During a high school 4×200 m relay race, a dog who had been among the spectators joined in and ran a superb anchor leg.
A pet dog escaped its owners to join the home stretch of a 4×200 metre relay race at a high school athletics meet in Utah. The dog, Holly, can been seen running on to the track to chase Logan high school’s Gracie Laney down the home straight.
Holly clocked the final 100m in about 10.5 seconds, which is 1 second behind Usain Bolt’s world record, track and field website MileSplit reported.
The crowd roared as the dog overtook Laney just before the finishing line, almost tripping her over. However, race officials did not award the victory to Holly the dog – the heat win went to Laney with a time of 1 minute 59.27 seconds.
Holly was guilty of illegal lane changes and a bit of Usain Bolt-level showboating at the end when she eased up her pace alongside Laney before speeding up to pip her at the post. But it was still an impressive performance.
Dogs are much wiser than us. They recognize the superiority of biscuits over medals.
They dont call it doing zoomies for nothing.
Four legs good …
The dog got disqualified for deliberate interference with another runner.
Gotta admire the (human) winner’s discipline at not looking behind her to see what brought on all that cheering.