The 13-minute crisis: How a struck officer led to the wrong turn at the US Half Marathon Championships

We now why there was chaos on the streets in Atlanta on Sunday. Just five minutes before the firstrunners came by, a police officer was struck by a vehicle a block away from the intersection in which athletes made the wrong turn. Atlanta TC said that caused other officers to leave their posts to attend to him — and as a result, cones which were meant to direct runners straight were never laid out so that emergency vehicles could come through. Thankfully, the officer is ok and the Atlanta Track Club is going to pay out $39,500 in extra prize money to make the impacted racers whole.

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