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Poor baby
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
To me it's simple - they broke the rules and should be penalized.
Michelle
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madness baby
Well, apparently folks who wore headphones are starting to receive their official disqualification cards from Grandma's Marathon...thoughts?
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Imminent Catastrophe
If the rule was clearly stated than they have the right to enforce it. Was there some kind of incident that started that rule at that particular race?
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USATF recently announced that any sanctioned race must enforce the no-headphone rule. Grandma's was the first big one where it was enforced.
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The headphone rule from the USATF perspective has nothing to do with safety. If you read the USATF rules and articles, you will see in rule #144 point #2 that no assistance may be given to runners, and then that point and the next few points define what assistance is. Any sort of electronic device (basically and paraphrased) can be considered assistance.
Derek