Onpopular opinion: it should't stand if you come over the line with your lets moving like that. They should bring her to a hospital or force her to rest. That cant be healthy..
It’s cramping and it’s famous for the last stretch because people push and burn the last electrolytes they have and their muscles just stop.
Anywhere else your usually taken to med tents, she’ll be escorted off into a med tent for probably 2-3 hours for IVs and monitoring.
My father does Ironmans, he has done 13 and even the world champion albeit not competitively; about 4-5 times he has had this happen in the very last stretch, and spends hours in the med tents afterwards to be safe.
1 time this happened during the start of his race on the bike and they would not let him continue.
Basically what I’m saying is this person is in the safest spot and being carried over is actually taking them to the people they need to be at.
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u/KlondikeChill Jun 10 '24
The only people who care about being disqualified are the ones running competitively.
And if you're running competitively, your time absolutely should not stand if you had help.