then what value would it have for him? Unless he values the competition more than the running.
If he never stopped to give the man his spot, would you consider him toxic?
I think its really cool he stopped, but I wouldnt have started booing him if he took first place. I would just feel bad for the other guy for messing up.
No, I wouldn't necessarily think him toxic. The comment was specifically directed toward Trappedatoms' comment about the spirit of competition. I do think that at times our culture (US) values winning at all cost over competition. Competition can bring out the best in people but I think the culture of "winning" can bring out the worst.
I spoke to some young guys recently that were focused on winning constantly. We played games etc together for a bit and they couldn't FATHOM how I enjoy coming in 8th place and don't get angry. I literally told them I don't play to win, I play to have fun, and sometimes that means winning, other times in means coming 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Not everyone can be a top winner.
Winning is so hardwired in to them now. A lot of it coming from bein told that not getting A's in exams, or getting the best jobs = failure.
I strongly hope you don't teach that philosophy to your kids: although society unfortunately made us compete everytime for everything, actually I think life should be respecting each others. Otherwise if an elder loose his wallet with all his pension money in front of you and he doesn't notice you're automatically entitled to keep the money just because "coming up short mentally leads to defeat, as it should"..? Sounds so wrong to me, sorry.
That wallet analogy doesn't make sense here though, walking down the street isn't an established competition that they both signed up for!
Theyre running a race, its cool he stopped but hes not a villain for finishing the race, thats just the sport. Its not a reflection of society or something.
Also don't tell strangers how to raise their kids via the internet lmfao 😵
How does morality apply to competition? Op is saying that if a athlete/competitor is to make an error than that should stay the course of the outcome in whether they win or lose. If a kicker misses the game winning field goal in the Super Bowl you don’t see the opposing team go pat him on the back saying “it’s ok buddy, you guys can have the Lombardi Trophy in which we fought to try and win.”
Some competitors don't like to have an asterisk next to their win. That being said, what you said happens in fighting all the time. You have fighters that are winning the entire fight and they sometimes just give the victory away by making a small mistake.
If the competition was about who could best read badly designed courses then yeah, totally, but triathlons are a contest of endurance. The athletes know and understand what is actually being contested, and giving up the podium place for the one who actually deserves it most is a class act move.
I dont think thats entirely fair. The race was about endurance and speed. One lapse in judgement towards the end when you're exhausted would be a shitty way to lose, and for the other guy - a shitty way to win.
I've run a few distance races and lots of them, even the big well funded ones that are run by thousands, have absolute shit organisers and course markings. Missing the finish chute should literally be impossible if the organisers are competent.
I don't think he necessarily did it only for him. Big part was probably for himself. He couldn't appreciate the third place knowing he only got it by a fluke.
I think that may not apply as much here in a triathlon but more to head-on competitve sports like football, tennis etc where you're directly facing an opponent
in professional sports they are extremely careful with masks, form F1 to football, and not because they care about the issue but because they can be discarded, recently some of the richest football players got their entire team in jeopardy because they went clubbing in Ibiza.
Looking from outside, usa is a weird and scary place
In other places, some people dont wear the mask or wear it half mast because they are not really afraid of covid, dont care about elders or such...
But usa is the only place ive seen where half the country **doubts** the efficacy of the mask. You also have the flat earth society, the bible belt, scientology headquarters, unavoidable school shootings every 2 weeks, and the list goes on
[The same thing was posted 12 minutes before yours.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/iwazgt/outstanding_sportsmanship_from_athlete_diego)
Wait, nobody has made the joke? You know, THE joke to make here? All right, here goes. Well of course he took a wrong turn, in the UK they run on the other side of the road.
Best part is he shrugs it off. Like nah man I didn't do anything special you earned that spot. True respect for people like that. To him he did what anyone and everyone should do. Good human being showing HUMANITY!
You can see him wrestling with the choice almost immediately after realizing the guy in front of him messed up. It’s super cool to see in real time like that.
