Viral Video: Kayla Montgomery collapses every end of the race. Kayla is a runner and a champion but what's different about her is that every time she finishes the race, she collapsed.
Montgomery was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at age 14. The autoimmune condition causes her body to attack its own nerve cells and as a result, her brain signals to her spinal cord and other parts of the body short-circuit and it can cause numbing, tingling, spasms, and even loss of movement.
Despite her diagnosis, Montgomery, who had been an avid soccer player, decided she would take up running. So she found a coach who would hold her up—literally.
“She said, I want to run,” Montgomery’s running coach, Patrick Cromwell said. “I want to run fast and I don’t want you to hold back.”
“To beat it; to outrun it; to know you got every movement out of those legs while you still can. That’s why she’s running,” said Cromwell.
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