Kwerl@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoChinese runner dropped by sponsor after riding bike during marathonwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down12
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minus-squareSailor Anarres@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·edit-21 day agoWork smarter not harder. If that runner in ancient Greece had a bike to send warning faster, do you think he would have refused to use it?
minus-squareYouTalkinToMe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·23 hours ago“If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bike!”
minus-squarems.lane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·21 hours agoIndeed, why not just nuke the stadium during Olympic shooting, you’d get all the targets with less effort.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 day agoYeah, but: It doesn’t sound like she was open about it. She got caught. She was taking sponsorship money and the sponsor didn’t know about it; she was making money from misrepresenting it.
Work smarter not harder. If that runner in ancient Greece had a bike to send warning faster, do you think he would have refused to use it?
“If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bike!”
Indeed, why not just nuke the stadium during Olympic shooting, you’d get all the targets with less effort.
Yeah, but:
It doesn’t sound like she was open about it. She got caught.
She was taking sponsorship money and the sponsor didn’t know about it; she was making money from misrepresenting it.