When Tiger Woods showed up to support girlfriend Lindsey Vonn at the World Cup earlier this week, one of his front teeth was missing. Vonn is now backing his agent’s story that it was knocked out by a cameraman accidentally.
Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, said a videographer with a shoulder camera bumped into him and knocked out his tooth but Nicola Colli, the secretary general of the World Cup organizing committee, says that’s not true at all.
Colli told TMZ that no one was alerted of any sort of incident like that. "You would think that if somebody hit you – somebody would say something. But [Tiger] told us nothing,” he said.
However, Vonn told USA Today in a phone interview Steinberg’s story is true.
"I didn't see it happen, but I guess some photographer hit him in the face with a camera and it totally knocked his tooth out,” she said. “I felt so bad because he flew all the way over there for a matter of hours.”
Woods flew to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where Vonn won and beat Annemarie Moser Proell's record.
Colli also told USA Today that Woods wasn’t where he said he was when the incident happened. "During the [awards] ceremony, Tiger Woods was in the operations tent, the tent just outside the exit gate, He was looking on from there and he was not in the finish area,” he said.
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