Not Even Olympics Security Can Stop Valerie Vili
New Zealander Valerie Vili is listed in the Olympic program at 6′3, 242 pounds. Apparently, security guards at Beijing National Stadium didn’t read that program.
Vili, who won the gold in women’s shot put Saturday night, raced off to see her coach and get a New Zealand flag to celebrate once she knew she had beaten the field. Unfortunately, both her coach and the flag were on the opposite side of the track near the front row of a packed stadium.
A female member of the stadium’s security staff who is described by AFP as “an over-enthusiastic but smaller security guard,” stepped up and tried to stop Vili from running off. The key word there, was “tried.”
