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This Drunk Gentleman Threw A Bottle At Usain Bolt Right Before The 100M Final (Video)

While Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Justin Gatlin were preparing to medal in the Olympic men’s 100-meter final, a drunk man was sitting in his spectacular Olympic stadium seats, just a stone’s throw — and apparently also a bottle’s throw — away from the athletes. Bolt and Co. were settled down into the starting blocks as the man finished his beer. His drunken instincts then took over, and he decided to discard the bottle by hurling it at the competitors.

Yes, this happened right before Usain Bolt set the Olympic record. Fortunately, his throw came up short, not coming close to any of the competitors, and Justin Gatlin — bronze medalist — said after the race that it didn’t impact him whatsoever.

Here it is on video.

According to the Daily Mail , the bottle thrower was a 34-year old vending machine operative. He was arrested immediately. How he got those seats, however, was left unanswered.

The Daily Mail also suggested that the man may have yelled “‘Oi, you aren’t going to win” to Bolt as the sprinter made his way to the blocks. They also claim that a Dutch judoka sitting next to the bottle-hurler Tweeted that she had “beaten” him, but it was probably a mistranslation, because the video contradicts that. It seems like she just helped get him arrested.

This just adds another layer to the already-vast legend of Bolt. And the inebriated man, the poetically-British-sounding Ashley Gill-Webb, has shown his true character and embarrassed vending-machine operators worldwide, having a truly venerable level of drunken witlessness to single himself out as the biggest douchebag in a stadium of 80,000-plus fans from all across the globe. Bravo, Mr. Gill.

[Daily Mail, image via AFP]

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