It happened twice to me in my own sporting career, dogs got in way on track or on field. I'm missed a bronze medal at nine or ten years of age in egg and spoon race at local community games (a big deal to a guy of that age). Later we had an important high school football game, and I stumbled while in position of ball in attack. To look up from my position on ground and see a dog run away (it was before cameras like now, but spectators told me after they had enjoyed a good laugh at my expense). So it wasn't so bad. The egg and spoon race did hurt for a while, grandpa I recall produced a bronze medal out of somewhere, and 'made up a story', which I dutifully believed. Rest in peace gramps.
Netflix documentary about English club in Devonshire I think struggling to avoid cut from league soccer (spectators had burned the stadium down they were so unhappy the previous season, and there was no money to rebuild). The police had guard dogs on field for crowd control, except one dog bit one of the soccer players. Who was so commited to his club, they patched him back up and he finished the game. Yeah, it's a thing.
It happened twice to me in my own sporting career, dogs got in way on track or on field. I'm missed a bronze medal at nine or ten years of age in egg and spoon race at local community games (a big deal to a guy of that age). Later we had an important high school football game, and I stumbled while in position of ball in attack. To look up from my position on ground and see a dog run away (it was before cameras like now, but spectators told me after they had enjoyed a good laugh at my expense). So it wasn't so bad. The egg and spoon race did hurt for a while, grandpa I recall produced a bronze medal out of somewhere, and 'made up a story', which I dutifully believed. Rest in peace gramps.
Netflix documentary about English club in Devonshire I think struggling to avoid cut from league soccer (spectators had burned the stadium down they were so unhappy the previous season, and there was no money to rebuild). The police had guard dogs on field for crowd control, except one dog bit one of the soccer players. Who was so commited to his club, they patched him back up and he finished the game. Yeah, it's a thing.