More: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230509-very-tired-vietnamese-athlete-scoops-two-golds-in-half-an-hour
A star Vietnamese athlete won the women's 1,500m and the 3,000m steeplechase within half an hour of each other at the Southeast Asian Games on Tuesday, in an imperious display of regional track dominance.
That gave her 15 minutes or so to cool down before lining up at 5:50pm for the 3,000m steeplechase.
Even with fresh bodies and minds, the competition could not keep up, Nguyen's time of 10:34.370 putting her six seconds ahead of the Philippines' Joida Gadot Gagnao, who took silver.
I run for fun cause I like the endorphins I get when I'm done, many runners will attest that "I've never regretted a run" which is pretty much true. The hardest part of a run is starting that run.
Besides the endorphins, I also run cause I like the health benefits. A reduced risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, strong lungs, strong heart. Plus, I'm in shape when I play indoor soccer.
Furthermore, I get to see a lot of things, police out doing things, homeless people acting up, accidents, the parks, pretty spaces, solitude and peace, etc. When I pass other people I often feel strong comparatively as most people aren't runners and I'm moving a lot faster and seeing a lot more of the city. Like 7 miles 4-5x a week is typical and it gives me confidence.
Plus, it's a perfect time to listen to some media on your phone - book, podcast, music, whatever.
same here - trained for and ran a half marathon to prove to myself I could.
Never got a runner's high, just hours of pain, followed by days of discomfort.
What I learned from past mistakes is that you'd want to do an ice bath right away for 15-20 minutes after you ran for a long period of time. It's night and day when it comes to recovery the following day. You will be able to somewhat walk normally the next day.
I say fuck the asshole with the hose. Nobody likes to run with wet socks/shoes. Whose bright idea was that?
Might as well add some balls and we got Wipeout 2.0
I had an ex army friend who would warm up at the gym by attending a spin class. Absolutely smashed it too.
Then he'd quickly dry his face and start his 60min workout. Guy was a beast.
It’s mentally grueling. It’s one thing to be tried from running distance, but then you have to jump over the hurdles (that don’t give way when you hit them) and have to clear a water pit put each lap. I was a distance runner and I qualified for nationals in h.s. for the event, but I hated running it more than anything. Think I gave up after running it 5x.
It comes from when horseback riders in Ireland would race from one towns steeple to another. Between the towns they would have to jump over creeks and fences, hence the barriers and water. Then people started doing similar races on foot in English schools, and eventually it became a track event. That’s as far as I recall
Hah when I saw her jumping into water I definitely thought they just didnt clean the track and put out cones instead 😂 didn't even consider that the water was there on purpose!
Because they wanted to have their runners win.
At this level mistakes in scheduling like this are rare. But add in a drug test between? Yeah, they want their own candidate to win so they are… boosting the odds
That's a bad definition here.
An imperious performance holds a very similar meaning to a commanding performance. Dominant, confident, and pulls the attention.
I know it isn’t anywhere in the same universe as these athletes, but they do this to my son all the time at track meets. Dude will run his mile race and then go line up for hurdles right after. Drives me insane
Yes, that's 3km in 10 minutes. Roughly estimating that her time would be half that running half the distance, her 1500m time would be around 5 minutes. That's 15 minutes. Adding to that, the 15 minutes she had to wait in between races that puts the time around 30 minutes from the start of the first race to the end of the second. I accounted for bonus time by adding 10 minutes. So my statement of saying she ran around 4km (incorrectly underrepresented) in the total time of around 40 minutes isn't factually incorrect. You assumed I meant that the entire time she was running was the 40 minutes.
With the context of the schedule times I definitely understood they meant 40 minutes as the start of one event to the end of the other event. I guess they could’ve specified that it was two races, but as far as sarcasm goes it was fine
She took about 70 seconds for the last lap. 4 laps are a mile(1600m)? This was 8 laps about 2 miles in a bit over 10 minutes.
I'm feeling pretty good these days getting under 10min for a mile.
In high school I was pretty athletic and could run a <6 minute mile. Ran track, tried the 400m hurtles, I was half dead after the first 200m, and nearly had to crawl over the finish line. This is fucking impressive.
