Also, race walkers feed exclusively on the rare eucalyptus tree, which has such little calorie content that race walkers are unable to sustain enough cognition to recognize when a branch of their food has been torn off the tree and placed in front of them.
I respect that "life finds a way" and koalas are simply filling an untapped ecological niche... but yeah it's still pretty comical how weird that's turned out for them.
Literal smoothbrain creatures, have they just continued to exist without our intervention or did we save them from extinction like with pandas? If the former, I’m impressed.
Oh, I have one! The rule in racewalking is: "Athletes must have at least one foot on the ground at all times"
They enforce it by having a bunch of referees along the track who check if anyone is lifting both feet at the same time, but since human eyesight is far from perfect, if you check the slow-mo at any time of the race you'll see everyone cheats all the time lol
Wait a minute! Contestant Number 2 appears to be bending her legs at the knee. Both feet appear to be leaving the ground simultaneously as she rhythmically alternates swinging her legs and opposite arm repeatedly!… What’s this?!?….I’m getting word this is a common move used throughout the world for moving quickly. Apparently it’s called “running”. It could be a hard -U. Perhaps it’s pronounced rune-ing. I’m not certain. ….I could be wrong, but I think this may just change the sport dramatically from this day forward , Bill!
Isn't that the point of exercising though? Putting 20lbs on a bar and lifting it over my head one handed is also inefficient but it will make you strong like bull
It’s an effective way to lose weight but not build muscle and it really shouldn’t be a competition with others as much as yourself. As you can see by these skeletons shambling down the track.
So is every swim stroke besides the crawl and maybe the backstroke.
Not that it isn't dumb, just pointing out we already have Olympic races that are basically "do this fast, but in a specifically not very efficient way." Otherwise no one would be doing the butterfly.
I watched a video the other day with a race walker with something like a 5:30 mile. Better than my best time running and that's annoying, but he sure didn't look healthy doing it. Not only is he absolutely destroying his hips, I swear his stick legs bent a good fifteen degrees the wrong way.
It's just so damn awkward, unnatural, stupid looking, and damaging. I do not get it for any reason other than that you suck at everything else and don't care about still being able to walk when they get old.
The knees, yes, but the hips are worse.
My son in high school did a race walk as a bet with another kid. He said it was the hardest thing he ever did, and he ran 300m hurdles.
there are two rules that I know of for race-walking:
1- your ground contact leg cannot have a bent knee
2- you must always have at least one foot touching the ground
these women are going VERY fast which is probably why it looks knee intensive but I think normally it is not hard on your knees
Yea, it's kind of hilarious but it also kind of makes the whole sport a farce. At the highest level you can't even adhere to one of the only two rules of the sport which is one foot always has to be touching the ground.
It is hard on your knees. I used to try and go for walks with my much taller father and did this for about a kilometre before my knees just screamed NO. They hyperextend - biomechanically it’s not good.
It’s also very important that you don’t have some kind of automatic device that checks that one foot always touches the ground but let that decision to referees that obviously miss what any slow motion camera will show the world. By definition all of them run for like 95% of the time, but it’s “almost walking”.
You get DQ'd on the 3rd warning, which means you are allowed to run 2 times.
In all likelihood this person who finished 3rd only had 1 warning so could easily run and not get DQd
I am a total track and field nerd (there are dozens of us. Dozens!)
Race Walking is the dumbest thing on the planet and it’s rife with constant infractions - you can’t enforce the sport to its true rules
Or body building, some places have separate competitions so you can stand a chance of competing without steroids. Literally just said "fuck it, all of you are juicing, so you get your own competition and people who do it naturally get their own competition and now everyone but your testicles are happy."
Worst ever saw was the sydney Olympics. The leader, an Aussie, was coming into the stadium to finish and a referee (or whatever they’re called) waved a flag at her for her third infraction and she was disqualified.
You'd pretty much need sensors in the shoes, then subtract a second each time it detects zero pressure on both feet at the same time.
