Just a few of the critters coaches had to chase off the apparatus at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Canadian coach Val Arsenault:
… while (Kristen Klarenbach) was waiting to mount on beam, I was trying to swat away a bat that was flying around her ! How do you prepare an athlete for distractions like that ? We do contingency planning as part of our preparation, but that kind of situation never occurred to us as a possibility…
Yeesh.
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