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Tom Kunich
Guest
I was down in Fresno over the weekend and watched the races down there. J.
J. Haedo's younger brother, also a sprinter, came out of the last turn and
apparently slid into the fence breaking his bike and having to hoof it to
the finish line.
I was about 20 feet from where he crossed and the announcer had been
shouting about a crash so I looked Haedo over pretty well and he didn't have
a mark on him. Yet the next morning's paper had almost exactly the same
position that I was in and you could see blood on his legs in the
photograph.
The really interesting part about this was that I expected to see blood on
his legs and looked carefully as he walked past and there wasn't a single
mark on him. I assumed that he slid into the guardrail and never actually
went down. No marks on his jersey or shorts either.
So, did someone at the Fresno paper decide to make it look more exciting
that it was?
J. Haedo's younger brother, also a sprinter, came out of the last turn and
apparently slid into the fence breaking his bike and having to hoof it to
the finish line.
I was about 20 feet from where he crossed and the announcer had been
shouting about a crash so I looked Haedo over pretty well and he didn't have
a mark on him. Yet the next morning's paper had almost exactly the same
position that I was in and you could see blood on his legs in the
photograph.
The really interesting part about this was that I expected to see blood on
his legs and looked carefully as he walked past and there wasn't a single
mark on him. I assumed that he slid into the guardrail and never actually
went down. No marks on his jersey or shorts either.
So, did someone at the Fresno paper decide to make it look more exciting
that it was?