For her part, Wietrzyk posted a selfie on Instagram from what appeared to be a hospital bed after the race and the message: “Go hard or go home … a win is a win. In all seriousness, thank you for all the support. I’ll be back soon x.”
She later deleted the post. She shouldn’t have. If people are so concerned about health and safety, they shouldn’t encourage a sports competition that makes competitors sick.
But of course, the typical over-reaction and performative groveling is already underway. Hyrox China said today that its current global rulebook contains no provision allowing officials to penalize an athlete who has an unfortunate bowel incident mid-race. Hyrox described the episode as evidence of “deficiencies in the establishment of competition rules.” Proposals have already been submitted to Hyrox headquarters, the organization said, for new regulations governing track management, race intervention and result determination in cases involving “extreme physical distress and venue public health risks.”
I’m betting on mandatory adult diapers. What’s your guess?
Ethics Alarms 
I dunno. I guess it is an “ick” factor more than anything.
Having almost suffered a similar calamity in the London Marathon in 1998 (thank heavens for those ever-present portopotties! One does learn to “puckerr and sprint”) I don’t see this is either a fault of the competitor or the organizers. Those complaining should grow up and face rreality. Extreme sports competitions do wreak havoc on one’s body. I suspect this competitor suffered stomach issues because she was in a new country, out of her routine, and ate things that she was not accustomed to eating prior to competing. I say kuddos to her for finishing and winning. I would worry about dehydration more than anything during a competition like that.
jvb
Welcome the the messy world of biology. I think she should have kept the post. The ‘I didn’t stop because of some inconvenience’ is integral to sports, even if I think it goes to far. People have competed with broken bones. Tiger woods won the 2008 US Open with a torn ACL and multiple stress fractures in his legs. She should have gotten a lot of support for that post. The fact that she deleted it suggests that she did not. I worry about the current generation.
I’m curious. If the main actor in a stage play had a bad case of the runs with no understudy, what happens? I believe it is “the show must go on”. Is there an alternative option?
I see no substantive difference except the sports competitor is outside and thus is more sanitary than any accidents in an indoor theatre.