Pretty simple. If Rupp has asthma he would not be a professional runner. It’s simple. Only in America, where the definition of asthma is breathing harder than normal during exercise, can you get away with this. In fact, by the definition, every runner has asthma during a race because we all breath hard and have shortness of breath. Real asthma would stop him from running hard at all. He would collapse everyday at practice and be hospitalized.
Come on guys, think a little harder.
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I am speaking from experience when I say just because someone has asthma doesn't mean they can't run. Asthma isn't diagnoseable by someone breathing hard, rather by wheezing. It doesn't affect you 24/7. Clearly you are uneducated. By the way I have asthma and I can almost guarantee I have faster pr's than you across the board.
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I have asthma [asthma isn't binary, the symptoms arent always present, everyones triggers are different], and competed in swimming at the HS and college level successfully. Although I think I gravitated towards the sprints early as a result of this /tangent.
I'd get a little bit more winded than most when I was younger and trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Coaches guided me into sprint workouts to stay in the sport. Turns out it I had air pollution [LA suburb] and seasonal allergy asthma triggers.
Not a rare combination. Just a little pharmaceutical magic during the spring and no symptoms present.
That DOESNT mean that on race day I wouldnt have a problem, though. It was always a threat, I just have a really mild case of asthma so an outright event only occurs about 1-2x/yr at most for me even today.
On a given workout if I've taken my allergy meds over the previous week I have like a 1% chance of having an attack or something.
But still it isnt zero. As an adult I had an asthma attack during the Santa Rosa 70.3 based on pollen counts that I just couldnt handle even medicated. Was a mild attack, I just hobbyjogged it out and didnt actually notice on the bike that I was in arrest. On the run it became obvious though.