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I’m anticigarettes, but still impressed.
As someone who smoked two packs a day at one point, I am also impressed.
Congratulations!
Edit: wait how many do you smoke now?
I just moved to vaping and away from smoking. There was no big accomplishment here, unfortunately. Meh, it's just a risk tradeoff as nicotine isn't completely harmless itself. Without getting into details here, quitting nicotine is not on the table for at least another year.
Progress is progress, good luck
On the one hand, seems he earned his place. On the other hand, they should have stopped him running when there was still a chance to protect the (maybe literal) sensitivities of other racers and observers. Enforcement only after he finished is just stupid.
Put another way, if he does it merely to do it, as many runners do, what's to stop him doing it again and again, knowing his personal results will not only be shared with him, but likely the papers?
Apparently they didn't notice until photos of the violation went viral online
Like I said. The weakest form of enforcement possible. Their policy accomplished nothing here, and somehow they were proud enough of that nothing to try to get papers to crow about it.
Chinese papers didn't crow about it: the marathon released a statement on Chinese Twitter, the freaking Daily Mail somehow managed to pick up on it, and then Business Insider™ then re-reported the stuff reported by Daily Mail with s'more links to the sources.
They wanted him to fail so they could bemoan the evils of smoking. When he succeeded the resorted to bureaucracy to rob him of his prize.
fastest runner I've ever run with (in the army) chainsmoked two newports before running the 2 mile apft. He ran 4:19 the first mile, 4:46 the second. My lardass was lapped. Fucker was already on cig #3 when I crossed the finish line @11:30. Had mercury wings tattooed on his ankles. Shit blew my mind.
Petty little people. Give the man his due!
Yeah who cares what he smokes . Is it evwn in the rules . Just give the man what he earned
No mad lads allowed
Smoke is bad but nicotine is an upper. Maybe that makes is less bad in the short term? Or maybe when helpful?
it's also a vasodilator/bronchodilator. Not a good one, not one you'd want to use for performance enhancement, but yeah.
As someone who stopped smoking when I was 12y old I'm impressed
Why do I feel like I have seen this photo before? So weird.
This happened two years ago, and was a Twitter meme. You may have saw it in 2022
It happened this year on the 7th of January, at least to my understanding:
Uncle Chen, nicknamed the 'Smoking Brother', managed to complete the Xiamen Marathon in three hours and 33 minutes on January 7 this year.
Holy shit, it's the same man two years later
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-chain-smoking-marathon-runner-161300175.html
It does feel very familiar, glad I'm not alone. I feel like he looks like some asshole business exec who was disgraced for some reason? Could be way off though