: Pause, rewind, play: When sailor Lawrence Lemieux sacrificed a medal to save lives at 1988 Olympics #IndiaNEWS Standing on the top of the podium at the Olympics, is probably the zenith of sporting

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Pause, rewind, play: When sailor Lawrence Lemieux sacrificed a medal to save lives at 1988 Olympics #IndiaNEWS
Standing on the top of the podium at the Olympics, is probably the zenith of sporting excellence. For an athlete, nothing can get bigger than that. For Canadian sailor Lawrence Lemieux, it was no different.Coming into the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Lemieux who had failed to finish on the podium at the 1984 Games, the stakes were higher. Lemieux, 32 then had to come a long way to earn a place in the Finn category that he had miss out on four years earlier where he had finished 13th in the Star class. Having begun his career ten years before the Seoul Games, the Canadian seemed primed to reach his peak in South Korea. And on September 24, in Busan, the site for the 470 and Finn events in sailing, everything was going according to plan.Sailing in the fifth of the eight races to determine the winner, Lemieux was first in the race and second overall. He was in contention to at least win a silver medal when something even more important grabbed his attention. The weather during the event had considerably worsened with winds blowing in excess of 35 knots. It had caused steep waves that even Lemieux who was used to sailing in rough...Read more

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