We just had a race in tropical conditions and several runners collapsed at the finish. A spectator said that this wouldn't happen in the States. I need to prove him wrong by finding that video of many girls collapsing at the end of a XC race about 4 years ago. can anyone help me?
Find a video of the finish of the D3 women's cross nationals from 2009, almost every girl went down at or before the finish line.
Well, it's D3 so... who cares.
BUT, if anybody saw womens ACC XC last year, there were like 15 girls strewn about, and like 7 trainers.
Try women prenats a 2-3 years ago.
I really think that the time/place systems they use nowadays contribute to the more-frequent "collapses" after the finish.
BITD (and still, at most meets) you had to travel through the chute--you had to *keep moving* after the finish. With no-chute races, people tend to stop dead, which is just about the best way to make people wobbly and encourage them to go down.
I can still remember Prefontaine, after his first NCAA xc win, being dragged through the chute by the officials. He was pretty much spent, but being forced to move through the chute probably helped him recover faster.
Still no luck finding the video with numerous collapses in spite of the clues folk gave me. Can anyone take me straight to it? Thanks!
women's Pac-12 this year. the girls are falling like flies after the race!
Proof that women shouldn't run over, say, about 800 meters. Go back to the good old days.
FHSAA 4A XC from 2006 I believe.
start at 8 mins
pac 12's from this past weekend. it's on flotrack's homepage. last year's footlocker champ aisling cuffe staggers/dazed walks into the finish chute before having to get an iv
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start at 8 mins
http://www.flotrack.org/video/5156-womens-white-race
Yikes. Yeah, even if you don't "need" a chute with the current timing placing systems, to me it makes a lot of sense to have one, just to manage traffic flow.
At least half of those "collapsing" women would have been fine if they'd had to slowly walk through a chute, instead of randomly stopping dead. The few who *really* collapsed could have easily been pulled from the chute itself (this is what we officials used to do anyway, when the chute was required for determining places), and the finish area could have been kept clearer so that people didn't have to hold up before crossing the line.
Why do some states refer to the state cross country meet as States and others refer to it as State?