"After receiving their finishers' merchandise, runners noticed that the river on their T-shirts and medals matched the shape of the north-east's other famous river and not Newcastle's Tyne. While the map on the medal has been printed with the words Newcastle, Gateshead, and South Shields, they appear to have been overlaid on to a map of Sunderland's streets, shown either side of the River Wear."
"The race's blue finisher T-shirt also has the same outline in the shape of the River Wear, at the centre of a more abstract map made up of words related to the run. Eagle-eyed runners spotted what appears to be the Stadium of Light on the medal the home of Newcastle's arch footballing rivals, Sunderland AFC. Thought it was a joke, but just checked and the map on the medal is actually of Sunderland, one Sunderland fan wrote on X."
About 600,000 participants ran the Great North Run from Newcastle city centre across the River Tyne through Gateshead to finish in South Shields. Finishers received T-shirts and medals that were intended to depict the race route area, but the river outline and street overlay match Sunderland and the River Wear rather than Newcastle and the Tyne. The medal includes printed place names Newcastle, Gateshead, and South Shields placed over a Sunderland street map, and the T-shirt shows the River Wear outline. Runners and fans pointed out the error and the organisers apologised, calling it a mistake rather than a route reveal.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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