Kieran Tuntivate won the 3,000-meters and 5,000-meters despite suffering injuries comparable to a third-degree burn.
A college runner left coaches and viewers bewildered after winning two races, despite losing a shoe and suffering a gruesome injury.
Depending on the stage of the race, that normally leads them falling behind the pack and, with very rare exceptions, rules them out of the race."It's the Ivy League Championships, so there's a lot of history there and a lot of rivalries with the other schools," he was quoted as saying by ABC. "It felt kind of natural at first, but I kind of expected it to start hurting eventually with the really abrasive surface of the track," he added."Around 2,000 meters—about two-thirds into the race—is when it really started to hurt.Alex Gibby, Harvard cross country and track and field coach, admitted he initially wanted to stop his runner, but chose otherwise once he realized how calm Tuntivate was.
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