Female Athlete Apologizes and Forfeits Victory For Sh*tting Her Pants During Competition

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6:16And you'll see her picture everywhere if you dare Google it, because you'll also see what she looked like for half of the competition with poop, literally coming out of her butt, all down her legs. And here's the problem. What's wrong? You're not just racing. So the Hyrock's competition is an indoor fitness event. So you can- There's not like circulated air here that combines running with functional exercises. So she's running and then she's getting on equipment that is shared by other athletes. Now, imagine getting on a piece of equipment after Joanna Vichik is on it. And since she's in the lead, she basically was on all of that equipment before anyone else. She's soiled herself and then every set of equipment along the way. Dozens of people, we talking hundreds of people. How many people had to go across this thing after she did it? Enough. It was dozens for a shoulder. It does for sure. Okay. So she's 22.

7:16Now, you told me something about this story I didn't get. So initially, and I think anybody who listens to the podcast knows we are big-time runners, we are marathoners. And it is Robes, one of the most anxiety-inducing parts of race day. What to put in my stomach? What do I eat? How much do I eat? Because, Robes, please explain when you are running with 13 or 26 miles, things get the bouncing around. Yes, you get runners, belly. And sometimes you find yourself in an emergency. And so it's always this balance about fueling yourself with the food without having your intestines suddenly just say, I can't take it anymore and splat. I mean, there are runners who will wear depends so that they don't have to stop. There's plenty of roadside portapates because, yes, this is a very common thing for runners to deal with. But you don't defecate. I have seen it one time in one race.

8:17I saw an marathon towards the end. Was I with you? A woman who had defecated. Yes. I think I might have been with you. Yes, it was in New York. And you could see it. It had happened to her. Oh, yeah. And it's... You see the signs along the way when you're running a marathon. Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the signs. After mile 15, don't trust a fart. That's the one. It's one of the funniest ones I see. I see it every year. I see it several times. Don't trust that fart because it's making the... You think that's a little air. You need to let go of it. Ooh, ooh, ooh, don't you... Don't trust that. You're intestines. Your bowels are not as they were a few hours ago. Yes. Everything gets... Let's just say shaken up, stirred up, and sped up. And so here's the other part of that road is when you're dealing with runners, elite athletes who have trained for months and sometimes years for these things and are trying to get a personal best, trying to get a record or trying to win a race. Many would prefer to peon themselves... Oh, yeah. ...of people a little bit

9:18than to cost them 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds for having a porta-party stop. Absolutely. And by the way, we're talking about the high-rocks world champion. She is the reigning world champion, Joanna. Theatric. And so she was, yes, maintaining that lead. I believe the next athlete closest to her was from the United States. But this is fierce. These women are badasses. I mean, her body is amazing. She is tough and fierce and strong. And so she wins the race in an hour, one hour, one minute, and 23 seconds. What does she do? She puts a selfie. She doesn't give a blank, but on bump. That she did what she did. She put the caption, go hard or go home. A win is a win. And all seriousness, thank you for all the support. I'll be back soon. OK, well, well, well, did she, did the picture show her poopy pants? It's been deleted. So I'm not sure. But I believe it did acknowledge what had happened. Yes. OK, but the acknowledgement is not really in the words. It must have been in the picture. Go harder, go home. Think you must have seen some of the defecation. I mean, it was hard to miss.

10:18It was everywhere. Wait, where are you what she said again? Go hard or go home, a win is a win. A win is a win. And all seriousness, thank you for all the support. I'll be back soon. In all seriousness. So, yes, she's... She was making fun of the fact that she had pooped her pants. OK. OK, good. Now she gets all this hate, all this backlash. It is fierce, it is strong. And she actually started getting death threats. And she decides to delete that post. And she ends up now a couple of days later issuing a huge apology. And basically, she's gone into hiding. And she forfeited all the points she took from her first place finish. She abdicated the victory. And she hurt tone completely changed from her little cheeky, oh well, you got to do what you got to do, kind of post. What were the... You said death threats. What was... What was coming her direction? Uh, I saw that her coach and her both said that there were serious, deplorable, horrific

