Runners from St. Etienne – always prepared to help!
Posted on | July 4, 2013 | Category: Arena
Remi Baudot is up on the platform and being honoured. Photo: Erik Borg
When he heard a runner screaming for help, there was no doubt in the mind of Remi Baudot. The Frenchman stopped of course, and helped even though he was running for a ticket to the final.
On the Middle qualification he was on his way between a couple of controls in the forest when he heard a person screaming. Immediately he ran in the direction of the screaming and found an athlete from Israel with a lot of blood on one of his knees and on his shoulders.
“I just did what all people would have done”, the 19-year-old Frenchman says. He tried to help and an Irish runner asked him if he needed more help while he was there, and after a couple of minutes some organisers showed up. The Israeli runner then told Remi to go on with his race.
“But it didn’t go so well. I was thinking about the injured runner”, he tells.
Remi is from St. Etienne and is taking part in his second JWOC. He is representing the same club as Thierry Gueorgiou, and the ‘French phantom’ has stopped in similar circumstances during an important race. Four years ago Thierry, Michal Smola and Anders Nordberg stopped on the last leg of the WOC Relay and helped Martin Johansson from Sweden whowas injured. All of these were at the time fighting for the gold.
At the prize-giving in Hradec Králové for the Middle and Long distance, Baudot was honoured for what he had done in the forest and everyone heard about his good action.
During the start of the qualification the last-year junior had run very well, and after the race it was decided that he could take part in the final, as first starter – which is why 61 and not 60 ran the men’s final at Middle distance.
The first starter in the final made some mistakes, but he ended in a creditable 41st place.
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