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smirkymonkey

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8. Ooof!

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #7)

Sun Aug 7, 2016, 08:51 AM

Aug 2016

Especially bad! Sorry to hear about your accident. Being no stranger to bone breaks and reconstructive surgery, it was one of the most unpleasant, painful experiences in my life. Hope you are better now!

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French Gymnast breaks leg upon dismount WARNING: GRAPHIC!!! [View all] Cooley Hurd Aug 2016 OP

OMG, poor guy! such a bad break :( Sunlei Aug 2016 #1

OUCH! Now we have the new "agony of defeat" clip... backscatter712 Aug 2016 #2

Injured Olympic gymnast Samir Ait Said put on stretcher, then dropped csziggy Aug 2016 #3

OMG! Jeebus!! The poor guy!!! Cooley Hurd Aug 2016 #5

Article notes it was his other leg and happened in the same way. suffragette Aug 2016 #13

ouch! handmade34 Aug 2016 #4

Poor guy. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #6

2 bones - his tibia AND fibia by the looks of it... Cooley Hurd Aug 2016 #7

Ooof! smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #8

It took a time to heal, but it's completely normal now. Cooley Hurd Aug 2016 #9

sometimes i look at the injuries associated with sport and just wonder why take the risk dembotoz Aug 2016 #10

Poor guy! I feel bad for anyone who gets hurt like that! Even when... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #11

The poor man Sanity Claws Aug 2016 #12

He's 26 and would have been 21 or 22 when he broke it before the last Olympics mythology Aug 2016 #17

How awful. MicaelS Aug 2016 #14

Breaking news frazzled Aug 2016 #15

*rimshot* Cooley Hurd Aug 2016 #16