History+of+sport

dddUday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, was one of the most feared men in Iraq. Over the time of his reign as the head of the Olympic Committee, Hussein has tortured numerous athletes and killed dozens of others. Hussein’s bizarre tortures and almost gangster like persona made everyone afraid of him and his regime. ** For nearly twenty years Uday Hussein has been the most powerful force in Iraq’s athletic hierarchy, and li **ke any gangster in the world, there is always an epic end to their life (// Yaeger). // //  ddddUday, sometimes referred to as the Butcher Boy, is said to be one of the most brutal members of the notorious ruling family in Iraq. As an infant Uday was reported to be seen playing with disarmed hand grenades. As he grew up his father started teaching him the ways to keep rule in the family. When Uday was ten years old, he was accompanying his father to the torture chamber at //Qasr-al-Nihayyah, where his father dealt with his enemies. The torture chamber there is called the palace of the end, where many political enemies were taken, including King Faisal II, and killed. At the age of sixteen, Uday reportedly boasted to classmates about killing a teacher who spoke out against him in front of his girlfriend. As Uday grew older his crimes did as well. He has been known for asking girls at parties to come visit him; if they declined he would rape them. He has even shot his own uncle in the leg for speaking out against him and killed his two brothers’ in law. All of these actions lead to Saddam’s decision to imprison Uday for all his random acts of violence. But Uday only spent a small amount of time jailed because his father decided that Uday should be given the head position on the Olympic committee.(Yaeger) dddAs the top official of the Olympic committee, Uday has tortured and killed athletes who failed to win. An Iraqi boxer that went to a Gulf States competition had been knocked out in the first round of the fight. When the boxer returned, Uday sent a couple of his men to bring the boxer to him. Uday was so enraged that he began screaming at the boxer say “This is MY Iraq, embarrassing Iraq embarrasses me!” Uday sent him into a room yelling ** “In sport you can win or you can lose. I told you not to come home if you didn’t win.”, and proceeded to say “This is how you box” and gave him a thunderous round of punches to the head. Then he gabbed a electric probe, which he was notorious for carrying, and electrified the boxer. Eventually he told his man to take him away and finish the job. **
 * dddUday also was also known for carrying his own personal score card at soccer games. On the cards he would write down punishments for players that didn’t perform up to his standards. If a player happened to score bad enough he would be tortured by canning of there feet. When the Iraq team lost the in the FIFA world cup qualifying match to Kazakhstan, the players were sent to Uday’s Olympic headquarters. Once the players arrived he tied their hands and feet together. Then he tied there knees over a metal bar so that they were lying on their backs. After he ripped there shirts off and dragged all of them over pavement with a truck so their backs would be torn off. To ensure the most amount of pain and possible infection, Uday then dragged them through sand. Finally he made them jump into raw sewage to make them get infections and to show them never to fail Iraq again. **