Thomas Gerlach wrote:
To qualify the tape snatcher, and this doesn't absolve them, and I jumped on him too when I saw this and thought it should be a DQ personally at first, but at least one person responded to me and said the incident was not a tape snatching as it appears, and that they were doing the reenactment of the tape finish (for photography) and then they snatched it. They really need to come up with a better way to do the reenactments too. But yes, there are plenty of triathletes that are too, me, me, me.
I have no idea what happened at the finish and whether this guying potentially correcting me is correct regarding this being a reenactment, just taking a quick look at the finish time it looks like that was the case here. I would be curious if it changes anything in the opinion of anyone - I know it does of mine, def not DQ. It was reminder to me that sometimes a lot more context is needed to fairly assess a situation and I thought I was a lot more down the middle in the first place compared to some of the other comments on the Facebook feeds. I did go back and look and there was a tight race in the M40-44. Could be them. And who can argue about finishing passionately for a PR or 70.3 worlds spot, or even just a finish. And given the 1 minute difference in display time versus finish time, I would say that it is extremely plausible that that is a reenactment, in which case what obligation should Kelsey have to at least note this in fairness to the guy in mob-mentality world.
Hmm...
I feel like that if that were me, and that it was really a re-enactment, and that I knew it was a re-enactment, I would have done the same thing
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