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16-Year-Old High School Runner Collapses and Dies after Winning Race
SLAY News ^ | October 23, 2023 - 9:02 am | David Lindfield

Posted on 10/23/2023 8:44:20 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
"No cause of death has been revealed."

Seems like this is always the case.
Don't many states and counties require an
autopsy in cases of unexplained death?
Aren't the families of the deceased interested
in the cause of death?

21 posted on 10/23/2023 9:20:22 AM PDT by StormEye
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Apparently mom was eating his food thus starving the boy.


22 posted on 10/23/2023 9:21:05 AM PDT by deport
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To: StormEye

There is this little thing called “HIPAA”.


23 posted on 10/23/2023 9:24:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Climate change no doubt!


24 posted on 10/23/2023 9:29:18 AM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yes, Fixx was older when he died. But young runners and athletes have always had SOME risk of dying. Not a lot, but a race is very stressful and someone with a bad valve or other issue - unknown to them - can overstress their heart.

If there is proof the kid took the vaccine, then fine. Otherwise, it is just a tragedy that could be rooted in many different issues.


25 posted on 10/23/2023 9:30:41 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Mr Rogers

You forgot to tell everyone how old Jim Fixx was...do you even know?

Hint: He was not a teenager. Try 52 years old...and his father died of a heart attack at age 42.

No comparison to the death in the article.

Do your frigging homework or go back under your rock.


26 posted on 10/23/2023 9:31:33 AM PDT by Herodes
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To: Red Badger

The same thing happened to the original Marathon runner. After running from Marathon to Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks over the Persians, “We prevail,” he promptly died.

He had given his all in the effort. With many more people participating in athletics now, probably a few have congenital defects that make it inadvisable to give 110% as the training propaganda advises. The target heart rate was originally conceived as the upper limit to which a surviving heart patient could safely exercise — and not the minimum as the PE instructors and personal trainers, now advise — “that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.”

Inevitably, a few people die, as everyone eventually will — fit or unfit, young or old, vaccinated or unvaccinated. One has to realize the risks they take — along with the rewards and find that proper balance for themselves by listening to their bodies as well as the medical professionals — as well as their coaches.

The formula for a safe target heart rate (maximum) is usually 220 - (one’s age) and anywhere from 60-80% of that number, but overzealous exercisers think 220 should be the minimum — and so yeah, they are pushing their luck everytime they are making an extraordinary effort. It doesn’t come without consequences — and just make them unconditionally immortal.


27 posted on 10/23/2023 9:31:58 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: Jane Long

At first, when young athletes started dying mysteriously, the “This has been happening for YEARS crowd” tried to downplay this by reminding us of Hank Gathers, a college basketball player who collapsed and died in the early 1990s due to a rare heart condition. As the post-vaccine death toll continued to mount, this explanation quickly lost its impact.


28 posted on 10/23/2023 9:36:47 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: MikeHu

220 - (one’s age)?

I’m a goner!.....................


29 posted on 10/23/2023 9:45:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: StormEye

“Friends and family are desperate for answers as to why the young healthy teen could suddenly die.”

I’m sure we’ll hear all about it soon (sarc), like all the other “odd” deaths. This used to happen to about 30 school athletes a year in Texas, with heat being a big contributor. That led to schools paying more attention to hydration. I wonder how many Texas schoolkids died this way this year and last, etc.

My current status since COVID was discovered: No shots, no problems. Most of my vaxxed friends have caught COVID, some 3 times. Not all survived it, though most have. Some of the survivors have hangover issues that aren’t going away.


30 posted on 10/23/2023 9:58:13 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (“99% of failure comes from people who make excuses.” -George Washington)
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To: MeganC

yes, line up for those shots.....because they “protect” you and grandma....you do want grandma to live to 105 don’t cha?....so what if a few young people drop dead of cardiac arrest brought on by blood clots....


31 posted on 10/23/2023 10:01:05 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Red Badger

We attended a wedding on the 14th. It was in a church, climate controlled, so not out in the heat. About 3/4 of the way through, there was a loud thump & one of the groomsmen had hit the floor, the youngest one, 14-15 years old, bride’s youngest brother. My stomach sank about to my toes, wondering if he’d just had a cardiac arrest & as a former EMT, I was thinking of what needed to be done. Fortunately, he had merely passed out & with some rest & fluids, he was fine. He WAS catching ‘heck’ from the other groomsmen at the reception.


32 posted on 10/23/2023 10:04:49 AM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: Mr Rogers

Jim Fixx had a family history of males dying from cardiac issues in their 50s.

It was to forestall those issues that he took up running.


33 posted on 10/23/2023 10:15:21 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Herodes

“Do your frigging homework or go back under your rock.”

I did. YOU have not. You don’t even know if this kid EVER took the vaccine you are blaming it on!

Runners - of ALL AGES - sometimes die of heart attacks. Why? Because competitive running is VERY STRESSFUL! I was told once that if I didn’t collapse crossing the finish line, I hadn’t given it my best shot. It is amazing that more of us didn’t die!


34 posted on 10/23/2023 10:15:53 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: deport

“He’s a man baby.....yeah!”


35 posted on 10/23/2023 10:19:59 AM PDT by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: Qiviut

If you lock your knees when standing for a prolonged period as in a wedding you WILL PASS OUT............


36 posted on 10/23/2023 10:34:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Somewhere that creepy weasel Bill Gates is smiling.


37 posted on 10/23/2023 10:54:38 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Red Badger

I know and I think that’s what happened. I was at a wedding several decades ago, summer wedding in NC, with NO AC in the church. It was awful. Two of the groomsmen ‘locked their knees’ and passed out (at separate times). There was an usher (built like a small tank) who trotted down the aisle, slung a groomsman over his shoulder & trotted back down the aisle ... two trips. One of the groomsmen split his chin open when he fell ... dripped blood the whole way. It was pretty terrible - we all remember that wedding ... but not for the bride’s dress, flowers, or anything else!

The kid who past out the 14th was at least on carpet, not that you can’t damage yourself passing out on carpet, too (guy from our church did that earlier this year - bounced his head off the carpet in the den hard enough he got a brain bleed & died a couple days later).


38 posted on 10/23/2023 11:00:31 AM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: Jeff Chandler

And you barely made it!


39 posted on 10/23/2023 11:24:24 AM PDT by jps098
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To: Red Badger
Back when I was in HS, in the Stone Age, Coaches told us DO NOT DRINK A LOT OF WATER AFTER EXTEREME PHYSICAL EXERTION

I was in flag football in middle school. We were not allowed to drink water during the game. We could spray water into our mouths with a spray bottle and we could eat orange wedges.

40 posted on 10/23/2023 11:41:54 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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