On Thursday, June 24, a major sporting event took place across the Atlantic: the United States athletics championship, which took place in the city of Sacramento, California. In the starting blocks of one of the longest races in the championship (the 800 meters), the star was her: Alysia Montano, 28, 34 weeks pregnant.
Madness? Unconsciousness? Not at all: the doctors who follow the pregnancy of the athlete did not oppose his choice to participate in this national race. “It is not dangerous to run, even in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, if there are no complications. On the other hand, there is no question of running in case of complications such as a high blood pressure or in some cases multiple pregnancies“commented Dr. Sheeva Talebian, questioned by our colleagues from Huffington Post.
When we are pregnant, we are not sick
This is not the first time that such a situation has occurred: a month earlier, a 29-year-old Quebecer had managed to complete the 10 kilometers of the marathon from Ottawa (Canada) when she was 33 weeks pregnant …
No miracle: Alysia Montano did not win the race, although she has already won the United States athletics championship five times. She finished last in her heat, 35 seconds behind her usual performance. But this time the performance was on another level …
“When you’re pregnant, you’re not sick. You just have to be reasonable in everything: in sex, as in sport or food, ”concludes gynecologist Laurent Vandenbroucke, interviewed by the Rue89 site.
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