Today we'll talk sports. Without entering into polemics or rivalry. Ignoring Gasol, Nadal, Alonso and other touches of today. Because every day we try to make the most unpredictable 2073 and infumable, today reviewed (with the shoe that characterizes this websitio) memorable sports events of the twentieth century history. In this new collection compiled in three deliveries, small and great stories featuring preferably those who missed the shot at the last second, which stumbled to ten meters from the finish line. Because the history of sport, that does not appear in golden letters written by the winners and, above all, the losers (that why there are more).
Pietri's marathon in 2012
When London held the thirteenth edition of the Summer Olympics of modernity, the English city and former imperial capital, will host the third time such an event characteristics. The last time the legendary torch (which some saw paraded through our city \u200b\u200bor town in that distant 1992, the year of Spain ) paraded through the streets of London was in 1948 when the world was still recovering from the second world war. To find the first Olympics held in Britain we have to travel up to 1908 (98 years!). After the meetings in Athens , Paris and San Luis , those were the fourth summer Olympics in modern history.
Interestingly, the most remembered sports games of 1908 who did not win any medals. The Italian athlete Dorando Pietri arrived alone at the Olympic stadium in White City with 42 miles behind them. The Alpine had dominated almost from the beginning the marathon (test between tests currently used to close each Olympic edition). However, when the stadium cheered the entrance of the track athlete recognized as the winner and Azzurri fans rubbed their hands and thinking of gold, Dorando faced the last lap of the Olympic stadium in the wrong direction. Totally exhausted, powerless, defeated by the "slut", Pietri staggered first and moments later crashed on the orange track. The judges, moved by the scene as well as other bystanders, helped the Italian seminconsciente yet to cross the finish line.
Pietri was disqualified for the support received. The American John Hayes climbed to the top of the podium and received the flowers and gold. However, Pietri, the loser, will always be remembered. Ironically, I think winning that medal today no one would remember this unfortunate Italian. Live to see ...
lovers Antarctic Circle
After 36 days crossing the Arctic Ocean, the U.S. military Robert Peary reached the North Pole in December 1909. By now appeared in Antarctica last great sporting challenge in our world. Few were as exciting adventures and for explorers. The South Pole , maddeningly virgin white, was the field of battle play and, in some sense, political. Before the space race between the U.S. and the USSR, two teams of explorers from Norway and Britain took to the conquest of the farthest point south of our planet.
The British crew was led by Robert Scott who planned the expedition as an opportunity to explore Antarctica. The British recorded the weather each day and collected minerals Antarctic were to encounter along the road. In addition, one of his sled had an odometer to record the length of the voyage.
contrast, Amundsen , captain of the Norwegian expedition, scientific and roll came prepared to travel with the main idea of \u200b\u200bwithstanding the extreme adversity of the Antarctic factors. Amundsen's team consisted of 8 men, specialists in resistance to extreme situations (to start were Norwegians, that these are never cold the host), and 116 huskies in which fully trusted to complete its mission. Dogs, of course, we went once again co-stars of human success.
Scott left the Cape Evans base on November 1, 1911. As the British expedition progressed from white land that frozen hell, the snowmobiles that had decided to use as transport were spoiling. To make matters worse, all the horses that Scott had to help load succumbed to the cold, so the crew had to carry luggage. Days before reaching the South Pole, Scott sent back to the middle of his crew and decided to finish the trip with four men.
On December 14, 1911 issue Norway reached the South Pole. They had traveled 3,200 kilometers , the day was sunny. Nordic those nine were automatically converted into heroes. Already part of history. The success of the mission it was also their captain and their approaches. Amundsen had spent the winter at the base camp, food and fuel had been placed in the path to follow and had trained carefully to his herd of dogs. After several days of rest, he and his crew returned to base camp. The expedition lasted 96 days.
It took almost a month before Peary reached, con el resto de su tripulación, hasta el Polo Sur, donde ya hondeaba la bandera noruega. La decepción que aquellos hombres sintieron es incomprensible para alguien que no sabe lo que es andar durante semanas entre el hielo y la nieve. El camino de vuelta fue una auténtica pesadilla helada para los restos de la expedición británica. Muertos de hambre y frío, cargando 15 kilos de los minerales que habían ido recogiendo por el camino, los ánimos y las fuerzas se desvanecieron. La Antártida fue la tumba para Oates, Evans, Wilson, Bowers y Scott . Estos tres últimos murieron a escasos metros de un depósito de comida.
Fútbol Olympic: Peru at the Olympics in Hitler
The first football World Cup was played in 1930 in Uruguay . The host country was the first team to take the crown of world football. Four years later, the Italy Vittorio Pozzo of (coach) and Benito Mussolini (statesman), also acting as host, won the coveted title. In the quarter-finals, the winning team needed two parties and all the favors arbitration imaginable to stop en route to Spain , which in those years was a strong candidate for the title. Seriously, do not laugh, no is messing ...
Four years later, Italy crowned champions again. Totalitarianism had discovered football and all sports by default, as a propaganda weapon. By then the football and seemed to point ways "game." Being world champion soccer was (and as you know, supposed) international fame. A great way to export ideologies, these are highly flammable.
The relationship between sport and advertising also fell Adolf friend, comrade of the mentioned Mussolini. The Berlin Olympics of 1936 were a good example of policy and sport hand in hand. But this story, it's Jesse Owen Saluditos doing that blew his friend Adolf and film Leni Riefenstal already know. However, you may not know the history of Peruvian football team that competed in this Olympic edition. In Pegamín published a must-read post as an epilogue to close the post today. Eleven pairs of boots against Hitler . Visit it. You
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