Yesterday was the first day of 2024, and there are many New Year's races held all over the country, and on the first day of the new year, the running circle is very lively.
However, a high-profile event in Sichuan was controversial after the game. This race is the Xinglong Lake Half Marathon, but also the annual finals that run all over Sichuan, the setting of the event is very special, do not accept separate registration, need to form a team to sign up for the competition, team competition, four men and one woman 5 people calculate the net results of the total time ranking, the champion team bonus of 100,000 yuan, the registration fee of each team is 1,500 people, the average calculation, only 5 people, the average registration fee of the half marathon is 300 yuan.
Although it is a team competition, if 5 people win the championship, the prize money per person is 20,000 yuan, which is relatively high in a general half-marathon race. In this competition, there is a team that is invincible, their team is called "Alpine Boy", and the members are Yang Kegu, Yang Xiaohua, Sha Zhengyou, Wang Peilin and Song Xuan. Yang Kegu and Yang Xiaohua are players at the national team level, and the other three are also regulars in the half-marathon championship, so it can be said that this game does not need to be compared to know who the championship team is.
In the final game, Yang Kegu and Yang Xiaohua were far ahead, and the game was a one-man show for the two, and finally they crossed the line hand in hand, with a score of 64 minutes and 59 seconds, and Yang Kegu won the championship in a thousand-percentile lead. Wang Peilin won the men's fourth, and Sha Zhengyou won the men's fifth. Song Xuan won the women's championship in 1 hour and 22 minutes, and according to this result, they will definitely take the 100,000 yuan bonus.
However, on the eve of the awards, the team that won the second place in the group, the "Mona Lisa", filed a complaint, complained about the violation of the championship team, and took out the report video.
Song Xuan posted a video on social platforms to restore the incident. She said that on the 18-19 km stretch, there is a bend to the left. At that time, there was no turnaround section of the race, a wide road was divided in half, the track was on the right half of the road, when turning, there was a conical barrel for isolation, one of their team members, later confirmed to be Wang Peilin, accidentally ran on the left side of the conical barrel isolation when turning, there were many referees and volunteers in front of this place at that time, and there was no reminder and stop at that time. After the turn, Wang Peilin returned to the right side of the isolation.
The Mona Lisa team used this as evidence to say that Wang Peilin violated the rules. The referee finally watched the video replay repeatedly, and on the eve of the award, Wang Peilin was judged to have violated the rules and canceled his results, because Song Xuan and their team had no substitutes, they only had 4 results in the end, and they missed the final ranking, and the title of the champion team was canceled and the prize money was lost. Although the individual rankings are retained, there is no personal prize money, and this race is tantamount to running in vain.
Song Xuan revealed that the boss of the Mona Lisa team wanted this championship very much, so he did his best to report it, which had nothing to do with the team members, and the team members said that they were very satisfied with the second result, and the boss wanted to win the championship.
Many people in the comment area to send their support to Song Xuan's team, some people said, running in the conical barrel left and right is not much different, not so fast 1 second, each check-in point has results, the distance is not short at all, this penalty is nitpicking, and the referee did not remind him when he passed by, and there was no guidance for the track on the spot, it was easy to run wrong when turning, and then there were many people who ran like this when the public runners ran like this.
The picture above is Song Xuan passing by the corner, and the setting of the conical barrel is a reference, and there is no picture of Wang Peilin passing through this section of the road in the live broadcast.
Some people say that Wang Peilin's mistake can be punished or not, he did not profit from it, even if it is minus one minute, it is much ahead of the second place, but this mistake made people seize the handle, and the final punishment is understandable.
I remember last year's Lanzhou Marathon, because the half marathon started behind the whole marathon, and the track was too congested, the leading foreign runners directly climbed over the guardrail and ran on the right switchback track, but because no one reported and complained, he was safe and sound after winning the championship, strictly speaking, he was in violation.
In fact, compared with Wang Peilin's mistakes, there is also a controversy in the Xinglong Lake Half Marathon, that is, Yang Kegu and Yang Xiaohua, the two ran hand in hand before crossing the line, and only let go after crossing the line, there are cases of canceled results abroad, but there are no domestic results for the time being, so there is a certain risk, before the 2020 Xi'an Marathon, Yang Dinghong and Yin Shunjin also did this, and I advise elite runners not to do this again in the future.
What do you think about this?