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| Manteo Mitchell felt the pop in his leg and knew it wasn’t good. “It felt like somebody literally just snapped my leg in half,” he said.
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The American sprinter had half a lap to go in the first leg of the 4×400-metre relay preliminaries Thursday and a choice to make: keep running or stop and lose the race. To him, it was never much of a choice.
He finished the lap and limped to the side to watch the Americans finish the race and qualify easily for the final. A few hours later, doctors confirmed what he suspected: He had run the last 200 meters with a broken left fibula.
“I heard it and I felt it,” Mitchell told The Associated Press. “But I figured it’s what almost any person would’ve done in that situation.”
http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/08/09/american-manteo-mitchell-finishes-lap-of-olympic-4x-400-preliminaries-with-broken-leg/ |
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