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HS girls leg snaps in race, drags herself x finish line...

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Brawndo's got electrolytes...
Wow...just wow.
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ESPN - High school runner breaks leg, crawls to finish line - High School Sports
High school runner breaks leg in meet, crawls to finish anyway

EDITOR'S NOTE: Please be advised that the video accompanying this story of Claire Markwardt's fall might be unsettling for some viewers.
It has been almost two weeks since Claire Markwardt's horrific fall in the final stretch of the Ohio state high school cross country championship, and yet, the Berkshire High School senior has seen the video only once.
Only once has she logged on to YouTube and watched herself fall to the ground as first her left tibia and then her fibula snap in half. Only once has she watched herself crawl the final 45 feet to the finish line, ensuring that she would complete the final race of her high school career.
And even that one time, she had to stop the video at the point where a race official picks her up and carries her to a doctor.
"There's a scene in 'Harry Potter' where Harry breaks his arm and it's really jiggly," Markwardt said by phone this week. "When [the official] picked me up, that's what I remember thinking my leg felt like. It felt like it was swinging around a lot. And I didn't want to see that, so I stopped watching."
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Awesome! :banger:

Reminds me of the 400M race in the Barcelona Olympics where Derek Redmond tore his hamstring. If you ever want to cry like a little girl, track down that video and watch it. Probably my favorite moment in all of sports. :cry:
 
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It was, in fact, awesome. I was standing right down by the fence at the finish line, just to the left of where that camera must have been.

We didn't realize she had broken her leg at the time, but it was obvious that whatever was wrong, she had no other option but to crawl if she wanted to finish.

Congrats and best wishes on the recovery.
 
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This part.....is MINDBLOWINGLY painful.

she went back into the hospital for a day so doctors could straighten and slightly lengthen the rod in her leg.
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It requires, essentially, a partial rebreak for the repositioning and lengthening.

This girl is amazing. Not sure if she is amazingly STUPID, however. :)

The decision to run on after hearing your bones crack and break is incredibly stupid but the resolve and determination to finish the race is awe-inspiring.
 
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Bucky Katt;995971; said:
Awesome! :banger:

Reminds me of the 400M race in the Barcelona Olympics where Derek Redmond tore his hamstring. If you ever want to cry like a little girl, track down that video and watch it. Probably my favorite moment in all of sports. :cry:
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Damn right.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zi0_LjHHN4]YouTube - 1992 Olympics - Derek Redmond[/ame]
 
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I don't know how I didn't hear about this story... broke my heart to watch that video and read the story. And I agree with Katt, this is definitely up there with the Redmond story... both really tear at your heart strings.

OCBuckWife;996046; said:
This girl is amazing. Not sure if she is amazingly STUPID, however. :)

The decision to run on after hearing your bones crack and break is incredibly stupid but the resolve and determination to finish the race is awe-inspiring.
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While I understand what you are saying you also have to remember this race was the culmination of many years of hard work. She also did not fully comprehend what happened until she collapsed right before the finish line. I've had muscles/tendons rub slightly wrong and they give a cracking or snapping sensation/noise and that is what it sounds like she thought it was.
 
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Oh I am not attempting to discount her hard work.

Maybe I am not understanding the article however. While she may have been a runner for a long time, this line implies it was only a year prior to this race that she made running in it a goal of hers.

What Markwardt saw in the video might not be visible to the rest of us.She saw a teenage girl who, a year earlier, watched the state meet from the stands and made a personal commitment to run in that race in her senior year.
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I will take your word for it that cracking bones can sound and feel like something else, as I have done none of those things, broken a bone or pulled a tendon or any of the things you said she could have mistaken the sounds and feelings for.
 
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Wow...

Tough kid.

Meanwhile, I'm gonna go vomit now. Ick. (Oh, and thanks for reminding me of Redmond... anyone want to post of Thiesman getting his leg shattered, too?)
 
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OCBuckWife;996074; said:
Oh I am not attempting to discount her hard work.

Maybe I am not understanding the article however. While she may have been a runner for a long time, this line implies it was only a year prior to this race that she made running in it a goal of hers.



I will take your word for it that cracking bones can sound and feel like something else, as I have done none of those things, broken a bone or pulled a tendon or any of the things you said she could have mistaken the sounds and feelings for.
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I didn't mean to discount what you said because it is a valid thought, I was just interjecting what was possibly going through her mind. I ran at the State cross country meet twice in high school. It was amazing to run in front of 10,000+ screaming people... one of the biggest rushes of my life. Then my senior year we did not qualify as a team and I missed qualifying as in individual by a few places... not a very good feeling. From that standpoint I understand the drive and determination she had to qualify for and finish the race.

As for how long she has been running she has been a runner for at least one year prior to this year (found her name for her conference's championship results last year). Since her team did not qualify for State last year I'm assuming they went to watch the meet for motivation for the next year. Plus it's a great event to watch... seeing the best in Ohio in all divisions run on the same day is a great time.

As for the snapping/cracking sounds... I don't know how many runners that happens to... for all I know I could be in a very small minority. One of my ankles sometimes makes a cracking sound when I extend my foot.
 
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