"PROVO -- Ryan McGeeney served seven years in the Marines, including a six-month deployment in Afghanistan, but 10 minutes of photographing the state high school track championships proved to be more dangerous to him.
"... The Standard-Examiner photographer was struck below the knee by a javelin while shooting the discus event shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday, delaying the events while an ambulance pulled onto the track..."Some people would wince, but not those hardy Utahns. The thrower's coach told the AP, "One of the first things that came to my mind was, 'Good thing we brought a second javelin.' "
" 'They don't have javelins in Afghanistan,' McGeeney joked after returning a few hours later to continue shooting photos of the track meet. 'That's where I'm lucky.' "
One of the commenters on the newspaper's website also had to ask: "Did the javelin thrower get credit for the six miles the javelin spent in the ambulance?"
It's good to know there are still some people who keep their eyes on the prize.
It's good to know there are still some people who keep their eyes on the prize.
Related:
Standard-Examiner photographer pierced by javelin but keeps on shooting (Roy Burton, Ogden Standard-Examiner)
Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meet (The Associated Press)
Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meet (The Associated Press)
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OUUUCCHHHH...and I thought dodging line drive foul balls, flailing hockey sticks and stray pucks, as well as getting clobbered by falling basketball players was bad...shessh.
A reminder to all of us shooters to take a quick peek as to where we are and what could potentially run us through....Bet you never had that to deal with in Portage eh???
It's funny, during my tour of duty at a weekly I once got nailed twice in the same half-inning by foul balls ... but I never got hit once in Portage at baseball, hockey, soccer or HS basketball.
Once during a PCI Trojans senior volleyball practice I stood in the middle of the backcourt and all but invited the team that won the Manitoba AAA title to nail me with their best. None of them did.
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