Most emotional moment of the Olympics in Beijing

Most emotional and truthful moment of the Beijing Games (for me)



All for love - Matthias Steiner won Gold for his dead wife - Olympia 2008 (Youtube)

... Matthias Steiner, of Germany, played out the great drama of his life yesterday, seizing an opportunity to lift the world above his head and then to sob his heart out for his dead wife, Susann, standing on the stage with her picture in one hand and his gold medal in the other.

She died in a car crash a year ago and since that terrible day Steiner has flung himself into his sport as if it was the only thing that could ever make life bearable.
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Matthias Steiner’s triumph is worth the wait (Times online)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4567241.ece