Au moment ou de nombreux membres sont s'appretent à s'élancer pour 42kms de bonheur dans Big Apple, MCB, journaliste toujours très informée m'a envoyé un article très intéressant du IHT : A marathon without music? Runners with headphones balk at policy By Juliet Macur The New York Times, Thursday, November 1, 2007...
At the peak of the marathon season, with one of the biggest races of the year set for Sunday in New York, a worry has emerged among some runners, and it has nothing to do with hitting the wall at Mile 20: Will Beyoncé be there to push them to the finish? Will they be able to call upon Bon Jovi for support when there is no one else to turn to?... USA Track & Field, the U.S. governing body for running, this year barred the use of headphones and portable audio players like iPods at its official races. The rule was created to ensure safety and to prevent runners from having a competitive edge... But trying to enforce such a rule on a 26.2-mile, or 42-kilometer, course filled with thousands of runners may be futile. The New York City Marathon, which strongly discourages the use of audio players, will not attempt to police its field Sunday...Technically, at the Marine Corps Marathon here in Washington last weekend, and even at much smaller events like the Creaky Bones 5-kilometer race in Florida and the Corn Maze 4-miler in Tennessee, runners should not have had the luxury of listening to their favorite songs along the way. Marine Corps Marathon officials threatened to disqualify runners using headphones, but did not follow through.
"To ban them outright is just stupid, and if they want to disqualify me, they can," Jennifer Lamkins, a teacher from Long Beach, California, said before running the Marine Corps Marathon. "If they are banning them because we can't hear directions, does that mean they should ban deaf people, too?"
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