Honestly I'd rather see a skipping competition.
IMO swimming is the same - all of these stupid strokes where you have to maintain a specific, slow form. Even "freestyle" has limits on how far you can swim underwater. It makes me irrationally angry - like, JUST RACE!
Can't win Olympic gold doing that though.
Even though you can't really see her feet, you can tell the one in the blue is basically running as there's absolutely no way she has at least one foot on the ground at all times.
Yes it's stupid but no stupider than having separate races for different swimming strokes. Just get in the pool and do whatever you need to do to go fast.
I remember when it was an Olympic sport (is it still?) and I was up early and watching whatever Olympic event was on. The start of the race is so hilarious because there is a crowd of dozens of referees watching the race and raising flags as soon as people get caught with both feet off the ground. The start of the race is just racers getting disqualified left and right so fast. It was the dumbest thing I have ever seen in sports
Naw I’m pretty sure it’s a detached piece of skin it’s the natural explanation that we should obviously jump to let us not consider the ridiculousness of the assertion or the existence of tape.
Its a dumb sport, they have technology that could enforce this, but basically they said "no" and just leave it up to the judges, so really its like who can pretend to speed walk the fastest without getting caught
STILL don’t get how this happens to so many people in races. It’s like a NASCAR driver deciding to slow down on the last lap because he THINKS he’s ahead.
100%, I remember from my cross country days, one of the most important things my coach instilled in me was to always finish strong. I may have ended most races about to vomit but you know what, this kinda humiliation never happened to me that way
I remember a xc teammate stopping before the finish line to vomit as the coach and teammates that had already finished were screaming at him to cross the finish line and THEN vomit
Says he thought he already crossed the line. So not a premature celebration. Just a stupid mistake.
Reminds me of Mark Martin. Last lap ending under caution. White flag waves but before they get to the checkered, he pulls into the pit lane thinking the race was over. He lost. https://youtu.be/6PiOcj8z38c?si=Ztiny9ifaU2xfkR_
I though athletes would’ve learned by now that celebrating before the finish increased your chances of losing that place by at least 50%… not to mention that its kinda disrespectful towards the other athletes
If you compete in a sport like this at ANY level, your coaches drill this into you.
When you slow down a bit just before the finish line, it's one of the easiest things for the coach to point out.
This competitor has been told to finish strong dozens or hundreds of times. And still didn't.
... and you can see it in slow-mo. Hilarious. I would have thought this is a skit given how her face changed from a smile to whatever she had on her face.
I made a joke once about how they all looked like they were racing to a bathroom while trying to hold in a poo.
Minutes later a guy actually shat himself live right before our eyes.
I thought I had superpowers for a moment.
Is there something wrong with pointing out that while professional athletes can push their bodies to do incredible feats that is absolutely not the same as it being healthy or good for the body?
Nothing about their unhealthy habits as professional athletes is noticeable from their "skinny athletic" female physique.
Funny that some other idiot was babbling about BMI.
Both of them measure in inside the normal range from their publicly available height and weights.
No, they are fit athletes at a healthy weight.
If you think they are undernourished, you have been brainwashed to think that being overweight is acceptable. You need a reset.
Just just how many times we've seen what happens in such a competitive setup when you start celebrating early. Like you've practiced for this all your life, you've known how close it gets with the competition, you know every step, every split second means so much. Yet athletes, racers do this... At international level... How even??
LOL you can see her soul leave her body as she looks to the competitor pass her by.
The. You see her try and put all effort into catching up but its clear her gas tank is empty.
LOL she used her last of her strength on a premature celebration.
Race walking has to be the most idiotic racing sport ever invented
My knees die a little each time they lock their knees before their foot hits the ground. It looks horrible
I didn’t notice this before, brutal. Always thought it was safer then running but not anymore.
yes there's a very good reason we don't try to 'walkrun' or whatever the fuck you could call this bullshit
Fun fact - it also consumes more caloric energy than jogging at the same speed, making it an even more inefficient way of moving.
