Bad steeple injury at OVC Championships - race stopped and re-ran

Saw this at bryan clay in 2019 (might've been 2018). Quite a shock

Got to make sure you drink your milk.

And this is why you don't do steeplechase.

I tell my kids to stay fast in the flat races so they'll never have to run a steeplechase.

So I kinda want to see a video, but I also kinda don't want to see a video. I don't have espn+. Conflicted about that. Feel so bad for the kid.

Do uou also forbid them from playing basketball, football, soccer, or from ever jumping off anything?

I saw a 3200 recalled after 7 laps for lighting. People just loitered around the track after that. They re-ran the race the next day.

Running fast in flat races has nothing to do with being put in the steeple. Most of it has to do with not being a pu$$y and trying to score points for your team or actually being good at it.

I saw a runner break her leg like that at an Edwardsville meet over a barrier about 15 years ago. They continued the race with runners going around that barrier and mark all the times as non-qualifying.

Sure, so long as we kill off both the 1500m and the 5000m at the same time.

Yikes, poor guy. That looked super painful, especially once he realized what had happened. Didn't look like it was an awkward landing by any means, just an unlucky, freak break.

Wonder what his backstory is, good luck healing! It looked like he had teammates that cared a great deal about him.

his broken leg must’ve been very visible to the ppl by the pit. You can see the shock and reactions from the people on the grass.

They have played football, soccer and baseball in the past. I just try to keep them from doing stupid things.

So when we going to see steeple times for Grant Fisher? Cole Hocker? Cooper Teare?

Oh, that's right. They're fast on the flat and don't need to bother with that silliness to be relevant.

I believe it was in 2019 at Bryan Clay when a runner had a cardiac episode at the finish line in the 1500, if this is what you are referencing. The next heat started and they ran a few hundred meters before being stopped. Pretty sobering watching them perform cpr on him while waiting for the ambulance. I heard he recovered though.

Watched this happen to a teammate in the finishing straight of an XC race in HS, they were in a wheelchair for awhile because of the double casts they needed on their legs after the fact. Thought they had shin splints, turns out it was stress fractures which turned into actual fractures during the race.

Jager, wale, girma, rono, cherono, etc etc all have proven to be very fast on flat

people doing steeple bc theyre slow happens, but it happens at the collegiate level where you can exploit the relative lack of depth in the event and grab easy low end conference points

youre not gonna be an elite steepler unless youre also an elite flat runner

Kiptanui deserves mention as well