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Reactions to bottle throwing incident

2012-08-07 1 Dailymotion

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.<br/> <br />He was confronted by Dutch judo bronze medallist, Edith Bosch, who was sitting nearby.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) EDITH BOSCH, DUTCH JUDO BRONZE MEDALLIST, WHO CONFRONTED MAN WHO THREW BOTTLE, SAYING:<br/> <br />"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?'"<br/> <br />The bottle ended up behind the runners and the show-stopping race went off in style.<br/> <br />London 2012 chief Sebastian Coe played down the incident.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) SEBASTIAN COE, CHAIRMAN OF LOCOG, SAYING:<br/> <br />"It was actually poetic justice that they did actually happen to be sitting next to a judo player"<br/> <br />Thirty-four year-old Ashley Gill-Webb's been charged in connection with the incident<br/> <br />He's denied the offence at an initial court hearing which he left refusing to speak to waiting media.

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