Dramatic interventions at the Grand National and the Crucible show the gloves are off for those dedicated to highlighting their various causes
This could yet be the year of dissent with 118 Animal Rising protesters arrested around Aintree’s Grand National. Largely peaceful, they were carried away by security, two officers at the head, two at the legs.Officials all over the world now are clenching their buttocks that some kind of protest will visit them this summer and bring their event to a shuddering halt for a cause.
Vanderlei Lima is pushed by Cornelius Horan, a defrocked Irish priest, in the latter stages of the marathon at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. The Brazilian's bid for gold was derailed and he eventually finished third, claiming a bronze medal. Photograph: Jiro Mochizuki/AFP/Getty Images O’Connor finished second in the 1906 Games in Athens but first in the history of Olympic flag demonstrations. Travelling to Greece believing he was representing Ireland in the long jump, when he arrived he was informed he would be jumping as British. Outraged as the Union Jack was raised in his name, O’Connor shimmied up the flagpole as team-mate Con Leahy manfully stood guard at the base.
Sports protests are always a gamble and can lose an audience as much as gain support. But always, they are jarring and that’s the point – they demand attention. Subsequently owners and trainers began the counter culture war condemning those responsible as party to the death of Hill Sixteen, while just 17 of the 39 starters finished the race. Trainer Sandy Thomson blamed the “ignorance” of the protesters in unsettling his horse.
Ignorant? No. Edred Whittingham comes from Cambridge and is a politics, philosophy and economics student at Exeter University. He also glued his hand to a painting at the Manchester Art Gallery in July in another oil demonstration.
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