Injured Obama gets 12 stitches

Stitches on the bottom lip of US President Barack Obama are seen as he speaks about wage freezes in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington. Obama received 12 stitches to his lip on after being hit in the mouth during a basketball game. Photo: Reuters

Stitches on the bottom lip of US President Barack Obama are seen as he speaks about wage freezes in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington. Obama received 12 stitches to his lip on after being hit in the mouth during a basketball game. Photo: Reuters

Published Nov 29, 2010

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After a rough game of hoops left him with a busted lip, President Barack Obama says his return to the basketball court was less traumatic because his opponents - his two young daughters - "took it easy on me." During a basketball game on Friday, a player accidentally elbowed Obama in the face, requiring the president to get 12 stitches to repair the resulting injury to his mouth.

But Obama reassured reporters he was mending well and that culprit Reynaldo Decerega, the director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, was not going to stop him.

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