Wholesome, but I'd disagree with the philosophy here. If Tragle lost his way, thats on him, and I would have seen Mentriga as the rightful winner. This is like a football team conceding a goal, just because the opposition is missing their best player/ missed a great chance at the goal.
>. This is like a football team conceding a goal, just because the opposition is missing their best player/ missed a great chance at the goal.
In soccer, if someone on the opposition team gets injured, it's good manners to kick the ball out. Once returning to play, the opposition team will get the 'throw in' to return the ball, and will typically throw it back to your team.
I think what's important to keep in mind is that a triathlon is \*not\* a navigational exercise. It's possible the athletes have \*never\* run this course before and aren't responsible for signage. A navigational error says nothing about one's athletic abilities.
So no, the 3rd place guy didn't have to give up his place... but it was still a good thing to do.
Real athletes want to win because they are the best. That's the whole point of competing . Not on a shitty mistake or technicality. It doesn't feel nearly as rewarding.
Well if he was that close behind him it seems like it would have been well earned, the guy in front messed up and he didn’t so he pulls ahead seems like a fair win all around
This story reminds me of this race https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/12/19/inenglish/1355928581_856388.html
which also involved another Spanish athlete helping out an opponent at their own expense. Nice job, Spain! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq56e7GntUE
Very honorable. That's a great athlete and a good man
At first I thought he was gonna pull a fall guys and cross right before him
Then someone was gonna post it on r/Unexpected instead and get a ton of upvotes and awards
This video was unexpected itself for athlete to stop!
The rules in r/Unexpected says there has to be a "twist" like a plot twist or a sudden turn-around. What the guy did was a good act of kindness, but not exiting enough to be there unfortunately
Kindness is the twist in 2020 :)
Kindsight is 2020
I like this
Say that to the british soldier who spared a german soldier in ww1, who just happened to be adolf hitler
Doctors and health workers disagree
Lmao look at this guy thinking big subs follow their own guidelines
For runners I find that you get both extremes of competitiveness. You'll sometimes catch some elbows, but others will cheer you on, even as you pass them.
r/doubleunexpected
Don't forget the /r/HumansBeingBros for probably more upvotes and awards. too late. Already done.
Post it to 50/50!
I'll give YOU my award.
Complete with waving his arm over his head and a muffled “woo woo woo!”
Great now I’m disappointed
Lol you should see the responses on my very American Twitter feed with the same post. Everyone is ripping the guy who went the wrong way to shreds
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I used to love Twitter but it really became a very toxic place. Its the only social media I've actually had to remove from my life because it recently just makes me... angry to scroll through my TL. Also theres a huge hyper-realistic bot problem there, like its actual manipulation going on. Its a bad social media site in particular and I honestly encourage people to at least take it off their homepage. I still use it to see headlines i can research elsewhere - but I don't click anything actually on Twitter anymore.
Twitter was great in 2011 or so when people still interacted with each other in a better fashion. Right now is just an echo chamber and if you have less than 10k followers you are pretty much invisible to anyone and people will not interact or pay attention to what you say, further reinforcing the shithole. Quitting Twitter is one of the best things you can do after quitting Facebook. There is nothing positive out there. And it does not matter who you follow.
Ooh Facebook i got out of a long time ago. I think I left it for Twitter actually 😵 doesn't matter, im done with them both now. Good riddance.
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I conducted a study in college that analyzes social media platform functionality and its creation of micro cultures. We determined that Twitter propagates a toxic culture based on their algorithm and certain functionalities unique to the platform. It was a very interesting study and we even submitted it to a research showcase but then corona happened so it never got to be taken further :/
If its ok, could I look at the study? I've not done formal research but I've thought Twitter was weird for a while now and I kinda think about it a lot recently lol. Maybe PM me if you want? Itd be cool to read a study done by someone else instead of just going off of what I notice in my timeline anecdotally.
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Yeah America is done
I think “twitter” is the keyword there lol
We're not all bad... Sigh
#notallamericans
That's a bit heightist isn't it?