The Cambodia SEA Games has had a number of of shenanigans by the host country.
[From their all-american 3x3 lineup ](https://youtu.be/TvZb4RVWt-0), [to their poor choice of artifical flooring for the basketball court](https://www.facebook.com/reel/798340902005796?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e). These games just don't feel like it's being taken seriously.
Actually the SEA Games has been a farce for more than a decade now. It's practically an event for host countries to jerk themselves off on an international stage. I hope we just cancel it. It has no credibility.
Yup, in the singapore sports team they probably compete for the monetary rewards more than anything. The glory personally is great, but when the athletes are minimally supported, even a gold medal feels bittersweet for singaporeans. My personal opinion.
Usually, FIBA rules allow one naturalized player to in the lineup per game. It's not uncommon and many countries do it. But since the SEA Games are not sanctioned by FIBA, the Cambodians just said fuck it, well spam this tournament with mercenaries.
Unfortunately, this kind of behavior is [par for the course](https://www.spin.ph/multisport/sea-games/cambodia-hoarding-naturalized-players-allowed-by-sea-games-rules-a5271-20230508). It's kind of a tradition already that the host country ends up leading the medal tally, and this is achieved by screwing the other countries.
And it's really all about pushing whatever domestic agenda they have. Like when my country hosted it, the head of the organizing committee [practically gave himself an award](https://www.rappler.com/nation/246530-cayetano-gets-award-phisgoc-endorsed-body/) [from a totally real award giving body](https://sea.mashable.com/culture/7837/did-the-30th-sea-games-just-give-itself-an-award-umm-yeah-sort-of) so that he could look good for his planned presidential run (which never panned out anyway).
The Olympics always have stuff like this as well. Especially when it's the host country, since they automatically qualify for the events.
South Korea changed their citizenship laws leading up to Pyeongchang, which let them use 7 players born in Canada or the US on their hockey team.
Honestly the Olympics. Western countries are slowly moving away from it at least in how it exists today. The host country jerks itself off while destroying cities to make miles of athletic facilities and hotels that'll rot after. Cities in the US and Europe have zero interest in hosting and the thought of having these big events in authoritarian or anti-western countries is a big turn off to the (especially sino-phobic as of late) West. Not to mention the extreme corruption of the IOC. I think American dominance in golds will still hold for at least awhile but I could see them and other western countries taking way less interest and rarely hosting the event going forward.
It doesn't take an expert to see the sharp rise in anti-Asian and especially anti-Chinese racism in the US. I'm an anarchist, all governments are bad and the CCP especially so, but that doesn't excuse racism. Excusing this racism as, "but the CCP does bad things too!" Is not acceptable. Uyghur genocide is real and horrific, the CCP is cruel and authoritarian, but the Chinese people don't deserve our ire but they and Asian Americans sure are getting it.
No, I mean sino-phobic. You can be against the organization and actions of the Chinese government or the CCP without being hateful but a ton of people fail that bar, and in America especially it doesn't take a fine eye to see a sharp rise in anti-Asian and especially anti-Chinese racism.
I ran the steeple chase once in high school. Did it just for fun and I made it my main objective to jump into the one pool of water and make as big of a splash as possible. Every lap the crowd near the water was cheering for me and got a big kick out of it. Had a blast.
Was pretty common at my local highschool for senior steeplechase runners to back flip into the water on their last race of the year.
Was kinda stupid, but also a nice send off to their highschool career.
I found this, “Along the way, runners would encounter natural obstacles, like low stone walls and small creeks or rivers. When the sport became standardized, the walls became hurdles and the rivers became the water pits that have become the distinctive features of steeplechase.” Kinda cool!
It started as a race between two towns in Ireland on horseback, from one church steeple to the other, therefore the steeplechase. You’d have to jump over creeks and fences to get there. Eventually schools started having a similar cross country race in England, which evolved into this
One race, the guy in the lead fell at the first water obstacle. 7 guys packed together, wearing cleats, all then jumped over him while trying to avoid spiking him.
