Anyone on here witness German's injury? Please post.

ponytanyne, could to post this, plus your assessment of what might have happened on the T&FNews site - thanks.

I heard that someone stepped on his foot or something and he rolled his ankle badly

poor guy, looked like he was in a lot of pain

what a tragedy. let's hope that he can come back from this. he has youth on his side.

Ouch!

I hope it heals properly and doesn't become chronic. I remember reading in one of the many stories about him last year that he had some achilles injuries previously, so it might become an on-going problem.

I've had a swollen achilles myself for the past half year, and though it's relatively minor and responded to excercises, getting it completely healed seems to be a longer term thing.

damn I hate this. Last year I would not get on the German Band Wagon. Even after he set all the records I still wouldn't do it.

But this year the kid has shown he was the real deal, and I wanted great things to happen for him today. After hearing about what happend I was like Crap. Now after seeing the photos I feel so bad for him. No doubt in my mind he would of been 3rd this year. No doubt he would of done something speacial this track season. I really hope that he is gonna be alright and everything heals up.

I do like the post "the only way the gods could stop him" Such a Talent and this has to happen to him.. Get better German, and come back to kick some ass man

he fell right in front of me. i almost stepped on him as he rolled across the grass. it was startling. it looked bad. like he got shot.

German has been known for trying to make injuries seem better than they really are.. last year at Arcadia he was very eager to race and tried to hide his achilles injury but his coach noticed something wrong with his stride and immediately said he wouldn't run (yea, and all you guys were making fun of him for "wimping out".. well looks like he pulled it through where it counted).

Looks like this was an ongoing problem.. best of luck German, he is definitely the best freshman and very talented and hard working. Shame on Dave Smith for even running him.. however I can understand why he would want to do that, since Vail and Barnes-Smith will be leaving next year.

sucks wrote:Last year I would not get on the German Band Wagon. Even after he set all the records I still wouldn't do it. But this year the kid has shown he was the real deal . . .

It takes a lot to be the real deal in your world.

Waiter at local restaurant wrote:

I was at work this afternoon when the Cowboy team stopped by our restaurant on their way to the airport. GF's ankle was wrapped up, but the limp wasn't too significant. It's probably not as serious as some people are making it out to be.

IF GF had torn his Achilles, he would have been hospitalized right now, so hopefully it´s not that serious.

I was right there too.... what has been described is accurate from what I saw and recall.

Anyone else notice how much ground German made up prior to his injury? He was easily 10 seconds back (I haven't looked at the results yet) at about 3 miles. By the time they hit the backstretch, he was sitting at the front of the chase pack. With how he has been ifnishing races this year, there's no doubt he would've been 3rd place. What a shame.

Small correction- "...by the time they came out of the backstretch..."

It really is too bad.

I hope he can just get through this because there are bigger fish to fry than his first NCAA as a frosh.

- Phil Passen

well. wrote:

IF GF had torn his Achilles, he would have been hospitalized right now, so hopefully it´s not that serious.

Would people without the first clue about anything please stop inserting their dumbass opinions on this injury as if they are facts?

There is no reason whatsoever that a torn Achilles would need to be managed on an inpatient basis. Now go screw yourself.

he was spiked in the back of the ankle. It wasn't a situation like Viren where he could do a role and keep running. He tried getting up and he couldn't. The guy had a freak accident and was hurt too badly to get up and you guys are all jumping on the fragile bandwagon on this board. If you weren't there then I understand you don't know what happened but my teammates and I were all there and saw it. He looked like he was in a high amount of pain and miserable. I am sure if he was able to get up he would have ASAP and got back in the race.

The pack he was in had a lot of people and they were jostling for position. The guy behind him just got a little too close. I didn't see who did it but I am sure there is video out there somewhere of him going down. It was sad to see him get drug off the course by people in front of us but he was in the middle of the course rolling around and people were jumping over and around him. It was a terrible situation that I am sure no one here would want to go through. So why give German such a hard time over something he could not prevent or fix by just getting up and running?

Wow, good work on those photos.

If he was spiked, these photos will be perfect for our rampant, uninformed, irresponsible speculation regarding who spiked him.

looks like either the iona guy or even possibly his teammate!!

LetsRunOurMouths wrote:

If he was spiked, these photos will be perfect for our rampant, uninformed, irresponsible speculation regarding who spiked him.

Clearly, it was Frank Shorter who was responsible.

Luckily, he took pity on German and didn't kill him as he has done in the past.