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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 1731283" data-attributes="member: 607">That man should be locked up in a mental institution for the remainder of his life...And to think Queen Elizabeth II wrote to him commending him for his services to the Church in the past (before the Formula 1 thing last year).You guys wouldn't believe what Vanderlei Silva (the brazilian runner) had to go through during his life to make it as a runner (not the best way to support one's self in Brazil). Only to have a nutso ex-priest blemish it with such an absurd scene.The IAAF (International Athletism Federation) refused to comply to the Brazilian Olympic Comitee's request that two gold medals be awarded (to the Italian who won and to Vanderlei). But the International Olympic Comitee awarded the Baron Pierre de Coubertain medal to Vanderlei, for his olympic spirit. This medal was awarded only twice in the past (in the 60s to a bobsled athlete who lent a part of his bobsled to his rival, who ended up taking the gold; and in 88 to a sailing sportsman who abandoned a race to save another constestant whose boat had upturned and was drowning).The Brazilian Olympic Comitee will enter a petition at the Referee Board in Lousanne, Switzerland, for the marathon's result to be reviewed.</blockquote>