My picture of interest is the photograph of competitors crossing the Columbus marathon finish line in 1993. This picture was thought to have fudged Rep. Jean Schmidt crossing the finish. A rival Nathan Noy first declared issue with the photograph but later admitted he had made a mistake. The photo was clean.
Today we have a problem within races of false finishes. In the running world many of celebrities have taken to competing in well known marathons. Inevitably there is always a photo taken of them finishing looking like they have not ran 26.2 miles. They are all clean and sweat free. Well let me tell you no matter how slow you ran 26.2 miles or what the weather was like, you would be sweaty. Either the photo has been altered to portray the celebrity in a good light or the celebrity never ran the full marathon. No matter how you look at it a false image has been created. This image lessens the accomplishment of all the real finishers, therefore is harmful to the running community. It is important as the running community receives more publicity that it is keep clean. The media should be focused on the true nature of the sport, hard work, dedication, self gratifying honor.
In this modern age, it is easy and may be cool to alter photos but lets as a people try to up hold the integrity of the beautiful art of photos.
Caitlin
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Wow. I had never thought of the importance of portraying 'truthfully' how sweaty an athlete is, but I think you're right. It dimishes the accuracy of such important moments in sports history. I'm glad you brought that up.
I agree that false images of marathons lessens the finishers' accomplishment and I don't see the point in making them look like sweat free if they have ran the marathon.
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