Those jaw-dropping mistakes in sports history

1984 at the los Angeles Olympic games, zolabad collided with Mary dyke, a wild barefoot genius in south Africa and an American sweetheart who loves beans all over the country. These two people's mistakes are classic mistakes-personal technical mistakes on the court, and perhaps the "mistakes" of the Olympic movement off the court.

1984 August 1 1, Los Angeles Olympic Memorial Stadium, women's 3000m final.

The protagonists of this competition are zola budd and Mary Dacker, who were the most dazzling female middle and long-distance running stars in the world in the early 1980s.

Zorabad is a wild genius. She ran barefoot from a small town in South Africa, but that year she represented Britain.

And Mary Dyke is a well-known American sweetheart.

After the race passed 1600 meters, the first group began to form, with Zorabad and Mary running at the front. The other two players in the first group were Romanian Puika and Englishman Slay.

1700 meters later, the two most dazzling people had a car accident.

After the fifth turn, Zorabad, who was smaller, quickly entered the driveway, and the American sweetheart was crushed to the second place alive.

At 4: 54, Mary kicked Zorabad's heel.

This foot gave Zorabad a little fright, and his left leg did a little lifting and dodging, but it didn't have much impact.

Mary didn't step on the brakes, and soon she kicked Zorabad again.

Being kicked again, Zorabad reacted violently and made a dodge to the right side of his body. Accordingly, her left leg naturally turned to the inside of the track, and her signature big swing arm made the whole person look a little explicit.

Her left leg fell to the ground, so Mary fell without hiding and tore off the number paper behind Zorabad.

At this time, the timer shows 4 minutes and 58 seconds. Sweetheart never returned to the game this day.

This is too embarrassing for the host, and all the old Americans in the mountains and plains stopped, and the extremely high decibel boos poured down from the stands.

It must be explained here that some of Zorabad's boos are not just aimed at the car accident at the stadium.

Zorabad is also suspected of evading Olympic sanctions. When she tripped her biggest opponent with exaggerated ways and actions, the girl who fell to the ground crying was an American sweetheart who won the US-Soviet competition in Minsk.

At first, barefoot was a little shocked to see her opponent broken. After running a circle, she realized that the boos all over the mountain were directed at herself.

What can we do? We can only choose to give up.

She obviously slowed down on the last lap. Later, Xiao recalled barefoot that the idea at that time was also very simple-if she stood on the podium with a medal, the boos all over the mountain would turn into saliva and she would not drown herself. It's embarrassing.

In the end, Zorabad finished the finish line for the seventh time, but her performance was cancelled. An hour later, the jury restored her grades, but this did not restore her reputation.

Today, you can still see Zorabad's name on some websites.

After the game, the poor little barefoot walked into the athlete's aisle from the boos all over the sky, where he apologized to his idol Mary, in exchange for the unreasonable anger of American sweetheart.

But in fact, the audience who booed her at that time had no idea how the two men came all the way here and had such a duel at the same time and space.

Zorabad was born barefoot in 1966, the third generation of an English immigrant in Brafontein, South Africa, and the youngest of six brothers and sisters.

Father Frank was later found to be a "closet" (later killed by a young man who claimed to have been sexually assaulted) and opened a closed printing factory at home. The mother has been in the pain of the premature death of her third son, and she is unhappy and unable to extricate herself.

Little barefoot was brought up by her eldest daughter Jenny. Running may be the only entertainment for children who grew up on Brafontein farm at that time, and my sister was the initiator of running with little feet.

Like all children in Brafontein, running barefoot on a country farm at an altitude of 4,500 feet is the happiest thing for young Zorabad.

Jenny died of melanoma in Zorabad at the age of 14. From then on, in order to avoid that cruel fact, the talent of barefoot wild long-distance running began to break out.

In less than four years, she won the world youth records of1000m,1500m and 3000m, and the South African records of 5000m and1000m.

1984 65438+1October 5th, barefoot under 18 ran the world best result of15' 01'83 in the 5000m project, and the world record at that time was1'83.

Because Zorabad is a South African and because of the apartheid policy, this achievement, which is more than 6 seconds faster than the world record, cannot be recognized by the IAAF.

Fortunately, many achievements of 1983 Little Barefoot were still included in Runner's World magazine.

One day, a runner named John Bryant (let's call him Bruce) saw Zorabad's achievement published in Runner's World, and he felt a little strange.

Fortunately, Lao Bu is the head of the feature department of the Daily Mail in London, and his professional sensitivity makes him feel that this matter is promising. A little white girl in a small place in South Africa broke all kinds of world records by running barefoot. The Olympic Games is just around the corner, but such a genius can't compete for political reasons. ...

Before it was too late, Lao Bu immediately sent a reporter, and the reporter quickly found Zorabad and went deep into her life.

18 years old barefoot is really small, with a height of 1.58m and a weight of 83kg, which looks like a weak chicken. In her bedroom, there are photos of sebastian coe and Steve Orwitt on the bedside and pillow, and posters of Mary Dyke are posted on the wall.

After verifying the situation, the Daily Mail photographed 654.38 million+pounds directly in front of Budd's house, on condition that it exclusively reported the story of Little Barefoot.

At the same time, because three generations of ancestors were British, the Daily Mail also helped Zorabad become a British citizen at a very fast speed. All this made the barefoot man get rid of the trouble of apartheid sanctions and participated in the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles that summer as a British athlete.

