Mr Cao, a Chinese running enthusiast, ran the whole marathon with his 9-year-old son later, he was sentenced to a two-year ban by the marathon organizing committee for participating in crimes. (Image/image taken from Pixabay)
Mr. Cao, a Chinese running enthusiast, recently took his 9-year-old son to challenge the Zhengkai Marathon held in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, and he completed the entire marathon. Afterwards, Mr. Cao was reported by netizens for violating regulations After an investigation by the marathon organizing committee, it was confirmed that he violated relevant regulations and he was banned for two years.
According to the mainland media “Upstream News”, Mr. Cao is a sports self-media person The father and son are famous for running in Pingdingshan where they live On March 31, he took his son to register for the Zhengkai Marathon Tao’s parent-child fun race, but ended up running the whole marathon. His son took more than 5 hours to finish the race, but he “collapsed” due to an uneven distribution of physical strength. His son was only picked up by the volunteers at the finish line.
Mr Cao revealed that his starting point was just to take his son to experience the atmosphere of the marathon. As minors could not register for the marathon, he joined the parent-child track. But when they actually got to the starting point, they found that the place was full of official half marathon and full marathon runners The father and son were trapped in the crowd and could not return to the parent’s starting point fun race kid, so they started with the crowd of participants.
Mr Cao said they didn’t intend to finish the race at the start, nor did they intend to get a position They wanted to run as much as they could and take their son to experience it unexpectedly, when they turned’ n half way back, his son felt that “I can still run”, so I took my son to challenge the whole distance.
Mr Cao said his son ran 3 kilometers every day for three years between the ages of 6 and 9, and his physical strength was very good. At the start of the race, I could still take care of my son, but after 30 kilometers, I “ran away” first Instead, my son ran further and further away, and finally he reached the finish line 30 minutes earlier than him. Thanks to the volunteers who helped guide him, and then quickly took his son back.
Regarding the suspended sentence of two years, Mr Cao admitted that he was willing to accept it. But he also offered: “On such a wide road, high-level athletes have finished running. We don’t want positions or medals. Can we run it? After all, minors can participate in rock climbing, skiing and other sports as long as there is a guardian with them.”
The marathon event organization told the media: “According to the regulations of the Chinese Athletics Association, minors are not allowed to participate in the marathon. Currently, you must be over 20 years old to participate in the full marathon, and you must be over 16 to take part in the half marathon and 10 kilometres.”
Sports medicine expert Lin Sheng also said that minors are not suitable for marathon running because the marathon is an extreme sport that requires high cardiopulmonary function and requires long-term exercise before participating. Underage children’s bodies are still in the developmental stage, and running a marathon will overload their bodies, which can cause a variety of developmental problems.
As for Mr. Cao’s inability to defeat his 9-year-old son, Lin Sheng analyzed that it may be related to the minor’s lack of inhibitory function. Adults will have obvious discomfort reactions after physical fatigue, but the feedback of minors is relatively slow, which also leads to a situation where children do not know that they are tired when running.
However, Lin Sheng emphasized that “not knowing that being tired does not mean that the body is not tired.” Therefore, it is not strongly recommended that minors run the marathon. If you really like running, you can run a few kilometers to run healthy. Wait until your body is basically mature at the age of 16 to 18, and then gradually engage in long-distance running.
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