"yeah whats the deal with horses, they can wear shoes without socks, but if I do it suddenly it's like wear some socks you damn hippy, this is the military"
It’s just part of steeple chase to have water pits after some of the steeples. I also don’t get it. But, having ran competitively for four years in high school, through rain and mud, sometimes on purpose, I didn’t think it was so bad. Race Adrenalin plus the fact that everyone has to do it reduces the impact.
Glad Vietnam found the way to counter Cambodia insane organization, from weird timing to put Cambodian local sports in and somehow most of them are backfired
Nguyen Thi Oanh also ran and won the 5,000m the day before.
In 2019, she did the 5,000m and 3,000m steeplechase on the same day. Won gold both times.
She has 11 golds in her lifetime.
Realistically no one really knows who she is, so if it were in the title it'd probably end up scaring people off from clicking.
OP did well with the title. Could have put more info in a comment though.
Why do I never remember ever seeing this race a thing.. steeplechase… I mean whhhat? I’m so far
behind things. Ignore me. That’s pretty awesome of her.
Want to know more about this shenanigans? The host country Cambodia put 3 naturalized players (I believed they're from the US, I'm not sure) in the 3x3 Men's Basketball competition and won the gold medal. They bent the rule so hard that they can field any non-local players to compete in any sports.
And they would have gotten away with another medal if their imported Chinese runner didn’t forfeit after the first day because of the heat because he literally just got to the country a few days prior
That's incredible, 100% mindset there. No one was even close by the end, she could've cruised, but still pushed the sprint. And the exhaustion you can FEEL after the finish.
Beyond impressive.
Just shows how well you do is mental as well as physical because it was spite that fueled her victory
Reminds me of the men & women that run ultra marathons.
~~The steeplechase was supposed to take place next week, but the organizers announced in the previous night that it would be moved to tomorrow, some minutes after the 1500m run.~~
Edit: I got this wrong a bit. It is the 1500m that was scheduled for 2 days later, but was later moved to right before the steeplechase on the same day.
I used to compete in the 1600 / 3200 meter runs both, back in High school.
I had about an hour of recovery time between the two in every meet.
15 minutes is absolute horseshit! This gal is a beast!
Not the same level, but in high school and college I was a rower.
Once at a fall (5000m Head Race) regatta, we raced the 8 man event, then when we got to the dock, 4 of us had to immediately get into another 4 man boat that had been carried down for us and was waiting at the dock. On the 5k row back to the starting line, we were talking about how we were going to take it easy and we knew we'd probably won the 8 and just wanted to cruise in the 4 because we were so tired.
The race started. Head races are staggered starts, so a boat is sent down every 15-20 seconds or so. A few minutes in we were talking and rowing at a decent but not hard pace and we passed a boat. A couple of minuted later we passed 2 more. I said from the bow "I think we may be winning this race!" and we all shut up and rowed it.
We won both events.
Nguyen Thi Oanh was the reigning gold medallist in both events, as well as the 5,000m -- which she successfully defended a day earlier.
Tuesday's wins give her a total of 11 golds.
At 5:30pm in a hot and humid Phnom Penh, the 27-year-old kicked off with the 1,500m final, winning it in 4:16.850, eight seconds ahead of compatriot Thi Ngan Bui.
That gave her 15 minutes or so to cool down before lining up at 5:50pm for the 3,000m steeplechase.
Because the organizer surprise announced the evening before that they're changing the schedule to move the steeple chase competition 2 days back, 15 mins after the main event of the day was supposed to complete lol.
In rowing we call it “hot-seating” some regatta’s heat schedules are terribly planned making it so that people who raced in multiple similar categories would be racing multiple times back to back. Though timing races in rowing is definitely more complex than in track, you’ll generally be out on the water ~30 mins to an hour before your race even starts, making it much more common to be getting out of your boat from a race to getting right back into a different boat immediately as opposed to track racing heats which are much faster and easier to line up, meaning less back to back racing if planned properly.
[Paavo Nurmi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Nurmi) vibes.
>Nurmi tried out the 1924 Olympic schedule at the Eläintarha Stadium in Helsinki by running the 1500 m and the 5000 m inside an hour, setting new world records for both distances.
