Under the technical regulations of World Athletics and the Korea Association of Athletics Federations, runners are generally prohibited from receiving physical assistance that propels them forward during a race. Exceptions include helping a fallen athlete back onto their feet.<\/p>\n
Such violations can result in disqualification without a prior warning.<\/p>\n
As the controversy intensified, Minho issued a public apology through social media on Nov 3, taking responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry for disappointing so many people at the marathon that I participated in on Nov 1,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything happened because of my own shortcomings, and as someone who cherishes and loves sports, I feel deeply ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minho also announced that he would not accept his marathon result, acknowledging the lessons he had learned from the experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not accept my result in this marathon, and I will not forget the lessons that I learned through this process,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
He expressed respect for fellow runners who had worked hard to prepare for the race and pledged to be more careful to prevent similar incidents in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the technical regulations of World Athletics and the Korea Association of Athletics Federations, runners are generally prohibited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,921,93,61,60,6521,27368],"class_list":["post-675530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-k-pop","tag-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}