Olympic distance runner Rose Harvey reveals she ran the marathon in Paris on a broken leg

This is is just horrifying and wild at the same time.

Rose Harvey of Great Britain finished 78th in the 2024 Paris Olympics women’s marathon event with a time of 2:51:03, but it turned out there was a reason she wasn’t a contender, and it’s the best reason you can have.

It turns out she ran on a broken leg. Seriously.

In an Instagram post, she had this to say: “A couple of miles in, I quickly realised that wasn’t going to happen. The next 24 miles were a painful battle. It turns out I had stress fractured my femur.”

Why did she continue? Because it was the Olympics:

In any other race, I would have stopped and there were so many moments when I thought I couldn’t take another step. The downhills were hell.

But despite that most of my race goals having slipped away, there was still a tiny part of my Olympic dream that I could hang onto – and that was finishing the Olympic marathon.

I couldn’t give up.

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