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...events in the modern Games shows that for every example of exchanged T shirts and kisses among competing nations there are a dozen instances of international cheating, needling and foul play, all laced with as much nationalism as competitive nastiness. In 1908, British officials dragged the Italian marathoner Dorando Pietri over the finish line in an attempt to withhold victory from the American Johnny Hayes. The water polo match between the Soviet Union and Hungary in 1956 ended with a bloody-faced Hungarian in the pool. Boycotts have been threatened before, and two actually occurred: the African boycotts...
...These hagglings were mild in comparison to other how-de-dos of the past. Among the most notable: during the London games of 1908, staggering Italian Dorando Pietri was dragged across the finish line of the marathon by Britons wishful to see him beat the U.S.'s fast-closing Johnny Hayes. Dorando was helped to his feet four times in all, and Hayes, after an outraged American protest, was finally declared the winner. Afterwards, both turned "pro" and cashed in on the publicity with a marathon race at the old Madison Square Garden. Dorando won by 60 yards...
...omitted from the decorations; Russia insisted that Finland should carry the Russian flag; officials infuriated the Irish team by adding their points to England's score; the U. S. tug-of-war team withdrew because British tuggers appeared in "monstrous boots"; Italian spectators were enraged when, after Marathoner Pietri Dorando had been dragged across the finish line, the race was awarded to the U. S.'s Johnny Hayes. In 1912, in Stockholm, the uproar concerned Jim Thorpe who was disqualified after winning the pentathlon and decathlon. In 1920, the U. S. team revolted at Antwerp because they disliked...
...With Adolf Hitler building submarines, the marriage in London last week of a daughter of First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell proved irresistibly attractive to the Frenchman who directs his country's naval armaments. Minister of Marine null Pietri. After the wedding M. Pietri disappeared with Sir Bolton into the library...
...France to join her in denouncing the Treaty. Up to the very last, new French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin kept Washington and London under the impression that he would make no gesture to ease Tokyo's odium. Then in Paris up jumped fiery Naval Minister Francois Pietri last week. "The Washington Treaty is intolerable for France!" he told the Naval and Foreign Affairs Committees of the French Chamber. "We, the Cabinet, are agreed soon to declare publicly that France considers the Treaty as ended in 1936, but of course France is always ready for limitation of armaments...