RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The 5,000-meter runner whose act of friendship captured the Olympic spirit will not return to the track in Rio after tearing ligaments in her knee.
Abbey D'Agostino said Wednesday that her season was over, but her message prevailed nonetheless.
She was involved in a chain-reaction wreck Tuesday with New Zealand's Nikki Hamblin. Instead of scrambling up to keep running, D'Agostino went to Hamblin, helped her up and urged the New Zealander to keep running.
But D'Agostino got the worst of the collision. After she finished the race, she was carted off the track in a wheelchair.