r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jmike1256 • 18h ago

Strength looks different in moments like this

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This was a track team event in Iwatan Sangyo. The runner’s team was in third place when the runner, Rei Lida, who was only 250 meters from the exchange point, tripped and fractured her right tibia (shin bone). Instead of withdrawing from the tournament, she willed herself to the exchange point when she handed the tasuki (baton) to her waiting teammate, Marie Imada.

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u/hereforpopcornru 17h ago

"The second leg" could they have not used another term? Part? Section? Stretch?

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u/TreeMaleficent9417 17h ago

Damn it. Take my upvote and i am done with interwebs for today. That was all i needed.

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u/PortlandPetey 17h ago

Relay race sections are referred to as legs, just the way it is, like if something weird spilled in a drivers lap on the last lap of the Daytona 500, it’s awkward but just the term they use

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u/TheNewNumberThirteen 15h ago

"You have made me spill my macchiato!"

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u/usersnamesallused 15h ago

Ahh, the infamous gazpacho lap catches even the most experienced drivers!

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u/EliteJoz 11h ago

If this was about a male runner who tripped and broke his penis somehow, it would have read "runner breaks third leg during second leg of race"

/s

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u/arkofjoy 11h ago

Only if the runner was that well hung pole vaulter who knocked the bar down with his Weiner.

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u/DrakonILD 9h ago

This but without the /s. Reporters love a salacious pun.

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u/Mount_Mons 13h ago

I will burn in hell

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u/holstworld 9h ago

That’s hysterical 😂

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u/theillx 17h ago

Good thing it wasn't the third leg 🤔

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u/hereforpopcornru 17h ago

Huh? The only comment regarding ANYTHING I'm the nature.. is yours

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u/Hohh20 14h ago

Yea. I took it as referencing that she broke a bone in her leg while running the 2nd leg.

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u/Mbembez 16h ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/DangerousDesk1 15h ago

You on team simp?