A female athlete who won a Hyrox event while covered in her own faeces has sparked a debate after fellow competitors hit out at organisers for failing to stop her.
Australian fitness star Joanna Wietrzyk, 22, powered to victory in Beijing on the weekend despite suffering a bowel incontinence during the event.
Images showed the athlete running, performing burpees and carrying heavy bags with her own excrement dripping down her leg.
Ms Wietrzyk, from Melbourne, posted an image to Instagram from her hospital bed after the race, reading: ‘Go hard or go home they say… a win is a win. In all seriousness,
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