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While running the New York Marathon in November, 1997, Kenyan runner John Kagwe had the shoelaces on his Nike Air Streak Vengeance running-shoes come untied three times. Twice, he stopped to retie, and then went into a sprint to catch up to the leaders. The third time, he just kept running, with one lace flapping. Though Kagwe went on to win the race, he missed setting a New York record - by 11 seconds. "Did we screw up?" Nike's Kirk Richardson later mused. "Yes, we did." Nike gave Kagwe, who was paid to wear the brand, the $10,000 which he would have won had he broken the record... Among the tricks used by runners to keep their laces from coming untied? Tucking the ends underneath the laces, covering laces with tape (a rules requirement for Olympic wrestlers), using a reef rather than a granny knot, and making two loops around the middle instead of one. (Trivia: According to Australian mathematician Burkard Polster, there are 43,200 possible ways to tie a shoe with two rows of six eyelets. The shortest method? Passing the lace from one eyelet to its neighbor on the same flap, then diagonally across to the other one.)
St. Moritz, Switzerland - Eric Bernotas of the USA was in position to win the gold over Swiss Superstar Greghor Staehli at the 2007 Skeleton World Championships, when he realized his shoelaces were untied prior to his fourth and final run. Bernotas continued to the start line undeterred only to trip and pop the groove seconds later. Despite the unfortunate event, Eric was able to overcome the odds and take second place. The offending shoe lace will be subject to USBSF disciplinary procedures, and will have a Board hearing later this week. As reported by http://sliderguide.com/news/show/22
Quote from Curt Shilling, pitcher for the Boston Red Soxs in October 2004 after Game One vs. the New York Yankees for the AL title. “There were also a lot of mitigating circumstances. No one would have ever known the blood existed outside the training staff had Rebook sent me high tops that fit. The first pair they sent me were too small, and the second pair became a problem after the sutures were put in because they were putting too much pressure on the sutured area. In the end I went back to my game shoes from the season. Game 1 in NY I had to tie my shoes about 10 times for one simple reason, Rebook took my game shoes from the season to make the high tops, unbeknownst to be at the time, and I can't tie double knots. So I had a new pair of low tops, with shoe laces way too long. I think Scott Miller wrote that I was trying to draw attention to my ankle by tying my shoes all the time in Game 1, which was false, I was trying to tie my right shoe because it came untied about 10 times and every time I looked up the Yanks were running around the bases. So I was retying my shoe and at the same time trying to take a moment to figure out how the hell I was going to get someone out."
Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent It must be a curator's sweatiest nightmare. Beyond the collection being swiped by thieves, the museum burning to the ground or, of course, your funding being withdrawn, there is always the dread possibility that some malign, clumsy or plain unlucky member of the public might destroy a prize holding. That has happened at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. According to witnesses, an unfortunate visitor tripped over his shoelace and fell on to three Qing dynasty vases, shattering them. The vases had been placed - rather optimistically, perhaps - on a windowsill on a staircase. Another visitor said: "We watched the man fall as if in slow motion. He landed in the middle of the vases and they splintered into a million pieces. He was still sitting there stunned when staff appeared. Everyone stood around in silence, as if in shock. The man kept pointing to his shoelace, saying, 'There it is; that's the culprit.'
Aviation Accident as reported by NTSB According to the pilot, he was rolling down the runway, had reached rotation speed, rotated, and started climbing. After attaining a positive rate of climb, he selected gear up. The pilot had stated, 'then I felt that my right shoe lace was caught on something.' While the airplane was climbing, he bent down to fix his shoe lace. He estimated that 1-2 seconds had past while fixing his shoe lace. He thought that he had enough back pressure for the plane to climb, but stated, 'maybe I pushed the yoke a little forward with my chest.' When he was getting up from fixing his shoe lace, he noticed that the plane was going down. The airplane hit the runway, then bounced back in the air. While in the air, the pilot tried to get the gear down, but it would not come down. The airplane hit the runway again, and slid down the runway until it came to a stop. The pilot had also stated to the FAA, that he did not have any mechanical problems with the airplane or engines. the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane resulting in an in flight collision with the runway. A factor in this accident was the pilot diverted his attention away from flying the airplane to fix his shoe lace.
