Triathlons involve three activities: cycling, running and swimming. They do not involve American football played against deer. This deer clearly didn’t get the memo.
This is a perfectly timed photo of a deer taking out a cyclist during a triathlon
The cyclist was alright!
A deer has collided with a competitor at Dublin city triathlon https://t.co/8lTLkYNtie pic.twitter.com/0YfOPHIUAr
— delcrookes (@hairydel) August 29, 2016
The image was captured by Erik Scraggs, an Irish photographer, at the Dublin City Triathlon. The cyclist, Shane O’Reilly, has a sore shoulder but was saved from serious injury by his helmet, which cracked but otherwise withstood the impact.
What the hell was that deer thinking! We have some theories.
- The deer had a bet on the race, and had to take matters into his own hands.
- BAE: Come over. DEER: I can’t there’s a cycling race in my way. BAE: My parents aren’t home.
- This race was secretly a quadathlon, and the fourth activity was "getting run over by a deer." It’s hard to train for that one, I’ll tell you, but it makes everything more exciting.
- This deer’s mother was shot by a hunter when they were looking for food, leaving this deer all alone. An owl prophesied he would fall in love, and he met a beautiful fawn, which you can see in the wide-angle photo, and the deer just didn’t want to be separated from his love.
- Wait that’s actually just the plot of Bambi, never mind.
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