For any other person, losing a shoe in the middle of a track race would mean disaster. For Syracuse freshman and Canadian Justyn Knight, it only meant he had to work harder for the ACC title, as he told Syracuse.com:
Runner loses shoe in the middle of championship race, wins anyway
Bye shoe, it was nice meeting you!
Syracuse freshman Justyn Knight lost his sneaker in the middle of his 1,500-meter win on Saturday and still out-kicked the rest of the ACC to the finish line. Knight won the ACC title by six-hundreths of a second over Virginia Tech's Neil Gourley, finishing with a time of 3:47.85.
"It was tough because I didn't have any grip," Knight told Cuse.com after the race. "I knew I didn't want to come in second without a shoe, so I had to come in first."
If you look closely, you can see Knight’s shoe laid out on the ground, waving goodbye to all the other runners:
No Shoe, No Problem for @Justyn_Knight as he takes the 1500m #ACCOTF title. Can you spot his shoe? pic.twitter.com/uI21eYxHsD
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) May 17, 2015 Knight, for his part, thought the incident was hilarious:
When you realize you just lost your shoe during a championship race pic.twitter.com/H4pFRk8uDk
— Justyn Knight (@justyn_knight) May 18, 2015 And he should, because he won. Oh, Canada.
(via Syracuse.com)
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