Los Angeles - Amane Gobena of
Ethiopia won the "gender" challenge on Sunday at the Los Angeles
Marathon. Gobena won $50,000 for finishing "first" in the race and
another $25,000 for being the first woman to cross the finish line. Gebo
Burka of Ethiopia won the men's race and had the fastest time, at 2:10:37, but
since the women get a 17:41 head start, Gobena finished 41 seconds ahead of
Burka with a time of 2:27:37. Burka won
$25,000 for winning the men's race.
When I decided to click on this article, I was genuinely expecting that a woman won the LA Marathon. The headline made zero sense to me, so I had to follow up. The whole story is a feminists worst nightmare. Quite the battle of the sexes after the 17 minute and 41 second handicap is just brushed aside as standard operating procedure. Let me take another stab at that last sentence.
"Gobena finished 17 minutes behind Burka with a time of 2:27:37, but Gobena wins Burka's additional $50,000 for not finishing 17 minutes and 42 seconds behind him."
Fair is fair.
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