A special mention to Dutch judo bronze Edith Bosch who, enraged by a lout throwing a bottle onto the track behind the 100m men’s finalists punched out the offender after which he was thrown out of the stadium and arrested:
“Some drunk in front of me throws a bottle onto the track!! I hit him … Unbelievable,” she said, adding the hashtags “angry” and “norespect”.
She revealed in her next tweet that she had missed the race in the commotion: “Dammit … and I missed the 100m! What a BEEP”.This is one aspect of “the new civility” which I feel we should encourage.
A little more punching of louts would improve society.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Rub-a-dub // Aug 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm
No punching in Judo. Why didn’t she hold him in a judo lock?
2 Matthew L // Aug 12, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Would you want to spend any length of time in intimate physical contact with a lout? I hope she washed her fist afterwards.
3 JuliaM // Aug 12, 2012 at 1:14 pm
I see he has the modern day mark of a lout too, the double-barrelled name. Once a sign the person had breeding and class. Now, so often a sign of mother’s many partners…
4 Rub-a-dub // Aug 12, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Remarkably little drinking in the Olympic Park. Maybe something to do with the £5 a pint price, but still, I never saw any rowdiness at all. It was like being abroad.
5 Jim // Aug 12, 2012 at 4:31 pm
@JuliaM: that amuses me too. Strange how something can go through 180 degrees in a short(ish) time. What I want to know is though, what happens when double barrel chav has kid with double barrel chavette? Do you get quadruple barrel kid?
6 Tim Newman // Aug 12, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Once a sign the person had breeding and class. Now, so often a sign of mother’s many partners…
Or upper-middle class wannabe rebels.
7 SimonF // Aug 12, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Am I the only one surprised that she wasn’t arrested for GBH or something similar?
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