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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Indeed. The unfairness starts with the decision to break contestants into the elite runners and everyone else, to spare the elite from having to run in a crowd. Maybe the elite "winner" didn't get a chance to react to the faster runner's time, but she didn't have to cope with the crowd at the start, either.
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Which is why they should make clear at the outset that there are in fact two races, one for "elites" and one for recreation, with prizes/trophies only for the former. The solution is to award another trophy for "first place-recreational division" (or something), because there's no way to figure out which of the two effects you identified meant more.