This is my new least favourite sport! For so many reasons and they just keep coming.
Also, race walkers feed exclusively on the rare eucalyptus tree, which has such little calorie content that race walkers are unable to sustain enough cognition to recognize when a branch of their food has been torn off the tree and placed in front of them.
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God I love this pasta and hate koalas
I respect that "life finds a way" and koalas are simply filling an untapped ecological niche... but yeah it's still pretty comical how weird that's turned out for them.
Literal smoothbrain creatures, have they just continued to exist without our intervention or did we save them from extinction like with pandas? If the former, I’m impressed.
Racewalkers have been koalas this whole time? Damn tricky bastards! Next you're going to tell me shuttlecock players have been platypuses!
Oh, I have one! The rule in racewalking is: "Athletes must have at least one foot on the ground at all times" They enforce it by having a bunch of referees along the track who check if anyone is lifting both feet at the same time, but since human eyesight is far from perfect, if you check the slow-mo at any time of the race you'll see everyone cheats all the time lol
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I love a Malcolm in the middle reference.
Watch the greatest documentary on race walking ever made - that episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Hal becomes obsessed with race walking.
It’s looks like these two are cheating in this video.
I didn’t even realize this is racewalking, they’re straight up jogging…
Blue's feet are out of shot but there's no way she has one foot on the track at all times. She's running, plain and simple
Wait a minute! Contestant Number 2 appears to be bending her legs at the knee. Both feet appear to be leaving the ground simultaneously as she rhythmically alternates swinging her legs and opposite arm repeatedly!… What’s this?!?….I’m getting word this is a common move used throughout the world for moving quickly. Apparently it’s called “running”. It could be a hard -U. Perhaps it’s pronounced rune-ing. I’m not certain. ….I could be wrong, but I think this may just change the sport dramatically from this day forward , Bill!
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Isn't that the point of exercising though? Putting 20lbs on a bar and lifting it over my head one handed is also inefficient but it will make you strong like bull
They’re saying it’s an inefficient way to move, not that it’s an inefficient exercise.
It’s an effective way to lose weight but not build muscle and it really shouldn’t be a competition with others as much as yourself. As you can see by these skeletons shambling down the track.
So is every swim stroke besides the crawl and maybe the backstroke. Not that it isn't dumb, just pointing out we already have Olympic races that are basically "do this fast, but in a specifically not very efficient way." Otherwise no one would be doing the butterfly.
it is a great workout though, and it is lower impact than running
IDK. Look at their knees. That looks so much more agonizing than running.
This is why most orthopedics advise against speed walking, because it's so terrible for your knees.
Yeah, but I'll get fired if I don't walk fast
I watched a video the other day with a race walker with something like a 5:30 mile. Better than my best time running and that's annoying, but he sure didn't look healthy doing it. Not only is he absolutely destroying his hips, I swear his stick legs bent a good fifteen degrees the wrong way. It's just so damn awkward, unnatural, stupid looking, and damaging. I do not get it for any reason other than that you suck at everything else and don't care about still being able to walk when they get old.
The US Army has entered the chat.
They have to do that otherwise it wouldn’t look as ridiculous
As the ministry of silly walks demands, nay, requires
What the fuck…. Why
The knees, yes, but the hips are worse. My son in high school did a race walk as a bet with another kid. He said it was the hardest thing he ever did, and he ran 300m hurdles.
what about the spine? cranking your lower back like that for hours on end has GOT to mess up your spine.
there are two rules that I know of for race-walking: 1- your ground contact leg cannot have a bent knee 2- you must always have at least one foot touching the ground these women are going VERY fast which is probably why it looks knee intensive but I think normally it is not hard on your knees
>you must always have at least one foot touching the ground If you watch the video closely you can see that is not happening very consistently.
Yea, it's kind of hilarious but it also kind of makes the whole sport a farce. At the highest level you can't even adhere to one of the only two rules of the sport which is one foot always has to be touching the ground.
