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Posted: August 22 2016 at 7:11pm |
USA Olympian's 13 days of hell; Mystery illness, coughing blood RIO DE JANEIRO — The pole vault world-record holder was banned. The hometown favorite didn’t make it through qualifying. It was all perfectly set up for Jenn Suhr to win another Olympic gold medal. It didn’t happen. The American couldn’t overcome a respiratory infection that left her dizzy, coughing up blood earlier in the day and throwing up twice near the pole vault area during the competition. Suhr ended up tied for seventh Friday in an event won by Ekaterini Stefanidi of Greece. Sandi Morris of the United States finished with silver and Eliza McCartney of New Zealand wound up with bronze. “I feel horrible,” said Suhr, who captured Olympic gold four years ago in London and silver at the 2008 Beijing Games. “I’m actually getting concerned. It’s going on Day 10 and I feel worse today.” Her next stop — home to New York get treatment for this mysterious illness. “They think it’s respiratory and now in the lungs. This morning I was coughing up blood,” the 34-year-old Suhr said. “It’s getting scary.” For her husband, too. Rick Suhr, also her coach, detailed how horrific the Olympics were for the couple — “13 days of hell” — with the next step returning to the U.S. to get Jenn help. “I just want to get out of here and go home and figure it out,” Jenn Suhr said. Just when the path to another gold medal appeared wide open, too. Suhr’s top competitor was supposed to be Yelena Isinbayeva, the world-record holder who has been banned from the games, along with dozens of other Russians, because of a doping investigation. Isinbayeva called it quits on Friday as she focuses on a new career in sports politics and even mulls over an offer to lead the Russian track and field team. Also missing from the field was Fabiana Murer, the Brazilian who was expected to get in the mix for a medal but didn’t make it out of qualifying. “It’s such a crappy feeling to know you’ve worked four years for this and for this to happen,” Suhr said. “It’s embarrassing, too.” Early on, Suhr thought she felt OK enough to compete. While warming up, she was clearing the bar at 4.90 meters, which would’ve won this competition. It didn’t carry over into the final. Stefanidi and Morris both cleared the same height — 4.85 — but Stefanidi had fewer misses. “I was like, ‘I’m on,'” Suhr said. “After warmups, everything shut down. My muscles — I’ve never had them shake.” Morris could tell her teammate didn’t feel well. “She just looked pretty dreary. I don’t know how else to say it,” Morris said. “She just didn’t look energetic. I really feel for her. It’s just an unfortunate circumstance to get sick at this time.” Comment: Her husband just posted on below link that she still pretty sick and not getting better. |
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Maybe Phelps was right, lol.
Phelps: “This Will Be My Last Olympics, Because We’re All Gonna Die In Rio”Wow. I can’t believe I’ve qualified for five Olympics. I need to thank my family, my coaches, and my fans. But I want to be absolutely clear: this is definitely my last Olympics. I’m old, I’m tired, and we’re all going to die in Rio. I should clarify: this was almost certainly going to be my final Olympics anyway. You have no idea the physical toll that twenty years of hardcore training at this level can have your body. But more importantly, I’m just excited about spending time with my wife and new son before I, and all of my fellow Olympic athletes, die from one or more of the million things that will actively try to kill us in Brazil. Maybe it’ll be Zika. Maybe it’ll be some other mosquito-carried illness we don’t know about it. Maybe it’ll be that mystery illness that pushes us to the brink of death before Zika mercifully swoops in and finishes us off. Maybe that mutilated body that washed up on the beach volleyball courts will turn sentient and devour us whole. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know why, when, or how we’ll all die. I’m not Bob Costas. I just know that it’s going to happen, and that hopefully I’ll be able to sneak in at least 3 or 4 more gold medals before it does. And when all the international travelers from Rio bring back their exotic diseases to countries with no built-up immunities, leading to a worldwide death count that matches anything even the grimmest science fiction books and movies have ever dreamed of, and we hold the 2020 Olympics in an underground bunker in an undisclosed location so the marauding tribes of our global apocalyptic hellscape can’t interfere, trust me: I will be competing in like 5 or 6 events, at most. https://thekicker.com/phelps-this-will-be-my-last-olympics-because-were-all-gonna-die-in-rio/ |
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