The attempt of an athletic star of Virginia High School to enter the first place during a race last Tuesday led an opponent to hit her with a cane, causing head injuries.
According to Brookville High School Kaelen Tucker, he is still waiting for the opponent of IC NORCOM high school to apologize.
Tucker had just set a new state championship records of the Virginia High School League (VHSL) in the 55 -meter race on Monday, and hoped to help his school win the 4x200M relay final on Tuesday too.
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However, the heat of the competition was taken too far by an opponent, since the clear video evidence of the race shows that Tucker was hit in the head by a corridor that wielded the Norcom cane, who also threw it in the direction of Tucker after being approved.
Tucker immediately ran out of the track and fell, holding his head.
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“Then, in the posterior curve, I cut myself, and tried to spend the first time, so I let her go ahead,” Tucker told Wset ABC 13 in an interview published on Friday. “I knew when I completely put on the curve that I would have to pass over it. So, as we advanced in the middle of the curve, we were hitting our arms a lot. Then, I put on a little more outside the curve to surround it.”
“When I finally pushed to go in front of her, it was when she hit me in the head with the cane.”
Hit during the races is very normal on the track, but not how Tucker’s opponent reacted at that time during the second stretch of the race.
“The entire section simply gasped,” said Tucker’s mother, Tamarrow, on which they surrounded her in the stands. “We made the family come from the city, their godparents were here from Myrtle Beach. Everyone was panting. When I saw her fall, all I could do was run out of degrees. He simply knew he had to get to her.”
“I was a bit hysterical because I simply couldn’t believe that that was what had happened.”
The career judges immediately disqualified the NORCOM team for “contact interference”, according to Wset ABC 13.
Tamarrow said that a doctor was already with his daughter when he put on the track, although what baffled the whole family was the lack of responsibility for what happened.
Until Friday, they have not had news from the runners or their coaches, he said.
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“Everything that was not apologies,” Tamarrow said. “There are no coaches, without athlete, with nothing. Even if it was an accident, I don’t think it’s an accident, but nothing. More than 24 hours have passed, so I guess it was the main thing. My son was injured and nobody came to review it.”
Wset ABC 13 asked the Tuckers if criminal charges would be pressed, and without giving a definitive response of itself or not, Tamarrow explained their point of view.
“Of course, everyone gives their opinion about what you think you should do, but that is also the son of another person,” he said, referring to the aggressor. “I want to take that into account too. Yes, he definitely hit my daughter more than once, but she is also the daughter of another person.”
The family said that a visit to the doctor on Friday revealed symptoms of brain shock while Kaelen continues to deal with headaches. There was also swelling around the area where it was beaten and a possible fracture of the skull.
Kaelen is not allowed on the track until he recovers from brain shock, said his mother.
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The Tucker family contacted the VHSL and said they received a return of calls explaining that an investigation was underway and that both secondary schools were cooperating. No discipline for the incident has been announced, according to Tuckers.
The VHSL did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Pak Gazette Digital.
At the end of the interview Kaelen was asked from her home what she wanted to tell the opponent who hit her, in any case.
“Why did you do it? And why didn’t you apologize yet?” She said.
