WATCH ABOVE: Olympic Champion Bryan Clay uses javelin to remove daughter’s tooth. Allison Vuchnich reports.
How does an Olympic decathlete and father remove his daughter’s loose tooth? With a javelin of course.
Bryan Clay says it was his daughter Ellie’s idea. Her front baby tooth was loose and she thought her father could use his javelin to remove it.
The retired decathlete took some floss and his javelin to a field with his family. The dental floss was wrapped around Ellie’s tooth, and after his daughter says “bye” to her tooth, her father instructs her to keep her tooth and chin up and launches the javelin flawlessly.
Video of the ordeal was posted to Clay’s twitter feed with the line “What you use javelins for once you’re retired.”
Clay won Olympic gold in 2008 and silver in 2004 in decathlon for the United States.
After it was posted, Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones joked she would go to Clay if she needed her wisdom teeth out.
Clay tweeted that his daughter’s tooth is safely under her pillow waiting for the Tooth Fairy, and the javelin has been safely stored away.
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