Caporegime
Absolutely not.
Those figures don't matter though. You are banning one thing and it saves x number of lives.
They should ban war. I hear it's pretty dangerous.
And what is it good for?
They should ban these cheaters, The guy jason did it as well in 2012. According to his timings he broke the world record for the half marathon in the second half of london, or he jumped the barrier and missed 8 miles.
http://www.neillock.co.uk/training-blog/runners-cheaters-2014-london-marathon-in-numbers/
The chap was supposed to have taken a legal performance enhancing drug, so maybe that's the issue...?
I've FB'd Jason Scotland Williams with the URL
With a 2nd half marathon of 1hr 1min that was an impressive drug compared to the 2hr 7 min he did in the first half
They should ban these cheaters, The guy jason did it as well in 2012. According to his timings he broke the world record for the half marathon in the second half of london, or he jumped the barrier and missed 8 miles.
http://www.neillock.co.uk/training-blog/runners-cheaters-2014-london-marathon-in-numbers/
He's had to take the pictures and posts off even though he was correct
Reminds me of the first marathon I did and this is an example of a conversation I've had at least 10 times over the years:
Yeah my husband/wife/friend also did it yesterday
What time did they do it in?
Around 3 hours
That's a bloody good time
Mind you they had to stop at 14 miles because of injury and the marathon bus picked him/her up and dropped him/her off 1 mile from the finish
So that means they haven't done the marathon
Yes they have, they got the medal
But they haven't run 26.2 miles, only 15 miles
But they've still got the medal
and so on .............
Wow really? I've had to pull out of a race before and there's no way I'd even try to get a medal or even go near the timing mats I just walked towards the meeting point
Honestly, I've done 8 marathons and countless half marathons and I've heard similar conversations off people. The best of it is that none of them thought there was anything wrong with it and their family/friends still took part. I personally couldn't receive anything if I did one yard less than I should.
But if you ban eating, sleeping, breathing and sex how will we all live????
I could do with no food, sleep and air butfurious maturbationsex? Uhfff.. Couldn't handle it!
Should be banned due to safety and the environmental impact. The energy wasted running around could be better used elsewhere. The runners could be put on a giant tredmill connected to the national grid for free electric or just do voluntary work instead.