Ward's Mask: What's the Deal?
Ubaldo Cruickshank
2025-05-23 22:04:54
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Ward has now taken the field at the Tokyo Olympics wearing a face mask to protect his right eye, and he described it as “the most precious thing in the world”. The mask wraps around both his eye sockets and nose, covering the upper portion of his face besides his eyes. This allows for Ward to feel protected on the field without concerns of further harming his injured eye. The mask takes some getting used to. It’s attached to your face and it gets very warm in the heat. But I don’t even notice it any more.
Eusebio Howe
2025-05-16 07:42:28
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You may be asked to wear a mask, which will be provided, when:
Visiting patients who have a suspected or confirmed infection.
In areas where there is increased numbers of patients with suspected or confirmed infections e.g. Emergency Department and assessment areas.
Hobart Torphy
2025-05-09 18:24:10
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He has done so ever since suffering an utterly horrific accident during qualifying for the Tokyo Games, when he was struck in the head by a teammate’s shot on goal during GB’s match with Malaysia on 3 November 2019. Hockey balls can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour and Ward was caught in the side of the head just above his left eye by the wayward snapshot, the resulting injury leaving him with seven or eight fractures to his face and a torn retina, resulting in the permanent loss of central vision from his left eye. Ward explains: “There’s no real nice way of saying this, but they have a few different routes to repair such an injury, basically, and unfortunately mine resulted in an insertion from here [pointing to the base of his left ear] over to here [the centre of the right side of his skull] where they basically peel back your face and basically put plates and screws in it.”
Alice Turcotte
2025-04-30 08:12:22
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He would later be authorised to use a sports protection mask for his games in order to protect both his head and eye from any future injuries. In a recent podcast with us, Sam mentioned that he was initially using a mask which “looked like a pair of glasses without the lenses”, as he would later discover Raptor Mask and decided to give our sports protection mask a go. After spending some time wearing the Raptor Mask, Sam soon started to get comfortable with the new addition as he played more games.
He has gone on to mention that it has become “second nature” to him and has already had several hits made to the mask in which has left him feeling more safe than ever before. Sam is now wearing his Raptor Mask to every game and trying his best to increase the awareness of using these masks in Hockey.
Fae Flatley
2025-04-19 09:46:19
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He plays in a mask because of the injury he sustained at a penalty corner against Malaysia six years ago, which shattered his eye socket. Attacker Sam Ward has worn a protective face mask since a ball shattered his eye socket from a penalty corner against Malaysia six years ago and he helped to lead Team GB's late recovery. He was the one driving the team into the late sequence of three penalty corners which yielded up an equaliser at the death against a South African team of mainly part-timers who have crowdfunded to be here.
Edward Wiza
2025-04-19 06:19:26
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Jip Janssen got in touch to say congratulations on Olympic selection as we both wear masks when we play now. We spoke after his incident [Jip received a ball to his eye in April and feared he may go blind]. It is one of those things that through adversity it brings people together and it’s great to see him ripping the goals in.
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