101-Year-Old Woman Winning A 100 Meter Dash Race Because She Was The Only Runner To Show Up For The 100+ Age Category Is Utter Malarkey

I hate to come across as an asshole or a stickler, but they have to put an asterisk next to this chick’s name in the record books, right? Yeah I know that she was probably power walking her old ass off for a century while dreaming about winning a gold medal as the fastest geezer on the planet. But at the same time, that gold medal is more of a participation trophy or survival trophy than anything else. It seems kind of weird to give out awards for being the only person that is alive, not in a nursing home, or simply knew that there was a race for people in triple digits. You have to at least race against someone or at least something to win a race. This chick vs. a 100-year-old turtle in an interspecies race would have at least been a little bit of competition and made some sort of history. But being the only person to show up to a race is like being the only person to show up to an orgy. You have to postpone it. No ifs ands or buts about it. And making this chick run the race at 101 seems like an unnecessary health risk and this is coming from a guy who has no business doing a 100 meter dash himself (I still could have beaten this old coot, nbd).

I just hope this blog reaches all the 99+ year old racers in the world so next year’s race doesn’t result in another black mark on the sport of track.