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'Beat the Freeze' race gives fan a generous head start
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u/Light_Watcher777 Jun 29 '22
And that's why you don't celebrate before you cross the line.
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u/bisho Jun 29 '22
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u/FiniteRhino Jun 29 '22
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u/BoredGeek1996 Jun 29 '22
Another word comes to mind and I'm not going to comment it.
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u/xwOBAconDays Jun 29 '22 •
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Why did the erectile dysfunction support group change their meeting time from 2 to 1:30?
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u/Calm-Quarter2903 Jun 29 '22 •
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Everyone was coming early
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u/AGENT0321 Jun 29 '22 •
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Why did they change it from 8am to Noon?
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u/beanmosheen Jun 29 '22 •
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It takes them too long to get up.
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u/milk-jug Jun 29 '22
Did the meeting location change? I was behind the dumpster at our regular Wendy’s but no one showed.
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u/DaydreamsAreNotMeds Jun 29 '22
Came here to say this. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go get a towel.
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u/grooovyturtle Jun 29 '22
He was going to lose anyways
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u/thereIsAHoleHere Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
Maybe. He was only a few steps* from the finish line before the Freeze(?) overtakes him. If he hadn't slowed down to show off, he might have won, even if it would still be close.
That's only with the ridiculous head start, though.*I just counted, and the Freeze takes eight steps between overtaking the guy and crossing the finish line.
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u/EBtwopoint3 Jun 29 '22
He was slowing down even before the celebration. It’s a 160 meter race, which is a relatively long sprint for untrained baseball fans. He was burning out towards the end while the Freeze was tracking him down like the terminator
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u/fte5838 Jun 29 '22
He knew exactly when he would take over for maximum fan enjoyment. Dude didn't have a chance.
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u/FLWeedman Jun 29 '22
Yeah they calculate it.
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u/Maracuja_Sagrado Jun 29 '22
Yeah, this is staged and the freezer is a paid actor. The other runner? Also a paid actor. All the people in the stadium? Also paid actors.
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u/bearkin1 Jun 29 '22
for untrained baseball fans
Are trained baseball fans better at running? How does one train at being a baseball fan?
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u/FilterAccount69 Jun 29 '22
He was slowing down Becuase he was tired as fuck.
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u/3BetLight Jun 29 '22
I feel like this entire site is made up of people who have never attempted anything athletic in their lives.
The dude was in full sprint for as long as he could, its not easy to all out sprint for that long.
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u/geneullerysmith Jun 29 '22
But this way he lost laying in a pool of humiliation. Maybe he should have just finished string and maintained dignity.
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u/OhiobornCAraised Jun 29 '22
He thought the cheers were for him. However, they were for The Freeze.
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u/MrJingleJangle Jun 29 '22
I laughed so hard. Am I a bad person? It is never over until it is over.
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u/MagnusUnda Jun 29 '22
When he tries to pump the crowd at the end? chef’s kiss
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u/UnfairMicrowave Jun 29 '22
Is "chefs kiss" the new internet slang this fiscal quarter? Buzzfeed needs to know.
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u/petty_cash Jun 29 '22
Ah it might be getting near the end of its run at this point. Use with caution.
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u/JayGogh Jun 29 '22
What? That gesture has been around for decades. Why would it suddenly be ending?
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u/Beavshak Jun 29 '22
Trend cycles are just muah
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u/gmanz33 Jun 29 '22
I (American 28M 195lbs) blow kisses and say "muah" all the time in the french city I live in (because kissing is a part of french culture) and it drives people crazy.
Because it's like going around America shouting "me" nonstop.
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u/pandaro Jun 29 '22
thanks for ur stats bro
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u/ChefAccomplished4554 Jun 29 '22
But I(m 44 Cali 182lbs 5'11" 245 bench) need to know your stats too
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u/Beavshak Jun 29 '22
36/M/5’11.75”/WA/hat sized 7 3/4 /1445 SAT/Scorpio(?)/standing jump 20” checking in. I’ll vouch for him.
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u/dumbass_sempervirens Jun 29 '22
A puppy fell down! Zomg so wholesome!!!!
No, it's fucking cute. That's it.
Definition of wholesome
1: promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit
2: promoting health of body
3a: sound in body, mind, or morals
b: having the simple health or vigor of normal domesticity
4a: based on well-grounded fear : PRUDENTa wholesome respect for the law
Above is the Meriam-Webster definition of wholesome.
here is a list of synonyms people can use instead.
