oscaralbert Review of Tortoise Beats Hare

Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)

Have you ever wondered why the Boston Marathon . . .

[8/10 · 14 May 2016]

. . . has been dominated in recent decades by guys who did NOT cut their teeth in Falmouth fun runs? This Looney Tunes animated short--TORTOISE BEATS HARE--provides some insight into one of the big scandals of American Sport. The May 13, 2016 USA TODAY discloses that one of these nations prone to sweep up the entire BM Top Ten and all the Prize Money at Boston every year--Kenya--will be banned from running in this year's Summer Olympics for Doping (and the other bunch, Ethiopia, surely will follow). You might wonder what this has to do with Bugs versus the tortoise. Like most American Distance Runners, Bugs has a species bias: All turtles look alike to him. This makes it easy for NINE terrapins to trick Bugs and CHEAT their way to "Victory." Similarly, all East Africans are indistinguishable for American runners and media people. Already PR0VEN cheaters with their doping, it's not much of a stretch to imagine that these bogus competitors are running the "Rosie Ruiz Scam," on a Grand World-Wide Scale, turning in "unbelievable" record times of 2:02 or 2:03 by mass producing race numbers on copy machines and then popping a fresh guy on the course every couple miles, just like Cecil and his eight little turtle buddies here.