There’s a long history of athletes pooing themselves mid-race – why, and how can you avoid it?

There’s a long history of athletes pooing themselves mid-race – why, and how can you avoid it?

Joanna Wietrzyk’s unfortunate case of runner’s diarrhoea at the Hyrox games in Beijing is far more common than many people realise. Photograph: VCG/Getty Images

Photograph: VCG/Getty Images (via The Guardian)

Soiling yourself in public sounds like a bad dream. But the Australian athlete Joanna Wietrzyk has now apologised for doing just that at the Hyrox games in Beijing on Saturday.

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Published by The Guardian.

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