A world star of athletics like Joe Kovacs second best shot putter in history and double Olympic runner-up, became a hero in the last few hours after averting a tragedy in the Italian city of stomping.
Kovacs goes for a walk with his wife Ashley and his two twins, in the middle of A journey on a trainappear a drunken man with a knife and began threatening a female passenger. There were moments of anguish as train passengers managed to contact the police to request their intervention.
However, amid the tug, Kovacs got the knife from the attacker so that he could avoid hurting the woman he was threatening. In this way, the American was able to prevent the drunk from having a weapon to attack his victim.
Kovacs was not intimidated by the situation, strangely next to his extensive sports career. Olympic silver in both Rio and Tokyo, he owns two world titles and two universal silvers in the weight and, with a best throw of 23.23 meters made in September last year, just surpassed him on the historical list of world record holders Ryan Crouser and his 23.56 meters.
Source: La Verdad
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