Thread by @LesothoJohn, Something I just learned: a picture that included #Lesotho's first Olympic athlete--the [...]

John Aerni-Flessner

LesothoJohn

Something I just learned: a picture that included #Lesotho& #39;s first Olympic athlete--the late Motsapi #Moorosi--traveled to space on NASA& #39;s Voyager missions in the late 1970s: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/images/?fbclid=IwAR0OBuvjg6mwSPJJ7chv-PtTb_m8Kg4wPSKwj4WL2RmxZOjCCJaQF_yDpQM">https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-re...

This is the image--from the heats of the 200 meters at the #Munich1972 Olympic Games ( #Lesotho& #39;s Moorosi is wearing #603 in the center of the frame--Mokorotlo on the singlet visible, too):

#Moorosi is also quoted in this 1972 Sports Illustrated piece talking about a possible boycott if apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia were allowed to compete. #Lesotho: https://vault.si.com/vault/1972/08/28/buzz-before-the-curtain">https://vault.si.com/vault/197...

BUZZ BEFORE THE CURTAIN

Chill rains splattered against Munich's mind-boggling $60 million Olympic tent roof last week, leaving bundled-up visitors to wonder whether this might not

https://vault.si.com/vault/1972/08/28/buzz-before-the-curtain

And another Moorosi picture (likely from those 1972 Munich Olympic Games) (via @KabiKolobe)

And some more Motsapi Moorosi pictures from the @OaBasotho archives (training with USA Olympic champion Mal Whitfield and another unidentified Mosotho runner)!

Motsapi #Moorosi, #Lesotho (again, with Mal Whitfield)

And one final one: #Lesotho& #39;s Motsapi #Moorosi training with USA Olympic Champ Mal Whitfield (and a unidentified Mosotho runner)

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