Because not every goddamn thing is wholesome.
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u/MrBulger Jun 29 '22
Puppies absolutely fit the first definition for wholesome
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u/dumbass_sempervirens Jun 29 '22
I'll concede that point. You got me there. But cute or adorable also works and wholesome is just so overused. It's like a blanket term being applied to anything better than not explicitly shitty.
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u/diearzte2 Jun 29 '22
I just had it as a clue in a NYT crossword from 2018 so you’re slightly behind.
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u/new_world_chaos Jun 29 '22
Even funnier because the crowd probably started cheering louder and louder and he thought it's because he was going to win, but it was actually because he was about to get passed.
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u/perthguppy Jun 29 '22
I think he thought the crowd was cheering him not realising how close the guy was behind him
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u/3dobes Jun 29 '22
I saw a meme that said - for every Olympic event, they should include a normal person just for reference.
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u/Zibani Jun 29 '22
Maybe we can call it 'most Olympic events'.
I don't want to watch someone die every couple of years trying the Skii long jump.
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No……ALL!!!!
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u/Zeus_poops_and_shoes Jun 29 '22
Fucking idiot was wearing skates for the long jump.
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u/enlightened0ne_ Jun 29 '22
I’m sure viewership of sports such as luge, equestrian, diving, and skiing would increase markedly with the addition of untrained competitors trying their best to stay alive during the event.
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u/NewSauerKraus Jun 29 '22
Just like with Nascar, the excitement doesn’t come from 100 left turns, it’s all about a surprise right turn.
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u/SmokeyShine Jun 29 '22
Wait until you see what happens in the combat sports.
Average American against Olympic heavyweight boxer. LOL
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u/FreeLegos Jun 29 '22
God this sounds like a small-scale version of some dystopian Hunger Games or whatever. Every country randomly selects someone to join the "Control" group for even the more crazier olympic events like pole vaulting, Bob sledding, anything that requires performing a jump at highspeeds, long distance swimming
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u/TheSentientPurpleGoo Jun 29 '22
eddie the eagle was pretty much just a regular guy...he lived.
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u/SappySoulTaker Jun 29 '22
It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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u/EunuchNinja Jun 29 '22
Fine print: “Does not include a stay in the Olympic village”
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u/SappySoulTaker Jun 29 '22
Oh, no I mean I'm willing to sacrifice some random dude for my viewing pleasure. Fuck skiing.
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u/samantha1718 Jun 29 '22
Let’s also exclude boxing otherwise that would just be cruel
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u/FuckingKilljoy Jun 29 '22
Two normal guys boxing each other would be pretty funny actually
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u/Lazerbeams2 Jun 29 '22
Probably the pole vault too. That's a good way to bruise some ribs
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u/noNoParts Jun 29 '22
Double points for unwilling participants
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u/magseven Jun 29 '22
Don't worry. Your average person isn't going to even make it all the way down the ramp.
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u/Lanitanita Jun 29 '22
well, that's a good idea....
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u/WestleyThe Jun 29 '22
My dads been saying this for like 20+ years. It would give some context to how elite these pro athletes are
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u/SkepticalGerm Jun 29 '22
That’s from a stand-up comedian’s act originally. Can’t remember who though
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u/Nixva Jun 29 '22
Pretty sure Bill Burr
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Jun 29 '22
Seinfeld had a bit like that before burr but it’s a pretty common joke type
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u/sinat50 Jun 29 '22
I also think we should have a steroid loaded, doped up, no regulations juice head who knows how to compete at a high level just to see what can be done.
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u/MisanthropicZombie Jun 29 '22
We need a performance enhanced Olympics to find the pinnacle to exhibition in the "natty" Olympics.
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u/NewSauerKraus Jun 29 '22
There should be another category for no restrictions on performance enhancing drugs or prosthetics. With supervision from a doctor and informed consent regarding risks.
I wanna see the very best. Like no one ever was.
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u/wheresbill Jun 29 '22
The celebration. The realization. The immobilization
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u/YourDrunkUncl_ Jun 29 '22
the immortalization
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The immorbization
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u/THEdopealope Jun 29 '22 •
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It’s morbin time
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u/Gravelemming472 Jun 29 '22
First, Discombobulate.
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u/Oshmosis Jun 29 '22
Second, Discombobulate.
