Timeline for Did an athlete lap the rest of the runners after an illness that left him in bed for a long time before the competition?
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| Dec 8, 2020 at 10:21 | history | edited | fedorqui | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
use tables for results
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| Apr 22, 2017 at 21:38 | vote | accept | fedorqui | ||
| Apr 20, 2017 at 6:27 | history | edited | fedorqui | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
now I understand the sentence
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| Apr 19, 2017 at 21:14 | comment | added | JeopardyTempest | @fedorqui I agree with pjmorse, yes, that's what it implies. Sometimes it may be used broadly or with exaggeration, such that there's a small chance they used it to not mean truly everyone... but most likely they mean everyone | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 16:53 | comment | added | pjmorse | The phrase "lapping the field" means lapping every other runner so, if 2nd place is lapped, it's very likely that the winner has lapped the field, although I can imagine a convoluted scenario where 2nd was lapped but other runners were not. | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 14:26 | comment | added | fedorqui | @Jeopardy thanks for the clarifications! I wish I could find a video of the race. You being native English speaker (I assume), does lapping the field in the 10,000 mean that he lapped the 2nd place? | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 13:47 | history | edited | JeopardyTempest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added the calculation and fixed a couple words
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| Apr 19, 2017 at 13:38 | history | answered | fedorqui | CC BY-SA 3.0 |