I’m not exactly sure what your instinct is when you’re running and you fall over, but mine normally isn’t “tuck into a ball and keep rolling.” Luckily that was the instinct for high school hurdler Brooklyn Anderson, who was participating in the Oregon state championships when she tripped over the final hurdle and just rolled her way to the finish line.
Unquestionably the most impressive part of this isn’t the roll, it’s having the wherewithal to understand in a split-second that trying to stand and run across the line was going to be too slow. Momentum was already in her favor, so might as well do a cannonball and
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