Just when you're having a good day some jerk has to go and ruin it...
It's been a pretty good weekend around the club so far, enjoying the last nice weeks of fall paddling, awards banquet last night (more on that later) and Attila's Annual Fall Classic Poker Tournament this afternoon. A bunch of paddlers are in town for that and the national team guys took advantage of the Russells A & B being here to put a few C2s together with the addition of Duke and Dustin.
We were removing the docks after practice this morning and stopped to watch the 3 C2s go by and all of sudden Tamas and Attila turned and paddled into the dock. Tomi's face was covered in blood and when we looked across the river, Tamas Sr. had jumped out of the motorboat and was sprinting east along the railway tracks. Two kids had heaved a rock at the C2, hitting Tomi in the face. He has a deep gash under his left eye. Everyone at the club tried to chase these kids down, parents jumped into their cars, Peter and Darryl took the motorboat across and the entire high performance group took off running but they disappeared into the apartments over by the hockey arena. I was outside talking to Attila when Tamas came out to the car. Attila's taking him to the hospital. He's dizzy and his face is swollen, you can tell the gash is really deep but it looks like it missed his eye. He's still good looking though.