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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Seriously? I can see why someone who listened to race officials in those circumstances would be more than a little pissed, but that would not make her time faster.
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It's a race. It's not an individual time trial.
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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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There isn't much "coping with the crowd" in the corral directly behind the elites. Everyone is pretty fast, and it's not that crowded.
Again, it's unfair, but she probably should have requested elite status. That's what I would have done had I been in her situation.
