X Games skateboarder still in hospital
X Games skateboarder Jake Brown walked away from maybe the nastiest fall ever when he plummeted 40+ feet during the X Games Skateboard Big Air competition at the Staples Center in LA [video]. Jake didn’t come out completely unscathed though, the skateboarder did suffer from both a bleeding lung and liver. The hospital is reporting that Jake has stopped bleeding from his lung, but is still bleeding from his liver. Jake is expected to make a full recovery, but the hospital plans to keep him there until the bleeding in his liver stops.
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August 4th, 2007
8:50 pm
That is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. It seemed like just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, they would show it in slow motion from a different angle and you were shocked all over again that he walked away from something like that. I wonder if Skateboard Big Air will be in the X Games next year. I know people get hurt at competitions all of the time, but I think a lot of people thought Jake was dead. I’m not sure if ESPN wants that type of publicity for their event. I guess time will tell.
August 5th, 2007
8:53 am
I’ve never seen someones shoes blow off their feet like that before. I cant believe they let him walk away from that?
August 9th, 2007
9:43 pm
Dude, Jake Brown shouldn’t be alive, let alone walk away from that. I’ll stick with watersports.