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I agree, it's not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don't think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.
I dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.
That's what you're saying as a lay person, but imagine being a world-class athlete, in their prime, who's been training for this stuff for decades. Race day shows up, you feel fine at the start, little queesiness, are you gonna let that stop you? She probably trusted a fart to be just a fart, and once that happens... well. Are you gonna run off in shame? Or will you adopt the mindset of "well, the worst already happened, might as well keep going." She's got athlete brain, she wants to win, she's been training for years. I understand it.
I really think that the judges should've stepped in. Indoors? Shared equipment? Judges should've put a stop to that. People are kinda crazy at that high-end level of competition, they want to win at any cost. We just found out that shitting yourself in public was a cost she was willing to pay.
You'll never get an unexpected and devastating 2nd place finish at your first Ironman triathlon with that attitude.
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___look up Julie Moss