Template:Did you know nominations/Edwin Flack

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:38, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Edwin Flack

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Edwin Flack in Athens in 1896

• ... that after Australia's first Olympian Edwin Flack (pictured) collapsed during the marathon, when a spectator tried to help him out Flack punched him to the ground? Source: Delirious Aussie Edwin Flack punched a spectator during running of the first modern marathon

• Comment: Two credits so far, no QPQ

Improved to Good Article status by DatGuy (talk). Self-nominated at 14:35, 4 April 2020 (UTC).

• Recent GA. Interesting hook. Good on sourcing and no close paraphrasing issues detected. No QPQ required. Good to go. KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:50, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

• @KAVEBEAR: FYI, you have to add one of the approval templates for the bot to know you approved it. buidhe 01:42, 6 April 2020 (UTC)