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u/Upbeat_Surprise Jun 29 '22
Thirdly, Discombobulate.
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u/Black_Floyd47 Jun 29 '22
Fourthly, Flabbergast.
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u/theranman3 Jun 29 '22
Love this video everytime I see it
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u/Raiden395 Jun 29 '22
This guy has possibly unknowingly become an internet meme that gets posted every few seconds.
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u/imnothappyrobert Jun 29 '22
Unknowingly? Are you kidding? His friend group ABSOLUTELY brings this up all the time because it is golden and the kind of thing you can never let a friend forget.
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u/nowhereman136 Jun 29 '22
This is what happens when you come in 8th at nationals and don't make the Olympic track team.
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u/Ecmdrw5 Jun 29 '22
Look at the freeze’s strides compared to rando guy. Much longer. You better be an actual runner to have any hope to beat him.
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u/Sunsparc Jun 29 '22
IIRC, the guy that runs as The Freeze works on the grounds crew, used to run track at Kennesaw State, and can run a 4 second 40 yard dash.
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u/__-o0O0o-__ Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
4 second 40 yard dash.
i think you meant 4.4
if he can do 40 yards in 4 seconds, he'd be first ballot nfl hall of famer.
*also, why do people keep ignoring that track athletes do not get timed in the 40 yard dash, so the reporting is even more suspect
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u/hankepanke Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
From an article someone else in the thread linked, he had a 4.28 40 yd which is insane. For reference, Tyreek Hill ran a 4.29.
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u/mazzicc Jun 29 '22
4.28 according to an article below
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u/__-o0O0o-__ Jun 29 '22
damn. that still makes no sense given he went to a small school for track. thats still an all-time type of time
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u/Hawkmooclast Jun 29 '22
Yeah I mean there’s nfl speed, then actual track sprinter speed. Running with pads is it’s own skill too
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u/mazzicc Jun 29 '22
Not a lot of 40yard events in competitive track and field. Being one of the best at 40 doesn’t necessarily mean you’re one of the best at 100+.
I ran 800 and 1600 in high school and the sprinters would laugh at our horrible 400m times. Until the coach made them run an 800 or 1600 with us.
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u/FuckingKilljoy Jun 29 '22
Article someone else posted said he was only 0.06 seconds off the all time NFL combine record for the 40 yard dash
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u/thundercloudtemple Jun 29 '22
Correct. Freeze was a collegiate runner and a super fast one at that. Most fans had no chance.
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u/narok_kurai Jun 29 '22
And he's just like, a member of the grounds crew too! He's been working there for 8 years and then they found out how fast he could run and they made this promotion around him!
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u/Miser Jun 29 '22
There's no way that fan isn't a runner, dude might have lost to the Freeze but he's absolutely hauling ass
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u/Great_Chairman_Mao Jun 29 '22
Probably some track athlete from a D1 school who couldn’t cut it for the big time, but can still smoke a regular joe no sweat.
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u/IndelibleBookmark Jun 29 '22
Whoever came up with this is a genius. It's so simple but so entertaining.
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u/Wass3r10 Jun 29 '22
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u/MrSoftServe1337 Jun 29 '22
I find it so funny that someone went out of their way to copy a youtube comment from a two year old video and someone else went out of their way to confirm that their brain wasn't playing tricks on them and that they have definitely already read that comment before.
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u/Wass3r10 Jun 29 '22
Right?? Yeah, I had to make sure I wasn't crazy, because I read their comment and immediately went and looked up a comp of the Freeze racing fans.
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u/why_so_sirius_1 Jun 29 '22
How did you possibly find the exact video and then the exact comment 😭😭
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u/Wass3r10 Jun 29 '22
I swear I just typed "beat the Freeze" into YouTube and pulled up the first result. 😂
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u/pBeatman10 Jun 29 '22
the kicker, for me, is that everything you wrote is true and hilarious, but the internet has rendered my brain so useless at discerning what's weird and what isn't, that it took your comment for me to realize that all of this is nutty
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u/Muscrave Jun 29 '22
No one can beat the freeze
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u/KarmaKermit Jun 29 '22
I think one person actually did
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u/Azlander Jun 29 '22
I was there when someone beat the freeze. Most exciting moment to ever happen at a baseball game.
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u/chanaandeler_bong Jun 29 '22
A few people have IIRC. Definitely one has.
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u/Impressive-Ad-5042 Jun 29 '22
One of them was a collegiate runner at GT and managed to get picked. He sandbagged hard and then took off at some point.