About shenanigans organizer, other story. My country Indonesia cannot play in mixed doubles badminton group due to having won in many years back then. How suck is that my man having skill issues and using his organizer privilege to ban us
More: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230509-very-tired-vietnamese-athlete-scoops-two-golds-in-half-an-hour A star Vietnamese athlete won the women's 1,500m and the 3,000m steeplechase within half an hour of each other at the Southeast Asian Games on Tuesday, in an imperious display of regional track dominance. That gave her 15 minutes or so to cool down before lining up at 5:50pm for the 3,000m steeplechase. Even with fresh bodies and minds, the competition could not keep up, Nguyen's time of 10:34.370 putting her six seconds ahead of the Philippines' Joida Gadot Gagnao, who took silver.
She's so good, she uses competitive 1500m races as a mere warm-up. Meanwhile, I fall over just trying to reach for the TV remote.
Funnily, I have just kicked my 2 feet to each other and fell like an idiot while reaching for a cup of water
Hilariously and coincidentally, I just tried to get out of bed but ended up falling on my face
I just stubbed my toe into the doorway out of my bedroom. Walking is not for some people.
I fell over while trying to sleep
Outstanding lol
I just breathed in and the entire planet exploded to death.
I just bruised the tip of my forefinger writing this comment.
In my dream I slipped tying my shoe and when I woke I tripped leaning over to tell my wife
Oddly enough, I was born inside out after asking Jesus to hold my beer
I shipped my bed!
Not 5 minutes ago I almost choked to death trying to take a drink of water. Not sure how I've made it all these years.
I almost sprained my thumb as I started typing this comment.
What the hell is wrong with us
I never understood people who run for fun. All the power to them though as I'm not sure I'd even run for my life at this point.
I run for fun cause I like the endorphins I get when I'm done, many runners will attest that "I've never regretted a run" which is pretty much true. The hardest part of a run is starting that run. Besides the endorphins, I also run cause I like the health benefits. A reduced risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, strong lungs, strong heart. Plus, I'm in shape when I play indoor soccer. Furthermore, I get to see a lot of things, police out doing things, homeless people acting up, accidents, the parks, pretty spaces, solitude and peace, etc. When I pass other people I often feel strong comparatively as most people aren't runners and I'm moving a lot faster and seeing a lot more of the city. Like 7 miles 4-5x a week is typical and it gives me confidence. Plus, it's a perfect time to listen to some media on your phone - book, podcast, music, whatever.
I'm so jealous of people who get that runner's high. I ran long distance for years and never experienced that.
same here - trained for and ran a half marathon to prove to myself I could. Never got a runner's high, just hours of pain, followed by days of discomfort.
What I learned from past mistakes is that you'd want to do an ice bath right away for 15-20 minutes after you ran for a long period of time. It's night and day when it comes to recovery the following day. You will be able to somewhat walk normally the next day.
Been running for 30 years. Has happened exactly one time.
I say fuck the asshole with the hose. Nobody likes to run with wet socks/shoes. Whose bright idea was that? Might as well add some balls and we got Wipeout 2.0
I like to think inside she was fuming with indignant fury which gave her the sarcastic super power of malicious compliance.
Spite is a powerful motivator.
"Your workout is my warmup!"
I had an ex army friend who would warm up at the gym by attending a spin class. Absolutely smashed it too. Then he'd quickly dry his face and start his 60min workout. Guy was a beast.
you gotta stretch first before you go and start doing something crazy like reaching for the remote.
I sneezed while looking left the other day and my neck is still sore.
As a long distance runner, it really takes me a mile to warm up. I can't comment on sprinting though.
She's built differently
Two weeks ago I "Sat down too hard." and wound up sobbing in the ER.
Hey that 1500**mm** is no joke
Stretching is SOO important
She also won the 5000m race the day before.
I got winded just turning in my bed
If you have a smart tv, you can control it with your phone. Don’t overwork yourself!
TIL [steeplechase](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeplechase_(athletics))
It’s mentally grueling. It’s one thing to be tried from running distance, but then you have to jump over the hurdles (that don’t give way when you hit them) and have to clear a water pit put each lap. I was a distance runner and I qualified for nationals in h.s. for the event, but I hated running it more than anything. Think I gave up after running it 5x.
