South Africa’s World High Jump champion Jacques Freitag is out for the rest of the indoor season. I read that he had a ruptured tendon in his ankle and it was very close to breaking.
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Digging out my handy World Championships issue of TFN I find a story on Frietag in which it says that he missed a bunch of 2002 after ankle surgery. "...had to have his left ankle reconstructed after suffering torn ligaments and stress fractures on both sides of the limb." I wonder if this is the same ankle? Since he later talks about doctors saying it was 50-50 that he would ever jump again I would assume the original one was his takeoff leg, anybody know what side he jumps from?
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I've only seen him jump once on TV and I think he took off on his right foot. The photo on this link seems to confirm that. I suspect he's done for the year. If it's his take-off ankle almost definatelty so, slight chance if it's not. Still, it's a shame, I thought he might make 2.40m this year.
http://www.iaaf.org/WIC04/news/Kind=2/newsId=24056.html
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Yes, he is a right foot jumper. I saw a clip of him jumping in Europe last year on a jump site called www.hi-jump.org I can't get into this site anymore, but it was pretty cool because they had tons of jumps available to download including Soto's 2.45. I too am sad for Freitag and I hope that it's not his take-off leg. I believe it is the same doctor operating on him as before.If you're ever walking down the beach and you see a girl dressed in a bikini made out of seashells, and you pick her up and hold her to your ear, you can hear her scream.
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Does anyone know about the www.hi-jump.org website... I have seen several references to it in various places but have never been able to get there. I always get a forbidden access window... any tips?
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Yeah, I don't know what happened to that website. The strange thing about the whole "Forbidden" deal is that even the avi files that I downloaded to my computer all of a sudden stopped working as well. Doesn't matter what kind of software I am using. They were all free to download so I'm not sure what the problem is. I've tried to get on this site from many different terminals and stand-alone's with no success.If you're ever walking down the beach and you see a girl dressed in a bikini made out of seashells, and you pick her up and hold her to your ear, you can hear her scream.
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Actually, I'm not sure where I saw it. It may have been on the IAAF website. Anyway, I saw a blurb that mentioned that he was nursing an ankle injury at least a day or two before the announcement was made. The article didn't mention which ankle though.If you're ever walking down the beach and you see a girl dressed in a bikini made out of seashells, and you pick her up and hold her to your ear, you can hear her scream.
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