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except the Stars and Stripes, determined to make a stand
held by the Californian law against the British tyrant who
student and shot putter, oppressed the Irish. ‘This
Ralph Rose. flag dips to no earthly king,’
the young democrat was
The British press at the time supposed to have said as he
overlooked the incident, held his flag high.
but the Irish paper in New
York, The Gaelic American, Historians dispute whether
picked up Rose’s gesture the words were actually
and made much of it. said by Rose or were a
When an American sports later embellishment to the
journalist revived the story story, but the fact remains
in the 1950s, it told of that after 1908, the national
Ralph Rose being “taken Olympic team was here to
aside” the night before the stay and the 1908 US team
opening ceremony by a core had made the first Olympic
of Irish American athletes political protest.
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