Posted on 11/02/2018 3:38:41 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
...19-year-old runner Rei Iida fell, fracturing her leg towards the end of her 2.2 mile stretch of a 26-mile relay marathon has gone viral. Instead of admitting defeat, and with a die-hard attitude runners everywhere will be in awe of, Iida crawled the final 700 feet of her section of the race.
The head judge has been quoted as saying “I struggled to decide whether I should stop her, but I felt she could do it as she was almost at her goal”. Idia apparently refused to stop as the judge approached, asking “how many meter are left until my goal?”
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TRUE GRIT!
A hat tip to BenLurkin for pointing this article out.
Thanx
Japanese people drive Japanese busses.
Japanese hands till Japanese fields.
Japanese maids make up Japanese hotel rooms.
Japan will ALWAYS be Japanese.
She’s got heart. In the end, she apologizes for her performance...
Good for her——I didn’t even know that there WERE relay marathons.
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Confusing. Her team got pulled from the competition, too. Why not let the rest of the girls run their legs? Go for personal best times? Different thought processes I guess.
COURAGE and DETERMINATION!
“She’s got heart. In the end, she apologizes for her performance...”
The coach pulled the team.
And that makes it a bit poignant.
Perhaps under the rules pulling the team does not count as a loss?
In the meantime, some pampered NFL star will miss the Super Bowl due to a hangnail.
Could she have not one legged hopped faster that that? In my prime the answer would be yes.
Depending on the fracture and her anatomical structure (really long legs vs torso/arms) she may not have been able to get up after the fall due to lack of leverage. If it was a full fracture it would likely have caused more damage/pain to hop.
I think the coach was wrong to pull the team — but he probably thought it would either :
1) make the rest look bad if they didn’t run their best times,
2) risk injuring the others due to trying to ‘gut it out’ for their teammate, or
3) didn’t want their losing to put any shame on/detract from her efforts.
Course some of that would depend on where they were at the time she fell also. IF they were already far behind prior to her fracture, coach probably thought it better to close up shop.
It’s a high school sport in Japan - sorta like cross country here, but in a relay fashion. Rivalries are huge.
Tough Broad. Very Impressed.
Thanks——a daughter,a son,and a granddaughter run marathons but I had never heard of relay marathons.
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It’s a team sport. If you can’t field a team, the team doesn’t play.
Is it advisable to compound an injury like that?
“Tough Broad. Very Impressed.”
Indeed.
We have all seen the locker room poster, “When the going gets tough...”
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