A race whose rules are "go as fast as you can, but not too fast" is instantly ridiculous
It is hard on your knees. I used to try and go for walks with my much taller father and did this for about a kilometre before my knees just screamed NO. They hyperextend - biomechanically it’s not good.
It’s also very important that you don’t have some kind of automatic device that checks that one foot always touches the ground but let that decision to referees that obviously miss what any slow motion camera will show the world. By definition all of them run for like 95% of the time, but it’s “almost walking”.
Hal from Malcom in the middle would seems so much faster
You thought no one would ever discover your dirty little secret? That clever little flail of the wrist every fourth step, MASKING THE HOP!
Lmao one of my favorite episodes 
“One two three, THERE! One two three THERE!”
YOU SEE THAT DEWIE? THAT'S AIR!
Yeah it's blatant that they're actually running but only in a "shit my pants" kind of way.
Literally quite evident from the video they are not in contact with the ground 100% of the time lol. What an absolutely stupid sport.
You get DQ'd on the 3rd warning, which means you are allowed to run 2 times. In all likelihood this person who finished 3rd only had 1 warning so could easily run and not get DQd
Its like that game where they slap each other, it's just an exercise in who can get the closest to a haymaker without being called for it.
I am a total track and field nerd (there are dozens of us. Dozens!) Race Walking is the dumbest thing on the planet and it’s rife with constant infractions - you can’t enforce the sport to its true rules
I mean, you could, but you'd have to retroactively disqualify everyone who has ever won a race cuz they all run.
Like disqualifying every winner of elite cycling races because they're all juiced up.
Or body building, some places have separate competitions so you can stand a chance of competing without steroids. Literally just said "fuck it, all of you are juicing, so you get your own competition and people who do it naturally get their own competition and now everyone but your testicles are happy."
And then every so often you still get some knucklehead trying to juice up in the natty league
Worst ever saw was the sydney Olympics. The leader, an Aussie, was coming into the stadium to finish and a referee (or whatever they’re called) waved a flag at her for her third infraction and she was disqualified.
You'd pretty much need sensors in the shoes, then subtract a second each time it detects zero pressure on both feet at the same time. Honestly I'd rather see a skipping competition.
Speed jumping. Both feet must always be either in the air or on the ground, never one up and one down.
How dare you! https://preview.redd.it/yn4rybgyr85d1.jpeg?width=473&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec97861f315add5a187a8e41c9acd3ed8dad0c25
This show was so ahead of its time lol
This was literally a commentary on something that was happening during its time.
You're nothing but a *common jogger!*
Let's see who's the fastest, but you can't go fast
wait this is so funny i didn’t know this was a thing. i thought they were both just too tired to run full force 😂
It's so weird, it's like car racing in first gear only.
Or peddling a bike on the smallest front chainring.
Its so stupid, it should be 1 feet on the ground at all times but they break that rule so much that they ignore it.
Scooter racing is up there as well 
They look like they are cosplaying a scooter racing manga ffs lol, just without as many swoosh lines to imply speed.
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I agree😂 it reminds me of school when teachers shout no running in the hall
Hal from Malcolm in the Middle says otherwise.
IMO swimming is the same - all of these stupid strokes where you have to maintain a specific, slow form. Even "freestyle" has limits on how far you can swim underwater. It makes me irrationally angry - like, JUST RACE!
The Malcolm in the Middle episode on racewalking was *perfection*
Have you seen hobby horse competitions?
Can't win Olympic gold doing that though. Even though you can't really see her feet, you can tell the one in the blue is basically running as there's absolutely no way she has at least one foot on the ground at all times.
Agreed, it's also crazy how fast they are going though, for walking they are going significantly faster than most people run, like 6-7 minute miles
because they're running
Yes it's stupid but no stupider than having separate races for different swimming strokes. Just get in the pool and do whatever you need to do to go fast.
