It almost certainly was weakened already. I've coached a woman who had a stress fracture of the femur--if she had persisted (cooler heads prevailed) she might have had something like this.
In his short career Dathan Ritzenhein has beaten world-class rivals run thousands of hard miles and overcome pain and injuries. But not until mile 22 of last year's New York City Marathon did he understand what the making of...
Watch the first few seconds of the vid again. Looks like the thigh deforms to me (aka displaced femoral fracture). I could be wrong.
Yeah, she definitely has a few stutter steps before the leg eventually collapses. I'd say she was already carrying a fracture into the race, or at least fractured it in the race, prior to the complete break that we see here.
I had a girl break her femur while running in my phys ed class during a soccer unit. She didn't run hard nor did she jump or cut. She wasn't in much pain either afterwards and sat on the floor kind of like in a hurdle stretch with the femur bulging underneath her muscle and skin. I don't know if she had a disease (her teeth were very yellow and she was frail) but the EMS workers were surprised by her injury and felt there was some underlying condition.
When you play sports, you always run the risk of getting an injury. When you play at the highest level, at top speeds and intensity, you run of the risk of getting an injury so gruesome that it's hard to watch...
These chicks run run run and dont do any strength and don't eat enough protien and no milk. their bones are so weak that the break probably didn't even hurt that bad. Nothing like if a healthy 25 year old strength training male were to break his femur.
ouch, hard to watch indeed, that must have been so painful. Why did the officials take so long to assist her after they jogged up? It was obvious her race was over,
Wtf were they supposed to do? They aren't doctors...if they tried to "assist" her, they could have seriously harmed her.