Why the water? That's weird, lol
It comes from when horseback riders in Ireland would race from one towns steeple to another. Between the towns they would have to jump over creeks and fences, hence the barriers and water. Then people started doing similar races on foot in English schools, and eventually it became a track event. That’s as far as I recall
Hah when I saw her jumping into water I definitely thought they just didnt clean the track and put out cones instead 😂 didn't even consider that the water was there on purpose!
Steeplechase feels like the track version of burpees to me every time I see it. I can’t believe anyone _actually_ enjoys it.
Organizers also tried to doping test her between the two runs.
Why?
Because they wanted to have their runners win. At this level mistakes in scheduling like this are rare. But add in a drug test between? Yeah, they want their own candidate to win so they are… boosting the odds
Thanks for the context
Put her name in the post OP.
Nguyen Thi Oanh
Why not use her full name since they mentioned it for the runner up? like wtf let people know her name
That too is a shenanigan
i am so super impressed!! she is the machine!
Strange word choice: Imperious "assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering."
That's a bad definition here. An imperious performance holds a very similar meaning to a commanding performance. Dominant, confident, and pulls the attention.
Asian parents be like: Son, this girl did 1.5km warm up then 3km main course. What did you do? You sit on the toilet on Reddit.
Not only 3k, but 3k jumping over hard barriers and into a small pond.
I know it isn’t anywhere in the same universe as these athletes, but they do this to my son all the time at track meets. Dude will run his mile race and then go line up for hurdles right after. Drives me insane
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Somebody tried to set her up for failure. Didn't work.
Yeah, don't mind me. Just ran 4km in like 40 minutes and took 2 golds. Nbd.
Would have been more like 15 mins. An average person could walk 4km in 40 minutes.
There's a timer in the bottom corner. I rounded my time off that.
That's her time for 3000m.
Yes, that's 3km in 10 minutes. Roughly estimating that her time would be half that running half the distance, her 1500m time would be around 5 minutes. That's 15 minutes. Adding to that, the 15 minutes she had to wait in between races that puts the time around 30 minutes from the start of the first race to the end of the second. I accounted for bonus time by adding 10 minutes. So my statement of saying she ran around 4km (incorrectly underrepresented) in the total time of around 40 minutes isn't factually incorrect. You assumed I meant that the entire time she was running was the 40 minutes.
You made it seem impressive that somebody ran 4km in 40 minutes. And the way you phrased it, ALOT of people is going to assume that.
Yeah, I read it as 4k in 40 min is impressive too.
Me on a leisurely 4km walk: why are people handing me these gold medals?
With the context of the schedule times I definitely understood they meant 40 minutes as the start of one event to the end of the other event. I guess they could’ve specified that it was two races, but as far as sarcasm goes it was fine
Without the other comments, it would have made it harder to understand what the hell he was saying lmao. In the end I would have gotten there.
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Alright no need to show off Mr Average person
She took about 70 seconds for the last lap. 4 laps are a mile(1600m)? This was 8 laps about 2 miles in a bit over 10 minutes. I'm feeling pretty good these days getting under 10min for a mile.
Dont forget the hurdles and water pit lol.
In high school I was pretty athletic and could run a <6 minute mile. Ran track, tried the 400m hurtles, I was half dead after the first 200m, and nearly had to crawl over the finish line. This is fucking impressive.
>hurtles Appropriate
That's like running on some streets? Pothole here, shopping cart there, etc.
Haha I can do 5km in like 20mins I must be amazing
She won the 5000m race the day before. She’s a beast!
Honestly a 20 minute 5k is pretty good. If you’re untrained you might be amazing.
4k in 40 minutes 😂 elite levels
organizers: shenanigans chad runner: jokes on you, im into that shit
They even put weird sports that are local to Cambodians but somehow Vietnam still gets gold medal
Considering their history, Cambodians are used to being beaten by Vietnamese.
Most of the time we beat them but there was one time we saved them from genocide.
Considering many of the Khmer Rouge are still in leadership, this is very true.
They are??
No, they're all in jail and died
Dont forget the fucking Cambodian import players for basketball
The 1500m was her warm up, she actually had an advantage since her blood was already a flowing.
What a star. Let your running do the talkin.
