6:00 minutes in she blames the guy who had genuine concern for her well being
I canāt watch this at work, and my phone is broken. Is she saying that an official was over-zealous and stopped her continuing?
Getting into this state a second time this season and not finishing doesnāt seem very āprofessionalā.
Sheās saying the competitor who held her arm to check she was ok, was the reason she fell down and then the medical team should have let her continue
If she was in a fit state to continue someone holding her arm wouldnāt have made her fall over
Thereās a bit of discussion going on ST about whether she should get a free pass to Kona. The consensus is no on the basis it was her own doing, not a car crash like Tim Don for example.
Her coming out and effectively blaming the guy who tried to help her maybe makes that more likely.
Sheās clutching at straws. If the heat of Cairns & Frankfurt did for her, howās Kona going to pan-outā¦
Is there any footage of the actual āincidentā
Gets spicy from about 13:00
Thereās a 1 min video of just the collapse and the helper but canāt link it at work.
To blame him is ridiculous, she was already wobbling severely.
Urrgh quite horrible to watch actually
Not able to watch any of this until this evening, but Iāve been in that situation on the banks of the Main. A spectator came up to see if I was okay; I had stopped, and put my hands on my knees and felt dizzy. I sat on a bench for a couple of minutes, then found some shade to lie in for an indeterminable period of time. Obviously I went on to finish init.
She is very frustrated at not making it to Kona, unfortunately she comes across as blaming other people, competitors, medical staff, qualification system and organisers for not shortening the race as was done in Nice. That comes across as sour grapes and as for moaning about the travelling and racing alone in foreign countries welcome to being an age grouper!
Hope she turns it around and gets there on merit not being given a slot
Sounds like she should get another job and have triathlon as a hobby?
thereās a discussion going on amongst us TOs on a FB group about management of heat stress in events. neatly summed up by one of us who just happens to be an A&E nurse - āRisks of uncompensated heat stress are death or permanent disability. All those cell proteins? Like frying an egg, easy to pass point of no returnā.
athletes are often their own worst enemy with āfinish line feverā - us TOs and medics need to manage these to ensure they are healthy to race another day and donāt put themselves at risk. for example, the moaning we get from athletes when we ban wetsuits in water above certain temps - well folks, thereās a reason we do that and itās called your health and safety. If you want to boil yourself in a bag, go elsewhere.
ST was her own enemy here - not others she is blaming.
I donāt see her getting any sympathy for this complaint. It was clear that she was unable to continue or that allowing her to continue would have put her in real danger, it is really unfortunate, and she put in a tremendous performance, but I think she over cooked the run
If you watch the whole thing, she opens by stating that she couldnāt remember the last 4K (hazy) and she hasnāt watched the footage.
Iāll bet you dollars to donuts the word ārestrainedā comes from one of her friends - and if she watches what actually happened, sheāll realiseā¦
I was watching the whole thing with interest.
When she said she was ārestrainedā thatās when I was like āWTF?ā
Iām sure sheās seen the whole thing as the video is posted on her own channel.
I mean FFS a minute or so earlier she was ārestrainedā by a huge concrete bridge support that she ran into!
friedā¦
running yourself into the ground when you have a lead like that isnāt āstrongā or ātoughā, itās fucking stupid.
āthe question is, if I hadnāt been restrained would I have made it to the finish lineā?
Seems like most of her brain cells were fried, she couldnāt even stand up, let alone move forward.
Watched the video:
Any medic not helping her in that state would be going down for gross misconduct. Well done to the other competitor who stopped to help her.
What a stupid woman to try and blame others.