3 Detroit marathon runners die

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[jessduntno]

3 Detroit marathon runners die Posted: 02:44 PM ET

(CNN) — Three runners died Sunday during the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon in Detroit, Michigan, police told CNN.

All three deaths occurred between 9 and 9:20 a.m. ET, Second Deputy Chief John Roach said.

A man in his 60s fell and hit his head, Roach said. The cause of the fall was unknown. The man was transported to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Two other men, aged 36 and 26, also collapsed during the race and were pronounced dead at the hospital, Roach said.

All three collapsed near the end of the race, he said.

The weather at the time was overcast, Roach said, with temperatures in the low 40s.

–CNN's Chuck Johnston contributed to this report.

[jessduntno]

Geez...Detroit...when it's going bad, it's REALLY going bad...I've never heard of THREE runners dying in one race...sounds like a detective story...

[BobL]

Most likely they turned their head and saw what Detroit really was...and it was too much for them.

[Carley]

Prayers for their families.

[netmilsmom]

Amen.

[Bob Eimiller]

Probably all the crack dust pollution in the air...

[Rebelbase]

That’s a higher mortality rate than H1N1.

[Rebelbase]

What are the stats on the wounded, injured and mugged?

[Rebelbase]

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Wow, that is really weird. Sounds like a run of just bad luck.

With temps in the 40s, I wouldn’t think heat stroke would be a problem. Maybe with the two younger guys, the problem was dehydration (a person might be slower to recognize it because it doesn’t feel hot outside).

[ml/nj]

Marathons should be banned. We have too many senseless deaths in this country already.

ML/NJ

[deport]

Results of the autopsies will be interesting.

[aimee5291]

amen

[jessduntno]

“What are the stats on the wounded, injured and mugged?”

Ohhhhhh...ouch...

[gwilhelm56]

**Marathons should be banned. **

Why anyone can run like that, Without a COP CHASING HIM, is Beyond ME!!

[hinckley buzzard]

Exertion in cold temps can send a heart into ventricular fibrillation.

[jessduntno]

“Results of the autopsies will be interesting. “

Yeah...weird...this was a cool day, two of them were young men...wonder if they all stopped at the same water station?

[Huebolt]

I know a man in his 40's that ran marathons. He has 2 artificial knees now and does well to walk.

Everyone forgets that Pheidippides DIED when he finished the first Marathon! DUH?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Someone will most likely look for someone to sue.

[DoughtyOne]

Check the water. There may or may not have been a common denominator, but these folks should be checked out thoroughly.

There’s no reason for these folks to have that kind of problem in the 40s is there?

Runners, what say ye? Do you think this cool air intake could have dropped their core temperature? I would find that hard to believe, or others would have had the same problem.

[Boiler Plate]

Considering the origin of marathons why is this a surprise? ■The modern Athens Marathon commemorates the run of the soldier Pheidippides from a battlefield at the site of the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C. ■Legend has it that Pheidippides delivered the momentous message "Niki!" ("victory"), then collapsed and died.

[Still Thinking]

I vaguely remember a comic (Dave Barry?) describing something dangerous by comparing it to running through downtown Detroit chased by rabid dogs. At least I thought it was comedy.

[GOPJ]

If the three of them had poured a beer and sat in front of their TVs on weekends instead, they’d all be alive today. Time to tax runners.

[Rebelbase]

Shame, he could have just done a run/walk, been a couple of hours late and lived to party that night.

[BullDog108]

Why anyone can run like that, Without a COP CHASING HIM, is Beyond ME!!

LOL! Or a big dog with fangs and no leash.....

[Gay State Conservative]

I wouldn't be surprised if all three deaths were cardiac related...even with the younger ones.Sudden cardiac death in younger men is far from unheard of.

[radiohead]

<I know a man in his 40’s that ran marathons. He has 2 artificial knees now and does well to walk.

I got arthritis in my hip in my early 50’s. While reading about arthritis around the web and from the Arthritis Foundation, I was surprised to find so much of the literature on replacement joints focused on runners. I mean relatively young people who had to have joint replacements of some kind. It was surprising, and eye-opening.

btw - from being in almost constant pain, barely able to walk, and thinking I’d need a hip replacement, to being pain free and walking 2-3 miles easily and running (a little on a treadmill) in my mid-50’s, I want to thank glucosamine chondroitin.

[Oldpuppymax]

Might be preferable to living in Detroit.

[NativeNewYorker]

I know a man in his 40's that ran marathons. He has 2 artificial knees now and does well to walk

The human body isn't engineered to run on pavement for 26+ miles...especially the knees.

[umgud]

The trifecta?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Results of the autopsies will be interesting. “

They should be.
Most marathon runners tend to be pretty careful about what they put in their bodies.

Three deaths seem like a very large number.

Most likely just a rare set of unrelated causes.

[San Jacinto]

Looks like they need to hold more marathons in Detroit. Maybe they can hold the death rate down in the city to 3 every 20 minutes.

[Lockbar]

"Most likely they turned their head and saw what Detroit really was...and it was too much for them."

Strangely & equally funny, and not funny at the same time.

[jessduntno]

“Someone will most likely look for someone to sue.”

But if they live in Detroit, haven’t they already displayed suicidal tendencies?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I cannot think of a place I would less want to die than New Fallujah, Michigan.

[Steamburg]

Ban marathons, Not really,
First, look who runs in Marathons.
Second, this all happened without a single shot being fired.
All in all, the only down side is ACORN has probably already registered them in three other states.

[meowmeow]

Marathons have become very popular and there are a lot of stupid people who think they can run one and are too lazy to do the right kind of training. So that can be deadly.

Also, there are a lot of people walking around with undiagnosed heart issues. Nothing like a 26 mile run to bring that to the surface - bam! For some reason, this seems to happen to men more than women (and the number of male to female runners is about equal).

This runner thinks it was just bad luck in Detroit.

[laconic]

It was much colder for the Chicago Marathon last week; below freezing start, 45,000 runners and no one died. Deaths are fairly rare at marathons, wherever they are. Generally one per race every five or ten years for the popular races. And I would imagine that there were far fewer runners in Detroit (maybe 5000), which unlike Chicago, Boston, NY or DC, is not a national/world race. So today’s death rate of 3 in one smaller race is quite striking.

[Carl from Marietta]

“Sounds like a run of just bad luck.”

This is a pun worthy of Bennet Cerf.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

I’ve always maintained that there is absolutely no reason on God’s earth to run except for your life! These kinds of incidents only add to the proof supporting my theory.

[paulycy]

Where are the calls for licensing legs and taxing shoes?

[Eddie01]

http://spotcrime.com/mi/detroit

[Huebolt]

I want to thank glucosamine chondroitin.

I'm going to try the chondroitin. I live on ibuprophen myself, sometimes.

[NonValueAdded]

Marathons should be banned. We have too many senseless deaths in this country already.

or shortened, for surely they are too long. We have to think about the children. :)

[VastRWCon]

That’s weird, next.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. That would have been my thought too. We would have heard of this type of thing happening before. It will be interesting to see what they find out about this.

[ml/nj]

or shortened, for surely they are too long. We have to think about the children.

It's great to be amongst so many compassionate people here at FreeRepublic.

ML/NJ

[BRL]

Marathons should be banned. We have too many senseless deaths in this country already.

LOL!

[VastRWCon]

people die everyday, atleast they died doing what the enjoyed. Again, people die, thats what they do.

[Sir Gawain]

My first guess was crossfire.

[ml/nj]

atleast they died doing what the enjoyed

But that doesn't matter. People should only die when the govenment decides they are useles, like say all those folks waiting on line for an Obama handout.

ML/NJ