Dorando Pietri

The Man Who Became Famous For Not Winning

Introduction. Dorando Pietri was an Italian athlete. He was only 5ft 2in (1.57 m) tall. He was also a pastry chef Here is a story about what happened

to him!

1908 London Olympics On the 24 July 1908, the final day of

the athletics at the Olympics, 100,000 people crammed into the stadium.

It was a very hot day for marathon runners

Pietri was leading in the marathon with two kilometres to go

He was exhausted and dehydrated

In the White City stadium

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o Pietri took the wrong patho He fell down five timeso Each time he was helped up by the officialso He won the race

Complaint But the American team

complained Pietri was disqualified

because he received help from the officials

Johnny Hayes from U.S.A. won the gold medal

But Queen Alexandra gave Pietri a silver cup

His courageous display wrote his name into Olympic history.

By Finbar Myers

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