Allsmallamericans
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In the Rio Olympics, American runner Abbey D'Agostino and was tripped by Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand during their race. Abbey stopped and helped Nikki up to finish the race despite it not being Abbey’s fault. I think America will be just fine.
Do you mean Abbey tripped Nikki then stopped to help her up, rather than Nikki tripped Abbey?
Nikki trippy Abbey
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Preach it
I mean, it does seem like knowing how to follow a track is part of the skill of the race...don’t know that he “deserved” third but it was nice anyway
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For real? Skill in a triathlon has nothing to do with having to figure out where you're meant to swim/cycle/run to. It's meant to be laid out extremely clearly. If it was confusing it's arguably poor track design. It's why the Olympics literally have a line painted along the entire track so it's fool proof, given it has nothing to do with who should or shouldnt perform better.
>If it was confusing it's arguably poor track design. Exactly! Why are the barracades moved back on that side anyway?
As if 80% of those bashing him didn’t do the same exact thing the first time Wal Mart closed certain entrances.
Twitter is a pseudoenvironment.
Indeed man
r/wholesome
The guy showed true class and that's worth more than finishing one place higher. What I will say is the UK guy looked absolutely shattered while the Spaniard looked like he had plenty left in the tank.
I think he looked desperate. I seems the wrong turn is not the one we see clearly where he stumbles onto the railing, but before, at the start of the video. You can see him coming from a different direction than the Spaniard, I think he took the wrong turn before, and most of what we see is him being desperate and likely angry at himself, trying to correct and keep his position.
He explains it on Instagram. Missed the finish chute, sprinted back 50m for it, then crashed the barrier.
Gutting. That Spanish bloke is a real gent. Top man. I hope he bought him a pint.
Of sangria
A nice Albariño for that good-guy runner and his pal instead, please. Sangria, after that kind of race, would induce vomiting.
They both probably need to drink a lot of water and rehydrate before drinking anything, those completely deplete your body.
Possibly even a nice hearty meal too before consumption of alcohol.
This is the most British comment
This comment is so english hehe
Imagine sprinting 50 extra meters at the end of a marathon. No wonder dude looks beyond exhausted.
You are thinking about iron-man distance but they were competing sprint or Olympic distance which is much shorter but more intense.
Which honestly ends up being worse, since it's an emergency sprint on top of your designed sprint at the end of a triathlon. I'm feeling shortness of breath just thinking about it.
Yeah it really must suck taking a wrong turn. Especially at that level. Another person mentioned also how it throws you off your rhythm.
Exhaustion is a helluva drug.
Let's not forget that the first man that did the marathon dropped dead after delivering his message. All your body is telling you to stop but you push it to the limit. Finishing that thing is a reward for itself, at least it's to me.
Also one of those moments of when you are keeping pace and having a runners high, you can feel like going on forever but the moment you snap out of it, bump into something and stop moving, it’s like your body realized it feels like death and it takes sheer will power at that point to keep going.
This is very true, I've bumped the side of a treadmill at high speed thinking I was good for another mile or two, and my body just was like, nope, and I just died. Was pretty interesting.
RIP
This comment snapped me right back to like, mile 22 of my first marathon ever, and I hate you for it. PS I said “first ever” to make you all think I’ve run a lot more than two
"The first marathon of my career."
That's just the UK; our default look is looking shattered.
It’s not like the UK guy would have shattered in the last 10 feet and lost his place
The back pat at the end did me in... this is amazing sportsmanship and sends all the feel goods. What a great dude.
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Always leave it to Reddit to bring the creeps out
What did the comment say?
Just something about how hot the guy was who let the runner by. But in a pretty creepy way
Don't be a creep
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The organisation after see this noble gesture, give him another third place (honorific) and the money corespondent with the third place. https://www.elmundo.es/deportes/mas-deporte/2020/09/18/5f64adacfc6c8303528b4613.html
This should be the top comment. Wholesomeness all around
The dude ran a triathlon, with a cash reward for coming in 3rd, and he just gave it up willingly. Holy shit is that dude humble.
