If true, for her, no.

For the event, yes.

As a percentage of the runners the number of injuries are far less than other events, e.g. the London Marathon which has a lot of wannabes who injure themselves and also has a number of deaths at its door and this is the centre of London on a fine day.

Assessment of risk is a tricky thing, 10 people a day die on the roads of the UK, does this worry you when you drive? No, because you accept that risk as a penalty of the benefit of driving.

Likewise the runners assess the risk expertly and competently and manage that risk to minimise it. It cannot be eliminated, there is risk to everything we do. For her it went wrong, for the event it was a success.

Please do not believe all you read at the BBC. That was some of the poorest reporting I have seen for a while, just trying to make a story out of nothing.

Read the comments of the people who were there:
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