Olympic Collision
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9084-6 (ISBN)
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.
Kyle Keiderling is the author of five books, including Heart of a Lion: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Hank Gathers.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Starting Line
2. First Steps
3. Off with the Gun
4. Healing the Body
5. Dirty Little Secret
6. Running for Jenny
7. The Kid Comes Back with a Swoosh
8. Out of Africa
9. Gathering Storms
10. Rings of Fire
11. Dream Chasers
12. A Split Second That Will Live Forever
13. Coming and Going
14. The Phoenix Rises
15. World Champ
16. Rematch
17. World Champ Again
18. Mother Mary
19. Banned
20. Heart and Seoul
21. Marriage and Murder
22. Promoting L’eggs on Bad Legs
23. Budd Blooms
24. New Faces, Old Story
25. Seems Like Old Times
26. Trials and Tribulations
27. War and Peace
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.09.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 14 photographs |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Leichtathletik / Turnen | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8032-9084-5 / 0803290845 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-9084-6 / 9780803290846 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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