Originally Posted by
ratebeer
Not being strong of limb all the time is understandable and forgivable. Being weak mentally, cracking under pressure, and giving into the pleas of the body to stop are gigantic character flaws in an athlete.
When people see bloody riders finishing with broken bones and shredded clothes, they can't help thinking very poorly of some guy who threw down his bike and ran crying to momma just because he got shelled.
So if we play out your line of reasoning/logic, you would label all those participants in today's Chicago Marathon as week losers who should have finished regardless of the condtions. Or were the race organizers the ones with gigantic character flaws?