As a swaying Lucy Charles-Barclay battled against her rivals, the brutal Hawaiian heat, intense thirst and the gradual delirium gripping her mind and body on the marathon leg of the Ironman World Championship, urgent phone calls were being made.
Her coach, Dan Lorang, received a call from his wife watching on TV at home in Germany to tell him Charles-Barclay looked in a bad way and needed help. At the same time, her manager was watching in Australia and called her husband, Reece, telling him to pull her off the course.
