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.
No punching in Judo. Why didn’t she hold him in a judo lock?
Would you want to spend any length of time in intimate physical contact with a lout? I hope she washed her fist afterwards.
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…
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.
@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?
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.
Am I the only one surprised that she wasn’t arrested for GBH or something similar?