Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
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#2Articles a bit thin on details. Was the previous days severe weather a contributing factor? Was it still rough out?
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#3At 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 allowed to do that.
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#4Articles a bit thin on details. Was the previous days severe weather a contributing factor? Was it still rough out?
There's video of competitors marching into waves that appear to be as tall as they are.
I'm not sure under any other circumstances would the competitors have swam (or trained) in waters like that.
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#5At 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…
If I'm reading right I agree with you that it's nobody's business if someone wants to push themselves hard and accept the consequences - although you'd still want to try and talk your friend out of it given the chance. It's not clear if that's what happened here though.
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#6At 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…
Vallhall awaits them
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#7At 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.
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#9This reminds me of Lebron James' son Bronny suffering cardiac arrest. Fortunately he survived.
He's so young he may not have been screened properly. But a lot of people have difficulty affording to be screened.
There are different types of screening and Theranos was going to help society with some of it, but of course we all know how that went, and it probably set back advances in screening with technology.
Screening needs to become cheaper and more convenient. It's within YC's Request for Startups: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#healthcare
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#10Very sad but it’s not that uncommon. Swimming as fierce and excited pack in open water results in a lot of people getting kicked and thrashed. If you get knocked silly or not even, it’s probably similar to getting trampled but then drowning.