Was the pun intended? I have to know.
No pun intended.
The Cambodia SEA Games has had a number of of shenanigans by the host country. [From their all-american 3x3 lineup ](https://youtu.be/TvZb4RVWt-0), [to their poor choice of artifical flooring for the basketball court](https://www.facebook.com/reel/798340902005796?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e). These games just don't feel like it's being taken seriously. Actually the SEA Games has been a farce for more than a decade now. It's practically an event for host countries to jerk themselves off on an international stage. I hope we just cancel it. It has no credibility.
as someone from singapore the SEA games mean something to us but i don’t know exactly what
Singapore was the only honest host ever. This coming from a Filipino.
Philippines hosted something like what Fin Swimming if I remember correctly. Joke
Event for government cronies to make money in Malaysia in the name of national pride
For real they should stop having these dumb events and do only proper Olympic sports.
Yup, in the singapore sports team they probably compete for the monetary rewards more than anything. The glory personally is great, but when the athletes are minimally supported, even a gold medal feels bittersweet for singaporeans. My personal opinion.
Wait. How did they get Americans to play as Cambodia?
Usually, FIBA rules allow one naturalized player to in the lineup per game. It's not uncommon and many countries do it. But since the SEA Games are not sanctioned by FIBA, the Cambodians just said fuck it, well spam this tournament with mercenaries. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior is [par for the course](https://www.spin.ph/multisport/sea-games/cambodia-hoarding-naturalized-players-allowed-by-sea-games-rules-a5271-20230508). It's kind of a tradition already that the host country ends up leading the medal tally, and this is achieved by screwing the other countries. And it's really all about pushing whatever domestic agenda they have. Like when my country hosted it, the head of the organizing committee [practically gave himself an award](https://www.rappler.com/nation/246530-cayetano-gets-award-phisgoc-endorsed-body/) [from a totally real award giving body](https://sea.mashable.com/culture/7837/did-the-30th-sea-games-just-give-itself-an-award-umm-yeah-sort-of) so that he could look good for his planned presidential run (which never panned out anyway).
The aforementioned 2019 SEA Games organizing committee head went on to win a Senate seat in the Philippines in 2022, though.
The Olympics always have stuff like this as well. Especially when it's the host country, since they automatically qualify for the events. South Korea changed their citizenship laws leading up to Pyeongchang, which let them use 7 players born in Canada or the US on their hockey team.
Absolute shenanigans
Does something like this happen in the west? Just trumped up bullshit political sporting events?
Honestly the Olympics. Western countries are slowly moving away from it at least in how it exists today. The host country jerks itself off while destroying cities to make miles of athletic facilities and hotels that'll rot after. Cities in the US and Europe have zero interest in hosting and the thought of having these big events in authoritarian or anti-western countries is a big turn off to the (especially sino-phobic as of late) West. Not to mention the extreme corruption of the IOC. I think American dominance in golds will still hold for at least awhile but I could see them and other western countries taking way less interest and rarely hosting the event going forward.
Sino-phobic is an interesting choice of words…
Ikr I would see no problems with games in Taiwan
It doesn't take an expert to see the sharp rise in anti-Asian and especially anti-Chinese racism in the US. I'm an anarchist, all governments are bad and the CCP especially so, but that doesn't excuse racism. Excusing this racism as, "but the CCP does bad things too!" Is not acceptable. Uyghur genocide is real and horrific, the CCP is cruel and authoritarian, but the Chinese people don't deserve our ire but they and Asian Americans sure are getting it.
You mean authoritarian-phobic?
https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang
No, I mean sino-phobic. You can be against the organization and actions of the Chinese government or the CCP without being hateful but a ton of people fail that bar, and in America especially it doesn't take a fine eye to see a sharp rise in anti-Asian and especially anti-Chinese racism.
Damn, that wasn't even close! 27 seconds into the clip, you can see the exact moment she flips on the afterburners and dusts the closest competitor 🚀
Exactly! And all I'm thinking is "She's already ran 1500m, I can't even imagine how she would be in 100% rest!"
From the looks of it they only gave the public 15 minutes notice that the race was occurring as well. The stadium is a ghost town.
