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I know this is countdown to the summer games, but I think winter memories are allowed, too.

 

Actually, it is December now, isn't it? :-)

 

#215 - Sochi 2014 - Speed Skating - M 1500 m - Zbigniew Bródka beating Koen Verweij by 0,00000000000000000001 sec. ;-)

 

https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/men-s-1500m-speed-skating-sochi-2014-replays/

 

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Looks like noone cares about this thread anymore, but at least I will have my fav olympic videos stored in one place. ;-)

 

One for yesterdarday:

 

#214 - Torino 2006 - Biathlon - M Mass Start - Tomasz Sikora finally getting his well-deserved olympic medal. RACH! CIACH! CIACH!

My good friend was there as an important part of Polish olympic biathlon team, I heard some insider's anegdotes, a very emotional story.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLeLZfBI-7g&t=1404s

 

And one for today:

 

#213 - Barcelona 1992 - Football - M Final - POL vs ESP. We were already preparing ourselves for an extra-time and then... But this is still the last Polish olympic medal in team sports. Until August I hope, and our volleyball final heh.

And here the same, my good friend was there as a part of Polish olympic football team, I heard some insider's stories, a lot of things were going on there. A lot.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJoHpQxbfT8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ok,

 

I guess I can post some daily videos here too.

 

Will start with :SVK medals. No worries, there not so much so it won't take too long :d

 

Miloslav Mečíř won 2 medals for former Czechoslovakia in Seoul 1988 at the grand return of Tennis under the 5 rings.

After a bronze with the Czech Milan Šrejber in the M doubles three days before the end of the games in the next afternoon came his most famous win in the M Singles final.

 

 

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and that unbelievable era of Communism :hairpull:

 

The return home from the normal world to the sad reality of "socialist paradise" ..reporter of Czechoslovak TV asking most idiotic questions at the airport (firstly just congartulating happy birthday to 20 years old Jana Novotná (RIP) and not mentioning at all her silver medal :wall: to immediatelly starting infront of Miloš wife with the most stupid question. Tennis players are not famous for bringing medals, what price has this medal for you ? kudos, Miloš showed how he knew to keep his cold blood, "I do not know the price of that medal, but it is nice experience to win it"

also mentioning his semifinal against Edberg as the hardest game.

 

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11 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Looks like noone cares about this thread anymore, but at least I will have my fav olympic videos stored in one place. ;-)

 

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naaaa...I always look at your memories (most of them are also my memories)...

 

I would rather start to post also my list when we reach the last 100 days (I'm so lazy :rofl:), but maybe I could anticipate that (especially for the Winter Games memories)...who knows? 

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:SVK Medal moments #2

 

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

 

 

Ever heard about the name Radoslav Židek ?

No ?

 

what about Steven Bradbury ?

Yes ?

 

Well, Židek is kinda sort of our Bradbury.

 

The guy wrote the history of our sport, in Torino 2006 he won the very first ever Winter Olympic medal of :SVK since the independence.

Yep after 3 medalless WOG in Lillehammer, Nagano and Salt Lake, Slovakia finally won a medal at its 4th appareance at the winter olympics in Torino 2006.

it was only 1 silver...and it came in...you would never guess it, in the very first historic debut of ..

 

..Snowboard Cross under the five rings

 

but what a epic Shock it was...

 

The absolutely unexpected one, a guy who managed to qualify for the games as the very last athlete and never achieved any really noteworthy result in all his carrer experienced that morning in Bardonecchia the most bizarre and most successful day of his life by entering the history books of the country in a absolute "one day in a life" coup.

 

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And comparing Židek to Bradbury? I don't know, it's a tough sell. :p

 

Finished 9th in the seeding run (still only 0.5 secs away from 3rd). Placed 1st in each preliminary KO round. Lead the gold medal final for most of the race and still almost won it (against a guy who would eventually became double gold medalist).

 

Very unlike Bradbury (even if it was still Židek's only big podium apparently)...

 

 

#banbestmen

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