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Keiderling, Kyle.
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Decker, Mary, 1958-
Budd, Zola, 1966-
Olympic Games (23rd : 1984 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Runners (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.
Runners (Sports) -- South Africa -- Biography.
Runners (Sports) -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Keiderling, Kyle.
Decker, Mary, 1958-
Budd, Zola, 1966-
Olympic Games (23rd : 1984 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Runners (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.
Runners (Sports) -- South Africa -- Biography.
Runners (Sports) -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Olympic
collision : the story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd / Kyle Keiderling
by
Keiderling, Kyle.
University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Call #:
796.420922 K27o
Subjects
Decker, Mary, 1958-
Budd, Zola, 1966-
Olympic
Games
(
23rd
:
1984
:
Los
Angeles
,
Calif
.)
Runners (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.
Runners (Sports) -- South Africa -- Biography.
Runners (Sports) -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780803290846 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 341 p., [8] p. of plates ; ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:
"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.
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