Former Olympian Killed Wife, Jumped to His Death
What scores did the judges give him?
My gosh, another guy going to medical school kills his wife--then saves us all the trouble of a trial. If only he'd done it the other way around...
are steroids linked to violence?
Apparently he didn't do as well with the long jump.
And now for something completely similiar....
olympic Judo Champ's Boyfriend Jumps Off Same Balcony
Fox Sports ^ | August 10, 2004 | Niko Price
Posted on 08/10/2004 8:05:07 AM EDT by SoloGlobalExplorer
NEA IONIA, Greece (AP) - As relatives tell it, it was the stuff of Greek tragedy: A love-struck young man threw himself off his balcony Monday, two days after a quarrel prompted his girlfriend - a member of Greece's Olympic judo team - to jump from the same spot.
"He had very intense feelings about the girl. He was very much in love," said Nikos Drakopoulos, a printer who lives across the hall from the couple. "He could not see himself living if she was gone."
Giorgos Chrisostomides, 24, was on life-support at an Athens hospital with injuries to his head and back. His high-school sweetheart, 20-year-old judo champion Eleni Ioannou, was at another hospital in critical condition with multiple fractures to her head and body.
http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2650756
The headline is a bit misleading. It's not the jump that'll kill ya, it's the sudden stop at the end....
Somehow, a lot of psychos have managed to graduate from that medical school. I know of a couple of more who are likely to go on a killing spree at some point.
He was against jumping before he was for it.
IIRC, something like 10% of most entering classes at Harvard Medical School have
spent some time in "mental institutions".
Sometimes the brilliant brains that get a person in medical school also have
some twists and bends.