Poetic justice is how Lord Coe described it. A spectator who threw a bottle on the track just before the start of the 100m final was floored by a Dutch judo champion who happened to be sitting nearby.
Poetic justice is how Lord Coe described it. A spectator who threw a bottle on the track just before the start of the 100m final was floored by a Dutch judo champion who happened to be sitting nearby.
Edith Bosch, 32, who won the bronze medal in the 70kg category at the Olympics, described yesterday (Monday) how her emotions took over after she saw a man hurl a bottle as Usain Bolt and his fellow sprinters were poised for the starter's gun. "I had seen the man walking around earlier and said to people around me that he was a peculiar bloke," she said. "Then he threw that bottle and in my emotion I hit him on the back with the flat of my hand.
"Then he was scooped up by the security. However, he did make me miss the final, and I am very sad about that.
"I just cannot understand how someone can do something like that."
Ashley Gill-Webb, 34, from South Milford, Yorkshire, appeared before Stratford magistrates charged with a public order offence after he was arrested inside the Olympic stadium on Sunday evening.
The married father of two, a vending machine repairman who was said to have trained as a teacher, denied committing an act likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. He wore a white T-shirt in the dock with the slogan "Veni, Vidi, Vino".
District Judge Angus Hamilton adjourned the case for a half-day trial at Thames magistrates' court on Sept 3.
He granted Mr Gill-Webb bail on the condition that he does not enter any Olympic venue, including the whole of the Olympic Park, and that he resides at his home address in South Milford, with the exception of the evening before his trial.
Lord Coe, the chairman of London 2012 organising committee, said of Sunday's incident: "Throwing a bottle on to the field of play is unacceptable. It's not just unacceptable at an Olympic Games, it's unacceptable at any sports venue. The guy was removed. Anybody that does that in future will be removed. There is a zero tolerance to anything like that."
He went on: "I am not suggesting vigilante-ism but it was actually poetic justice that they did happen to be sitting next to a judo player."
Referring to the Japanese term for the judo move that results in an instant victory, he added: "I think the expression is 'ippon'."
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