We just got an email alerting us to an eyewitness account of Abdi's fall yesterday. Jake Klim's full account can be found here: http://jakeklim.blogspot.com/2013/11/looking-up.html (Scroll to the bottom).Excerpt here:
Jake Klimwrote:
In one of the most bizarre running experiences in recent memory, our quartet watched as Abdi Abdirahman came crashing to the pavement as he negotiated a 180-degree turn, somewhere between miles 5 and 6. We surmised he slipped on a piece of metal embedded in the road; still wet from the rain we got the night before. He went down hard and proceeded to grip his leg(s) in distress. For 30-seconds, Abdi writhed about on the pavement...all while course marshalls and cops looked on. What was going on? How come no one was helping him? Meanwhile, others runners were flying around the turn. It was only a matter of time until some careened into him and joined him on the pavement... more at:
http://jakeklim.blogspot.com/2013/11/looking-up.html
more at:
http://jakeklim.blogspot.com/2013/11/looking-up.html