Bent Elbow

From: Jimbaud
Sent: 10 September 2008 11:11
To: 'Tess'
Subject: RE: Olympic Update

I give work the Bosnian Coat of Arms.


From: Tess
Sent: 10 September 2008 11:09
To: Jimbaud
Subject: Re: Olympic Update

cool! old olympics logos: there's a google image search worth getting fired for


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Jimbaud wrote:



In the pole vault competition, despite pleas for silence in three languages, jeers, chants and whistles among the different factions in the crowd supporting French, Soviet and Polish pole vaulters could be heard. Immediately after Kozakiewicz secured his gold medal, he responded to the jeering Soviet crowds with an obscene bent elbow gesture. This gesture is now referred to in Polish as "Kozakiewicz's gesture".

In the Balkans "the elbow" is called bosanski grb ("the Bosnian coat of arms"). The origin of this name is unknown.