A man in Brazil has been labelled as a “toxic” husband after footage emerged showing him sending his children towards their mother, as she raced to cross the finish line of a half marathon towards victory, with another runner hot on her heels. Video uploaded to social media shows the runner approaching the finish line when a man, believed to be her husband, leads the children on to the path that the woman is running on, presumably to get the children to run and finish the race alongside their mother. The clip shows the woman running around the children and heading towards the finish line on her own, to finish the race.
As the woman crossed the finish line, winning the race in a time of just over one hour and forty minutes, instead of cheering or celebrating his wife’s victory, the man can be seen shrugging to fellow spectators, as if to say he did not understand why she had not slowed down for the children. On Twitter (now known as X), people pointed out that the video highlights the different expectations put on female and male runners. “She was running a marathon and about to win, then her husband had the bright idea to use HER KIDS and slow her down JUST BEFORE THE FINISH LINE? Like he could have actually done it at the finish line.
You cannot convince me that this was not maliciously done,” one person wrote. She was running a marathon and about to win, then her husband had the bright idea to use HER KIDS and slow her down JUST BEFORE THE FINISH LINE? Like he cou.