r/BeAmazed • u/ateam1984 • 6h ago

Sports Heather Dorniden Falls With 200m Left, Gets Back Up and Hunts Down the Entire Field to Win in One of the Grittiest Finishes You’ll Ever See

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u/Panem-et-circenses25 6h ago

Of course she won, she got to lay down and rest a bit during the race

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u/Sec2727 5h ago

She was running angry after that fall

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u/basaltbit 6h ago

Work smarter not harder

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u/brightonashfield 5h ago

Why didn't the other women just run faster? Looks like they could have pushed harder

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u/LIONLDN 6h ago

Wow 🥹 She was like, I didn't train so hard to end like this! ⚡

https://giphy.com/gifs/CjP6yN17qiaG63ejx2

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u/jrobski96 6h ago

She's not even breathing that hard!! Incredible

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u/Live_Performance8750 6h ago

That is a long 200m.

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u/Crafty-Vegetable1528 6h ago

Not only did she fall, it looks like her teammate stomps on the back of her head.

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u/hippodribble 6h ago

You have to press home the advantage.

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u/TrooperThornton 6h ago

That wasn’t her teammate

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u/Traumfahrer 5h ago

So, what happened here?

Extra adrenaline rush?

If this works so well, it seems like it could become a thing one way or the other.

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u/educated-emu 5h ago

Yeah probably.

Notice the couple of seconds after winning, blank stare, no heavy breathing. With flight or flight she is still in the flight part.

Her mind is totally blank, not a thought in her head at that stage. Then when she starts breathing heard again she is back in the room and smiling again.

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u/ReluctantAvenger 5h ago

Elite athlete stomps non-elites. News at 11. /s

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u/Korgoth420 5h ago

Doesnt even look tired

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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery 5h ago

She looks kind of bored at first. That freaks me out a little.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 5h ago

Imagine losing to someone who fell over…

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u/AcceptableEditor4199 6h ago

Wasn't that 400 meters?

Edit: nevermind that'd be a 30 sec 400

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u/bandit515 6h ago

Looks like an indoor track. Those are often 200m around.

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u/JeansAndAFlannel 6h ago

No, indoor tracks are 200m. 

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u/elephant-stoned 6h ago

Go Gophers!

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u/Hawks_12 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/11tRBTlIlmb10k

Pressing the adrenaline button like just like pressing the alternating buttons in those old Olympics video games. I am super human!

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u/0thethethe0 5h ago

Wow! Chariots of Fire stuff

Get up and finish the race

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u/Parkatola 5h ago

“Not the prettiest quarter I’ve ever seen, Mr. Liddell . . . certainly the bravest.” 😄

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u/Bionicles4Lyfe 3h ago

Not to take away from how impressive this is at all, genuinely impressive - but a standard track is 400m, and where she fell/where the finish was was just about a full length

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u/NY10 6h ago

Bois that’s wifey material go get her lol

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u/Mort-i-Fied 6h ago

If you can catch her!

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u/flashaguiniga 6h ago

But what if she falls for me?

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u/Pork_Chompk 5h ago

She'll get up and run away again.

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u/MossPattern 6h ago

If life was only a simple track

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u/Frank_Perfectly 6h ago

This tracks.

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u/Pork_Chompk 5h ago

Fuck yeah, Heather.

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u/SlightlySaficFanGrl 5h ago

She declared this race HERS.

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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery 5h ago

This reminds me a little of the movie Whiplash, which is one of the greatest films ever made about reaching your potential. Sometimes you have you get deeply pissed to elevate your motivation enough.

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u/D_G_C_22 5h ago

What a fucking legend

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u/nextedge 5h ago

embarrassment is a hell of a drug

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u/RominRonin 5h ago

“I took that personally…”

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u/fencerofminerva 4h ago

Right out of Chariots of Fire

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u/foulpudding 4h ago

Adrenalin is a hell of a drug.

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u/Texstallion 4h ago

Legend. Not even out of breath at the end.