Those weren’t tears of joy. French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie cried while receiving his Olympic silver medal, as boos rained down on him for a second straight night at Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. A partisan crowd first booed the Frenchman as he tried to surpass the height Brazilian Thiago Braz da Silva cleared during Monday’s competition. He came up short and da Silva won the gold. Lavillenie then compared the crowd’s behavior to how African-American athlete Jesse Owens was treated at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.

Source: Huffington Post August 18, 2016 10:35 UTC