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Toothless Tiger joins girlfriend Vonn to celebrate her record 63rd victory

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 race at Cortina d’Ampezzo. The photo that generated the buzz was Woods missing a 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 email. “Woods’ tooth was knocked out by the incident.”

But race organizers said this was not reported to them. They added that Woods did request extra security and a snowmobile to exit the finish area, and organizers 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 organizing 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 over the lower part of his face. The photo was taken when the scarf was lowered.

Woods, returns to competition next week in the Phoenix Open.

Woods has a long history with cameras, often frustrated when shutters go off mid-swing.

While her boyfriend may have lost a tooth, Vonn had reason to celebrate after claiming a record 63rd World Cup success.

The 30-year-old had drawn level with Austrian legend Annemarie Moser-Proell’s previous record women’s tally of 62 wins between 1970 and 1980 at the Italian resort 24 hours earlier.

Vonn, Olympic downhill champion in 2010, world champion in the discipline in 2009 and four-time overall World Cup champion, rewrote the record books beating Austrian Anna Fenninger (00.85s) and Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein (00.92).

“It’s amazing, words can’t describe my feeling — 63 feels incredible,” Vonn told the US Ski Federation website.

Slovenia’s Tina Maze, who leads the standings, was fourth, almost one second behind.




 

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