“Running is the new religion of the Chinese middle class,” as the Financial Times puts it. I guess because the old religion was wiped out by the Red Guards.
And as anyone who’s a runner knows, this religion requires blood sacrifice! Aches and pains, swelling and inflammation, but running in China can be especially dangerous.
According to China’s Jiangsu News, “More and more events are unfolding from the Guangdong Marathon Fiasco. There were close to 20,000 participants, including 12,208 incidents of injury and sickness.”
Now don’t worry, it’s not that over half the participants were injured. Some people just had multiple injuries.
The Guangdong Marathon Fiasco, as it’s being called, was, well, kind of a fiasco.
Running is the new religion of the Chinese middle class
