Kids, as this post hopefully proved to you, celebrating early is a good way to lose.
But let’s take a moment to look at one of the only times celebrating early truly went right: Usain Bolt’s finish in the 100m at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Take a second to marvel at just how far ahead Bolt was and where he starts his celebration. Then imagine how much better his world-record time would have been if he hadn’t pulled up (a physicist told the Associated Press back then that his time would have been 9.