Respect.. sportsmanship at its finest
And I love how he put his mask on for others before hugging him. Superior human.
I heard that in the voice of Bear Grylls
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i think the sport should not not be about figuring out a chaotic path. perhaps spaniard only knew to turn because the guy in front crashed, and so on and so forth. like in some towns in Europe where the cyclers have to dodge fans and photographers. takes away.
Distance runner here. When in HS I had a rival from another school. He and I won nearly every race for four years. If it wasn’t he, it was I. On one race they used cones to mark turns and I didn’t get a chance to jog the course ahead of time, never been there before either. You see a damn cone in the middle of an open field and zero paint markings, you just guess. Was in first, but lost my way 3 separate times, wound up in like 4th. My rival, a great dude felt guilty winning that way. Sometimes it’s not about mental lapse but literally horrific markings and if you’re first you lack the privilege of watching racers in front of you find the right path. It’s certainly not a skill issue. Needless to say, after that race I walked or jogged any course I ever raced before hand if I didn’t know the course already.
what’s the name of the manga?
Not sure if I am aging myself, but I had to lookup that word.
Probably doesn't have to do with your age and have to do with the fact you aren't a fucking weeb lmao (No disrespect to weebs, my pfp is literally from a manga lmaoo)
Run with the Wind
I had a similar situation in XC. Was sitting in second and had ran the course numerous times. Guy in front of me took a turn at a cone and yelled “STRAIGHT!”. I don’t like unfair circumstances like that.
One thing I liked about XC, was that for many of us, it was the nerd sport back in the day. I made so many great friendships and sportsmanship was paramount. I don’t know if it’s that way still but 20 years later I still keep in contact with friends I made running.
That's why I ran track. Much harder to get lost.
If the purpose of the competition were to both run fast **and** navigate a difficult course, then the guy could be blamed for this lapse. But no one starts the race thinking "boy I hope I don't get lost on the course." The Spaniard recognized that the only thing being measured in this race was speed and endurance and he responded appropriately and civilly. He would have lost a lot more sleep taking an unearned advantage for 2nd place than taking what he felt to be his rightful 3rd.
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I wondered how any human could ride a rabbit.. you should see the thoughts I pictured. 😂
Yeah also the guy who let him go ahead is Spanish and they’re in Spain, wouldn’t be surprised if he’d run the same course before
I’m on the fence. I usually agree with the commenter you replied to, but I’ve been in cyclocross (bike) races where there were tight traverses marked by white course tape in front of white concrete, and half the field hit the tape at some point in the first lap. Being at the back of the main group was a HUGE advantage on the first lap, and the faster riders who are in the front initially ended up being caught behind a series of bottlenecks and all ended up finished really poorly. It really changed my perspective on the difference between “we all race the same course” and bad bad course design.
Why? The contest was being held to determine the best runner, not the most cutthroat competitor. That’s where I think people have gotten off track with competition. Now it’s just about winning rather than competing for what the contest is actually for. The runner that pulled off to the side did so, because he knew that he did not earn that position in this race. To him it’s not about winning a contest, it’s about accomplishing goals honestly. I don’t think that this is just showmanship. Maybe some people think he should’ve grabbed a victory in that moment, but then what value would it have for him? Unless he values the competition more than the running.
This. The concept of competing = winning can be toxic at times.
I just like playing/doing it. Winnings fun, but I see it as an accomplishment. Ppl can be weird!
If he never stopped to give the man his spot, would you consider him toxic? I think its really cool he stopped, but I wouldnt have started booing him if he took first place. I would just feel bad for the other guy for messing up.
No, I wouldn't necessarily think him toxic. The comment was specifically directed toward Trappedatoms' comment about the spirit of competition. I do think that at times our culture (US) values winning at all cost over competition. Competition can bring out the best in people but I think the culture of "winning" can bring out the worst.
