“Resolve”, “grossly unsporting”, “devastating”: marathon runner Hendrik Pfeiffer (Wattenscheid) criticized Morhad Amdouni (France) for the water bottle scandal at the Olympic Games and called for consequences.
“That was grossly unsportsmanlike and intentional,” said Pfeiffer on RTL / ntv: “Something like that is in stark contrast to the values at the Olympics, so I can't understand if you can get away with it without sanctions.
It was a devastating picture that he gave. "
At a refreshment station during the 42.195 kilometers in the heat of Sapporo, Amdouni had knocked over several drinking bottles, only the last one he grabbed himself. This was not on purpose, he said later.
“I saw the action afterwards in the video.
We took a closer look at it.
It can happen that a bottle falls over, they are not that easy to pick up, "said Pfeiffer:" But there were just too many.
It was pretty clear that the point was to weaken the competition so they wouldn't get bottles.
He just got the very last one.
From my point of view that was intent. "