AUSTRALIA: OLDEST SURVIVING OLYMPIC MEDALIST HAL HAIG PRIESTE HANDS BACK OLYMPIC FLAG HE STOLE FROM ANTWERP GAMES IN 1920

Record ID: 976862

  • Title: AUSTRALIA: OLDEST SURVIVING OLYMPIC MEDALIST HAL HAIG PRIESTE HANDS BACK OLYMPIC FLAG HE STOLE FROM ANTWERP GAMES IN 1920
  • Date: 11th September 2000
  • Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (SEPTEMBER 11, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. "HARRY" HAL HAIG PRIESTE WITH THE STOLEN OLYMPIC FLAG 2. CLOSE-UP OLYMPIC FLAG 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HAL SAYING: "Say bye bye" 4. INTERIOR IOC MEETING IN REGENT HOTEL AND IOC PRESIDENT JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH ON PODIUM 5. SOUNDBITE (English) IOC VICE PRESIDENT ANITA DE FRANTZ, SAYING "After the closing ceremony he bet with his friends that he would take the Olympic flag which was flying in the stadium, he did and now, 80 years after that incredible venture he would like to donate that flag to the IOC" 6. SAMARANCH COMING FORWARD TO GET THE FLAG FROM HAL 7. HANDOVER OF FLAG 8. SAMARANCH WITH FLAG/SHAKING HAL'S HAND 9. SAMARANCH GIVING HIM A GIFT IN RETURN 10. HAL 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HAL AND CAROLYN LAMAINA, WOMAN WHO LOOKS AFTER HIM, SAYING HAL: "I'm giving it to them" LAMAINA: "You gave it to them already, it's happened" HAL: "Did I give to them? Oh yeah." LAMAINA : "Are you going to miss not having it now." HAL: "I ain't gonna be around too long" 12. MEDIA 13. SOUNDBITE (English) HAL SAYING: "It was no good to me, I wouldn't be able to hang it up in my room because I won't be here" 14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAROLYN LAMAINA, WOMAN WHO LOOKS AFTER HAL, SAYING: "Well when we said to him originally, you have to give it back, he said I'll give it back, that's no problem, because I took it from them, when they've done it, will they give it back to me. I said no, once you give it back, it's going into a museum and he said, will they be mad at me because I stole it. And I said, no" 15. HAL HOLDING TWO BRONZE MEDALS/EXTERIOR HOTEL Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
  • Country: Australia
  • Reuters ID: LVA9OBI5U1P580S26FIYWSJ2RB2
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