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Touchline • Issue 14 • 15
A 12-year-old boy died during a kickabout with four friends
when an unsecured metal goalpost fell on him.
Casey Breese was goalkeeping when the studs of his football
boot were caught in the net and in his attempts to free himself
he brought the heavy metal construction over himself.
The 11-year-old Manchester United fan was playing with his
friends in Caersws village, near Newtown in Powys, Wales when
tragedy struck.
His friends witnessed how Casey came out from under the rusty
bar and said he had trouble breathing. Casey was airlifted to
hospital but died as a result of a crush injury.
The metal posts were 20 years old, poorly maintained and had
no restraining devices to prevent them from falling.
Following Casey’s death, the Football Association of Wales (FAW)
baseball & softball merge for
olympic bid
The International Baseball Federation has formally approved a
merger with softball’s governing body in a joint bid to return to
the Olympics.
IBAF says the creation of a single international federation
received unanimous approval in a mail-in vote of its members.
The International Softball Federation approved the move in
October.
IBAF President Riccardo Fraccari says “this is another critical
step in the long-term prosperity and development of softball
and baseball worldwide. We look forward to presenting an
exceptional value proposal to the Olympic movement for 2020
and beyond.”
Baseball and softball are bidding jointly to win a spot on the
program for the 2020 Games. Karate, roller sports, squash, sport
climbing, wakeboard and wushu also are competing.
Baseball and softball, voted out by the IOC in 2005, were last
played at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
la crosse damages award
A MELBOURNE teenager has won nearly $200,000 damages
against the Victorian state government for negligence after she
sustained a serious knee injury during organised school sport.
A judge has found the girl — who had reported a pre-existing
ankle injury to staff — felt compelled to participate by a sports
teacher described as “abrupt and overbearing”.
The County Court heard the girl, who ruptured her anterior
cruciate ligament, believed likely her dream of becoming an elite
world-class athlete was “all but dashed”.
The girl, 16 sued for damages for negligence over the injuries
sustained.
She said she and her mother told the assistant principal of
Parkdale Secondary College on July 16, 2010, she had been
instructed that morning by a physiotherapist not to play sport
after aggravating the injury.
A state representative in hockey, the girl claimed after she told
assistant principal Gillian Lister she could not play sport Ms
Lister said “that’s fine” and she would tell (sports) teacher Laura
Della Fortuna.
But she alleged that after Ms Della Fortuna confirmed her
situation, the teacher told her “you have to get up and do
this now or else you will get a detention and you’ll get into
trouble”.
The girl agreed to play lacrosse “just for her to get off my back”,
then injured her left knee which “felt like someone just shot me
in the leg in the back of my knee”.
In her decision, Judge Morrish found the school breached its
duty of care to the girl. Judge Morrish awarded $198,892 in
damages.
boy, 12, dies after being struck
by goalpost
launched an inquiry into unsupervised pitches and issued clubs
with new guidelines over the use of goal posts.
The seven new guidelines included instructions to dismantle
and properly store portable goals not in use.
Clubs are also prevented from using homemade goalposts,
which have been altered from their original size.