Victory celebrations
Novak Djokovic celebrated winning the men’s singles at Wimbledon by eating grass on the Centre Court. While not doing a lot to boost the image of his native Serbia as a modern country, the act joins a litany of bizarre victory celebrations.
— After winning a 100 metres race in 2004, Maurice Greene started leaping about in apparent pain before taking off his boots and having an official spray them with a fire extinguisher.
— The Barcelona football team celebrated winning this year’s Champions League final at Wembley by cutting the net from one of the goalposts.
— after winning the gold medal, the Canadian women’s ice-hockey team sat on the ice to drink beer and smoke cigars, breaking the law as several team members were only 18, below the minimum drinking age in British Columbia. But at least nobody died …
— Unlike the goalkeeper of Iraqi football team Sinjar, who was felled by bullet fired by an off-duty policeman trying to celebrate his team’s victory.
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