Complete Awesomeness!

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Danzig

he returned to riding just three weeks after the spill. and when you get your breath knocked out of you you can barely breathe. christ on the cross, it was an effing flippant remark about his pride being injured. gimme a break.

He only came back briefly and had to take another two months off. He admitted that he came back way too soon and it was a mistake. In addition to the puncured lung, he had a fractured vertebra.

He said he was having trouble breathing because of the punctured lung. The bottom line is it was a horrific spill and he was seriously injured. It wasn't one of those spills where a guy has a sore butt, but his pride is injured more than anything. That does happen all the time, but this was not one of those cases.

[GenuineRisk]

Here's an LA Times article from 2003 that mentions the injuries:

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug...rts/sp-horse19

I think the confusion is because some accounts right after the race said it was only a sore shoulder.

And a video. The guy who put this one up set it to "Chariots of Fire" but the fall is a little too terrifying from the front angle to be humorous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilUEjYf4juQ

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Here's an LA Times article from 2003 that mentions the injuries:

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug...rts/sp-horse19

I think the confusion is because some accounts right after the race said it was only a sore shoulder.

And a video. The guy who put this one up set it to "Chariots of Fire" but the fall is a little too terrifying from the front angle to be humorous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilUEjYf4juQ

It was actually a collapsed lung (not a punctured lung) and that was why he was having so much trouble breathing. Here is another article about it. He said he felt lucky to be alive.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug...s/sp-stevens21

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

He only came back briefly and had to take another two months off. He admitted that he came back way too soon and it was a mistake. In addition to the puncured lung, he had a fractured vertebra.

He said he was having trouble breathing because of the punctured lung. The bottom line is it was a horrific spill and he was seriously injured. It wasn't one of those spills where a guy has a sore butt, but his pride is injured more than anything. That does happen all the time, but this was not one of those cases.

who would think an offhand remark about a spill would garner so much attention.