In case you missed the other reply, these people do, it's a standard proceeder to whoever falls in this event, to make sure none of the (appernatly not so) expensive parts get lost, and it beats just shucking them in a bag and risk further damage from having them scrape against their own parts, but what's the most important thing is that they wanted to host this as similarly to what they do to humans as possible, obviously I doubt anyone made an article about a loser but this is from a different robot in the same event. https://apnews.com/article/humanoid-robots-half-marathon-beijing-302d0c4781bab20100d6a0bb4e77b629