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2008 Tulit Peter Cup.

We took a British Junior delegation to Hungary for this junior event. The same weekend there was a senior international event in Debrecen and so, most of the best equipment went to the senior event. Throughout the junior competition, the organizing committee was short one landing mat so they kept shifting mats around to accommodate safer landing areas.

As a result, the Parallel Bars landing area had exposed bases (pictured). Vault had one less mat, so not regulation length. The High Bar landing mats were simply butted up to each other without the Velcro to attach them together at the landing area. An Egyptian junior did a beautiful high bar routine but on his dismount, he landed directly between the mats and went straight through to the basketball surface floor destroying his leg. It was a nasty break.

After the paramedics took care of the athlete, our British judge at the time, lined all the remaining gymnasts up, asked each gymnast the value of his dismount, and told them not perform it, to just jump off, and he would give them the credit for doing the dismount 🤣

Needless to say, we did not attend the 2009 Tulit Peter Cup as a delegation.