Runner in China who chain-smoked throughout marathon banned for two years
Runner in China who chain-smoked throughout marathon banned for two years
Man popularly known as Uncle Chen earns title of ‘smoking brother’ in China
How the hell can you be a chain smoker and run a marathon?!
It's China...
Smoking a filtered cigarette might be better air quality than just breathing the air...
The winner of the 1904 marathon was given rat poison. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_–_men's_marathon
Entire story is wild.
For podcast people the dollop also did an episode on this olympics. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFLjcX163WI
I read the whole article. I wish Wikipedia articles had a comment section just or this article. What a wild ride.
Holy hell this is definitely worth a read 😂
Something about the professional, detached tone combined with the absolute slapstick insanity of the article's content makes this perfect comedy
A related video that's worth a watch for the sheer insanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myM5SY1mHoA
https://youtu.be/FDXnul5foxU?si=-pHYPKsG4RWOHqza this video is also about the same race
I knew a guy in the army who would smoke a cigarette right before and directly after his 2 mile PT test run. Dude would run it in under 12 minutes. Some people are just built differently than us normal humans.
Nicotine is a potent stimulant. If you don't smoke all the time and get tarred lungs then I could see why that would be very bit official. like running a marathon on Adderall to a lesser degree
Had a whole gang of dudes like this in the Marines too, you said they're just built different, I say they're just nicotine addicts.
I'm a tad more concerned about the "open defecation"
There's like a whole thing with marathon and ultramarathon runners just shitting themselves while running. There's something physiological that happens when you push the body that much. So I'm not so surprised that "pit stops" in the bushes were an issue that required a ruling.
Im salty about the smoking guy though: Justice for Chain-Smoking Chen! China has the world's only living train and they treat him like this!
Fortunately, he was not guilty of that. The article was just listing more rules from the rulebook.
Magnets?
I hope that's an American Dad reference...
Screw it, we'll just use magnets again
Not only ran it, but finished it in a respectable 3 hours, 33 minutes.
He was chasing them with cocaine.
IMO any chain-smoker who attempts a marathon should be given a head start. Like a golf handicap.
I know you're joking, but that'd likely encourage people to pick up the habit, are you with big tobacco?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A 52-year-old Chinese man, who chain-smoked cigarettes while completing a marathon, has been issued banned for two years.
The man, identified by his surname Chen, completed the C&D Xiamen Marathon 2024, held on 7 January in three hours and 33 minutes, and smoked throughout.
Now, the Xiamen Marathon’s organising committee has issued a two-year ban on him from their races and reported him to the Chinese Athletics Association for further penalties.
He is popularly known as Uncle Chen and has earned the title of “Smoking Brother” in China, according to Canadian Running magazine, which first reported the incident.
The list also includes “open defecation, littering, trampling on the flowers and grass and other behaviours that might affect other runners”.
Last year, the Chinese Athletics Association introduced a proposal aimed at encouraging healthier participation and reducing smoking during road-running events.
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Bro wtf.
Good?
Seriously chain smoking in public is just a dick move.
Doing so during a marathon of all places is even more of a dick move.
Banning a person like this is the right move.
Just like the good old days when athletes would smoke during breaks in the game. They sure were great times!
As a former smoker I can't imagine doing it whilst running. Either he takes only light drags or is superficially smoking. Really inhaling fully during running would be very unpleasant.
Pro cyclists used to chain smoke many moons ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/ch7ak4/tour_de_france_competitors_smoking_cigarettes/