{"id":48025,"date":"2019-10-05T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=48025"},"modified":"2019-10-05T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:05:08","slug":"sports-drink-commercial-shared-as-cameraman-beating-athletes-in-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/sports-drink-commercial-shared-as-cameraman-beating-athletes-in-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports drink commercial shared as cameraman beating athletes in race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video clip in which a cameraman tracking a race ends up &#8216;winning&#8217; it has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketwallah\/status\/1180315028190351361?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> by several social media users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who wins the race? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3uASKyHlq\">pic.twitter.com\/S3uASKyHlq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketwallah\/status\/1180315028190351361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 11-second video clip shows a track race. As the athletes come close to the finishing line, the cameraman who is running parallel to them, surges with a dash, &#8216;finishing&#8217; ahead of the athletes. Actor Amitabh Bachchan is among those who have shared this video. Bachchan quote-tweeted a tweet which shared the video attracting over 2.5 lakh views. The tweet itself has 8,000 likes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"eu\">camera man ko .. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0j2DhgzqSH\">https:\/\/t.co\/0j2DhgzqSH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SrBachchan\/status\/1180197907091222528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>FACT CHECK: IT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The video clip represents not an actual race, but a commercial. Alt News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cameraman+wins+race&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enIN773IN773&amp;oq=cameraman+wins+race&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0.5106j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searched<\/a> Google with the keywords &#8216;Cameraman wins race&#8217;, and found this video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/race1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/race1.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/race1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The video was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=youtu.be&amp;amp=&amp;v=mMPHQW3zAcs&amp;app=desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2007<\/a> by Jack Wynne on Youtube. He described the video as &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;A commercial i directed out in South Africa replicating a real Olympic stadium event!<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wynne uploaded the video again in 2016, describing it as &#8211; <em>&#8220;A better version of the Powerade commercial I directed with Jim Canty back in the day, and which seems to be getting a lot of interest again! Set to 480p resolution!&#8221;<\/em>. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powerade<\/a><\/em> is a sports beverage manufactured by The Coca Cola company.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olympic cameraman runs faster than runners! (Original FULL Video) - Powerade Commercial\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P20XVEH7-SY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jake Wynne is a director, editor and filmmaker based in the UK. He has also featured the commercial on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jakeswynne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1901\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928.png 1901w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928-1024x493.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928-990x477.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/3405111f-eb99-4d74-a8ed-9321a4809928-1320x635.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1901px) 100vw, 1901px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A video clip showing an advertisement for an energy drink, in which a cameraman is seen beating athletes in a professional race, has been construed as real and shared on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video clip in which a cameraman tracking a race ends up &#8216;winning&#8217; it has been shared by several social media users. Who wins the race? pic.twitter.com\/S3uASKyHlq \u2014 Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 5, 2019 The 11-second video clip shows a track race. As the athletes come close to the finishing line, the cameraman who is running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":48037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-48025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/fi_race.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48106,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025\/revisions\/48106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48025"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=48025"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}