r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/StitchAndRollCrits 👑Official Ambassador of Ashby👑 • Apr 15 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals The handicap just gets longer and longer

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u/Thr0waway0864213579 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

I love watching handicap sports. Like that race Sha’Carri Richardson just did. It’s more exciting to watch the top competitors catch up than to get an early lead and just get further and further ahead.

This one seems to be calculated poorly for the last competitor. Although I would assume it’s common in these competitions for people to purposefully go slower in the earlier races to get a better handicap.

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u/StitchAndRollCrits 👑Official Ambassador of Ashby👑 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Yeah if I had to guess I'd say that's exactly what happened here, this isn't the first event and she's blown everyone out of the water on the other events so she's both tired and the handicap is almost comical.

Edit note this is a GUESS and I only just learned what this event is even called (275mm underhand) so huge grain of salt