Life Center / Reported by Xu Zhichao
▲The 2022 Taipei Marathon started this morning, but there was a lot of chaos. (Photo/Supplied by Readers)
The 2022 Taipei Marathon started in the square in front of the Taipei City Hall at 6:30 am today (18). However, some runners found that the road race manual and organizers kept reminding “don’t throw raincoats around.” As a result, the flower garden in the middle of the road was full of raincoats thrown by the public, and even garbage cans on the sidewalk were full of raincoats full, it’s quite astounding to see.
The 2022 Taipei Marathon is 42.195 kilometers long, starting from the Taipei City Government Civic Square and ending at the Taipei Athletic Stadium. From the starting point, we can see that there is still sporadic rain this morning, so many runners are wearing light raincoats.
▲The organizer said that after running 5 kilometers, there will be a material station where you can throw garbage. (Photo/Supplied by Readers)
In this regard, in the road race manual issued by the organizer before and before the start of today’s race, runners are reminded not to “throw away their raincoats”: after 5 kilometres, there will be a material station where you can throw rubbish Wheelchair runners participate in the half marathon If the runners throw away their raincoats, it will cause them problems.
▲ In the flower bed in the middle of the road, there are several light raincoats that have been discarded at will. (Photo/Supplied by Readers)
As a result, some runners found that many participants ignored the organizers, because when they ran about 3 kilometers, there were several light raincoats discarded in the flower garden in the middle of the road. The light raincoats were stuffed, even so full that dozens of raincoats were piled up in front of the garbage can, turning into “a small mountain”.
▲ In addition to the flower beds, the trash cans on the sidewalk were also full of raincoats. (Photo/Supplied by Readers)
After this mess was exposed, netizens were stunned and said, “It’s really immoral”, “Stupid, I don’t care about the wheelchair racers behind”, “The organizer was scolded at the end”, ” It’s an exaggeration to throw it like this” “.
