Wednesday, 20 August 2008

More genuine emotion

...over at the Weightlifting, courtesy of Barnesy - the German guy who won, below, is holding a photo of his wife who was killed in a car crash last year. Gulp.

"This is an event that is almost unbearably emotional, in which contestants cram years of intensity into a brief, hour-long drama. And Matthias Steiner, of Germany, played out the great drama of his life yesterday, seizing an opportunity to lift the world above his head and then to sob his heart out for his dead wife, Susann, standing on the stage with her picture in one hand and his gold medal in the other."

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