Man hit by Javelin

Target · 07-13-2007, 06:47 PM

Oh Dear, and this is nothing to do with gladiators!!

A freak accident, with French long-jumper Salim Sdiri speared by a javelin, overshadowed the IAAF Golden League meeting in Rome.
Salim was crouching in the warm-up area when a wild throw from Finland's Tero Pitkamaki hit him in the upper body.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/6898520.stm

Balintherlas · 07-13-2007, 08:06 PM

Dang, you think they'd be able to make the javelin pit safer, first the ref, now the Frenchman. Couldn't they just make the cage higher and have no one near the vicinity of the throw?

VulcanRider · 07-14-2007, 12:45 AM

I read the topic & thought the guy got hit by an early 70's muscle car...

Felix The Assassin · 07-14-2007, 10:05 AM

I read the topic and was concerned on how the heck a Javelin missile went astray....

Micah Foehammer · 07-14-2007, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Felix The Assassin:
I read the topic and was concerned on how the heck a Javelin missile went astray....

If he had been hit by a Javelin missile there wouldn't have been much to show, except for a smoking crater and a pair of shoes.

Kakero · 07-15-2007, 08:22 AM

Same thing has happened in my secondary school, nearly 12 years ago. Some students were training with javelin. One of them threw the javelin and it impaled the head of a student who was jogging along the track. The student died on the spot.

Since then javelin was banned from the school.

07-13-2007, 06:47 PM	#1
Target Red Dragon Join Date: April 1, 2003 Location: The Midlands Posts: 1,571	Oh Dear, and this is nothing to do with gladiators!! A freak accident, with French long-jumper Salim Sdiri speared by a javelin, overshadowed the IAAF Golden League meeting in Rome. Salim was crouching in the warm-up area when a wild throw from Finland's Tero Pitkamaki hit him in the upper body. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/6898520.stm __________________ Smoke me a kipper...I'll be back for breakfast!! If you can keep your head when all around are loosing theirs...you probably haven’t grasped the situation!!

07-13-2007, 08:06 PM	#2
Balintherlas Symbol of Cyric Join Date: August 22, 2003 Location: Ohio, Go Tribe Age: 39 Posts: 1,131	Dang, you think they'd be able to make the javelin pit safer, first the ref, now the Frenchman. Couldn't they just make the cage higher and have no one near the vicinity of the throw? __________________ Veni, Vidi, Vici

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07-15-2007, 08:22 AM	#6
Kakero 40th Level Warrior Join Date: March 24, 2002 Posts: 10,215	Same thing has happened in my secondary school, nearly 12 years ago. Some students were training with javelin. One of them threw the javelin and it impaled the head of a student who was jogging along the track. The student died on the spot. Since then javelin was banned from the school.

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