Talk:John Akii-Bua: Difference between revisions
imported>Aleta Curry (→victory lap: Akii-Bua's run is a vague memory to me, but I certainly remember later comments. I'm betting this is true.) |
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Is it really true that Akii-Bua started this tradition? I see it is in wikipedia but that is the only reference to it that I can find. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 23:49, 3 June 2008 (CDT) | Is it really true that Akii-Bua started this tradition? I see it is in wikipedia but that is the only reference to it that I can find. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 23:49, 3 June 2008 (CDT) | ||
:If he didn't, he's the first one in recent times who did. As far as I know that's true, I can hear Jim McKay saying it in my mind's ear, and one would wonder why it was so remarkable if it had been a routine occurrence. Akii-Bua absolutely ran a lap going back over the hurdles again. There is a beautiful quote about him somewhere on my computer; I'll find it. I intended to write more about him today, but alas, life intervened. More later. [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 04:34, 4 June 2008 (CDT) | :If he didn't, he's the first one in recent times who did. As far as I know that's true, I can hear Jim McKay saying it in my mind's ear, and one would wonder why it was so remarkable if it had been a routine occurrence. Akii-Bua absolutely ran a lap going back over the hurdles again. There is a beautiful quote about him somewhere on my computer; I'll find it. I intended to write more about him today, but alas, life intervened. More later. [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 04:34, 4 June 2008 (CDT) | ||
How about this version? | |||
::Victory laps were not timetabled but Akii-Bua eluded officials and continued hurdling and waving a Ugandan flag that someone had handed him. Many describe this as a memorable moment of jubilance for an Olympics that is more renowned for terrorism. Years later an American sportscaster, Jim McKay (ABC), asked "''who would ever forget John Akii-Bua taking his country's flag and running around the track with it.''" | |||
[[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:42, 4 June 2008 (CDT) | |||
Revision as of 11:42, 4 June 2008
Kenny Moore (1972) A Play Of Light And Shadow, Sports Illustrated, November 20,
- In Munich's gathering darkness, John Akii-Bua's victory celebration was like a ray of hope; so, too, he glimmers in his African homeland. The author, fourth in the Olympic marathon, was one of a handful of journalists allowed in Uganda last month.
Frank Litsky (1997) John Akii-Bua, 47, Is Dead; Ugandan Won Olympic Gold, New York Times, June 25 Obituary.
That last one by Litsky seems to have been plagiarised by wikipedia. Chris Day 23:58, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
victory lap
Someone handed him a Ugandan flag, and in his excitement he ran around the track with it; starting a "victory lap" tradition which continues to the present. Source: "It was a memorable moment; years later American sportscaster Jim McKay (ABC) asked who would ever forget John Akii-Bua taking his country's flag and running around the track with it. "
Is it really true that Akii-Bua started this tradition? I see it is in wikipedia but that is the only reference to it that I can find. Chris Day 23:49, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
- If he didn't, he's the first one in recent times who did. As far as I know that's true, I can hear Jim McKay saying it in my mind's ear, and one would wonder why it was so remarkable if it had been a routine occurrence. Akii-Bua absolutely ran a lap going back over the hurdles again. There is a beautiful quote about him somewhere on my computer; I'll find it. I intended to write more about him today, but alas, life intervened. More later. Aleta Curry 04:34, 4 June 2008 (CDT)
How about this version?
- Victory laps were not timetabled but Akii-Bua eluded officials and continued hurdling and waving a Ugandan flag that someone had handed him. Many describe this as a memorable moment of jubilance for an Olympics that is more renowned for terrorism. Years later an American sportscaster, Jim McKay (ABC), asked "who would ever forget John Akii-Bua taking his country's flag and running around the track with it."
Chris Day 12:42, 4 June 2008 (CDT)