Posted on 06/05/2012 6:19:50 PM PDT by presidio9
As Meghan Vogel turned for home during Saturday’s Ohio Division III girls state meet, she was in last place in the 3,200-meter race with no hope of finishing anywhere near the top. But her last-place finish became the most memorable part of the meet.
With 20 meters to go, Vogel, a junior at West Liberty-Salem High School in Urbana, was about to pass Arden McMath, a sophoomore from Arlington High School, when McMath collapsed on the track. Rather than continue running, Vogel helped McMath to her feet, placed McMath’s arm around her shoulders and carried her across the finish line.
“Any girl on the track would have done the same for me,” Vogel told ESPN.
Vogel made sure McMath crossed the finish line first and said she was surprised by the praise she received for an act of selflessness she believed was anything but extraordinary.
“It’s strange to have people telling me that his was such a powerful act of kindness and using words like ‘humanity,’” she told ESPN. “When I hear words like that I think of Harriet Tubman and saving people’s lives. I don’t consider myself a hero. I just did what I knew was right and what I was supposed to do.”
Under the rules, a runner is automatically disqualified for helping another runner during a race,
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Rare.
Rush made a big deal about this but she was in last place anyway. Good for her helping this girl.
That act says a lot about this girl.....she reacted to the situation automatically, I have a feeling she is a kind person.....
Not so sure myself this was a good idea. What if the collapsed runner was having heart problems? Picking her up and toting her across the line could have very well killed her!
These rules are there for a reason.
idunno. just seems kind of weird.
I knew before I read this article that it had to be about a girl. I can’t imagine a boy doing this.
Maybe if it was Zack Mayo in “An Officer & A Gentleman...
“I got nowhere else to go”! Excellent movie very powerful.
Our brave new feminized world.
Kinda sick of hearing about this story. She basically disqualified both runners with the stunt (or would have, had anyone given a rat’s rear about 14th vs. 15th place). Had they been 1st vs. 2nd, should she stop because the other girl blew her engines out early?
Maybe it’s because they’re girls, or maybe because this is the “participating is the only thing, winning is for meanies” generation, but I really don’t see the heroism here.
I was a distance runner in high school and college, and would have been mortified if some other runner dragged me across the finish line. I’d have rather come across as “DNF” as opposed to being drug along.
They were both in a High School meet. If she had a vulnerable heart, her pediatrician would have told her not to do athletic activity.
She is a dumb ass. She should be banned from the team.
I should have posted in #2 IBDR (In Before Dumb Replies.) Now it’s too late.
I absolutely could see a boy doing this to cover up his embarrassment over coming in last.
That is good sportsmanship nothing more, and everything else is thinking too hard about it 20-20, which the girl didn’t have time to do and overeducation to figure out.
As a mother with a teen daughter in track this story brought tears to my eyes. I would hope that my daughter’s first thought if she saw someone on the ground would be to help them. The day females stop having a soft heart is the day that civil society falls apart. I heard Rush talk about this and I will give him a pass. #1 he is a guy and #2 he doesn’t have a daughter. Now my teen son...he would know not to embarrass the guy sprawled out on the track and run by and pretend that it never happened. Thank God for differences between boys and girls LOL!!
I dunno, I found the heart attack post to be particularly, um, creative...
It is not all that unusual for runners to collapse, I’ve seen it in track and xc. Usually boys though.
It is not all that unusual for runners to collapse, I’ve seen it in track and xc. Usually boys though.
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