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Was she tripped? The most infamous Olympic collision: Mary Decker v Zola Budd - How It All Played Out

Was she tripped? The most infamous Olympic collision: Mary Decker v Zola Budd - How It All Played Out

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It's one of the most iconic photos in Olympic
history: Mary Decker falling flat on her face as
Zola Budd runs past her bare foot. Decker,
America’s golden girl and the World Champion on home turf,
against Budd, from apartheid-ridden South Africa, who acquired a
British passport in double quick time to line up, against her own
will.

Mark Pougatch and Paul Hayward
bring you the story behind the photo from the LA Games in 1984.
How did two such different characters end up being the main
protagonists in one of the Olympic’s most infamous moments? How
did politics, the Daily Mail and fearsome fathers play their
part? And what were the long term effects on both runners?

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