19 year old Japanese girl Rei Iida has received praise from all quarters for the sheer grit and determination she displayed after she broke her leg during a marathon, and still insisted on crawling through 200 meters of hot tarmac on all fours, so that she could reach the handover point and allow her teammate to continue the race.

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Her teammate, who is also shown visibly crying in the video, then resumes the race as Iida was reportedly taken to a hospital. You can also see the blood on her knees, from crawling on all fours on the tarmac.

Lida and her team Iwatani Sangyo, was participating in the corporate “ekiden” relay marathon when the incident took place.