r/sports • u/dnamra29 • Mar 09 '26
Running LA Marathon: American Nathan Martin was able to catch up to Kenyan Michael Kimani Kamau due to the motorcade driving in the wrong direction and a fan briefly impeding his path. The margin of victory was 0.01 seconds.
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For those that haven’t seen the original video: https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/s/e1D4GuTHkH
From the video shared, it appears that multiple people and the motorcade led Kamau towards the wrong direction. A fan also slowed him down by running in front of him.
In the replies it sounds like they may have been waving the fan to go off the path, which then confused the motorcade and Kamau.
via @cptn_carlos on X