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克里·布林是CBSNews.com的新闻编辑。她毕业于纽约大学亚瑟·L·卡特新闻学院，此前曾在NBC新闻的《今日数字》工作。她负责报道时事、突发新闻以及包括物质使用问题在内的各类议题。
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安贾利·帕蒂尔、德比·查普尼克
三届奥运选手珍妮·辛普森的整个人生都围绕跑步展开，但在两个月前的一次突发心脏事件暴露了她的隐性罕见疾病、并险些夺走她的生命后，她正开启一场全新的“赛跑”。
现年39岁的辛普森今年6月在北卡罗来纳州罗利帮助一群女孩调整一英里跑的配速后不久便晕倒了。她告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，自己不记得当天发生的任何事。但艾维·波因特和乔伊·波因特永远不会忘记这一幕。
乔伊·波因特是Fleet Feet公司的首席执行官，该公司今年早些时候聘请辛普森担任首席跑步官。艾维是一名儿科重症监护室医生。这对夫妇不仅是辛普森的同事和朋友：他们还有一个患有先天性心脏病的孩子，因此随身携带着自动体外除颤器。这意味着当辛普森晕倒时，他们手边就有所有必要的工具可以立刻上前施救。
“我远远望去就知道情况非常、非常糟糕，”艾维告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。“所以我让乔伊去拿AED（自动体外除颤器），自己跑了过去。……我只记得当时在想，‘这绝对不能发生在现在。我们马上还有很多事要做，现在绝对不能出事。你必须战斗，必须坚持住，必须醒过来。’老实说，我一直在喊她的名字，近乎尖叫。”
2016年里约奥运会女子1500米铜牌得主辛普森，过去一年都和丈夫杰森一起进行50州跑步之旅，在风景优美的偏远地区加入当地跑团。如果当时她遭遇心脏事件时身边没有救生资源，她的故事可能会是另一种结局。
“对我来说，这意味着冥冥中自有天意，我的家族没有心脏病史，”辛普森说。“我不确定自己人生中大部分时间是否身边都有懂得在心脏病发作时采取干预措施的人。感觉就像我被从家里带出来，交到了这个（懂急救的）家庭手中。”
艾维和其他旁观者进行了心肺复苏，直到急救人员赶到并将辛普森送往当地医院。她随后第二次心脏骤停，被转至杜克大学医学中心。丈夫飞过来陪在她身边，当时她已经依靠生命支持系统数日。她说，醒来的体验是她从未经历过的。
“我一生大部分时间和职业生涯都在给人们带来快乐，但醒来后却看到房间里充满了沉重和悲伤——那真的太难了，”辛普森说。
辛普森被诊断为致心律失常性右心室心肌病，这是一种罕见的先天性心脏病，心脏会用无法在右心室正常传导电信号的组织修复损伤。跑步本身不会引发这种疾病，但最终暴露了它。
“当我的心脏泵血并扩张时，在人生的某个节点，电信号很可能会中断，而这就是当时发生的事，”辛普森说。“我的心脏病医生说：‘你以为自己一辈子都在为奥运会训练，但其实你是在为6月16日这天训练。’我确实为那一天训练了一辈子——而我赢了。”
辛普森植入了除颤器和心脏起搏器，定期看心脏病医生，她称这位医生是“世界上我最爱的人”。但即便如此，她再也无法跑步了。她还不确定未来会怎样，但表示丈夫和波因特夫妇在她理清思路的过程中给了她空间和鼓励。
辛普森在Instagram上表示，她目前正在家中康复，将继续在Fleet Feet工作。她写道，目前“还有很多关于我康复进程的东西需要了解”，但她“不害怕接下来会发生什么，因为我知道自己并不孤单”。
辛普森告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，她在康复期间专注于保持积极的心态。
“想想看，我作为一个人、作为一名女性，人生最后一英里是在集体中完成的，带着年轻女孩们绕着跑道跑步，我真的为此感到骄傲，”辛普森说。“这就是我心怀感激的事。这也是我想要铭记的事。”
Olympian Jenny Simpson won’t be able to run again after a cardiac event. Here’s what she wants to focus on as she recovers.
