American athlete Abby D’Agostino gutted out four-plus laps after appearing to suffer a painful injury that plunged her into the back of New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin.
D’Agostino, 24, picked up a leg injury in her heat of the women’s 5000m, and it sent her stumbling into Hamblin.
Hamblin lay splayed on the blue track, and D’Agostino tried to help her up. Once that happened, D’Agostino crumbled back to the track twice, her leg buckling both times, and the Kiwi runner stayed with her for some time before rejoining the race.
What sportsmanship from Abbey D'Agostino and New Zealand's Nikki Hamblin, helping each other after 5000m heats fall.