These Olympians are professional athletes.
I saw a news report this morning about a woman who was struck in the head by an arrow during target practice.
The incident occurred on private property and the woman was flown by helicopter to a local hospital where she is expected to make a complete recovery. Fortunately, the arrow did NOT pass through or into her skull and her injuries ended up being non-life threatening.
On a slightly different side thought . . .
I, as well as a couple million other people, have been actively following the Olympics.
Strangely, I could not help but wonder if the arrow incident wasn’t because somebody suddenly decided they wanted to be an Olympic Archer, athlete or heroine in a hit movie.
Now I realize that no-where in this article was there any mention about the Olympics or any re-creating of sporting events but I couldn’t help but wonder if the two were in some way related.
Now before you laugh any more, I have some history to back this up. Back in the 90’s (1990’s that is) the USA had some really good swimmers and divers winning medals and setting records. One such person was Tom Dolan who won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics and held the world record in the 400 m individual medley.
His world record lasted eight years until another young boy-wonder by the name of Michael Phelps came along and broke it.
Anyway, my first born son who was all of 6 or 7 at the time thought being an Olympic swimmer winning medals was really cool. So he wanted to be one. Of course he would have to practice. So being short a pool and some water, decided to pretend his bed was the edge of the pool and his room floor was the pool.
Don’t worry; he did not kill himself jumping off the bed diving onto the floor.
The edge of the dresser broke his fall instead. . .
And he ended up getting a couple stitches in his ear.
All is, and was, fine; he recovered, you can’t even see the scar and he graduated high school and college with honors.
This memory and series of events, news stories and such, got me to thinking . . .
I wonder if there is an uptick in emergency room visits during or shortly after major sporting events and victories?
So far, I have not found any compelling statistical evidence on the internet, so I thought I just throw it out there and ask everyone’s opinion.
Until next time . . .
Be Good, Do Well, Have Fun
And don’t try this stuff at home.
Fumbled Returns 