this is the moment a college athlete's victory turned to ashes in his hands after he slowed down to celebrate his win and got overtaken tanguy pepiot, a steeplechase runner for the university of oregon, had a clear lead on his rival meron simon, who competes for the university of washington but at a track meet saturday in eugene, oregon, a crowd of more than 3,000 people saw the distance evaporate after pepiot raised his hands in pre emptive joy, with less than 100m to go vanishing lead: tanguy pepiot, a runner for the university of oregon, is pictured left celebrating his victory   and right after he has lost it all to the university of washington's meron simon  big gains: pepiot, right, is pictured from track level raising his hands to excite the crowd   as simon tears toward him from behind  the gesture seemed to sap some of his momentum, opening the way for simon to speed towards the finish line, and beat him by a tenth of a second the home crowd roared as simon powered ahead   seemingly in an attempt to warn french born pepiot but the warning came too late, and simon flashed past, leaving pepiot, who is in his senior year, to collapse, defeated simon's time, 8:5786, exceeded his personal record by around 15 seconds speaking to the eugene register guard after the contest, a newly victorious simon said: 'i thought he had me moment of truth: simon is shown here edging ahead of pepiot, whom he beat by a tenth of a second  reconciliation: after celebrating his triumph, simon headed back to help pepiot up after he collapsed to the ground in defeat  'i thought he was just so far ahead then i heard the crowd get crazy, and he started throwing his hands up 'i was like, 'i don’t think he knows i’m coming' i just went to the line and just raced' after a justified victory celebration of his own, simon doubled back to console his rival not long after, a defeated pepiot told columnist austin meek: 'i think it was the first time it happened to me i'll make sure it's the last time' personal best: meron, pictured left at a different event, ran his best ever time in the 3,000m steeplechase meanwhile french born pepiot, right in a file photo, had pledged not to get cocky again 
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