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July 6, 2015

Why You Shouldn’t Celebrate Before Running Through The Tape [Video]

This American runner has an epic race fail and proves that being too cocky is never a good thing.

It seems American athlete Ben Payne didn’t get the memo about not celebrating a win until you’ve actually… won. This cringe-worthy video shows Payne fist pumping the air as he arrives at the Finish line of a 10k race, completely oblivious as British Olympian Scott Overall takes the opportunity to push past and hit the tape a mere 9/100ths of a second before him. Ouch.

Overall couldn’t resist a gentle dig when he later gave the hapless runner some advice via Twitter.

Schooled!

[source: The Metro]