The pain in Brandon Starc’s heel kept him from competing at the world championships in the US last month, but he fought through it to claim silver in Birmingham.
Brandon Starc would jump, often miss the height he needed, walk away to his chair and take off his shoe. He’d rub his foot, tape his heel, put his shoe back on and jump again.
Silver, given the pain in his foot, and the doubt he would be in the field at all, was possibly as satisfying as gold. “I had to withdraw from world champs because of the bruised heel and throughout [tonight’s] comp, besides maybe the first jump, I was feeling every bit of that bruised heel.
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