Fiona made a tough decision, and it’s a decision that many of you — if you’re being honest — would have made yourselves. So before you pass judgment, remember this: it's easy to preach virtue when you're not the one with everything on the line. Until you’ve run in her shoes, don’t pretend you’re better.
I’ll put my hand up and say I’d have tried to run as long as I still had both legs attached to the rest of me. I bet for all the moralizing, among the general population it’s probably about 50 percent that would run and 50 percent that would drop out. And if you’re talking the personalities most likely to reach the Olympics, it’s probably heavily skewed toward those who would try to run.
Should have taken some painkillers and ran until the bones broke
Japan too. They pulled their NR holder Maeda out the day before the women's marathon and didn't put in the sub. Maeda got injured before the last Olympics and jogged it anyway instead of letting the sub run.
Bob Sack wrote: Everything about her symptoms, gait, and how quickly she dropped out screams stress fracture. Yet, they got an MRI and not an X-ray? They know what her injury is (it’s a stress fracture) but are pretending to be surprised so she can get her bonus.
MRIs are the gold standard for checking for stress fractures, not x ray. MRI is more sensitive.
Des Linden defending her on Twitter saying, “She proved health. There was always a chance it could’ve worked out.”
total BS
such a f**king joke as if MRIs don't fail to catch bone stress injuries in early stages often (this happened to Heather McLean for example (Tokyo 1500m Olympian) last year, femoral stress fracture was not caught on MRI initially and it took 6 MONTHS to return to health). Plus even if it was "soft tissue" Fiona looked PITIFUL from the gun. no miracle was gonna happen. everybody and their sister can see that. "she proved health" my a**.
plus, no one has even said this but she wasn't even in her full racing kit (with the racing briefs like at the Trials). girl was still in her warm-up split shorts bc she knew she wasn't going anywhere but straight back to the med tent.
as for the fueling issues which anyone with EYES can see. look at her Insta post from when she visited a few months ago to tour the course. one of the last pics on the post is a food pic: classic ED food pic (one dry multigrain piece of toast with nothing on it on top of a small pile of arugula with no dressing. full plate and about 0 calories but can skirt by when dining out with others).
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