Your Favorite Olympic Moments

[rafalgorka 1,533]

#207 - Rio 2016 - Swimming - W 200m Backstroke Final - Katinka denied another gold medal in last stroke

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8SVFr13m0&t=1s

 

#206 - London 2012 - Athletics - W 100m Hurdles Final - Sally Pearson asking around - WAS IT ME? WAS IT ME?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFqL-lAud0k&t=407s

[MHSN 3,625]

I just ran into this video, IOC's top 5 Olympic upsets in the history,  whoever made that video for IOC is probably American, all of those 5 upsets are related to USA.

 

 

 

 

 

what other "big big" upsets you guys can add to the list ?

 

obviously Esther Ledecka but they made the clip before the 2018 Winter Games

[intoronto 5,645]

From a Canadian pov, Chandra Crawford's win in Turin was a complete upset/surprise. Was not expected.

[Monzanator 4,509]

In terms of Polish Olympic results the #1 upset is very simple - Wojciech Fortuna 1972 Sapporo. And it's not like he had two jumps, just one, the second one was a total wash but still won gold by 0,1 pts

 

 

 

 

[phelps 7,680]

from an Italian perspective, the biggest "Winter" positive upset in recent history is surely the men's Combined in Alpine Skiing in Albertville 1992, when Josef Polig and Gianfranco Martin came out of nowhere to win Gold & Silver...

 

not sure we can say it was an enormous upset, since we were among the medal candidates in any case, but also the triumph in the men's Cross-Country Skiing relay in Lillehammer 1994 surely was against all odds (basically the entire world thought it was only a race for the silver medal, with gold already booked by the host Nation)...

 

at the Summer Games, I'd say the 2 gold medals by Andrea Minguzzi (Greco-Roman Wrestling) and Giulia Quintavalle (women's Judo) in Beijing 2008 are definitely among the most unexpected wins in our Olympic history...

 

by the way, I totally agree with the Olympic Channel when they put the "miracle on ice" at no.1...that's my absolute no.1, too...

 

and I think also Bradbury's shocking gold and Karelin's suprising loss deserve to be in that ranking...

[hckošice 14,838]

Any Slovak medal is always basically an upset, so to say

[rybak 3,218]

My favourite Olympic moment is will be when Tokyo Games will actually happen.

[phelps 7,680]

4 hours ago, rybak said:

My favourite Olympic is will be when Tokyo Games will actually happen.

I agree, my friend! that will be a true sign of renaissance...

[Dragon 1,845]

Nearly a 100 years ago but the final 100 metres of this race is still stunning

[Olympian1010 7,977]

5 hours ago, rybak said:

My favourite Olympic moment is will be when Tokyo Games will actually happen.

Wrong topic. This belongs in the Fantasy Games thread