The weather conditions were horrible. Huge waves.
This was screw up from organizers, they didn't want to cancel. Just shortened distance.
Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
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#22Articles a bit thin on details. Was the previous days severe weather a contributing factor? Was it still rough out?
Here's an RTE News article on the tragedy. You can see from the photo that yes, it was pretty rough still: https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0820/1400656-cork-ironman/
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Theranos was a criminal scam, the reference here is weird.
The headline immediately made me think of healthcare and how to improve it, within the area of sports. It would be better if more people knew the risks and benefits of participating in sports based on their own health statuses.
Not sure how a criminal scam on the order of "let's just make shit up for results" has any relevance to that.
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#24Articles a bit thin on details. Was the previous days severe weather a contributing factor? Was it still rough out?
The article is pretty terrible all around. You have to get to the last sentence before they throw in the detail that it's not actually an Ironman race -- it's a half-iron. I wouldn't mind it so much in a general-interest source, but ESPN writers of all people should know the difference and should sweat even the immaterial details. A "so-called" half-iron? No that's actually what it is. No need for the "so-called".
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0820/1400656-cork-ironman/
The weather was very bad, with the tailend of a bad storm that had passed through the previous day
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#25Video of the water conditions when going in: https://twitter.com/Levandov_1/status/1693384419208298899
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#26At least they died doing something they loved. Recently overheard a troubling conversation where a triathalon competitor observed a 60+ year old man clearly in major physical distress who refused any kind of assistance. It needs to be first of all understood that these are not necessarily tragedies so much as people taking things way too far and secondly considered that it might be best for everyone that they be allo…
There are many who choose this way instead of long fight with dementia.
I'm sorry nobody is intentionally going out and drowning themselves the avoid dementia.
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#27At least they died doing something they loved. Recently overheard a troubling conversation where a triathalon competitor observed a 60+ year old man clearly in major physical distress who refused any kind of assistance. It needs to be first of all understood that these are not necessarily tragedies so much as people taking things way too far and secondly considered that it might be best for everyone that they be allo…
A successful endurance athlete should die peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends. Not like this.
I disagree. I am 75 and hope to die while out for run, instantly. I've felt that way since I was in my 30s.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The headline immediately made me think of healthcare and how to improve it, within the area of sports. It would be better if more people knew the risks and benefits of participating in sports based on their own health statuses.
Not sure how a criminal scam on the order of "let's just make shit up for results" has any relevance to that.
Because they took money that was intended to improve it? Especially for busy people? These two attempting the half Ironman were likely busy, ambitious people, because people who travel to another country for an endurance event tend to be. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12426285/Two-men-di...
> Theranos may have been the worst-case scenario for the testing industry, but the big-picture idea — that testing should be faster and more convenient — is still true, Klapperich says. “Now, people are trying to sort out the question of what was real about what Theranos was saying. Because we still need this stuff.”
https://www.theverge.com/22834348/theranos-blood-testing-inn...
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#30Video of the water conditions when going in: https://twitter.com/Levandov_1/status/1693384419208298899
Thank You
The article really didn't convey it.
This puts it in perspective.
Should have been cancelled.
Two dead. How many quit midway, abandoned the race. That would also help add context. Rarely do people die in isolation, there were probably a lot of people struggling, they just happened to make it to a boat.