While watching the men’s 20km walk, I noticed that every single walker is “cheating”. Is there a large amount of leeway in the sport?
August 1, 2024
While watching the men’s 20km walk, I noticed that every single walker is “cheating”. Is there a large amount of leeway in the sport?
Posted by Surferma4
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lol I’m watching this shit right now as well and it makes NO SENSE. They’re all literally jogging/running 🤷♂️
No kidding hey. The guy who won gold was just straight up running while dragging his feet for the last lap
It sure is the most ridiculous “sport”. The rules are up for interpretation and anyone looking at this can see they are clearly not “walking”. No idea why this is even a sport.
Yeah, look it’s just a ridiculous sport, no disrespect to those that do it, and it’s got a rich history, but in slow mo, no one is following the rules, time for the sport to be resigned to history
TIL there’s a walking event. The Olympics has a glut of sports
I love watching the walking sports because everyone competing in it looks like they’re passive-aggressively moving.
I’m pretty sure that the explicit rule is that you have to maintain ground contact only to the degree of what can be distinguished by the naked eye. Actual ground contact as seen by slowed down footage is irrelevant.
This is the most ridiculous sport at Olympics. At every other sport you are pushing boundaries of human body – doing something faster, quicker, stronger. Here, you are just setting an arbitrary limit, which as we can see, is just ignored all together.
The point of walk was always how much you can fuck around with the rules, I kinda like this event considering how funny the whole idea is
Happens every time, I refuse to watch this sport
As long as you swivel your hips a certain amount that’s all that matters
Tbh whole thing is a joke and unhealthly for the contestants.
if they are serious about the rule im sure they can just create a sensor mechanism attached to the shoes that will trigger if both shoes are not touching the ground
but why spend millions for this ridiculous sport right
Reminds of the great Malcolm in the middle episode about it
Everything I know about speed walking I learned from an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
They should just change it for an ultramarathon instead. More walking in that sport.
the ecuadorian guy was literally running the last km to win the gold
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense if you’ll half run. Better to just keep a running race.
Some cheat more than the others and either get “caught” or get medals. It’s a disgrace that this sport is still part of the olympics.
Looks like they’re are all following form and fully extending the front leg.
Time to shut it down.
Lol, I can be an Olympic athlete! /s
Take this rubbish out of my olympics please
agreed. like, that guy who came first, he looked like he was jogging, and that’s how he was able to pass everyone, lol. he was passing everyone! LOL
exactly why this sport is stupid.
Of all the joke events, is walking the top?
Why don’t they just make it as 20km run
We all learnt the rules from Hal in Malcolm in the Middle Ages
I thought the same when seeing that in slow motion this morning. But I looked up the rules and it’s not judged in slow motion, it’s by the naked eye and there’s some leeway.
Beware the brutal shrewdness of Redditors when it comes to judging professional athletes…
What you gonna do, disqualify the entire race?
You should have one foot on the ground always
Is it always like this? When I watched it some years ago all people actually walked – at least its how I remember it
Shame the 50km aka ‘Death March’ got dropped. So many memes
“So proud to win gold by cheating. I earned this”
Stupidest sport ever
It’s just a running technique, let’s be honest!
I think the walking is one of the weirdest sports. Like is swimming, but limited hand movements…. one could say it’s silly.
Why the hell do events like this exist. This is so dumb.
It took me half an hour of watching to realise this was a competitive WALKING event and not running. Oh well, can’t get caught cheating if everyone’s cheating I guess
Seems like Bonfim caught up and Ecuador got its first medal of Paris!
I would just run it, then dispute any official saying I didn’t by insisting on a video review… which would show everyone else being disqualified too.
The lack of Hal speed walking in the comments is concerning
The most stupid sport ever invented
What a stupid sport. How can they judge if they’re fast walking and not jogging/running?
Just makes me think of Kath and Kel with Geoffrey Rush
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lol I’m watching this shit right now as well and it makes NO SENSE. They’re all literally jogging/running 🤷♂️
No kidding hey. The guy who won gold was just straight up running while dragging his feet for the last lap
It sure is the most ridiculous “sport”. The rules are up for interpretation and anyone looking at this can see they are clearly not “walking”. No idea why this is even a sport.
Yeah, look it’s just a ridiculous sport, no disrespect to those that do it, and it’s got a rich history, but in slow mo, no one is following the rules, time for the sport to be resigned to history
TIL there’s a walking event. The Olympics has a glut of sports
I love watching the walking sports because everyone competing in it looks like they’re passive-aggressively moving.
I’m pretty sure that the explicit rule is that you have to maintain ground contact only to the degree of what can be distinguished by the naked eye. Actual ground contact as seen by slowed down footage is irrelevant.
This is the most ridiculous sport at Olympics. At every other sport you are pushing boundaries of human body – doing something faster, quicker, stronger. Here, you are just setting an arbitrary limit, which as we can see, is just ignored all together.
The point of walk was always how much you can fuck around with the rules, I kinda like this event considering how funny the whole idea is
Happens every time, I refuse to watch this sport
As long as you swivel your hips a certain amount that’s all that matters
Tbh whole thing is a joke and unhealthly for the contestants.
if they are serious about the rule im sure they can just create a sensor mechanism attached to the shoes that will trigger if both shoes are not touching the ground
but why spend millions for this ridiculous sport right
Reminds of the great Malcolm in the middle episode about it
[Hal would expose all those common joggers…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVBN7NAIrfg)
Everything I know about speed walking I learned from an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
They should just change it for an ultramarathon instead. More walking in that sport.
the ecuadorian guy was literally running the last km to win the gold
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense if you’ll half run. Better to just keep a running race.
Some cheat more than the others and either get “caught” or get medals. It’s a disgrace that this sport is still part of the olympics.
Looks like they’re are all following form and fully extending the front leg.
Time to shut it down.
Lol, I can be an Olympic athlete! /s
Take this rubbish out of my olympics please
agreed. like, that guy who came first, he looked like he was jogging, and that’s how he was able to pass everyone, lol. he was passing everyone! LOL
exactly why this sport is stupid.
Of all the joke events, is walking the top?
Why don’t they just make it as 20km run
We all learnt the rules from Hal in Malcolm in the Middle Ages
I thought the same when seeing that in slow motion this morning. But I looked up the rules and it’s not judged in slow motion, it’s by the naked eye and there’s some leeway.
Beware the brutal shrewdness of Redditors when it comes to judging professional athletes…
What you gonna do, disqualify the entire race?
You should have one foot on the ground always
Is it always like this? When I watched it some years ago all people actually walked – at least its how I remember it
Shame the 50km aka ‘Death March’ got dropped. So many memes
“So proud to win gold by cheating. I earned this”
Stupidest sport ever
It’s just a running technique, let’s be honest!
I think the walking is one of the weirdest sports. Like is swimming, but limited hand movements…. one could say it’s silly.
Why the hell do events like this exist. This is so dumb.
It took me half an hour of watching to realise this was a competitive WALKING event and not running. Oh well, can’t get caught cheating if everyone’s cheating I guess
Seems like Bonfim caught up and Ecuador got its first medal of Paris!
I would just run it, then dispute any official saying I didn’t by insisting on a video review… which would show everyone else being disqualified too.
The lack of Hal speed walking in the comments is concerning
The most stupid sport ever invented
What a stupid sport. How can they judge if they’re fast walking and not jogging/running?
Just makes me think of Kath and Kel with Geoffrey Rush