Alex is keeping us up-to-date on the British media’s efforts to tell us what is really going on around the Olympics, but here’s some even braver journalism. In this new clip Tamara Urushadze, a Georgian journalist, get shot in the arm but keeps broadcasting (mildly fuzzy clip, but not actually that gory).
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