That’s the PUB team (aka the Pom-poms und Beer team), the support group for friends running marathons and half-marathons. Support is mainly shown by making a lot of noise, drinking beer, offering beer to other spectators or runners if they so desire, and chanting encouriging slogans (like “Go – go! Only 40 more to go!” at the 2km mark). Because it is pretty boring to stand around and watch runners for hours until the handful that you know come past, chants and waves are done for ALL runners that come past. We’ve been told that the encouragement was appreciated by total strangers, too.
And a reminder that in the 1990s there was something called Mad Cow Disease (or BSE). Even today people who lived in the UK during that time are not allowed to give blood in Germany because of this.
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