[lit-ideas] Re: All the World's a Stage
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:07:43 -0700
ATHLETICS- Algerian runner thrown out
Drama in the athletics heats this morning where Algerian 1500m medal contender
Taoufik Makhloufi has been thrown out of the Olympics for not trying in his 800
heat.
Makhloufi, who won his 1500m semi-final in style, had been forced to run in the
two lap race after his team failed to withdraw him from it by Sunday's deadline.
The 24-year-old lined up at the start of heat five but was already well behind
the field at the start of the back straight before stopping running completely
another 100m into the race and wandering back across the infield past the pole
vault area.
"The referee considered that he had not provided a bona fide effort and decided
to exclude him from participation in all further events in the competition,"
read an IAAF statement.
Surely this report should begin, "Absence of drama..."? All he had to do was
what every Italian soccer player can do umpteen times a week. "Oh...my [clutch
some part of leg and head]. Aaaaargh [roll, roll]."
David Ritchie,
Not Italy
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