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Andrew Adams reportingThe photographer who was hit by a javelin over the weekend is now talking about that freak accident.
After seven years in the Marines and a six-month tour in Afghanistan, you'd think Ryan McGeeney would have made it free and clear. But at a high school track championship in Provo, the now Standard-Examiner photographer was hit by a javelin.
McGeeney was shooting photos of the discus competition, walked out of the safe zone and was hit just below the knee with a javelin.
"It was sort of embarrassing, really," he said. "I just heard him say, 'Look out! Look out!' And the javelin went right through me," McGeeney explained.
Luckily he avoided serious injury. "It was not really all that painful," he said.
He tells his own newspaper he took pictures because he knew his bosses would ask him why he didn't.
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