According to german tri-site tri-mag.de, an agegrouper said the words "Dopers stink. All of them. Always" (it is sort of a catchphrase over here. I've seen it on stickers and T-shirts) directed towards Weiss as he was lapping him in the run at Challenge Prague.
This much is undisputed. What happened next comes in two versions:
The agegrouper says that Weiss stopped, turned around and punched him in the gut! He reported as much at the next aid station and at the finish-line immediately, but there were no direct witnesses of the punch.
Weiss' side of the story is that after passing the guy he was being shouted at aggressively and therefore stopped and turned around abruptly, which caused the agegrouper to bump into him.
link original article [german]
My take:
Obviously any discussion on this is opinion and speculation since there were no witnesses, but man does it fit my opinion of Weiss and dopers in general. And his excuse? "The guy bumped into me" - yeah, right...
What is also a bit concerning are the facebook-comments on the story. There is quite a few people who seem to think that (assuming the punching did really happen) the agegrouper got what he deserved for abusing Weiss verbally. Which A) if you look at that sentence he wasn't really, he was just stating an opinion not even directly referencing Weiss and B) I don't know 'bout you, but I think I must have been 4 or 5 years old when I learned that I must not punch other kids just because they call me names...
if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!
This much is undisputed. What happened next comes in two versions:
The agegrouper says that Weiss stopped, turned around and punched him in the gut! He reported as much at the next aid station and at the finish-line immediately, but there were no direct witnesses of the punch.
Weiss' side of the story is that after passing the guy he was being shouted at aggressively and therefore stopped and turned around abruptly, which caused the agegrouper to bump into him.
link original article [german]
My take:
Obviously any discussion on this is opinion and speculation since there were no witnesses, but man does it fit my opinion of Weiss and dopers in general. And his excuse? "The guy bumped into me" - yeah, right...
What is also a bit concerning are the facebook-comments on the story. There is quite a few people who seem to think that (assuming the punching did really happen) the agegrouper got what he deserved for abusing Weiss verbally. Which A) if you look at that sentence he wasn't really, he was just stating an opinion not even directly referencing Weiss and B) I don't know 'bout you, but I think I must have been 4 or 5 years old when I learned that I must not punch other kids just because they call me names...
if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!