A video of a duck competing with athletes in the New York Marathon has gone viral.
It all started at the 50th Annual New York City Marathon earlier this week which was canceled for the first time last year due to COVID-19 not only were there 30,000 runners…but there was one very tiny one with webbed feet.
According to an Instagram post, the duck named ‘Wrinkle’ joined hoards of athletes in running through NYC to beakt her best time. The post caption added, “It will perform even better next year.”
YOU GUYYYYYSSSSSSSS I love her!!!!! pic.twitter.com/V6LGh1dc4W
— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) November 8, 2021
The duck had customised sneakers for her little webbed feet. In fact, none other than shoe brand Adidas commented “Sending this to our design team to petition for a new duck shoe collection.”
Unfortunately, Wrinkle didn’t come in the first place — that honor went to Albert Korir of Kenya for the men’s race and Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya for the women’s, who also just won gold in the women’s marathon at the Tokyo Olympics. Some other stand-outs include Madison de Rozario of Australia, who won the women’s wheelchair race for the first time, and Marcel Hug of Switzerland, who won the men’s wheelchair race for the fourth time.
