"My immediate feeling was just one of shame really. I was very emotional, she said, just born from the perspective that I really felt like I'd let down the girls that I was running for and I'd really kind of got this narrative in my head and psyched myself up that what I was doing was just so insignificant in comparison to what they're enduring."
"Porter asked the Guardian not to be specific about the details of the death threats, over which police were contacted. She said she had encountered unhappy people, threats, comments, a lot of hatred as a result of the work that we do with her charity InspiredMinds!, which finds humanitarian uses for AI, during a time when we're also seeing a huge and very scary regression of women's rights for the first time in our history."
"A risk assessment with her coach, Jon Shield, as well as security experts and the organisers had been done before the race. The progress and location of runners can be followed on the race's website, through a tracking device, and after the risk assessment it was deemed safe for Porter to run. I set off on the race, everything seemed fine, she said. I then received notification from the Spine Race team that the situation had changed."
Sarah Porter was removed from the 108-mile Montane Winter Spine Challenger South about a third of the way through after organisers withdrew her following death threats linked to her charity work supporting women and girls in war zones. Police were contacted and Porter declined to give details of the threats. Porter reported encountering threats, comments, and significant hatred connected to her charity InspiredMinds!, which seeks humanitarian uses for AI, and cited a global regression in women's rights. A pre-race risk assessment with her coach, security experts, and organisers initially cleared her to run, but organisers later disabled her tracker and removed her at the Standedge checkpoint.
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