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Theodore Roosevelt derived his famous words of wisdom from the three most important rules of football at the time: “don’t flinch, don’t falter and hit the line hard.” Unfortunately for Simeon Rice, Roosevelt never shared the fourth rule of football — namely, never, ever show up to practice with your shoes untied. That final straw was laid on just a day after a federal judge in New York ruled that the NFL could no longer exclude young players. The 71-page ruling, handed down Thursday, stated in brief that the NFL had to allow players to enter the draft even before their junior year of college, striking down the league’s 14-year-old policy. There can only be one possible outcome if the federal ruling stands: the NFL will go the way of the NBA, its players’ average age dropping faster than Janet Jackson’s leather bra. Pretty soon the league will have to actually offer classes to teach its rookies how to tie their shoes. Then again, eight-year veteran Rice still doesn’t seem to have figured it out. Rice’s response to the letter? “C’mon, like I wasn’t going to tie them for practice, right?” How about, instead of offering Introduction to Shoelaces for its players, the league mandates that all its athletes, coaches, owners and personnel attend a 16-week seminar entitled Responsibility For My Actions 101. Rice immediately took stock in Roosevelt’s advice, not flinching for an instant before shifting blame away from himself. “This trip is supposed to be fun,” Rice told the Orlando Sentinel. “[It’s] supposed to be a reward. I’m like, ‘Damn! When did it get so serious?’ You stand next to another guy [on the field], and it’s like, ‘Take it easy, let’s not get hurt.’” That was his line, and Rice was hitting it hard, milking it for all it was worth. “Now, I got my mother over here telling me my shoes are untied,” Rice said of the league and of Harold Henderson, the NFL’s executive vice president and the representative who issued the letter. “Sorry, Ma.” That was as close to an apology as anyone was going to get from Rice, who seems unable to understand where he faltered. Contrary to what Nike would like you to think, Simeon, it’s not all about the shoes — or in this case, shoelaces. Rice was able to resort to several other popular tactics in explaining his other actions, however. First stop: excuses. Accused by the league of making a scene at the front desk of the Hawaii hotel in which the players were staying, Rice explained that the hotel did not have a room available for his traveling companion. Rice was apparently only trying to clear up the misunderstanding, Terry Tate style. “If they weren’t going to have a room for both of us, I wouldn’t have come.” Very mature. Next stop on the tour: he-started-it. Rice excused his missed meetings and two missed days of workouts by comparing the lot to a photo shoot missed by Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss. “Nobody knew where he was, either, so what’s the big deal?” Hey, kindergarten called. They want their excuse back. It’s about time the NFL took action, and they did it in the right way. Rice faltered, and it’s up to the league to put him back in line. But it’s also up to Rice to take responsibility for his own actions. Roosevelt derived his three directives from football and he shared them with everyone he met and in nearly every speech he gave for one simple reason: he expected that everyone should live up to the standards of athletes. The least we can do today is expect athletes to live up to the standards the rest of us are asked to uphold. Athletes at all levels — but especially at the professional level — should be held to higher standards than they are today. These are the guys getting paid to be role models. Guys like Simeon Rice are the ultimate role models, and not just to kids out there playing Pop Warner league and begging their parents for his bobble-head. Rice was invited to the Pro Bowl in the first place because he’s undeniably good. That alone makes him a role model to every guy in the league who doesn’t have eight years’ experience, three Pro Bowl invitations and a Championship ring. And with the threatening influx of a whole new group of young players, Rice and others like him need to learn to shape up or ship out. They should learn not to flinch, not to falter. They should learn to hit the line hard. But they should also learn that they and they alone are responsible for their actions. And they should learn to tie their shoes
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