Medical personnel stabilize Ogden Standard-Examiner photographer Ryan McGeeney's leg after he was pierced by a javelin directly below his right knee while covering the Utah state high school track championships at Brigham Young University's Clarence Robison track stadium in Provo, Utah. McGeeney was transported by ambulence to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where the javelin was removed. He received 13 stitches, but suffered no serious damage to any ligaments or tendons. McGeeney took the photo himself.
(AP Photo/Ryan McGeeney)
Standard-Examiner photography intern Ryan McGeeney (right) poses for a picture with Provo High School athlete Anthony Miles, who is holding a cutoff section of the javelin that he threw, piercing McGeeney.
