Taliyah Brooks, an elite heptathlete, was expected to make the USA Olympic team. Instead, she collapsed at the trials in 2021 amid intense heat.
Taliyah Brooks woke up that morning in June 2021 in second place of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials. The day before, she had set three personal bests out of four events in the first round of the women's heptathlon competition.
Brooks drank some Pedialyte, hoping the electrolytes and sugar would energize her. She ate a snack, hoping to do better at her next event, the javelin.? She stood up and started walking toward Johnson. From the stands, Brooks' sister watched her. She later told Brooks she looked like she was walking drunk.Brooks said she doesn't remember being taken off the track in a wheelchair to a cold tub of ice water.
Shattered by the heat of a blistering day, a day Brooks and her attorney allege no one should have been competing on a track.Brooks filed a lawsuit Nov. 29 in Marion Superior Court against Indianapolis-based "These were the two hottest days in recorded history in Eugene, Oregon," said Bill Bock, an attorney and head of Indy-based Kroger, Gardis and Regas law firm's sports and entertainment team, who is representing Brooks."And it was known well in advance."
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