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High School Runner Carries Opponent Across Finish Line
ABC News ^ | Jun 5, 2012

Posted on 06/05/2012 6:19:50 PM PDT by presidio9

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To: presidio9

Win loose or draw is abut how you finish and this young lady won a race.


21 posted on 06/05/2012 6:56:08 PM PDT by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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To: crghill

My GRANDMOTHER wants to fly planes...


22 posted on 06/05/2012 6:57:34 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Yeah, you’re right, though it made me think, why a heart attack and not a lung collapse, for example?


23 posted on 06/05/2012 6:59:47 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Autonomous User

I don’t get the attitude. She was already out of the race. What the hell difference did it make.

Now if she was contending for 1,2 or 3rd, then I’d agree with you. But she was in last place.


24 posted on 06/05/2012 7:04:57 PM PDT by DManA
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To: presidio9

What are you looking at MAYO-NAISSE????


25 posted on 06/05/2012 7:08:47 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Romney? Really? Seriously?)
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To: presidio9

Some amazingly heartless comments being made in here by some folks. Seems some are upset that she didn’t step on her on the way to the finish line.

Pathetic*

* - not you presidio9. I just sent this to you since you were the OP


26 posted on 06/05/2012 7:13:16 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: SengirV; happyhomemaker; Revolting cat!

I have to admit that I’m somewhat amused by the whole thing, but I will say that the people taking offense to the story sound like they have probably never loved a little girl. So I feel sorry for them more than anything.


27 posted on 06/05/2012 7:18:30 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Only if he finished and went back. This stuff happens more often than you would think. Mostly in cross country and track. Not so much I team sports.


28 posted on 06/05/2012 7:22:03 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
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To: Revolting cat!
That was my favorite part: "The rules are there for a reason."

Because at every HS girls track meet I've ever been to, the runners are dropping dead of heart attacks left and right. Sometimes no one manages to finish the race.

None of my girls is going to run track if I can help it. I'm teaching them how to wrestle.

29 posted on 06/05/2012 7:24:45 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Sounds like a heat stroke, which can be life threatening. Medics should have been summoned when she collapsed.


30 posted on 06/05/2012 7:25:44 PM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I was just thinking about all the stories of scores getting run up in HS girls basketball games. There was a 108-3 game in Texas, a 100-0 game in Utah, another one in Michigan. I’ll bet you my car that in each case the coach was male.


31 posted on 06/05/2012 7:27:44 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Yes, my daughter and I went on a 5 mile run today. After we BOTH had heart attacks, I said NO MORE. Running kills!


32 posted on 06/05/2012 7:28:55 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic ( (#withNewt))
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To: Ken H

Or she could have collapsed out of sheer exhaustion. Happened to me onces but after crossing the finish line.


33 posted on 06/05/2012 7:32:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

onces=once


34 posted on 06/05/2012 7:32:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: presidio9

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/runner-carries-injured-foe-half-mile-to-help-in-middle-of-race?urn=highschool,wp6171


35 posted on 06/05/2012 7:40:26 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Rebelbase

Of course, but when someone collapses like that, assume the worst and call the medics. She should have been moved to a cooler place, had cool compresses applied and given water if she was alert enough to drink.


36 posted on 06/05/2012 7:42:20 PM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: Revolting cat!

I think that those who condone her behaviour are like liberals - only caring about good intentions as opposed to consequences. What if she was having issues with her heart and she killed her by dragging her across the finish?


37 posted on 06/05/2012 8:38:13 PM PDT by impimp
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To: presidio9; Aqua225

A few years ago, 15 student athletes died from heart failure in Texas. When the 16th one who collapsed was saved by the use of an AED (automated external defibrillator) the state required an AED to be present in schools and at athletic events.

Dozens of young athlete die from heart failure in the US each year while playing or practicing.

I hope you never are at an event when an athlete drops dead. And if you are, I hope an AED is available. By the way, refs and coaches have been saved by these devices, too.

The brother of a friend died playing basketball in his mid twenties. AEDs weren’t around back then. About 50-75% of athletes who collapse from heart failure can be revived by AEDs.

The school my kids attended now has 9 of them in the school and the athletic department has enough additional ones so that every team that goes on the road takes one along.

While it may seem humorous to suggest that a young atlete might collapse from heart failure, there are dozens of families in the US each that are not amused since it happened to their kid.

Sadly, some schools do not have these devices.

Wrestlers die, too.

http://www.highschoolot.com/content/blogpost/9060782/

http://muskogeephoenix.com/local/x1253553444/Middle-school-wrestler-dies-after-practice

http://www.4hcm.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-14673.html


38 posted on 06/05/2012 8:47:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: impimp

I think we could find an angle to compare your attitude to that of your scary “liberals” too, and do it without much effort.

There was no heart attack, no brain stroke, no broken leg, no lung collapse, get it? Just good sportsmanship.


39 posted on 06/05/2012 8:53:13 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy will drop them too.


40 posted on 06/05/2012 9:01:31 PM PDT by Styria
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