Celebrating Too Early/Late

[RedheadDane]

1983 world athletics championship. Eamonn Coghlan celebrating 150m from the finish line.

Wrong sport...

I feel like there was a case a few years ago, but I can't seem to find it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Wrong sport...

I feel like there was a case a few years ago, but I can't seem to find it.

Basso celebrated a lap too early on the Vejle stage in 2005, but he was already a minute ahead so it didn't matter.

 

[rallybanana]

Wrong sport...

Sorry. The Olympics finished just one week ago. I'm still trying to adjust to normal life.

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

Latest addition:
Lennert Van Eetvelt

 

[AmRacer]

Not again

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Not again

After such a tough climb to just give it away like that, Van Eetvelt will be kicking himself for a while.

 

[jmdirt]

I just don't undsersytand why racers can't wait until they cross the line (unless they are SURE that they have an insermountable lead)!

 

[Izzyeviel]

I just don't undsersytand why racers can't wait until they cross the line (unless they are SURE that they have an insermountable lead)!

The last time a rider raced through the finish line, they got mocked...

 

[Netserk]

The last time a rider raced through the finish line, they got mocked...

No one mocked Rogla today.

 

[jmdirt]

The last time a rider raced through the finish line, they got mocked...

right?!

 

[Tim Cahill]

It's an addition to the ambiguous collection I think

Would depend on when he actually slowed down in anticipation of posting up

We need a referee in here

 

[tobydawq]

In the slowmo he only raises his arm whem Roglic is in his bike throw, so he didnt really miss vital pedal strokes but just missed the bike throw, which doesnt make half a bike lengths difference

Oh, I think it does.

I remember when Sagan won in Bern in the Tour and Kristoff didn't throw his bike. Sagan was like a wheel behind him both a meter before and after the line but not on the line thanks to the throw.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I belive I've just seen Paula Carrasco celebrate wrongly in the Vuelta Colombia Femenina. She might even have finished third.

Ok, it was actually Carrasco who won the stage, but it was her teammate Maria Paula Latriglia who celebrated over the line like she thought she had won herself.

 

[joe_papp]

I lost the final stage of the 2006 Vuelta a Cuba by celebrating too early. Borut Božič lunged by me on the right and then clapped me on the back and said, "I bet you'll never do that again!" lol



Loved that guy!

After such a tough climb to just give it away like that, Van Eetvelt will be kicking himself for a while.

Yup. I'm still haunted by the above--and that was 18 years ago in a modest 2.2 race!!