Olympics - ouch!

Warning!!!


Graphic images!!!


Story and still images...

https://youtu.be/wUvIzJbBLSU


Full video...

https://youtu.be/iIRPE2c0xhI

Is that when the femur is broken in 2 places and it makes an L shape? Horrific!!! Poor guy. I won't look. Too gruesome.

You won't want to watch this one then...


https://youtu.be/pstZI1hBnf8

I don't know which bit makes me wince more...


The actual breaking bit... or when he tries to stand on the broken leg and it bends in half...!?

I cant watch.
I saw a young gymnast who was performing her floor exercise misjudge a high tumbling somersault the other night, she landed on the back of her neck, that was bad enough.
Luckily she was OK.

Go on Syl... watch the videos... the Thai boxing one is epic!!@

OK...I watched, it made me feel sick, so I shouted my OH in so he could watch (misery loves company) I kept misjudging the rewind though and so saw it about 4 times before I managed to get it right.

Poor man, I hope they managed to fix his leg.

Which one?


The Olympics one or the Thai boxing one?

I see the gymnast has been hobbling up nd down his ward on a frame. Brave ,determined guy.

The one you posted up "Kick boxing leg break"
I didn't click on any more...that one was enough..

Handy Andy wrote:I see the gymnast has been hobbling up nd down his ward on a frame. Brave ,determined guy.

Good on him!


I wish him well and a full and speedy recovery!


He is young and fit and (otherwise) extremely healthy so I'm sure he will mend/heal very quickly and well... and it is said that when a broken bone heals, it becomes stronger than it was before the break!


I reckon the leg bone was likely to have been in a weakened state anyway for it to break like that... could have already had tiny stress fractures running through it from his prior intensive training and practice routine and gone unnoticed as any pain may have been put down to muscle aches and strains etc...


I know someone who used to do a lot of running... and for ages she had pains in thighs, particularly after runs... she put it down to muscle aches and carried on running 3-4 times a week... until she was out running one day and one of her legs broke... turns out she had tiny stress fractures running through both legs because of the running and this was cause of the big leg break!

On a happier note...a young Brit has just won Gold in Kayaking.

Tommy do you watch UFC? I used to watch it but don't now.
They fight dirty and slip around in each other's blood.

Nah... don't watch it eddie...

Tommy Monk wrote:
Nah... don't watch it eddie...

YouTube it. You might like it

Tommy Monk wrote:You won't want to watch this one then...


https://youtu.be/pstZI1hBnf8

Hello T M. Correct!!!    Years ago I looked at the leg injury of Henrik Larson, a brilliant Swedish national who played for Barca and the domestic leagues of Scotland and England. HORRIBLE, I regretted it !  Apparently there was an audible sickening crunch too. Since then I know there have been similar injuries in various sports but I don't have the stomach to look!

Weightlifter snapped his arm, horrible.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics-2016-sports/article-3733995/Andranik-Karapetyan-suffers-hyperextended-elbow-Armenian-weightlifter-sees-medal-hopes-shattered-horrific-injury.html