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We do ourselves no service by perpetuating this line of debate.
I have no intention of posting on this thread again, but if you want to continue the speculation about his wave...why not consider this as well....
The Olympic salute is a variant of the Roman salute, with the right arm and hand are stretched and pointing upward, the palm is outward and downward, with the fingers touching. However, the arm is raised higher and at an angle to the right from the shoulder.
The greeting is visible on the official posters of the games at Paris 1924.
Also famous is the French and Canadian teams entering the Olympic stadium in Berlin, 1936 with their arms raised.
In the Leni Riefenstahl film Olympia this scene was captured, and afterwards led to repeated misinterpretations suggesting that the French and Canadian delegations were saluting Hitler.
Since the Second World War the greeting has fallen out of use because of the possibility of it being mistaken for the Nazi salute, although no official stance has been taken on the matter by the IOC.
Last edited on Wed Aug 1st, 2012 05:33 by Eric
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