Weird shit happens with fan participation lol
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u/meromeromachine Jun 29 '22
If I remember there was a 2 week period where he lost three times but let’s be real, they all have head starts so whatever
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u/NemosGhost Jun 29 '22
With that head start a number of people could if they actually trained at all as a sprinter.
It was nearly a 4 second head start. The world record for a 200 is 19.19 by Usain Bolt. A good high school sprinter will run under 23 seconds. The slowest state qualifier in Florida's Class 4A meet this year ran a 22.09. 4 seconds is a nearly insurmountable head start in the 200 much less 160 meters.
Of course time since high school track and a few large beers doesn't help, plus the Freeze is probably well warmed up while the fan was just chilling in the stands a few minutes ago.
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u/Saint_Diego Jun 29 '22
I was there for that game. It was awesome
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u/RideWithMeTomorrow Jun 29 '22
I watched this when it happened (on TV) because the Braves happened to be playing the Mets, my hometown team. Hearing Gary Cohen and Ron Darling go on about The Freeze made it even better. https://mobile.twitter.com/keitholbermann/status/873359564065955840
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u/LuisfigoII Jun 29 '22
Who is the Freeze?
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u/Scopethelobe Jun 29 '22
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u/SarcasticGamer Jun 29 '22
The fact that it's just a regular employee who paints the lines before the game is pretty cool. I thought they hired some Olympic medal winner or something.
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u/potpan0 Jun 29 '22
To be fair the article says he was a College athlete, and if this is the same guy he has a 100m sprint record of 10.47s. That's a similar pace to some of the athletes who were in the first round of the 100m sprint at the Olympics.
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u/Lmao_Stonks Jun 29 '22
Kinda crazy dude is in the 99.99 percentile of speed. Dedicated his life to the track… but the guys in the 99.999 percentile, well, that’s the difference between millions in endorsements and being a groundskeeper.
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u/TyrannoROARus Jun 29 '22
The cousin of The Whiz
And nobody beats The Whiz!
But he's a guy who paints lines but is good at track events apparently.
So a semi-pro.
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u/forgottenone1 Jun 29 '22
Any able to calculate how far and fast the freeze is covering the total distance?
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u/MiloGoesToTheFatFarm Jun 29 '22
Stay in the dirt, where you belong.
-The Freeze
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u/BobVilla287491543584 Jun 29 '22
He shoulda told him to chill out, since it was obviously time to kick some ice.
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u/asisoid Jun 29 '22
I wonder if he starts at a certain spot or watches you to see judge your speed first.
Either way, I'd run at 3/4 speed at first to try to trick him.
That's all I got.
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u/HoskinsDadBodGod Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
I think one of the rare times this guy lost was when he faced a college track runner who started by running pretty slow in order to get a large head start
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u/JasonGD1982 Jun 29 '22
He watches and then decides when he feels confident he can catch up. The times he does lose the people sandbag and throw off his calculations.
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u/SmokeyShine Jun 29 '22
He totally does. He watches to see how fast you're running and waits so that he can pass just before the finish if they maintain the pace.
In this case, the runner gassed, so he passed a little earlier.
If an actual sprinter sandbags the start, and then picks up the pace after the Freeze starts, they can win.
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u/HallucinAgent Jun 29 '22
Just lays there, knowing what has been done. Give the man props for showmanship
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u/nerdguy_87 Jun 29 '22
"the freeze" knows EXACTLY how many seconds it takes him to sprint that and he counted the head start out in seconds.
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u/NE_Golf Jun 29 '22
Looks to be about a 21 sec 200m. The NARP (Non-Athletic Regular person) would have run it in about 26 -27 secs (pretty slow - from a sprinter’s perspective)
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u/ReluctantAvenger Jun 29 '22
That seems unlikely. The average non-athletic guy would have a hard time running the 100 in 20 seconds; never mind 200 in significantly less than 40 seconds.
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u/Mkwpros412 Jun 29 '22
No way a regular non athletic person is dropping a 26. I would be surprised if a person of that description put down even a 36.
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u/jll027 Jun 29 '22
i think he meant the other person in this video.
And the dude who got beat is still fairly athletic, definitely far faster than average.
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u/Usual-Cheek46 Jun 29 '22
It really looks like he's running under different conditions: thiner air, more solid ground, extra tail wind. Amazing
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