Reactions to bottle throwing incident
- 12 years ago
Amateur video shows the moment a man hurls a plastic bottle onto the track as runners prepared for the men's Olympic 100 metres final.
He was confronted by Dutch judo bronze medallist, Edith Bosch, who was sitting nearby.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) EDITH BOSCH, DUTCH JUDO BRONZE MEDALLIST, WHO CONFRONTED MAN WHO THREW BOTTLE, SAYING:
"Then at the moment the shot was given, the guy threw the bottle into the track and I was like flabbergasted and angry and the thing I did, I pushed him away hard and I said 'Dude, are you crazy?'"
The bottle ended up behind the runners and the show-stopping race went off in style.
London 2012 chief Sebastian Coe played down the incident.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SEBASTIAN COE, CHAIRMAN OF LOCOG, SAYING:
"It was actually poetic justice that they did actually happen to be sitting next to a judo player"
Thirty-four year-old Ashley Gill-Webb's been charged in connection with the incident
He's denied the offence at an initial court hearing which he left refusing to speak to waiting media.
He was confronted by Dutch judo bronze medallist, Edith Bosch, who was sitting nearby.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) EDITH BOSCH, DUTCH JUDO BRONZE MEDALLIST, WHO CONFRONTED MAN WHO THREW BOTTLE, SAYING:
"Then at the moment the shot was given, the guy threw the bottle into the track and I was like flabbergasted and angry and the thing I did, I pushed him away hard and I said 'Dude, are you crazy?'"
The bottle ended up behind the runners and the show-stopping race went off in style.
London 2012 chief Sebastian Coe played down the incident.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SEBASTIAN COE, CHAIRMAN OF LOCOG, SAYING:
"It was actually poetic justice that they did actually happen to be sitting next to a judo player"
Thirty-four year-old Ashley Gill-Webb's been charged in connection with the incident
He's denied the offence at an initial court hearing which he left refusing to speak to waiting media.