Gym: UK gymnast's skills save him in fourth-floor fall

From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: April 7, 2004 | Copyright information

AAP Sports News (Australia)
04-07-2004
Gym: UK gymnast's skills save him in fourth-floor fall

LJUBLJANA, April 6 Reuters - A British junior gymnastics team member fell from the
fourth floor of a Ljubljana hotel but suffered only a broken ankle after putting his gymnastics
skills into practice, the Slovenian press reported today.

"Probably my gymnastic knowledge and experience saved me," the Slovenske Novice newspaper
quoted 17-year-old Steven Jehu as saying.

"There was a big window that could be opened. I leaned out over a metal bar, but the
bar suddenly broke. I couldn't do ...

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