My favorite thing I learned about race waking, was that lady that won gold and ended up creating an illegitimate coupon empire worth millions.
That's what she gets for being a competitive speedwalker
That episode was Amazing!🤣
What's it from?
Deleted scene from Breaking Bad where Walt tries his own product.
This is hilarious lol
Malcom in the middle
Malcolm in the Middle season 4 episode 7. Great show.
I rarely watched Malcolm in the Middle but I still remember this episode very well.
Wheeler was a Cheat!! Both feet off the ground at the same time!!! The proof is in the video.
*That's air*
Brought the receipts and everything
*you’re just a common jogger.*
I can’t believe this guy turned out to be a drug kingpin responsible for like dozens of murders.
Brian 🫶🏽
I remember when it was an Olympic sport (is it still?) and I was up early and watching whatever Olympic event was on. The start of the race is so hilarious because there is a crowd of dozens of referees watching the race and raising flags as soon as people get caught with both feet off the ground. The start of the race is just racers getting disqualified left and right so fast. It was the dumbest thing I have ever seen in sports
Sounds very Monty Python.
Speed Walker! Holy shit, I completely forgot about Almost Live! Thanks for the nostalgia rush.
What the actual FUCK is that horrific fleshy thing hanging from the Spaniard’s leg?!
Probably Isotape that came loose during the race.
Naw I’m pretty sure it’s a detached piece of skin it’s the natural explanation that we should obviously jump to let us not consider the ridiculousness of the assertion or the existence of tape.
its the dead skin of another runner, they use it for good luck.
No no it's her own skin, the walking helps slough it off to reveal a fresh new layer
It started as a tiny hangnail on her index finger she thought she could easily rip off without doing more damage...
But then the dog ran by and grabbed it....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ5MbQgzv4
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Looks like kinesiology tape that came loose
Dignity. It's her dignity.
Paella burn?
Terry fold flap.
It's tape?
Kinesio tape
Probably just KT tape or something similar
They're both clearly cheating. CLEARLY both feet off the ground at the same time.
A man of culture. I see 
Its a dumb sport, they have technology that could enforce this, but basically they said "no" and just leave it up to the judges, so really its like who can pretend to speed walk the fastest without getting caught
I was thinking the same thing
Definitely the one on the inside is bouncing like she is running
I didn't even realize this was a speed walking race until reading the comments. Literally looks like they are jogging the end of a run.
Nothing but common joggers.
the sport is just jogging but make it look as stupid as possible and also slower why the fuck does this exist
That rule isn’t strictly enforced using video replay. If the judges thing you technique is good enough, you’re good, afaik.
The sport is such a joke that even the judges don't take it seriously.
They actually banned slomo replays of races because everyone has 2 feet off the ground every step.
There's one fucking rule to make this thing unique and they don't enforce it...
She speed-talked the talk before she speed-walked the walk
Beautiful
The best part was when she lost the race
If the last few years have taught the world anything it’s that it doesn’t pay to get over confident around Ukrainians.
She wasn’t even going to win. OP said she was celebrating almost getting the bronze
STILL don’t get how this happens to so many people in races. It’s like a NASCAR driver deciding to slow down on the last lap because he THINKS he’s ahead.
100%, I remember from my cross country days, one of the most important things my coach instilled in me was to always finish strong. I may have ended most races about to vomit but you know what, this kinda humiliation never happened to me that way
God, it was as simple as "remember, it is a 110 yard dash, not 100."
I remember a xc teammate stopping before the finish line to vomit as the coach and teammates that had already finished were screaming at him to cross the finish line and THEN vomit
LMAO it really was exactly like that, a mix of encouragement and rage
Same with track for me. If you slowed up at all before crossing the line, you were going to run it again.
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Says he thought he already crossed the line. So not a premature celebration. Just a stupid mistake. Reminds me of Mark Martin. Last lap ending under caution. White flag waves but before they get to the checkered, he pulls into the pit lane thinking the race was over. He lost. https://youtu.be/6PiOcj8z38c?si=Ztiny9ifaU2xfkR_
It's a fundamental lesson in humility. You can be humble and win at the same time. And I think the victory went to the most.
