French marathon runner slaps water away from competitors, unsurprisingly finishes without a medal

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

People just cheat all out in the open these days. And now it’s made its way to the Olympics.

French marathon runner Morhad Amdouni was near the 28km mark when he approached a water station for the athletes. Needless to say, if you were directly behind Amdouni you probably had a hard time grabbing some water.

Link to tweet

If you are going to do something foul to get a competitive advantage, you at least have to be smoother than this. I don’t know if Amdouni intended to make life worse for his competitors while they race in 84-degree weather and increased humidity, but it certainly looks pretty bad when you are giving a high five to the row of water bottles and only grabbing the last possible one.

Since it’s the Olympics, organizers had workers at the ready and a plethora of water bottles to replenish the table. But still, it’s hardly Olympic spirit that makes one runner topple over multiple bottles of water during a marathon race that already had 30 guys drop out, likely due to exhaustion and hydration issues.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/french-marathon-runner-slaps-water-away-from-competitors-unsurprisingly-finishes-without-a-medal/ar-AAN4Tq9

Guess some people are born assholes.

[underpants]

1. One Mel marathon I ran I ran alongside a guy juggling

Yeah I run that slow.

Just across the Lee bridge someone at a water station tried to give him water and screwed up his juggle. Hey they were there to help. I told the juggler guy “that doesn’t count”. He laughed.

[Enter stage left]

2. Wow, that's the first time I've seen TFG's name spelled that way, Amdouni.

[ZZenith]

3. Commentators: "Ummm.... Is that?..."

[Effete Snob]

4. There actually is more context to this

Everyone got water, because there was a SECOND TABLE just two meters further down (and a third). They set up multiple tables because shit happens.

You’ll notice that, unlike the runners in front of him, he is sandwiched in the pack and reaching semi-blind while awkwardly bending over and running.

There is a possibility this was accidental, and he was nearly falling.

Bottom line, if you show the rest of the clip going forward, everyone gets water at the second table there. So, if he was trying to cheat, he did a shitty job by not taking out the rest of the water at the next table.

[Effete Snob]

6. Not only is that clip dishonestly edited

But take a higher resolution look at his attempts to grab a bottle:

Link to tweet

[SharonClark]

7. Thanks for the clarification.

[Effete Snob]

8. The internet angry mob always needs feeding

I’m trying to find a postable version of the longer clip. The clip in the OP cuts out right before the second table comes into view.

It is dishonest not to include the full context. But this plays well to certain people in France, for certain reasons.

[Staph]

5. The water wasn't just slapped out of reach of other competitors.

It was knocked on the course, where it appears that no one slipped on a bottle and fell.

I hope the French governing body for track and field tells him to take a hike.

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9. Look at the second, enlarged video everyone. That was an accident.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. No it isn't

It's not that hard to grab a bottle of water.

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11. And the headline implies he knocked water out of another...

runner's hand.

I'm not the only one to thing it was an accident. See post 6.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. The runner knocked down about half the bottles on the tables.

Other runners could have tripped on those. That's no accident.

I don't see post 6 so that must be someone I put on ignore. Confirms I was right to do so.

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13. You should take that down.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. No

I competed in road races for over 40 years. I never had a problem grabbing a drink of water.

[Effete Snob]

15. You are correct

He is a top level runner representing a nation in which many would just as soon not acknowledge their historical legacy in Africa.

A black man does not get the benefit of the doubt or even the opportunity to speak.

No one in this thread cares about what his side of the story may be. No one cares that every runner got a drink at the additional tables just past the deceptively edited clip.

People are looking at the hand but don’t realize he is only partially visible as he stumbles between two other runners to reach the table and attempt to grasp cold bottles which are covered in condensation.

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16. I know. The race angle is probably raging all over social media by now.

And the post dishonestly implies he knocked water out of other runners' hands.