You are trying out for the USA World Cup soccer team.Everything is going well until you try to score a goal doing a bicycle kick and tear a connection between your quadriceps and femur.Now you will have to wait another four years.Which of the following could you have done to your leg?

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A strain refers to an injury to a muscle or tendon, while a sprain refers to an injury to a ligament. Since the injury involves a connection between the quadriceps (a muscle) and the femur (a bone), it is a tendon injury, making "strained a tendon" the correct choice.

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