LONDON, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The "Flying Housewife" Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four golds at the 1948 Olympic Games, has been added to the map of Transport for London's Olympic map, reports said here on Thursday.
The 30-year-old Dutch sprinter, with two children, was the star of the 1948 Olympics, winning four gold medals, and was even named the greatest female sports star of the 20th century, yet she was not included on Transport for London's souvenir Olympic Legends Tube Map, on which the 361 stations of the London Underground have been renamed with Olympic legends.
Transport for London (TfL) was forced to apologize after the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation complained their fabled sprinter was not featured.
"It is an embarrassing mistake," it said. "We urge them now to correct it."
TfL has duly obliged, promising that Blankers-Koen, who died in 2004 aged 85, will be included in the map's next reprint, leaving it with the tricky issue of who to remove to make space.
The Dutch Olympic authorities wrote to LOCOG president Sebastian Coe to ask for Blankers-Koen's inclusion, after an angry reaction from sports fans in the Netherlands. The names were selected by Alex Trickett, the BBC's former head of Olympics, and David Brooks, a sports journalist. "We made a mistake," he said.
"We had 500 names. Fanny Blankers-Koen was one of our red 'must- have' ones, but when we placed the names on the map, she went missing."