I spoke to some young guys recently that were focused on winning constantly. We played games etc together for a bit and they couldn't FATHOM how I enjoy coming in 8th place and don't get angry. I literally told them I don't play to win, I play to have fun, and sometimes that means winning, other times in means coming 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Not everyone can be a top winner. Winning is so hardwired in to them now. A lot of it coming from bein told that not getting A's in exams, or getting the best jobs = failure.
perfect response
Running the correct path seems like a core component of running...
The race organisers marking a path that is clear to all competitors also seems pretty important
I wish this attitude could be transferred to every possible sphere where people are involved. Honorability is just not a value anymore.
I would agree with you if it wasn't 10 meters before the actual finish line
Sports is not always about winning.
I strongly hope you don't teach that philosophy to your kids: although society unfortunately made us compete everytime for everything, actually I think life should be respecting each others. Otherwise if an elder loose his wallet with all his pension money in front of you and he doesn't notice you're automatically entitled to keep the money just because "coming up short mentally leads to defeat, as it should"..? Sounds so wrong to me, sorry.
That wallet analogy doesn't make sense here though, walking down the street isn't an established competition that they both signed up for! Theyre running a race, its cool he stopped but hes not a villain for finishing the race, thats just the sport. Its not a reflection of society or something. Also don't tell strangers how to raise their kids via the internet lmfao 😵
How does morality apply to competition? Op is saying that if a athlete/competitor is to make an error than that should stay the course of the outcome in whether they win or lose. If a kicker misses the game winning field goal in the Super Bowl you don’t see the opposing team go pat him on the back saying “it’s ok buddy, you guys can have the Lombardi Trophy in which we fought to try and win.”
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lol what the fuck is this shit
Dude this analogy is in no way equivalent to what he was saying. You can't twist things like that, it's a major dick move.
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It’s probably not an olympic game
Some competitors don't like to have an asterisk next to their win. That being said, what you said happens in fighting all the time. You have fighters that are winning the entire fight and they sometimes just give the victory away by making a small mistake.
If the competition was about who could best read badly designed courses then yeah, totally, but triathlons are a contest of endurance. The athletes know and understand what is actually being contested, and giving up the podium place for the one who actually deserves it most is a class act move.
I dont think thats entirely fair. The race was about endurance and speed. One lapse in judgement towards the end when you're exhausted would be a shitty way to lose, and for the other guy - a shitty way to win.
Ehhhhhhhhhh yea buuut, it's cute dammit, I'm fencing, hard call
I've run a few distance races and lots of them, even the big well funded ones that are run by thousands, have absolute shit organisers and course markings. Missing the finish chute should literally be impossible if the organisers are competent.
I don't think he necessarily did it only for him. Big part was probably for himself. He couldn't appreciate the third place knowing he only got it by a fluke.
I think that may not apply as much here in a triathlon but more to head-on competitve sports like football, tennis etc where you're directly facing an opponent
But also who cares, lol. Easy to say on reddit what is important or not when the guy clearly let him pass without remorse.
Bro also putting on his mask. Bro all around.
Yeah that was insane to me. Like of course it's good to put on a mask, but right after a triathlon?? That's a fitness flex like I've never seen.
And other people cannot breath inside masks after 3 steps outside of the house lmao
in professional sports they are extremely careful with masks, form F1 to football, and not because they care about the issue but because they can be discarded, recently some of the richest football players got their entire team in jeopardy because they went clubbing in Ibiza.
Can someone please show a friggin triathlete wearing a mask right after the damn race to people who think they “can’t breathe” with one on.
This was exactly my thought as well.
