February 18, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
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On Friday 13th in July 2007, Salim Sdiri , a long jumper of France was hit by javelin from Tero Pitkamaki of Finland during a Golden League meet in Rome. Luckily, the javelin sailed far off target 80 meters away and landed in the back of long jumper Salim Sdiri and not take his life away at once. However, almost seven month passed, Sdiri still could not take part in the competition, he was healthy but he was angry.
He desires to come back the competition, but his injures still troubled him. His coach said we should give him time to face this kind of accident. And he also plans to join the Frenche indoor track and field championships in Bordeaux.
Anyway, on one side, he was not so satisfied for Pitkamaki. For one thing, he said that Pitkamaki still competed after accident; for another thing, Pitkamaki did not give him a message or an e-mail for last seven months. On another side, Pitkamaki responded that the officials had come there, he was shocked, and so he still competed.
After this accident, the I.A.A.F technical committee has begun a study, and the I.A.A.F. says it plans to discuss the findings at a meeting next month in Valencia, Spain.
At first, I just think for the long jumper, he was so luck, that he still alive; for a while, when I saw this news seven months later, I still feel nervous, what a dangerous situation at that moment, how can we feel safe in the sport? Why the designers have not thought about that kind of accident at beginning? How dangerous the javelin is! How dangerous the hammer is! When we are in the competition, sometimes, we have little time to watch the things happening around us. Everything is possible, the javelin and the hammer or the shot has no eyes, and how can it judge the person or the target? Most of time, we see the accident in the some kinds of sports we called “violence sport”, such as wrestling, boxing, American football or soccer, I have see a goal keeper was kicked to death. But for the javelin hit long jumper, the first time I have heard. It seems these two things just belong to the track and field, and then they have no direct relationship. More or less, the I.A.A.F. has paid some attention to improve the safety of these two competition, they have done some thing to avoid this kind of things happened again! And for the angry of Sdiri , that was acceptable, he was the first such kind of victim, he has right to say his feeling , but that seems not so generous for an athlete. No one wants that things happened, he should not blame Pitkamaki so harsh, things had been took place, we just prayed him be recovery quickly! Wish he will appear in the French indoor track and field championships in Bordeaux.
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maggie Said,
February 19, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Yes this was a terrible story, but gladly it is not common in track and field. It’s hard to imagine how the guy could throw so far off the mark unless he was doing it on purpose. Anyway, it was terrible unlucky for Sdiri. Let’s wish him luck in his recovery and Olympic try outs.
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