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Patriotic Volunteers Passing National Flag Costs Chinese Marathon Runner The Championship

IANS, 19 Nov, 2018 10:05 AM

    Chinese long distance runner He Yinli missed out on potentially winning the Suzhou Taihu Marathon on Sunday, November 18 and it had nothing to do with her.

     

    With the finish line in sights, Yinli shared the final few metres with just one competitor and it looked set to be a close finish until a volunteer thrust the country’s flag in her hands.

     

    The surprise element and insistence on holding the flag in the final lap seemed to slow the runner down and despite she later dropping the flag, it had done enough to steal the chance from her of winning the marathon.

     
     
     
     

    Yinli and Kenya’s Ayantu Abera De Misse were vying for the fastest time when a volunteer thrust the Chinese flag into her hands but she managed to avoid the volunteer and continued on with the race. The volunteer, however, began chasing the runner in a poor attempt to pass on the flag.

     

    Unluckily for Yinli, there was another volunteer who jumped into the middle of the street and practically shoved the flag into her hand.

     

    The Chinese participant carried the flag for a few seconds before discarding it, but at that point, De Misse had started to pull away. In the end, Yinli finished in second place, trailing Abera De Misse by 5 seconds, according to the marathon’s official Weibo account.

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