What were the female marathoners sniffing while they were running?

Question

watching the women's marathon last night on the olympics

Answer 1

Smelling salts.While running you tend to sweat a lot.Some people are "salty sweaters" and that salt needs to be replaced to keep your body hydrated at the right level.

Answer 2

They were sniffing something? I watched it but I have no idea what you are talking about. Sorry.

Answer 3

hey didn't watch all of it so didn't see ... however maybe Vix clears the airways and makes you breathe easier.

Answer 4

The strips that some of the runners have on their noses were Breathe Ease or Breathe Right strips.  This helps them clear their nasal passages from congestion or allergies, or irritants from pollutants (air quality is poor in Beijing)

Answer 5

yeam idk, that romainian who won did it multiple times. im not sure the announcers knew what it was. email me when u get the answer.

Answer 6

They were sniffing some kind of salt thing

Answer 7

Marathon runners need to clear the breathing, air ways, and so they use medicines such as vix to clear the Air Ways, since when running your breathing is a major part of the race, you need to learn to breathe a good rhythm, so yeah

Also you know how painful it is to run for that long, you could be cry-sniffing too you know

Answer 8

CRACK COCAINE!!

METH!!

SPEEEED!! [no pun intented :D ]

haha just kidding.

but i don't know.

Answer 9

It was salt according to the commentators.