Template:Did you know nominations/René Heyde

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... that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics?

Source: Contemporary reporting in The Press: "The outcome of those trials — and even though Heyde crashed — was that four “certainties” and himself were named to compete finally at Wanganui. As five were to be nominated for Munich, it seemed certain Heyde would go on that trip. But as it happened, and because Heyde had crashed, N. R. Lyster was asked at the last minute to attend the Wanganui trials. Without riding, he was given the fifth place ahead of Heyde."

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles
Comment: There was some reporting about Heyde in today's newspaper. I looked him up and he had quite an interesting, if tragic, background.

5x expanded by Schwede66 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 147 past nominations.

Schwede 66 10:14, 4 July 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything looks good. Hook is interesting, sourced, and article passes copyvio checks. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:40, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Once approved, please place this nomination in the Olympics: Special occasion holding area