Hospitality Doctor
Max Hitchins
Little Known Facts About the Olympic Games
sales representative. When Lord Dewar nominated Pearce for Henley Regatta in England, as a lead- up to the 1932 Olympics, it was under the stated occupation of ‘whisky salesman’. Prior to this Bobby Pearce was a carpenter. But tradesman were not acceptable to the Henley Regatta committee. He went on to easily win the Diamond Sculls event and then Gold Medals in 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. • First Aussie Female Gold Medallist: The honour goes to Sarah Fanny’ Durack. She won the 100m Freestyle at Stockholm in 1912. • Retired at 16: After the 1972 Munich Olympics, Shane Gould famously retired at 16 years of age due to the immense pressure and media scrutiny that she faced. She is the only person, male or female, to hold every world freestyle record from 100 metres to 1500 metres and the 200-metre individual medley world record simultaneously, which she did from 12/12/71 to 1/9/72.
At Melbourne Cup time everyone becomes a Cup expert. (It’s a fun thing). The same thing is about to happen between now and the final day of the Paris Olympics on Sunday August 11. (It’s another fun thing!) So, I am writing this article to help you become the ‘ultimate’ Olympic expert! The ‘serious side’ of this is you can use this information as a marketing tool. I have prepared a series of New Releases titled “Little Known Facts About the Olympic Games.” I’m sending them out all around the world in order to coincide with the launching of my latest book CHASING GOLD which is available at ChasingGold. com.au. You can use these facts in all your Social Media marketing. You can use them as flyers which you may distribute around your bars, bistros and restaurants. You can use them in Trivia competitions you may have in your establishment. Simply send an email to max@ hitchins.com.au with the subject “Please send me your Olympic Facts Releases” and I will add you to our list to receive them each week.
Max Hitchins is the Author of CHASING GOLD. Check it out at: http://bit.ly/BuyChasingGold
Here are some examples:
•He ‘decked’ Joe Frazier: The first man to ‘deck’ American boxing legend Joe Frazier was Aussie Athol McQueen from Kyogle, NSW. He did it in the 1964 Olympics Games in Tokyo. Athol says he should have ‘sat on’ Joe once he had knocked him down. A maddened Joe got up and gave Athol a ‘hiding’. To listen to a 2019 interview with Athol search YouTube for: Athol McQueen talks about ‘dropping’ Joe Frazier at 1964 Olympics. •He stopped for ducks: In the Amsterdam Olympics of 1928, Australian sculler Bobby Pearce was leading in his quarter-final when the crowd on the Canal bank alerted him to a duck and her ducklings crossing the course directly in his path. He stopped rowing… but he still won the Gold Medal. • Whisky salesman wins: In 1930, after winning the Empire Games single sculls at Hamilton, Ontario, Bobby Pearce accepted an offer from Lord Dewar, the Scotch whisky tycoon, to become his Canadian
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