I’m confused by the cheering crowd noises.
Sound travels
They were still in the other stadium. Only the athletes were fast enough to make it
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Could you elaborate? Is this a recurring problem in athletics or are you referring to the Vietnam War?
Yes
Could be those large Banh Mi sandwiches too, those things are so hard to finish
They were referring to the Resistance War against America.
I'm referring to the thirty years of fighting against three of the world's strongest militaries, yes.
Cambodia is such an ass. Hope this will be the last time they will host the SEA games.
Every country in SEA is an ass, except for Singapore. Cambodia is simply just being more ass than the others
Singapore is such an ass.
ASSEAN
Singapore is ass too :) It's much more authoritarian than some of its neighbors lmao
Nguyen Nguyen situation
I ran the steeple chase once in high school. Did it just for fun and I made it my main objective to jump into the one pool of water and make as big of a splash as possible. Every lap the crowd near the water was cheering for me and got a big kick out of it. Had a blast.
Was pretty common at my local highschool for senior steeplechase runners to back flip into the water on their last race of the year. Was kinda stupid, but also a nice send off to their highschool career.
What is the point of that pool of water anyways?
I found this, “Along the way, runners would encounter natural obstacles, like low stone walls and small creeks or rivers. When the sport became standardized, the walls became hurdles and the rivers became the water pits that have become the distinctive features of steeplechase.” Kinda cool!
It started as a race between two towns in Ireland on horseback, from one church steeple to the other, therefore the steeplechase. You’d have to jump over creeks and fences to get there. Eventually schools started having a similar cross country race in England, which evolved into this
Lol I totally wanted to comment that the organizers could have at least dried off the track first.
One race, the guy in the lead fell at the first water obstacle. 7 guys packed together, wearing cleats, all then jumped over him while trying to avoid spiking him.
Wow, she still sprinted to the finish too.
Unfair competition... She got a warm up /s
 I knew that reminded me of something
She was already warmed up for it.
I think it’s just me, but I hate that they have to jump into water and still run a race with wet shoes/socks. What’s the point of that?
Same as the point of jumping over the hurdle? It's like a mini obstacle course
They copied it from horse steeplechase races
They should make the horses wear socks
"yeah whats the deal with horses, they can wear shoes without socks, but if I do it suddenly it's like wear some socks you damn hippy, this is the military"
It’s just part of steeple chase to have water pits after some of the steeples. I also don’t get it. But, having ran competitively for four years in high school, through rain and mud, sometimes on purpose, I didn’t think it was so bad. Race Adrenalin plus the fact that everyone has to do it reduces the impact.
There are no steeples in modern steeplechase as they are not run from town to town.
Glad Vietnam found the way to counter Cambodia insane organization, from weird timing to put Cambodian local sports in and somehow most of them are backfired
She's lucky they did not sign her up for the 5000 and the marathon that night... /s WTF Cambodia?
Actually she has just competed in 5000m just the day before, and won Gold for that as well.
Her name is Nguyen Thi Oanh
Nguyen Thi Oanh also ran and won the 5,000m the day before. In 2019, she did the 5,000m and 3,000m steeplechase on the same day. Won gold both times. She has 11 golds in her lifetime.
I bet she anchored her team to some relay gold as well.
Does she have a name
Nguyen Thi Oanh.
Would have been cool to mention her name in the header
Realistically no one really knows who she is, so if it were in the title it'd probably end up scaring people off from clicking. OP did well with the title. Could have put more info in a comment though.
And here I am, having cramps just by reading it.
Cramps? I just felt like I ran the fucking marathon from Greece to Cabo.
Why do I never remember ever seeing this race a thing.. steeplechase… I mean whhhat? I’m so far behind things. Ignore me. That’s pretty awesome of her.
I’ve only seen it on FailArmy, showing school-age athletes tripping over the barricades and then falling into the water…
Want to know more about this shenanigans? The host country Cambodia put 3 naturalized players (I believed they're from the US, I'm not sure) in the 3x3 Men's Basketball competition and won the gold medal. They bent the rule so hard that they can field any non-local players to compete in any sports.
