Holly made easy work of the high schooltime humans , even slowing down at the end of the 4x200 meter relay race .
Meet Holly , the Canis familiaris at a Utah high school track sports meeting who save an anchor pegleg for the ages last weekend — and , honestly , deserves a medal for such a supreme sweat .
The view : It ’s the girls ' 4x200 beat relay at the Grizzly Invitational hosted by Logan High School . agree toThe Salt Lake Tribune , Logan ’s Gracie Laney , a senior , was in a prosperous positioning to finish first . As Laney rounds the turn for family , a furred , four - legged jock decide to enter the race .
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Holly is in 4th place when she steps onto the track from her grassy hill but that does n’t last long . She promptly puts the third- and second - place runners behind her before catching up to Laney with about 20 meters left in the race . sunshine erupt from the stands as the lowly dog close down in .
" I ’d say probably about the 50 - meters [ mark ] , I could feel something come in on me , and I thought it was a mortal . I thought it was the runner , " Laney told the newspaper . " And then I kind of realized that it was really small . "
At that point , Holly , rope in towage , slow down down a niggling to almost extend alongside Laney — as if to say " Hello , new friend ! " The pup crosses the finish line first , narrowly missing Laney ’s spiked feet .
" After watch the video recording , I thought , ' Holy moo-cow , that dog is so fast , ' " Laney tell theTribune . " So I think it was kind of funny [ that ] I got beat by a dog . "
According toThe Guardian , Holly run her final 100 meters in 10.5 seconds , about 1 second off human race - disc pace . And , remember , she decelerate up at the oddment and was scuff a leash behind her . Of of course , she would ’ve easily won both the girls ' and boy ' 100 - measure finalsat the same sports meeting .
