Mu tore her hamstring just weeks earlier, making her fall in the final that much more “traumatic,” her team says, while also spotlighting the cutthroat process.
Sounds like the hamstring tear was irrelevant as she was able to run the heats fine and felt good by her own admission.
If an injury does come in the way of someone’s trials performance, then how are we to know the same risk won’t rear up at the Olympics itself? On the other hand, it’s also possible even if less likely that one of the selected three gets injured between now and the Olympics, but that is easy to address by having a fourth, backup delegate at USATF’s discretion that only gets to run if one of the selected three gets injured in the intervening period.
Sounds like the hamstring tear was irrelevant as she was able to run the heats fine and felt good by her own admission.
If an injury does come in the way of someone’s trials performance, then how are we to know the same risk won’t rear up at the Olympics itself? On the other hand, it’s also possible even if less likely that one of the selected three gets injured between now and the Olympics, but that is easy to address by having a fourth, backup delegate at USATF’s discretion that only gets to run if one of the selected three gets injured in the intervening period.
You don’t know anything. My hammy was strained. Not torn. I could run but it was painful. I don’t even think it hurt my performance. But every morning it hurt more. I eventually had to take a significant time off for the pain to be gone. So yes you can run on a strain, but I doubt you can run on a tear. It was probably strained, but she ran until it teared.
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