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Joy of Effort

Joy of Effort in the Olympics is the amazing feeling you get when you get a medal, a personal best or that you felt you preformed to the best of your abilities. Knowing that you trained for four years just for a few races. The pictures below show the happiness of the athletes and how the celebrations have changed over time.

Bobby PearceBobby Pearce entered the amateur

national sculling championships in 1927, ( also he retained it in 1928 and 1929). This gained him selection for the Olympics in 1928, where he was the only rower selected in Australia. At the games, he carried the Australian flag at the opening ceremony. He won his heats relatively easy beating his 2 opponents Schwartz and Flinsch. In the quarter final he was easily beating French opponent Saurin when a family of ducks strayed into his lane. Pearce momentarily stopped rowing to let the ducks pass he still won by 20 lengths and broke the course record. Bobby was challenged by David Colletin the semis and won by 1.5 seconds. In the finals he became the first Aussie single sculler to win gold beating Kenneth Myers by 9.8 seconds and got a world record around 25 second faster than the other one. The next Olympics he successfully defended his Olympic title in 1932 winning by 1.1 seconds over William Millar the remainder of the scullers trailed by nearly 30 seconds.

Fred Lorz

In 1904 The New York Times published that the Metropolitan Association were holding a 5 mile race and the top 8 finishers would win a paid trip to compete in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics for marathon running. Lorz got in and was listed as 1 of the 19 favorites. In the race Lorz stopped after 9km from exhaustion his manager gave him a lift in his car for the next 11 miles when it broke down. Fred started back on foot for the rest of the way. When he got back to the stadium he arrived 45 minutes in front of everyone else and set a new record. He went along with it while soon later admitting he cheated and saying it was a prank and claimed he didn’t run the whole way. Thomas Hicks later became the winner. Lorz was banned for life by the Amateur Athletic Union, but let back in later after apologized for the stunt.