VIDEO: Competitors help exhausted cross-country runner finish race
Two runners, Evie Tate and Rachel Pease, helped an exhausted Boston College cross-country runner finish a race in a display of sportsmanship.
Three runners finished the Atlantic Coast Conference Cross-Country Championships together in a display of sportsmanship.
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Clemson’s Evie Tate and Louisville’s Rachel Pease stopped short of the finish line to help a fallen runner finish the last of the women’s 6K event in Cary, N.C. The two helped Boston College’s Madeline Adams, who was battling exhaustion in the finishing straight.
ACC XC: Rachel Pease,Lousiville and Evie Tate, Clemson help Madeline Adams, Boston College across the finish line. #ACCXC #NCState pic.twitter.com/8H5vn8vGAJ
— Cheryl Treworgy (@ctreworgy) October 29, 2016
Both sacrificed their position in the race to help the fallen runner. Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) organizers were able to capture the moment on video, which has been shared thousands of times on social media.
Officials attended to Adams after she was able to cross the finish line. One user on Facebook commented that a previous rule has been updated so runners who help others during a race are not automatically disqualified.
According to the ACC race report, Tate was in the pack of runners who finished between 70th and 80th before stopping to help Adams. However, the report does not relay the fact that Adams is listed as being disqualified in the race results.
Sportsmanship at its finest, a Clemson and a Louisville runner help a Boston College runner across the line #ACCXC pic.twitter.com/LYkBH9nf8S
— Wolfpack XC (@PackXC) October 28, 2016
The ACC Cross-Country Championships are a conference meet in the United States for division one athletes. Regionals and nationals follow in the coming weeks for American universities. Canadian Justyn Knight, one of the country’s top distance runners, won the men’s 8K in 22:50 on Friday.
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The video, shared on Facebook by the ACC, has been seen more than 1.1 million times in the past 24 hours as of this story’s writing.
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