I do not run, but I had a friend who did.
He told me that the races he ran in, open to everyone, there would be medics on site and spotters everywhere. Even though the race is through the city, the city officials and race planners took all the precautions.
Here this race in Gansu was a little different, and had real athletes in it, yet 21 died, probably from hypothermia.
Something is really off about this picture.
I don't understand it.
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There is always a risk in extreme sports.
Climbing Mount Everest, there is always a few deaths every year.
But there are no mass deaths.
This is a mass death incident of the country's best athletes.
To merely blame the weather is cop-out here.
He told me that the races he ran in, open to everyone, there would be medics on site and spotters everywhere. Even though the race is through the city, the city officials and race planners took all the precautions.
Here this race in Gansu was a little different, and had real athletes in it, yet 21 died, probably from hypothermia.
Something is really off about this picture.
I don't understand it.
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There is always a risk in extreme sports.
Climbing Mount Everest, there is always a few deaths every year.
But there are no mass deaths.
This is a mass death incident of the country's best athletes.
To merely blame the weather is cop-out here.