Rotinaj;1337269 wrote:I dont see it as spinning, i see it as 30,000 points is an INCREDIBLE feat and saying slowest sounds like it might downgrade the achievement some. Or, he said exactly what he wanted too and didnt sit there thinking about how some people will interpret it.
I agree that 30k points is incredible. I don't mean to diminish that. I just found it humorous and you can tell the writer saw some contradiction as the article was written in a way where it threw in some information (a few paragraphs) between the statements to try to obscure the wording.
Essentially they articles started off with a little blurb about the game, then it goes into the statistics and heralding that he is the youngest (Age wise) to do it. Then it has a few quotes from different people. Then it jumps back into the statistics to mention that he was the 5th fastest to do it. Then quotes again.
It looks like they intentionally tried to separate those two pieces of information to hide the fact that being 5th "Fastest" means actually slowest. Just because someone is amazing doesn't mean that they also can't be last.
In track and field in the final heat, these are all incredibly fast human beings... the person who comes in 8th isn't usually referred to as the 8th fastest person in the finals, but he's last.
I don't think it was a big deal, I found it amusing though.
