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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Confusion over laps mars 3000m track race in Canada

This 3000m indoor track race was held in Canada last weekend. While the college runners should have run 15 laps of the 200m track, the counter went from “8” to “6” during the race. This in turn caused the final lap bell to sound 200 meters early. Skip to 3:15 in the video to see what they thought was the last lap.



Black and Shaffer started dueling for the win as Thibeault stayed behind in third place. Shaffer did not complete the race, while Black started back up again and finished fourth.

The organisers apologised for the mistake but the results will stand.

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