{"id":17558,"date":"2011-09-18T22:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/earl-thomson-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:35:07","slug":"earl-thomson","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/earl-thomson\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Canadien Earl \u00ab Tommy \u00bb Thomson \u00e9tait le grand favori de l\u2019\u00e9preuve du 110 m haies \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1920-antwerp\/\">Anvers 1920<\/a> et il a facilement remport\u00e9 la finale gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un temps record olympique et mondial, une marque qui a surv\u00e9cu 11 ans. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 le premier champion olympique aux haies ne repr\u00e9sentant pas les \u00c9tats-Unis. Au cours de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie de remise des m\u00e9dailles, les officiels belges ont r\u00e9alis\u00e9 qu\u2019ils n\u2019avaient pas de drapeau du Canada, si bien qu\u2019ils ont hiss\u00e9 un drapeau britannique \u00e0 cette occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">N\u00e9 \u00e0 Birch Falls en Saskatchewan (pr\u00e8s de Prince Albert), Thomson \u00e9tait \u00e2g\u00e9 de huit ans quand sa famille s\u2019est install\u00e9e dans le sud de la Californie pour pr\u00e9server la sant\u00e9 de sa m\u00e8re. Il a toutefois conserv\u00e9 sa citoyennet\u00e9 canadienne. En 1914, il a surv\u00e9cu \u00e0 un accident presque fatal, alors qu\u2019un fusil de chasse charg\u00e9 s\u2019est d\u00e9charg\u00e9 contre sa poitrine. Il a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole polytechnique de Long Beach o\u00f9 il a remport\u00e9 sa premi\u00e8re course de haies en 1915. Avant de devenir capitaine de l\u2019\u00e9quipe d\u2019athl\u00e8te du Coll\u00e8ge Dartmouth, o\u00f9 il a \u00e9t\u00e9 dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en 1922, Thomson a pass\u00e9 un an \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Southern California. En 1916, Thomson s\u2019est joint \u00e0 l\u2019Aviation royale canadienne et a servi pendant la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale. Il \u00e9tait connu pour avoir d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 une nouvelle technique de haies, consistant \u00e0 courir vers elles avec les deux bras vers l\u2019avant, plut\u00f4t que de sauter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 la suite de son retrait de la comp\u00e9tition, Thomson a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans la conception d\u2019une nouvelle haie visant \u00e0 r\u00e9duire les chutes et les blessures. Il a pass\u00e9 la grande partie de sa vie comme entra\u00eeneur en athl\u00e9tisme, d\u2019abord \u00e0 son ancien coll\u00e8ge de Dartmouth et ensuite \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 West Virginia. Il a finalement pass\u00e9 37 ans comme entra\u00eeneur-chef de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie navale d\u2019Annapolis au Maryland. Thomson s\u2019est fianc\u00e9 \u00e0 Anne Cookman en 1922. Il est mort du cancer en 1971 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 76 ans, \u00e0 Oceanside en Californie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomson a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada en 1949, il faisait partie de la classe inaugurale d\u2019intronisation au Panth\u00e9on des sports canadiens en 1955, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la Saskatchewan en 1974 et au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de Prince Albert en 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Canadien Earl \u00ab Tommy \u00bb Thomson \u00e9tait le grand favori de l\u2019\u00e9preuve du 110 m haies \u00e0 Anvers 1920&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":72258,"template":"","tags":[4137340,415984513,415984548],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162660],"gender":[42123],"season":[],"sport":[48770],"game":[181821847],"team":[415983248],"event":[181822617],"province":[415983159],"class_list":["post-17558","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-110-m-haies","tag-1920-anvers","tag-athletisme","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162660","gender-masculin","sport-athletisme","game-1920-antwerp","team-anvers-1920-athletisme","event-haies-110-m-hommes","province-saskatchewan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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