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#212 - Vancouver 2010 - Cross-Country Skiing - W 30 km Mass Start Classic - Justyna Kowalczyk vs Marit Bjoergen.

This is an obvious choice for me. Last km - I can watch it all the time again and again. Never gets boring.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf9YKm2l_iU

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Another Vancouver 2010 moment: Nicolien Sauerbrei's giant slalom gold medal. The first and only snow medal for :NED!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdnBxYisZjg

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#211 - Athens 2004 - Swimming - M 200 m Free Final

 

My favourite Dutch olympic moment. VDH 2nd in THE RACE.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X0ih5iMJoc&t=7s

 

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:SVK medal moments #3

 

 

the first woman to win a medal at the Olympics for Slovakia since the independence was Martina Moravcová.

 

 

A worldwide very well-known name, probably one of the best world swimmers of the late 90s early 2000s who sadly never won the Olympics or World Championship Long Course gold

and will be remembered forever as the Long Course Swimming "Silver queen" with her 2 OG silvers, 3 WCh and 10 ECh Long Course silvers (This is the only event where she also won 3 Gold medals).

 

 

(She still won an incredible amount of 68 medals in her career from OG, WCH and ECH Long and Short pool ! all from Individual events - an absolute record) + 5 golds from Universiades and 4 from Goodwill games.

 

In the short course, she is arguably one of the most successful woman in the history of swimming: she won 7 world titles and 19 European champion titles (she is the only swimming champion in the world from Slovakia);

in addition, she won a total of a record 105 World Cup races in 10 different disciplines - in the 2001/02 and 2003/04 seasons she became the absolute winner of the World Cup, in the 2000/01 season she won the overall World Cup classification in eight disciplines.

She set a total of 3 world, 17 European and 203 Slovak records (She maintained all Slovak records on all tracks except the 200 m backstroke in the long pool).

She competed at five Olympics from 1996 to 2008 and with these five Olympic participations she is the Slovak summer Olympics participant record holder.

Six times, Slovak sports journalists voted her the Athlete of the Year (1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003) in the traditional year-end award.

 

 

Her 2 Olympic silvers are from Sydney 2000, her and nations 2nd SVK Olympic appearance.

 

Already the Day 2 of the games came to Slovakia a news about our first medal from the Sydney games and it arrived from the Olympic pool. Marina won silver in the 100m Butterfly and became the first female since the independence of the country to win a Olympic medal, 2 days later she managed to became the only slovak female ever to win 2 medals at 1 Summer Olympics (Kuzmina won 2 medals in Vancouver WOG 2010) again by winning her destiny Silver at the 200m Freestyle.

 

Both Finals in the videos

 

100m Butterfly Final  https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/martina-moravcova-swimming-100m-butterfly-silver-medal-sydney-2000/

 

200m Freestyle Final https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/martina-moravcova-swimming-200m-freestyle-silver-medal-sydney-2000/?uxreference=seealso

 

 

 

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

#211 - Athens 2004 - Swimming - M 200 m Free Final

 

My favourite Dutch olympic moment. VDH winning THE RACE.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X0ih5iMJoc&t=7s

 

That one was definitely on my list of moments to post!

 

On the note of swimming: Beijing 2008, Maarten van der Weijden gold in 10 KM open water swimming.

 

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#210 - Athens 2004 - Athletics - M 4x100m Relay Final - Team GB vs Team USA. This race is maybe maybe even more emotional than Bolt for me.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DATSz4mjqtw&t=5s

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKBMwTfU4po

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/feb/22/olympic-moments-great-britain-relay

 

 

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#209 - Athens 2004 - Swimming - W 400m Freestyle - Laure Manaudou vs Otylia 

 

https://youtu.be/de3NmpNg4ag

 

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#208 - Sydney 2000 - Athletics - M 800m Final

 

Kipketer on the stadium and me in front of tv were both shaking heads with disbelief.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8q3QNQ8J3s

 

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1 hour ago, dcro said:

For today, how about the only Olympics ever held during the Christmas season? :d

 

tbh, I often think about the chance to see once in my life the Christmas Summer Olympics (possibly in New Zealand, rather than the usual Australia or in Africa / South America)...:p

 

that's surely one of my "impossible dreams"...

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