“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?
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.