{"id":211,"date":"2008-07-26T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T07:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/the-olympics-strangest-moments\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T07:27:38","slug":"the-olympics-strangest-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/26\/the-olympics-strangest-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Olympics&#8217; Strangest Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipgbook.com\/showbook.cfm?bookid=1905798237&amp;userid\" title=\"click to buy this book\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Publishers Group<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong><font color=\"#9C4A08\" size=\"3\" face=\"Verdana\"><em>The\u00a0Olympics&#8217; Strangest Moments<\/em><\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"#084263\">Extraordinary but True Stories from the History of the Olympic Games<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/internet129.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"254\" width=\"165\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font color=\"#084263\">Updated edition<\/font>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Geoff Tibballs (Author)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The world\u2019s greatest sporting occasion has historically been filled with unusual occurrences and peculiar situations. In 1908, Dorando Pietri was stripped of his gold medal in the marathon after he was helped over the finish line by over-anxious officials. From &#8220;Eric the Eel&#8221; of Equatorial Guinea\u2014the slowest swimmer in the history of the games\u2014to Fred Lorz, who was disqualified after it was discovered that he had hitched a lift in a car during his marathon run, this is an exciting collection of the most humorous and jaw-dropping stories from the Olympic games.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u00a0Geoff Tibballs is the author of numerous books, including Great Sporting Scandals, Motor Racing\u2019s Strangest Races, and Royalty\u2019s Strangest Characters.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1905798237?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bigjimind-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1905798237\" target=\"_blank\">click to buy this book<\/a> ]\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Independent Publishers Group The\u00a0Olympics&#8217; Strangest Moments Extraordinary but True Stories from the History of the Olympic Games Updated edition\u00a0 Geoff Tibballs (Author) The world\u2019s greatest sporting occasion has historically been filled with unusual occurrences and peculiar situations. In 1908, Dorando Pietri was stripped of his gold medal in the marathon after he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}