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Matt Choi, who ran the Nov. 3 New York City Marathon successful nether 3 hours, has been banned from each New York Road Runners events for beingness aft utilizing E-bikes connected the people to movie his run.
By Olivia Evans Nov 05, 2024 9:40 PMTags
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Matt Choi has crossed his last New York Marathon decorativeness line.
The moving influencer has been banned from the New York City Marathon for beingness aft moving successful the yearly contention Nov. 3 portion being followed by 2 E-Bikes with radical filming him.
“After a reappraisal and owed to violations of World Athletics rules, and New York Road Runners’ Code of Conduct and Rules of Competition,” a Nov. 5 connection from the enactment who runs the marathon reads, per Runner’s World, “NYRR has disqualified Matt Choi from the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon and removed him from the results. He has been banned from immoderate aboriginal NYRR races.”
Later, the Austin, Texas-based runner—who has implicit 800,000 followers crossed his societal media accounts—shared a connection reacting to his ban.
“I f--ked up,” Choi—whose disqualified marathon clip was conscionable implicit 2 hours and 57 minutes—said successful a Nov. 5 Instagram video. “This wasn’t a video I was readying connected making, but I person nary excuses. Full stop. I was selfish connected Sunday to person my member and videographer travel maine astir connected the people connected E-bikes and it had superior consequences.”
Indeed, the influencer echoed sentiments of different online users who complained astir his behaviour astatine the yearly New York moving event, including those sharing however bikers impeded different marathon runners.
“We endangered different runners,” helium continued. “We impacted radical going for PBs, we blocked radical from getting water. With the New York City Marathon being astir everyone other and being astir the community—I made it astir myself. For anyone I impacted, I’m sorry.”
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The 29-year-old emphasized that helium was the lone 1 to blasted for the controversy—not his member nor his videographer.
“I got overzealous astir getting each the shots,” helium added, noting that helium wouldn’t effort to entreaty the decision, “I made my furniture truthful I’m going to laic successful it. This isn’t the archetypal clip being called retired connected utilizing E-Bikes to sprout content, but it won’t hap again. My connection is my bond.”
Although Choi had tally successful the 2023 Austin Marathon with E-Bike filming—and received backlash astatine the time—he emphasized successful his caller video's caption, “E-Bikes don’t beryllium successful races.”
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