From Stories Sports Photographs Told Me........

Some of the greatest sports photographs involved no sporting action at all. And often they told me stories; of chivalry, of rivalry, of tragedy and of true heroism.
One of them, for example, had an apparently shivering man, as weak as a 'butterfly' struggling to stay clear of the fire after lighting the Olympic flame, in front of a teary eyed President.
Another had a fallen hero returning to his fans, whom he had fled, at the top of a motorcade, oblivious to the surroundings, his head hanging on his shoulders with no sign of consciousness.
Yet another had a cricketer, bowler & Captain, walking back, retracing the run up all alone as his team mates, huddled together across the pitch at the other end, celebrated a wicket off his bowling! And a fourth one had 'The Saint' carrying the coffin of his rival who had fallen in the 'battlefield'.
One such photograph, a rather old one, had a young woman hugging a pole!
She did it after winning some obscure tennis tourney in Orlando, which incidentally was her first. Far away from home, cut off from family & friends, in a strange & distant land, at her moment of immense joy, as there was no one to hug, she hugged the nearest object she could, a light pole next to the Umpire's chair. Some one captured it on his camera & it got published on the next day's papers.
I'm not sure if she made it big in the highly competitive world of professional tennis. But she must have been a trend setter for many girls these days take up the sport which demand extensive traveling across the globe.
Wait a minute.....
............the caption below the photograph gives her name.............
it reads ...........
Martina Navratilova!