August 21, 2026 / 2:44 PM EDT / CBS News
By Kerry Breen News Editor
Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News’ TODAY Digital. She covers current events, breaking news and issues including substance use.
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Anjali Patil, Debby Chapnick
Three-time Olympian Jenny Simpson built her entire life around running — but after a sudden cardiac event two months ago revealed a hidden rare disease and nearly killed her, she is embarking on a new kind of race.
Simpson, 39, had helped a group of girls pace themselves during a milelong run in Raleigh, North Carolina, in June moments before she collapsed. She told CBS News she doesn’t remember anything that happened that day. But Ivy and Joey Pointer will never forget it.
Joey Pointer is the CEO of the company Fleet Feet, which hired Simpson as its chief running officer earlier this year. Ivy is a pediatric intensive care unit physician. The pair aren’t just Simpson’s co-workers and friends: They are also the parents of a child with a congenital heart disease, so they carry an automated external defibrillator. That meant when Simpson collapsed, they had all the tools necessary to rush to her side.
“When I looked over from afar, I knew that something was very, very wrong,” Ivy told CBS News. “So I told Joey to grab an AED and ran over and got there. … I just remember thinking like, ‘This can’t happen right now. Like we have a lot happening soon and that this is not going to happen right now. You are going to fight. You’re going to hold on. You have to wake up.’ And I just kept saying her name and kind of screaming her name, honestly.”
Jenny Simpson after competing at the 17th IAAF World Athletics Championships on Oct. 2, 2019 in Doha, Qatar. Matthias Hangst / Getty Images
Simpson, a bronze medalist in the 1,500 meters at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, had spent the last year on a 50-state running tour with her husband Jason, joining local groups in scenic, far-flung places. If she had experienced a cardiac event without lifesaving resources nearby, her story might have had a different ending.
“It means to me that there was a God present in all of this, my family doesn’t have a history of heart conditions,” Simpson said. “I don’t know that a lot of the time in my life I’m around people that know how to intervene when there is a heart condition. And it’s like I got plucked out of my home and put into this family.”
Ivy and other bystanders performed CPR until first responders arrived and rushed Simpson to an area hospital. She suffered a second cardiac arrest and was then transferred to Duke University Medical Center. Her husband flew to be by her side as she spent days on life support. Waking up was unlike anything she had ever experienced, she said.
“I’ve spent so much of my life and my career bringing people joy, and to wake up and see that the room was full of heaviness and sorrow — that was really hard,” Simpson said.
Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare congenital heart condition where the heart repairs damage with tissue that doesn’t properly conduct electricity in the right ventricle. Running doesn’t cause the condition, but it did eventually reveal it.
“When my heart was pumping blood and was dilated, at some point in my life, it was very likely the electricity was going to turn off, and that’s what happened,” Simpson said. “[My cardiologist] said, ‘You thought you trained your whole life for the Olympics, but you were really training your whole life for June 16.’ I trained my whole life for that day — and I won.”
Simpson had a defibrillator and pacemaker implanted, and regularly sees her cardiologist, who she called her “favorite person in the world.” But still, she’ll never be able to run again. She’s still not sure what comes next, but she said her husband and the Pointers have given her space and encouragement as she figures that out.
Simpson said on Instagram she is recovering at home and will continue to work at Fleet Feet. There’s still “a lot to learn about what my recovery will look like over time,” she wrote, but she’s “not afraid of what comes next because I know I’m not alone.”
Simpson told CBS News she is focused on maintaining a positive mindset as she recovers.
“To think that the way I showed up as a person and as a woman with my last mile was in community, taking young girls around the track, I’m really proud of that,” Simpson said. “That’s what I’m grateful for. That’s what I want to remember.”
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