Friday, February 25, 2011

A straggering javelin

Salim Sdiri is a french athlete and his speciality is the long jump. At the age of twenty eight years, Salim carried of his first medal at the time of the European championships, in 2007, in Birmingham.

But the 13th of July in 2007, Salim received accidentally a javelin full in his back during a competiton which took place in Roma. This javelin throwed by a Finn athlete, went the wrong way.
The consequences were very important because the javelin affected the vital organs and more particulary his liver.

However, after o long convalescence and a lot of interrogations with regards to his carrer,in 2008,  he decided to set to practise again in order to participate at Olympic Games in Beijing. Infortunately, Salim fails his qualification for the long jump: his participation was compromised

But, in august 2009, the French athlete finished sixth at the time of the word Championships in Germany and in 2010 (february) he'll become champion and owns the best wold performance.

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