However, this move also brought a "bad reputation" to the little girl. Many voices believe that she is not ashamed of the apartheid policy, but tries to use loopholes to escape sanctions. Some people even hold the placard of "racist bitch" to the edge of the stadium.

In fact, when Zorabad arrived in London in 1984, she didn't even know who nelson mandela was, because South African newspapers only told her that "apartheid policy is beneficial to South Africa's economic development".

What is even more exasperating is that his father is a "shameless man" who pursues fame and fortune-Frank has two dreams in his life. The first is to retire with a million pounds of savings, and the other is to have afternoon tea with the Queen of England.

Before the Los Angeles Olympic Games, I really couldn't stand the pressure brought by Frank's various gestures. Zorabad issued a restraining order against his father, forbidding him to go to Los Angeles.

1983, when South Africa changed her fate barefoot, Mary Dacker, an American sweetheart who had just finished a failed marriage, was at the forefront.

He won the1500m and 3000m championships at the Helsinki World Championships.

He won the jesse owens Prize and Sports Illustrated's best athlete of the year, and was on the cover of Newsweek. ...

No matter what others think, or Mary Dyke herself, 1984 Olympic Games is a must.

1984, my sweetheart is 26 years old and is already a veteran.

1970, 12 years old, she was able to finish the marathon in 3 hours and 9 minutes.

By the end of 1972, she was the first American woman in the 800 meters;

1973, sweetheart created her first personal world record.

It can be described as a prodigy among prodigies. But when it comes to the Olympics, American sweetheart is a bit unlucky.

1972 Olympic games, too young to participate,

1976 Olympic Games, she was forced to give up because of a series of injuries.

1980 Moscow, because the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the US Olympic Committee boycotted this Olympic Games, and the Olympic dream was naturally shattered.

/kloc-entered the ranks of the world's top middle and long distance runners at the age of 0/4, and only at the age of 26 can he participate in the Olympic Games. This smell ... really makes everyone look at my sweetheart. My sweetheart is bitter. ...

After reading the growth experiences and strange records of Barefoot and Sweetheart, it is not difficult to see that when we returned to the Olympic Memorial Stadium in Los Angeles, the car accident had already laid the groundwork.

Zorabad, who has been banned from participating in international competitions for a long time, lacks competition experience, and her wild training mode also makes her movements uncomfortable for people in the stands.

As a barefoot athlete, the most important thing in the competition is not to win, but to ensure that your feet are not hurt by your opponent's spikes.

Zorabad knows very well that the best way to run barefoot without getting hurt is to run at the end or the front. In such a high-level arena as the Olympic Games, athletes are still fighting endlessly in the middle of the game. Naturally, when she finds an opportunity to get ahead, she must seize it quickly.

When she was kicked twice by Mary Dyke, her two subconscious reactions were very exaggerated, just like a deer jumping away quickly after hearing the hunter's trouble. This is largely due to the by-products of Zorabad's growth process-sensitive nature and insecurity.

For Mary Dyke, the longing for the Olympic Games 12 and some "old-timer" habits brought by high-level competitions all the year round may be the reasons why she became so impatient and adventurous after that corner.

Bhurki, who won the fifth place in that competition and represented Switzerland, described the collision like this: "I saw Mary push Zola, and Mary didn't want to give up that position, so she pushed forward ... She pushed Zola when she fell ..."

This is very logical. When the opponent overtakes and occupies a favorable position, professional athletes will not sit still. Pushing forward is a daily practice. Position can be given, but pressure can't be given. Unfortunately, the feedback from barefoot in the wild was really unexpected.

Sweetheart, as far as she is concerned, admit that she was a little aggressive. The tactic at that time was to follow her until the last lap sprinted over. However, the "patriotic enthusiasm" of all Americans and her desire for Olympic medals may make her a little hot-headed. If you saw her excitement after the fall, you wouldn't doubt this view.

Interestingly, the Romanian Pujica, the champion of that competition, was also affected by the collision caused by that mistake. She staggered for a while, but quickly adjusted her pace, won the first place and kept it to the finish line.

Puika's view of collision is simple: "Mary is the girl behind, and she should see the road ahead." Well, the translation is-the car is fully responsible for the rear-end collision.

Three seconds passed quickly, but no one expected that 1984, the two most popular female middle-distance running stars, was getting farther and farther away from the Olympic medal after that touch.

Mary took part in the Olympic Games of 1988 and 1996, and the best result was 1500m, the eighth place. In addition, she was caught in a doping storm.

Zorabad was suspended by the IAAF on 1988 because he participated (did not participate) in a competition held in South Africa. 1992 At the Barcelona Olympic Games, she participated in the women's 3000m race on behalf of South Africa who returned to the Olympic family, but only won 25th place.

Since the end of that year, the two had some public contacts, including letters and TV interviews. The last contact was on 20 16, when Sky TV filmed a documentary "Autumn", and they were able to appear in documentaries and various TV interviews.

They didn't know each other at all before they set foot on the Los Angeles Olympic Games. In the documentary, they found that their experiences had a lot in common, even their husband's birthday was on the same day.

Today, Mary and her husband live in Eugene, Oregon, a major track and field town. Their hobbies are riding sewing machines, bicycles and keeping dogs.

Zorabad, a man who can easily beat young people.

Living barefoot in South Carolina. As a track and field coach, she also runs marathons all over the world. Unlike 35 years ago, now she runs in shoes and has a sponsor.