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2 Replies Last post: Dec 19, 2007 5:56 AM by refinnej10  
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Dec 19, 2007 5:36 AM

Someone view this link for me, please


Would someone be so kind as to open this link and tell me what the videos are? It's an article about a gymnast who broke her neck in 1998 and there's a link to two videos in the middle of a paragraph talking about her injury. Surely, a respectable news organization wouldn't post a video of her breaking her neck.


http://universalsports.nbcsports.com/articles/show/34753


About 10 or so paragraphs down there's a link to two videos (it says, "watch video Part 1 and Part 2")


Thank you kindly.


And, if someone could tell me how to make this a question to give out points, I will.

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1. Dec 19, 2007 5:53 AM in response to: refinnej10
Re: Someone view this link for me, please
I've watched the first part, and it's just a compilation of the news footage immediately following the accident. Nothing of it actually happening. Weird though...it's not the NBC news video player...it's stuff posted to youtube.

But no, nothing of her actually breaking her neck. There are shots of her laying on the mat after the accident, medics carrying her off. That's it.


(Edited to add...I watched the second part as well. Nothing there either...same shots of her on the mat, etc.)

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2. Dec 19, 2007 5:56 AM in response to: cgraz061
Re: Someone view this link for me, please

cgraz061 wrote:
I've watched the first part, and it's just a compilation of the news footage immediately following the accident. Nothing of it actually happening. Weird though...it's not the NBC news video player...it's stuff posted to youtube.

But no, nothing of her actually breaking her neck. There are shots of her laying on the mat after the accident, medics carrying her off. That's it.

Thanks cgraz! I was going to cry if they actually posted videos of it happening.


Back when it happened, I saw one still image of her mid-air and that was enough to be able to tell exactly what happened and that while she was in the air (in that instant) she knew she was going to hit the ground in a really bad way.

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