The girl with the BREAK in her SHIN
The first of the year in gymnastics was a scary one. Every year, our whole team looks forward to the first meet of the year because it is the time to show everyone your new skills and a time to have fun! The start of our 2008 gymnastics season was a rough one. We were competing again GBN and we were all excited. We started out on bars and our team didn't do great because people were falling on their butts for their dismounts. This wasn't the best start, but we always had three more events to finish. We went to vault and did pretty well and were on our way to compete floor. After a few people did their routine on the floor, we heard a gasp in the audience. A girl from GBN had dismounted off of the beam and landed with one foot on an 8 inch mat, and her other foot on the ground mat. Everyone heard a crack and then there was silence. This girl's shin was split in half almost coming out of the skin at her shin, and he foot was dangling there on the side. We had a girl competing on floor at the time and it was hard to watch her because everyone was looking at the girl on the ground. The ambulance came and took her onto a stretcher and put a big boot on her leg. It was a horrible scene to see and our whole team was shaken up. the judges talked and the meet was canceled. But here is the question: when the meet is rescheduled, should the meet be restarted, or should we keep the scores from out first two events and start the last two over again?
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I think that we should re-do the entire meet on account that neither team had a full jv team. Haha.. but your post is good at pointing out that everyone (especially the freshmen) was looking forward to the first meet of the year. The events that occured were scaring, and I know from experience that it is difficult to get back up after something that has happened. It is hard to see someone get so badly injured and then standup and say, "well, im going to go do exactly what she just broke her leg on. I hope it goes better for me." I think that another major question is how will the team deal with this scary incident and not let it affect thier performance or will to go for new tricks?
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