adminCORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy. — Tiger Woods has another reason not to like cameras — his agent said it cost him a tooth.
Woods made a surprise visit to Italy on Monday to watch girlfriend Lindsey Vonn capture her record 63rd World Cup skiing race. The photo that generated all the buzz was Woods missing his front tooth.
The culprit, according to his agent, was a camera.
“During a crush of photographers at the awards podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth,” Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports said in an e-mail. “Woods’ tooth was knocked out by the incident.” Race organisers said this was not reported to them. They added that Woods did request extra security and a snowmobile to exit the finish area, and organisers met both requests.
“I was among those who escorted him from the tent to the snowmobile and there was no such incident,” Nicola Colli, the secretary-general of the race organising committee, said. “When he arrived he asked for more security and we rounded up police to look after both him and Lindsey.” Woods had been wearing a scarf with a skeleton pattern over the lower part of his face, sunglasses and a stocking cap. — AFP.
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