Posted on 10/19/2009 7:18:56 AM PDT by traumer
DETROIT — A half-marathoner and two other runners died during the Detroit marathon on Sunday, organizers said.
Daniel Langdon, 36, of Laingsburg, collapsed at about 9:02 a.m. between the 11- and 12-mile markers, said Rich Harshbarger, vice president of consumer marketing for the Detroit Media Partnership.
Rick Brown, 65, of Marietta, Ohio, collapsed at 9:17 a.m., near where Langdon went down, and 26-year-old Jon Fenlon of Waterford collapsed at about 9:18 a.m., just after finishing the half-marathon in 1:53:37, Harshbarger said.
It was unclear whether Brown and Langdon were participating in the 13.1-mile half marathon or the full race.
Harshbarger told the Free Press that there were at least six medical stations on the race course and that emergency personnel were on the scene within seconds.
Every runner must sign a medical release form, and they are encouraged to talk to their doctors before they run the race, Harshbarger said.
"On a day when so many people bring such energy and challenge themselves to do their utmost, this news is very difficult to hear," said Free Press editor and publisher Paul Anger said. "Our deepest sympathies are with the families."
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if all three locations are in close proximity to each other, I think I'd have a talk with Fox Mulder.
Sad.
Before I read the article, I thought maybe they’d been shot. It IS Detroit, after all.
ObamaCare may have to tax marathons
Did someone check them for bullet holes?
Tin foil, but three dying within 16 minutes of each other sounds suspicious of something other than mere coincidence.
They shouldn’t have run in that thing.
They should just have had a sweat lodge.
Oh, wait . . .
(Anyhoo, thanks for paying into Social Security for me.)
So they all collapsed around 11,12, 13 mile markers? Too strange to be coincidence -
I have never heard anything like this. When I saw the story on TV last night I thought I was hearing things as it didn’t make sense...3 deaths in a marathon minutes apart....insanity.
You know, some of my conservative running friends and I were talking about how these sorts of stories would impact how Obamacare will be used to regulate activities.
If the government (through our taxes) will be responsible for the treatment of injuries sustained by activities, what’s to keep our Fearless Leader from declaring that running, cycling, pick your sport, is too dangerous and has to be limited, regulated, taxed, or incur higher rates/lower coverage for participation?
It sort of makes sense in the bizarro world we’d heading toward.
Poison in some of the drink cups?
During the same period of time, not one person died, sitting on a bar stool enjoying a cold frosty beer. Hmmmmmmmmm
Just being alive will no doubt impact how obamacare will be used to regulate that “activity”.
“DEATH PANELS” by any other name would be as fatal.
That’s an interesting point...
These pinheads would probably want to tax you for doing “extreme” sports that would entail higher risk of needing medical care (or even just to offset the cost of proving first responders at the event), just like they want to go after “cadillac” medical benefit plans.
A young man from Chapel Hill, former captain of his Cross Country team in HS, collapsed and died at mile 25 of the Baltimore marathon. WTF?
Question worth asking!
Before I read the article, I will surmise that the runners were gunned down. Now, I’ll go read the article.
"I never take exercise. I take my exercise serving as a pallbearer for my friends who take exercise."
Three dead.. but how many mugged?
Other studies give the risk at 1 in 50,000 and for all three deaths of 215,413 runners studied and monitored in the Marine Corps Marathon from ‘76 to ‘94 and the Twin Cities Marathon from ‘82-’94, they all occurred after mile 15 and all three had prior heart disease.
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0679.htm
Some have considered using a stress test to screen out entrants from fatal risks, but risks associated with stress testing indicate 2 people would die for every person saved with such stress testing.
Ping.
Exactly. Any activity can be regulated for the good of the collective, I mean society, and can be justified on the need to keep down medical costs.
So all those times you read or hear about people who get hurt, say running, and the doctor says don’t run anymore, and the runner just ignores him? Well, if this all comes to pass, once it’s in your records that a doctor says STOP doing whatever it is you live to do, and you disobey, you will be in big trouble with the government. No medical coverage, fines, taxes. They’ll think of something.
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65 is fairly understandable, but 36 and 26?
They were actually just running away from someone, and got capped. Oh, sorry. ;’)
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