French Long Jumper Speared by Errant Javelin
July 13th, 2007 by HeywoodYep, you read me right. Salim Sdiri was warming up to compete in the long jump at the Golden Gala in Rome on Friday (the 13th!) when Finnish thrower Tero Pitkamaki slipped while hurling his javelin.
The result: the javelin flew out of the left side of the normal competition area and left Sdiri with a 1 inch punchout in his right side.
Amazingly, Sdiri was not seriously hurt internally, which makes this all the more amazing as well as something I’m able to joke a bit about. I mean, couldn’t Pitkamaki at least have yelled, “Fooooooore” ?
(story via ESPN.com)
July 14th, 2007 at 2:52 am
I think the technical term is “kabobing.”