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Hyrox athlete apologises for continuing race after soiling herself (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 25 points 1 week ago (12 children)

that sounds awful to experience i hope she's okay </3 i wonder why this happens occasionally with sports stuff, seems evolutionarily sub-optimal

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    i dont see how it's sub-optimal to shit yourself when you're exerting all your effort. not that it's optimal. it just doesnt matter. if you're running for your life, who cares. you'll wash later.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Lighten the load, expel waste, free up mental and physical resources from holding it, and deter a predator? Sounds pretty dang optimal to me!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    and it's not like predators cant smell where you've gone, even without this. humans had to have become used to not being able to smell all that well while pretty much everything around them could smell very well

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    What about the other competitors who had to touch her liquid shit which she knowingly spread everywhere, who could become seriously ill from that decision? Why does she get sympathy for making other competitors choose to either handle her diarrhea or lose the race, and for making the event organizers clean every piece of equipment she knowingly smeared with shit?

    At any point she could have said, "I'm getting shit everywhere, I should stop." Horrendous indifference to everyone else involved

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    comrade, I need that last word changed.

    Also, this sort of thing happens to runners sometimes.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Rephrased, agreed, sorry for careless language.

    I've heard that about marathoners before, but in my mind this is a bit more like shitting yourself at the gym than shitting yourself on a run. I don't need to lie down on the same ground that another runner has laid down on, nor sit in a seat that another runner has sat in. It's a faux pas not to wipe down 30 seconds worth of sweat on gym equipment, let alone extensive diarrhea.

    Anyway that's my two cents

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