A sequence-smoking runner has accomplished a marathon in three hours and 28 minutes, all whereas smoking a pack of cigarettes. Uncle Chen, from Guangzhou, turned a nationwide movie star on the Chinese language social community Weibo after images of him smoking whereas operating the Xin’anjiang Marathon close to Shanghai had been shared broadly.

The athlete completed in a exceptional place, inserting 574th out of greater than 1,500 opponents. However this isn’t the primary time Chen accomplished a marathon whereas smoking. He additionally ran the 2018 Guangzhou Marathon, in addition to the 2019 Xiamen Marathon, ending the previous race in 3 hours 36 minutes and the latter in 3 hours 32 minutes, respectively.

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Uncle Chen solely smokes when he runs, in keeping with the Hong Kong Commonplace and this uncommon behavior has earned him the nickname ‘smoking brother’ in Chinese language operating circles, native media studies prompt.

A number of social media customers additionally requested if smoking throughout a marathon would represent a doping violation as Chen accomplished his marathon. Different mentioned that smoking needs to be banned from marathons, and that they felt sorry for his fellow runners.