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The protester, wearing a kilt and a green beret and a white placard with the words "The Grand Prix priest. Israel fulfillment of prophecy says the bible, the second coming is near," on it, was immediately arrested and taken to a police station.
He appears to be Cornelius "Neil" Horan, a former priest who disrupted last year's British Grand Prix. He was then jailed for two months following his race track protest at Silverstone.
A police source said: "The man says he is Irish, he is also drunk. He had been to a taverna earlier. Police are going through his stuff."
After the incident, de Lima said: "I trained a lot for this and I'm very happy to win this bronze medal.
"If the spectator didn't jump in front of me in the middle of the race, who knows what would have happened? Maybe I would have won. It disturbed me a lot."
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After the race, the International Olympic Committee it was saddened by the incident and announced de Lima would be awarded with the Pierre de Coubertin Medal.
The award it said was in recognition of his "exceptional demonstration of fair play and Olympic values".