A judo competitor tonight claimed to have 'beaten' a spectator who threw a bottle on to the athletics track in the Olympic Stadium shortly before Usain Bolt sprinted to victory in the men's 100 metres.
Dutch judo medallist Edith Bosch was apparently at the Olympic Stadium in London when the missile was hurled on to the track, narrowly missing the athletes.
She posted on Twitter in Dutch a message which, when translated into English, reads: 'A drunken guest throws a bottle for me on the track! I HAVE BEATEN HIM.... Unbelievable! # angry # disrespectful'.
Pictures showed the missile coming on to the track as the sprinters took their marks for the most eagerly awaited athletics race of London 2012.
None of the sprinters were injured, and the race started first time. Bolt won the race in an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds.
His Jamaican compatriot Yohan Blake took silver in a time of 9.75 seconds and American Justin Gatlin took bronze in 9.79.
Speaking after the race, Gatlin said: 'It was a little distraction and I didn't know what it was.
'But when you're in those blocks and the whole stadium's quiet you can hear a pin drop.'
The suspect is being held in police custody at an east London police station on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.
Gatlin said the incident had not affected the race.
'You just have to block it out and go out there and do what you got to do,' he said. 'You can't complain about that, the race went on and it was a great race.'
Bolt said he had been unaware of the incident. Asked whether he knew anything about it, he said: 'No, I keep hearing that.
'I don't know who would have done that.'
Blake said: 'I was so focused I didn't see anything.
'I was so focused on just running to the line.'
Bosch, 32, won a bronze medal in the judo at London 2012. Her Olympic debut was at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where she finished seventh. She won a silver medal in Athens in 2004 and a bronze in Beijing in 2008.
the tweet:
the daily fail.