This is the most horrific running injury I've ever seen. Japanese runner breaks thigh mid-race (graphic video)

It almost certainly was weakened already. I've coached a woman who had a stress fracture of the femur--if she had persisted (cooler heads prevailed) she might have had something like this.

Ugly injury.

Watch the first few seconds of the vid again. Looks like the thigh deforms to me (aka displaced femoral fracture). I could be wrong.

Cancer is not an insignificant possibility

If this was the most horrific thing Rojo has seen, he must have grown up in a cave under a rock instead of a mansion with nannies.

Video shows she fell down.

Female athlete triad to the max cause this?

Osteoporosis &poor bone density From 200mpw And listening to letsrun for nutrition advice?

Two words:

Ambo Bati

No. She had a knee above her actual knee. It was tough to look at.

This would be my guess every time. Femoral stress fractures really like breaking perpendicular across the bone as they get worse.

In Fall 2002, Ritz had a femoral stress fracture. The next.year,another on the opposite leg during track. He won NCAA cross that fall.

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Unfortunate injury for sure. That's why you drink your milk kids, so you don't get femoral stress fractures or breaks.

Yeah, she definitely has a few stutter steps before the leg eventually collapses. I'd say she was already carrying a fracture into the race, or at least fractured it in the race, prior to the complete break that we see here.

I had a girl break her femur while running in my phys ed class during a soccer unit. She didn't run hard nor did she jump or cut. She wasn't in much pain either afterwards and sat on the floor kind of like in a hurdle stretch with the femur bulging underneath her muscle and skin. I don't know if she had a disease (her teeth were very yellow and she was frail) but the EMS workers were surprised by her injury and felt there was some underlying condition.

Why would anyone want to watch the video?

These chicks run run run and dont do any strength and don't eat enough protien and no milk. their bones are so weak that the break probably didn't even hurt that bad. Nothing like if a healthy 25 year old strength training male were to break his femur.

Look no one is helping, ffs. awful.

My first thought - that poor woman for sure has osteosarcoma. I haven't heard of someone breaking their femur in any other way excluding true trauma

don't got milk?

Wtf were they supposed to do? They aren't doctors...if they tried to "assist" her, they could have seriously harmed her.