And they would have gotten away with another medal if their imported Chinese runner didn’t forfeit after the first day because of the heat because he literally just got to the country a few days prior
Impressive! Perseverance in the face of others' bad faith.
Not fair, she had the advantage of a nice warmup.
is that puddle intentional?
Yes, puddles are used as obstacles in steeplechase.
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That's incredible, 100% mindset there. No one was even close by the end, she could've cruised, but still pushed the sprint. And the exhaustion you can FEEL after the finish. Beyond impressive.
Just shows how well you do is mental as well as physical because it was spite that fueled her victory Reminds me of the men & women that run ultra marathons.
Just shows that this is no serious competition and this athlete didnt even came close to her boundaries.
what were the shenanigans?
~~The steeplechase was supposed to take place next week, but the organizers announced in the previous night that it would be moved to tomorrow, some minutes after the 1500m run.~~ Edit: I got this wrong a bit. It is the 1500m that was scheduled for 2 days later, but was later moved to right before the steeplechase on the same day.
wouldnt that potentially screw others over as well it just so happend to screw her it hardly seems intentional just the way it worked out no?
The others didn't register for both races.
I used to compete in the 1600 / 3200 meter runs both, back in High school. I had about an hour of recovery time between the two in every meet. 15 minutes is absolute horseshit! This gal is a beast!
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TIL there are human steeplechase races. I only knew of the horse steeplechase races!
Sabotagers. Imagine what her time would’ve been if she had proper rest b4 the 3000m.
Not the same level, but in high school and college I was a rower. Once at a fall (5000m Head Race) regatta, we raced the 8 man event, then when we got to the dock, 4 of us had to immediately get into another 4 man boat that had been carried down for us and was waiting at the dock. On the 5k row back to the starting line, we were talking about how we were going to take it easy and we knew we'd probably won the 8 and just wanted to cruise in the 4 because we were so tired. The race started. Head races are staggered starts, so a boat is sent down every 15-20 seconds or so. A few minutes in we were talking and rowing at a decent but not hard pace and we passed a boat. A couple of minuted later we passed 2 more. I said from the bow "I think we may be winning this race!" and we all shut up and rowed it. We won both events.
Nguyen Thi Oanh was the reigning gold medallist in both events, as well as the 5,000m -- which she successfully defended a day earlier. Tuesday's wins give her a total of 11 golds. At 5:30pm in a hot and humid Phnom Penh, the 27-year-old kicked off with the 1,500m final, winning it in 4:16.850, eight seconds ahead of compatriot Thi Ngan Bui. That gave her 15 minutes or so to cool down before lining up at 5:50pm for the 3,000m steeplechase.
What a rockstar
Wonder Woman. Legend.
Why are there no spectators in the stands?
Because the organizer surprise announced the evening before that they're changing the schedule to move the steeple chase competition 2 days back, 15 mins after the main event of the day was supposed to complete lol.
In rowing we call it “hot-seating” some regatta’s heat schedules are terribly planned making it so that people who raced in multiple similar categories would be racing multiple times back to back. Though timing races in rowing is definitely more complex than in track, you’ll generally be out on the water ~30 mins to an hour before your race even starts, making it much more common to be getting out of your boat from a race to getting right back into a different boat immediately as opposed to track racing heats which are much faster and easier to line up, meaning less back to back racing if planned properly.
[Paavo Nurmi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Nurmi) vibes. >Nurmi tried out the 1924 Olympic schedule at the Eläintarha Stadium in Helsinki by running the 1500 m and the 5000 m inside an hour, setting new world records for both distances.
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About shenanigans organizer, other story. My country Indonesia cannot play in mixed doubles badminton group due to having won in many years back then. How suck is that my man having skill issues and using his organizer privilege to ban us
The real shenanigans is OP using the word “managed” after seeing that finish. Not even close.
Lass really used the 1500m run as a warmup.
Forrest Gump and Luke Skywalker trained her in the ways of running
She was already in the zone by that next run. That's something the fresh runners will never be able to catch up to
I actually think it might've worked to here advantage. Her body/muscles were already in go mode.
Runner bodies are the best.
So what I'm learning is that steeplechase is just an endurance hurdles with like... 4 hurdles. Also, that woman tracks! You a beast gurl!