On August 5 at the London Summer Olympics, an incident occurred when a bottle was thrown towards
the Athletes during the Men’s 100m final
Court document speculates the intended
target was Jamaican sprinter
Usain Bolt who won the race 9.63 seconds.
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Ashley Gill-Webb
is detained shortly after an incident at the start of the men's 100m final at
the London Olympics. Photograph: Chris Helgren/REUTERS
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Ashley Gill-Webb,
34, pushed his way to the front of an exclusive seating area without a ticket
and shouted things like: "Usain
you are bad, you are an arsehole,"
the court was told.
According the Guardian,
Gill-Webb,
from South Milford, near Leeds, was confronted by Dutch judoka Edith Bosch, and
then restrained by Olympics volunteers and arrested by police, the court was
told.
Gill-Webb has however denied that he used threatening words or
his behaviour was with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The case was tried at Stratford Magistrates' Court,
and prosecutor Neil King said the court that
Gill-Webb threw a bottle in the
hushed stadium just as the race was about to get under way: "He threw a
green Heineken bottle in a lobbing motion that was captured on CCTV.
"This bottle landed extremely
close to the athletes and it's probably luck rather than Mr Gill-Webb's judgment
that it did not do anything far more serious."
The trial will continue.
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