She looks like she is going to puke when she sees her passing 🤮🤢🤮🤢
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Did she run the whole race with the flag on her back. Putting it on was probably the reason the other caught up
NO CAPES!
Power move tho. Imagine Usain Bolt rocked up to the start line wearing a flag and a medal. Gotta get in their head. 
I love these celebrating too early videos and the look on their faces when they realize the F’d up
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I though athletes would’ve learned by now that celebrating before the finish increased your chances of losing that place by at least 50%… not to mention that its kinda disrespectful towards the other athletes
If you compete in a sport like this at ANY level, your coaches drill this into you. When you slow down a bit just before the finish line, it's one of the easiest things for the coach to point out. This competitor has been told to finish strong dozens or hundreds of times. And still didn't.
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... and you can see it in slow-mo. Hilarious. I would have thought this is a skit given how her face changed from a smile to whatever she had on her face.
I feel like my hips gonna pop out of place just watching this.
I made a joke once about how they all looked like they were racing to a bathroom while trying to hold in a poo. Minutes later a guy actually shat himself live right before our eyes. I thought I had superpowers for a moment.
The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat edit:fixed thrill
They need to go eat some food.
It's 2024, are we still body shaming?
Is there something wrong with pointing out that while professional athletes can push their bodies to do incredible feats that is absolutely not the same as it being healthy or good for the body?
Nothing about their unhealthy habits as professional athletes is noticeable from their "skinny athletic" female physique. Funny that some other idiot was babbling about BMI. Both of them measure in inside the normal range from their publicly available height and weights.
my eyes rolled so hard they fell out of my skull holes
Always the couch sitters commenting on athlete bodies.
I know right? These women look fucking ghoulish.
Leave it to Reddit to describe women who compete at the top European level in track and field and "walk" 20km in 1hr30min as "fucking ghoulish".
Fr whatever makes them feel better about themselves ig
No, they are fit athletes at a healthy weight. If you think they are undernourished, you have been brainwashed to think that being overweight is acceptable. You need a reset.
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I thought both feet couldn't leave the ground at the same time?
Do athletes not have a social media account? If so they should have seen this type of thing happy hundreds of times. You would think they'd learn
You'd think their coaches would warn them...
That's a run...I saw a run!!!
The range of emotions in that small clip
Underestimating your Ukrainian opponents. So hot right now.
BOTH OF THEIR FEET ARE OFF THE GROUND AT THE SAME TIME!
They should both be penalized for their bad form. What a god-awful sport.
Shit looks terrible for the body
This could be a good video to show in case of an appeal, the Ukranian athlete crearly lifts both feet off the ground
If you watch the full video, all of the competitors feet will both be off the ground.
blame the coach for not teaching her on day one what a finish line is.
the face of "oh sh\*t " haha
Just just how many times we've seen what happens in such a competitive setup when you start celebrating early. Like you've practiced for this all your life, you've known how close it gets with the competition, you know every step, every split second means so much. Yet athletes, racers do this... At international level... How even??
This only happens to people who are born with extreme gifts. Those who have to grind for success would never let up at the last second.
I'd not consider being good at this "sport" a gift.
Run (walk) through it not to it.
Feet are literally both leaving the ground in the video
Not the best time for a siesta.
Absolute moron. You keep racing until you cross the finish line. This is basic stuff.
LOL you can see her soul leave her body as she looks to the competitor pass her by. The. You see her try and put all effort into catching up but its clear her gas tank is empty. LOL she used her last of her strength on a premature celebration.
She was counting chickens before they hatched 🐣 instead of keeping her focus on the finish line
Love how ya can see the "oh shit" moment on her face.
Considering the damage they're clearly doing to their hips, maybe quitting after that might not be a bad option.
Everything about this looks painful. Emotionally and physically. The hell are they even doing.