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(Less) Fat Man finishes the Boston Marathon!

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the fat guy who was running the Boston Marathon for charity. We had his chances of finishing the thing about the same as the Royals winning the World Series. Well, guess what? He did. In 9 hours and 40 minutes.

Boston Marathon… check.

I’m pretty sure that by the time I finished, the Kenyans were already back in Africa celebrating.

I’d also like to congratulate the 122-year old guy who passed me around mile 13. I have no idea if he finished but as he passed me — he took with him any and all self-resecpt that I may have ha

Well done, Jacob. The guy lost 100 pounds and ran the Boston Marathon. Hell, it’s quite a feat even if he walked for most of it. It doesn’t look like anyone actually ponied up for his auction for charity on ebay. But he did something most of us wouldn’t even attempt. And most of us didn’t look like this.

Links:
[What would Jacob Do]: Jacob’s blog

Well, stop changing your national anthem then!

Whenever we see a story like this, we always think about Team America and the song “America – Fuck Yeah!“. Yesterday a Russian woman won the Boston Marathon but the organizers played the wrong national anthem.

To be fair to the race organizers, the Russian national anthem had been replaced in 2000 by new lyrics to an old national anthem which was used pre-1996. From 1996 to 2000, there was an entirely different anthem. On top of that, the anthem is ok for presidents but not for athletes. What? Confused? Us too. Still, for one of the most prestigious marathons in the world, a little research probably is in order, especially since this is the second time it has happened.

Spokeman Jack Fleming from the Boston Athletics Association must have been learning his trade from pro athletes as he offered this pseudo-apology:

If we did, then that’s a mistake on our part and we are sorry.

He might as well have said, “hey, you’re lucky we didn’t just play the Kazakh national anthem to the tune of the Stars Spangled Banner” and given the finger.

Links:
[International Herald Tribune]: Boston Marathon organizers play wrong Russian anthem — again