A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.
A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.
Apparently they didn’t notice until photos of the violation went viral online
Like I said. The weakest form of enforcement possible. Their policy accomplished nothing here.
Chinese papers didn’t crow about it: the marathon released a statement on Chinese Twitter, the freaking Daily Mail somehow managed to pick up on it, and then Business Insider™ then re-reported the stuff reported by Daily Mail with s’more links to the sources.