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People often say you're so strong, but I
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say I'm so stupid, I think.
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You know,
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so this story, for example, 3 days
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before World Champs in Ecuador,
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um we were training on a volcano, and we
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me being me, I was like, let's film
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this, you know, we're at 5,000 m above
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sea level. Let's do a wee vlog, you
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know? And so,
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I was handing my camera out filming, and
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I just wasn't watching where my ankle
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was going, and sure enough,
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totally, like, tore two ligaments
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completely, um and instantly blew up
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like a tennis ball.
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And I had the night before the race, it
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was my ankle was black, like, I couldn't
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move. And I had the night before the
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race, I had about nine physios and
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sports doctors message me cuz my photo
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had circu- you know, circulated the the
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sports doctor websites.
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>> You were going viral.
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>> Yeah, my ankle was going viral. And so,
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I had all these people messaging me
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saying, "Don't do the race. You're so
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stupid. Like, you know, you're going to
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do permanent damage." But because I love
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the sport so much, and also I'm in
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Ecuador, like, if I pull out, my
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teammates have also pulled out, and
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everything is self-funded and everything
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like that. So, you know, you're
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overseas, there's not really any choice.
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But I think that was a bit stupid
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because my ankle took about over a still
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still sore about 2 years later, so
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uh
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Yeah.
