The father of one of the Australian athletes injured in the fatal bridge collapse at the 1997 Maccabiah Games in Israel called “shocking, hurtful and bordering on the farcical” the soon-to-be-released report on the tragedy issued by the Maccabiah World Union. Colin Elterman, whose daughter, Sasha, is still recovering, said the report unfairly exonerated the world sports body.
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