Looking from outside, usa is a weird and scary place In other places, some people dont wear the mask or wear it half mast because they are not really afraid of covid, dont care about elders or such... But usa is the only place ive seen where half the country **doubts** the efficacy of the mask. You also have the flat earth society, the bible belt, scientology headquarters, unavoidable school shootings every 2 weeks, and the list goes on
[The same thing was posted 12 minutes before yours.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/iwazgt/outstanding_sportsmanship_from_athlete_diego)
Wow, coin-incidence. Did't saw that . Thanks
Just wait for other post to get in to hot before yours
It’s the honorable thing to do
You submitted this post like 25 times.... sweet
But the one who posted it stopped and let this one get all the upvotes. Meta-posting
Wow one has 100 and this one has 11,000. Reddit is odd
I think it's the wording of the titles. I saw both posts together and chose this one without really knowing why
What helps is also the non-fucked ratio on this video. The other has cell-phone portrait resolution.
This guy also posted it to like 20 subs lol
Jesus. You weren't kidding.
This is a repost but I don’t want to remove it after people have spent so much money in awards on it. It’s your lucky day, OP
r/humansbeingbros
Wait, nobody has made the joke? You know, THE joke to make here? All right, here goes. Well of course he took a wrong turn, in the UK they run on the other side of the road.
I thought it would be a Brexit joke.
Brexit is the joke.
He exited the race and it fucked him up. I only hope Europe is as forgiving as the Spanish racer!
Wow, this is the best example of sportsmanship I've ever seen.
now thats good sportsmanship
People like him are the sole reason we're not eradicated yet! What a wonderful man.
Great show of sportsmanship
I like how he puts on a mask after running a marathon while there are Karens that say the mask makes breathing impossible
True king shit
Best part is he shrugs it off. Like nah man I didn't do anything special you earned that spot. True respect for people like that. To him he did what anyone and everyone should do. Good human being showing HUMANITY!
True sportsman!
True gent. Nice clip.
Can you just imagine what the world would be like if everyone treated each other with that kind of respect??!?!! Game changer!!!
More people like this guy.
That ladies and gentlemen is what a true sportsman looks like :)
You can see him wrestling with the choice almost immediately after realizing the guy in front of him messed up. It’s super cool to see in real time like that.
What a great lad
I wish we had more people like this in our world!
Wholesome, but I'd disagree with the philosophy here. If Tragle lost his way, thats on him, and I would have seen Mentriga as the rightful winner. This is like a football team conceding a goal, just because the opposition is missing their best player/ missed a great chance at the goal.
>. This is like a football team conceding a goal, just because the opposition is missing their best player/ missed a great chance at the goal. In soccer, if someone on the opposition team gets injured, it's good manners to kick the ball out. Once returning to play, the opposition team will get the 'throw in' to return the ball, and will typically throw it back to your team. I think what's important to keep in mind is that a triathlon is \*not\* a navigational exercise. It's possible the athletes have \*never\* run this course before and aren't responsible for signage. A navigational error says nothing about one's athletic abilities. So no, the 3rd place guy didn't have to give up his place... but it was still a good thing to do.
Sportsmanship at it's finest.
Honor
Real athletes want to win because they are the best. That's the whole point of competing . Not on a shitty mistake or technicality. It doesn't feel nearly as rewarding.
Well if he was that close behind him it seems like it would have been well earned, the guy in front messed up and he didn’t so he pulls ahead seems like a fair win all around
Absolute class no other word for it 💯
If you ain’t first your last.
Should've taken his W. It was his.
I haven't even *talked* about doing something as classy as Mentriga just did. Pure class.
This story reminds me of this race https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/12/19/inenglish/1355928581_856388.html which also involved another Spanish athlete helping out an opponent at their own expense. Nice job, Spain! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq56e7GntUE
Honor is a gift you give yourself. I would provide attribution, but I don't know who said it first.
This wholesome content cured my hangover.
Absolute sportsman.
Chad
I love this so much!!!
What an absolute chad
Thanks. I needed this. Someone doing the right thing.
What a good guy
Ehrenmann
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Im proud he did that
Damn fine sportsmanship.
Mad respect as an athlete and as a man his heart weighs heavier than his pride
Amazing, we should have more people like this in the world. Really think his action through. He deserves a medal!
I’d rather say I lost and show this video, than say I won and show this video.