Injuries You're Glad Aren't on YouTube

Jens Voigt hit the pavement face-first at the Tour de France at around 40 mph last month. This looked worse than it sounds, and it sounds bad to begin with: Normally, this would be an all bad thing with the exceptions that Voigt remembers nothing from the accident and only fractured his cheekbone in the crash, which could have been much, much worse than it was. But in the digital age, even a horrific, face-dragging atrocity of a crash in front of watching millions comes with some PR bennies:

My older boys seemed mainly obtained with the fact that I was the coolest dad since the crash was the second most downloaded video on youtube in the days after the accident."

That is lemonade made from lemons, ladies and gentlemen. Voigt had x- rays untll he was "flourescent in the dark," in his words, but he will make a full recovery from the accident. Two sports injuries not on YouTube for various reasons? First, Adrian Beltre, whose injured testicle is so badly contused he is on the disabled list and you have just squeezed your legs together involuntarily in sympathy. Second, Landon Donovan, who did not contract swine flu from the vomit and urine thrown from the stands at Estadio Azteca yesterday, but instead contracted the virus before taking the field, and played the entire game at altitude sick as a proverbial dog. Oh, and Duke football might have a bit of piggy lay-down disease, too, which will give them another excuse for being, well, Duke football.

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