Visitors have been waiting for the New York Marathon for the last two years to take shape full-fledged. This time, the participation did not disappoint anyone on that side. Even several sources listed the names to watch out for in this competition. The organizers released the pre-route of the NYC 2023 beforehand. They have also added that “all race information and street closures are subject to change at any time” given the participation count and other possibilities. But it was some different incidents that kept this prestigious race in the headlines for the last few hours. 

Several sources have tragically reflected some obvious results that do not put the World Athletics in a good light. A photographer from New York City took the chance on X to troll the World Athletics for the outcome.    

Joe Hale takes the better out of World Athletics 

This year’s NYC Marathon was bound to be a crowd-puller for several reasons. One of them definitely being the list of participants. But there were some spots because of the disorganization and the sudden chaos among the participants. It resulted in an unfortunate collapse and ruckus midway through the race. Joe Hale, a track photographer from NYC, did not let go of the occasion. He used his X-handle by the name of @kuperhale to take a dig on the World Athletics. He funnily equipped with the caption, “World Athletics is excited to announce the nominees for 2023 Collision of The Year… “ after sharing two images of the incident. 

Hale is not alone in this. Another X handle @TheWarOnCars has been also posting about the traffic situation on the Marathon day in NYC. The handle has used the X-platform to show its protest extravagant infestation of vehicles around the route of the marathon. It posted screenshots of a few comments “on the New York Times story about driving the NYC Marathon route”. And the comments clearly show the disappointment of the citizens. How the authorities are reacting to it?  

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The NYC Marathon stakeholders keep silent 

 Still, the officials or the higher authorities have been assumed to be absconding to the situation. The rerouting could not come timely. Also, there were not any time-to-time updates regarding the vehicle movement and free routes. The NYC Marathon website caused a major concern as it only made adjustments to the route locations and neglected to update the current information. Amid all the chaos in the administrative part, one can not take the eyes off some participants of the event.

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One of those is a 30-year-old reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir from Kenya. The Kenyan has already won three different Half Marathons in the World Meet. Another was Letesenbet Gidey. The world record holder in half marathons and 10,000 meters has already shown her share of glory on previous occasions. Among common participants, the 87-year-old Garth Barfoot was another show-stopper in the NYC marathon. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen whether the authorities take lessons from the happenings or the lambast seasonal campaigners like Joe Hale. 

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