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Olympic Collision - The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd (Hardcover)
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Olympic Collision - The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd (Hardcover)
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List price R676
Loot Price R540
Discovery Miles 5 400
You Save R136 (20%)
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It remains one of the most memorable moments in modern Olympic
history. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd
of ninety thousand saw their favorite in the women's 3,000-meter
race, Mary Decker, go down. An audience of two billion around the
world witnessed the mishap and listened to the instantaneous
accusations against the suspected culprit, Zola Budd. Just
seventeen, the South African Budd had already been the target of a
vicious and vocal campaign by the antiapartheid lobby after she
transferred to the British team in order to compete at the games.
Decker, at twenty-six, was America's golden girl, ready to overcome
years of bad luck and injuries to rightfully take the Olympic gold
for which she had waited so long. With three laps to go, Decker and
Budd's feet became tangled. Decker went down and didn't get up,
wailing in primal agony as her gold medal hopes vanished. Decker's
stumbles continued in the race's aftermath when she refused Budd's
apology and race officials found her, not Budd, at fault for the
collision. Although both women found success after the Olympics,
neither could escape the long shadow of the infamous event that
forever changed both of their lives and defines them in popular
culture to this day. Olympic Collision follows Decker and Budd
through their lives and careers, telling the story behind the
controversy; the account that emerges is certain to revise the view
Americans, in particular, have held since that fateful day in Los
Angeles more than thirty years ago. Olympic Collision relives one
of the most famous incidents in Olympic history, its legacy, and
what has happened to both athletes since.
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