11:21threats made towards her because of this, because the people were so upset in the stands, the athletes, folks watching because they claimed that her selfishness put all of these other athletes at risk from getting sick. And that that was just not good sportsmen like behavior, but then people went after her. Um, that's fair, isn't it, baby? Yes. Uh, when you first told me about this, uh, first read, uh, Ray, I didn't read enough into it to realize, Rob, she's leaving feces all over the place. That's over equipment that dozens of people have to come behind her and you. Yes. So this accidental bowel movement happened during the burpee broad jump. And that was in the middle. She was only on her fourth round. And I think there are nine rounds. So she was in the middle of the competition. It explodes during her burpees. What is it again? It's called the name of the comp, that section is what? Burpee broad jumps. Burpee broad jumps. That's the last place you want your cycle slower to kick in.

12:23Explosion at that point. But then she continued to go on rowing machines, the Farmer's Farmer's carry. I don't know what that is. Sandbag lunges. There's a bunch of pictures of her doing that because you can see all of the explosion and then the wall ball. And then she used so shared equipment. Wall ball. That's some squatting involved in it. Yes. Yes. And you can see pictures of that too. And they said she did all of this with poop literally running down her legs. Oh, God. Yep. So you can understand the hate. So I have her official statement. I want to get what you think about it because she went all in. She leaned the other way. Like, you know, she was very kind of flipping to bed and initially. She's Paul Jed. Completely different town. Okay. I want to offer my sincere apology to the people of China, my fellow competitors, the spectators and the high rocks organizers for what happened during the race in Beijing. I felt completely fit and healthy at the start of the race with no reason to expect any illness.

13:24Looking back, I regret the decision to not have stepped off the track. I recognize that I should have made a different choice. I take responsibility for my decision to continue and am deeply sorry for the discomfort and disruption it caused. I know my actions had an impact beyond myself and I am genuinely sorry to everyone who was affected. I am learning from this experience and will carry those lessons with me, including remembering that there is more to life than racing and knowing when it is right to step away. On reflection, I have decided to retroactively withdraw from the race and forfeit the points I earned. Thank you to those standing by me, both as an athlete and as a person during this time and to everyone who has reached out with kindness and support. It means more to me than I can properly express right now. I will be taking some time to recover, reflect and look after myself and my family away from the noise. That was a pretty well written statement. Agreed. I was thinking like what more could she have said, what more could she have done?

14:25I think she could have put something in there for emphasis. I made a mistake and I am sorry. Yes. But that's just that. It was pretty well written. She took it all. Again, I'm curious how soon after the race she put that first post up was it minutes after it could have been right. It was right. I believe it was pretty much right away. She didn't realize how many people she pissed off. She didn't get a chance to reflect either. Before seeing the reaction. She did. I look at me. I don't even care. I pooped myself. This is embarrassing. But I got the win. She probably felt that way. Yeah. I pushed through all my discomfort. I pushed through all this grossness and look what I still did. So I think she kind of felt like a badass in that moment and then realized that was not how it was being received. Not even a little bit. And by the way, high rocks were you familiar with this competition before? So this was founded in 2017 in Germany. It's been described as the fastest growing fitness sport in the world.

15:25So you first have a one kilometer run. What is that a little more than a half a mile? And then you go to one functional workout station and you repeat all of that eight times. So the run, go to a workout station, run, go to a workout station. And so some of those stations are like sled pushes, rowing, burpee broad jumps, wall balls. So you really put your body through it. You have to be fit as hell to do something like this. You said it's the fastest growing. Yes. Yeah. Seems like it's exploding in popularity right? Oh my god. I said you were. All right. How was this going to help its popularity moving forward? Well, I'm now looking up what this is. I'm now looking into the women who do this. Yeah, let me get into this. It's so hard. You might shit yourself right in the middle of the competition. Yeah, that's for me. Yeah, maybe not the best PR that this new sport, this emerging sport just needed. They say there's no such thing as bad press, but this might qualify. Oh my god.

16:26What's going to happen? The defecation games of 2027. Join us. Oh my god. All right. When we come back, we're going to tell you what the founder of this exploding in industry had to say about what happened and the rule change they made because of what happened in Beijing. We manage work, kids appointments, everything. So if someone steals our identity, the last thing we need is another full time job filling out forms and chasing down accounts. It could take months to restore identity theft on your own. So what can you do? You get life lock. Life locks restoration specialists will do the hard work for you. It's identity theft protection for the life you're building. So get life lock at lifelock.com and use promo code Amy to up to 30% off your first year. That's life lock.com code Amy because isn't your identity worth protecting?

