A nearly ten-second video of a track athlete smacking her opponent over the head with a baton has dominated headlines and conversations lately — and now a lip reader has revealed the passing words that could have been uttered between the two.
On Friday, March 7, Alaila Everett from I.C. Norcom High School and Kaelen Tucker from Lynchburg’s Brookville High School were both participating in a 4x200m relay event at Liberty University, Virginia.
The latter was running the second leg of the relay when she could be seen passing Everett. In just a moment, the former had pulled her right arm back and hit her competitor in the head.
