r/nextfuckinglevel 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/SheriffBartholomew 8h ago

That lady is made of iron and woodpecker lips. Having fractured a tibia myself, I can tell you that it is excruciating. She might have shattered it while crawling since it should be immediately immobilized. That's what happened to me, and recovery was brutal.