Olympian Bryan Clay removes daughter's loose tooth with javelin

Bryan Clay's personal-best throw in the decathlon

javelin was 72m set in Helsinki in 2005

Just what does an Olympic gold medal-winning
decathlete do with his spare javelins once he's
retired?
Bryan Clay has a novel answer.
The 2008 Olympic champion, 35, put his to
productive use by helping to remove his daughter's
loose tooth.
A quick internet search on removing loose teeth
suggests eating chewy food or wiggling it with your
tongue.
Even quicker is attaching it to a javelin and
launching it across a field. Although it helps to
know how.
The American posted a video of the feat on his
Twitter page with the heading: "What you use
javelins for once you're retired."
An Olympic javelin weighs around 800g and can
reach speeds approaching 70mph on release, so we
couldn't possibly put you through watching the clip
in full.
The 2010 heptathlon world champion said his
daughter had been "wiggling it all day until it was
hanging by a thread just so she could do something
cool to get it out".
He added: "Don't worry, the tooth is safely under
her pillow!"
Even more importantly, his daughter looked pretty
unfazed after seeing the offending tooth launched
a good 30 metres across a field.