Experienced hikers who have completed the hundredth Four Friday, saying it was “a very serious issue.” There were tropical hot days, it was sometimes cramped with impending storm and Friday began with an hour-long hoos- and thunderstorm.
The Marches in Nijmegen ended with nearly twice as many dropouts as other years. On the Via Gladiola today were 42 557 runners; the last day there were 439 runners from.
On Tuesday and Wednesday have turned out a lot of runners. Most runners were off Wednesday, more than 2,000 runners then had to drop out. The Red Cross helped the road about five hundred runners with heat complaints. Several dozen walkers ended up in the hospital.
On Friday succumbed some participants still in the finish area in Nijmegen. That was because there are long queues were the counters where medals were awarded, while the temperature rose again significantly.
Walk Veteran
For some wall candlesticks was this edition specially. So the 84-year veteran Bert hiking dragged his 69th Four Days Marches Cross inside. He has thus sharpened his record. King Willem-Alexander was waiting for him at the finish.
Robert van den Brink promised to shave his beard if he were performing the walking tour. He added the action to the word at the start and finish area. A Four volunteer who helped him with his hair stylist was off.
The 36-year-old Nathalie Vrijhoeven that Wednesday afternoon another branch on her head got through the storm finished today. Wednesday she became unconscious and was hospitalized. “I immediately told the doctors that I really wanted to go further.” “She sighs deeply, and then come the tears.
” Yes, maybe it was a bluff, because I actually have a lot of pain, especially on my shoulder. Anyway, here I am standing at the finish! “
Half hour more
Four Runners today got a half-hour longer time to finish. Until 18:30, the runners were given the time to finish. The organization decided to do so because this morning rained hard the first few hours and thundered and many people were sheltering.
The Red Cross, according to a spokeswoman pricked 12,645 blisters. They used 11,000 lancing, 20 liters of iodine and 42,000 screens. Feet are taped with a total of 20 kilometers and 550 meters adhesive tape patch. 700 employees were in Nijmegen to work.
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