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22:42The founder of this organization was, I think, as fair to say, pretty mortified about what happened. He said, yeah, we need to do better. They immediately updated its rulebook. What happened in Beijing is now affecting every single high rocks race going forward, the industry, the organization's rulebook has officially been changed the following day because of what happened. Here's the rule change. Oh, you have the text. I do. Oh, it's very great. If a racer's blood, vomit, urine, or feces poses a welfare or contamination risk to the racer or other racers, a race director may withdraw the racer from the race on medical grounds in line with high rocks as medical and hygiene SOPs. And such withdrawal is recorded on the leaderboard as did not finish. That's fair. Yeah, that should have been on the rulebook probably from the get go. But maybe they didn't have a need for it. If somebody shits on the course, do we need to check the rulebook to determine what we

23:46should do with said runner? Yes. No, we don't. And so to your point, the founder said very fully and very freely that, yes, race organizers failed by not removing her from competition. I have the exact quote. High rocks made a mistake by not reacting immediately during the race. In the end, it is my job to foresee these potential incidents and I did not. Of course, we started improving event processes plus making rulebook changes immediately. As of this moment, there are new rules and procedures in place to prevent situations like this from happening again. So they said that they just never foresaw something like this happening. These were some pretty good statements in this. Right? In this story, taking responsibility. Yeah. It's on me. We failed. But Germans, but he said still I'm the guy. The Germans have had some practice doing this. What is that? Yes. This is founded in Germany. This is a German game. We know a little bit about it. And I say we because I'm very, very German. We know a little bit about we've learned the hard way.

24:47Yes. We all have the poopy pants girl keep going. It's not a German thing. Oh, that's not a German thing at all. She's Australian. Yeah. Oh, every single person did a good job of saying I'm sorry. Everybody. Yep. The race directors failed. But you know what? I'm the guy at the top. Who said that? You're right. And it was very refreshing. I think everyone was so just, I mean, mortified. I think they just, it was quick, like I apologize to the entire country of China. I mean, this is what this athlete ended up having to do after she was flexing after she won. And from that to a few days later, literally apologizing to an entire country. No, this is, you know what? We see a lot of scandals and controversies and things happen and how people react. Babe, this is how you do it. This is embarrassing. A lot of people failed and everybody that did didn't point the finger at somebody else. Everybody who failed here took responsibility for their failure and said how they're going

25:50to do better moving forward and actually implement it. Rules even. And it was swift. It was immediate. It was very, yes, it was impressive. You're right. Because they had things. They watched this girl compete for 30 minutes with poop running down her pants. Okay. There were some significant lessons that needed to be learned. Okay. And I just learned that fact right before we started, I was like, wait a minute. They was like a half hour. They're contemplating for 10 minutes. Should we, should we let her keep going? It's still, they're still coming. No, you stop her. I mean, yeah, that was a slow response, but a quick reaction after the fact, thank goodness. We have never had this issue. We run, we run a lot. I have never had such an emergency that I needed to stop and have a moment like that. I haven't. Oh, thank God, but it's a fear of mine for sure. We just have, we know how to eat and how, I mean, I will starve myself before I go that direction. But even having to pee sometimes on a run, you don't even want to do that, but we haven't

26:54had this issue. We've done something right. Yes. Don't jinx us, all right? All right. With that, everyone, hope you weren't eating a meal while you listened to this, but we should have put out a disclaimer. Our apologies. Oh, well, anyway, we hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day. I've made me robot alongside DJ Holmes. We'll talk soon. We manage work, kids appointments, everything. So if someone steals our identity, the last thing we need is another full time job, filling out forms and chasing down accounts. It could take months to restore identity theft on your own. So what can you do? You get life lock. Life locks, restoration specialists will do the hard work for you. It's identity theft protection for the life you're building. So get life lock at lifelock.com and use promo code Amy to up to 30% off your first year. That's life lock.com code Amy because isn't your identity worth protecting?

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