The Story of the Most Surprising Gold Medal: Steven Bradbury | Olympics on the Record
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At the Salt Lake City Olympic Games in 2002, the world saw one of the most surprising gold medals in Olympic history when Australian short track speed skater Steven Bradbury defied the odds in his unlikely gold-medal winning race and became "The last man standing".
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To finish first, you have to finish, first.
Okay my god that is the greatest thing I’ve heard today. I love this so much
@meaturama it's actually very common for this to happen even years later as drug tests are repeated.
First I didn’t understand. But then suddenly everything exploded in mind! 👏
@meaturama still the same thing... You have to finish at all to be able to finish first.
It's: To finish first you must first finish. Murray Walker always said it.
This is honestly the most Australian thing to have ever happened
Lima Bean g.. Z
and is that louis in your profile
lol yeah
Just wing it
That's the australian spirit
Ever since this happened, in Australia if you make a massive comeback and win from behind it's known as "doing a Bradbury". He's a legend here.
Indeed that phrase was added to the second edition of The Australian National Dictionary in 2016.
interesante dato australiano... saludos desde argentina.. campeones del mundooooo😆
As he should be, this is the most Ozzie thing ever, I'll never not smile when someone brings it up
@@annnee6818I feel like Australians always do something out of place or funny at the Olympics. In Tokyo a kayaker found a hole in her kayak and used a condom to seal it. Then she went on to win 😆
Me and my friends used to do this when we were kids. I did it the most and it inspired me to be better at nearly any sport I played and my friends used to get really annoyed at me because I did it all the time and beat them 😂
I can't believe I am sitting here feeling patriotic for Australia, having never even been outside of Sweden.
Lmao, what makes this better is that this is a household story every Australian is bound to know.
As a proud Australian myself, I now dub you an honorary member of this great nation.
@@jaxquill I'll second that motion
Thanks 😊
I still nearly tear up watching this. He deserved to win for his efforts.
The rules were set, the race began, and he finished first. I see nothing to be ashamed of here.
What's funny is he wasn't even that slow. He was literally just chilling in the back and keeping up with them. You can tell he wasn't pushing into the pack adn he probably could have.
Your post somehow implies the opposite tho lol
@@Folsomdsf2 No, he was too slow to keep up with the other guys. He looks fairly smooth, as all of these speedskaters do, but this was as fast as he could go. He was just lucky everyone crashed right before the finish.
@@finewinedaily4997 You know he was already a gold medalist in skating right? The problem was he KNEW he wasn't fast enough to ACTUALLY beat these guys. His pace was actually not that far off, the problem is that it's still not enough to beat them even if he put in that extra push. He had to wait. And if you think he was too slow to keep up, you try and stay within a body length for 5 laps.
@@Folsomdsf2 I don't know what your point is. He was an elite speed skater, but maybe the 20-30th fastest in the world at that time. And his other gold medal was in a relay at the World Champiomships 11 years before this. Also not really relevant to anything.
Being ~20m back in a 1000m short track race is way behind. And he was that far back because he was simply too slow to keep up. This was not some masterful strategy of his. The odds of everyone crashing right before the finish is maybe 1 in 1000. This is the only time in the entire history of the World or Olympic championships I can recall where the entire field crashed right before the finish. Waiting for an almost impossible miracle is not a strategy. He was an elite, world class athlete, but not a gold medal contender. Nothing to be ashamed of, but he just got preposterously lucky. To even get past the quarter and semi-finals he needed another last-second crash and for one of the skaters to get DQed after the race.
Sometimes success means just showing up. Avoiding collisions is part of the sport, so this is a fair win.
Very true.
so true.
To finish first, first, you have to finish
In an interview he said he didn't win the Gold because of the 90s race, he won it because of the decade of hard work, dedication, and overcoming serious injuries, and never giving up.
A clean win
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu said:
Crikey
This comment is so underrated.
HA HA.
😂😂😂 alright you got me
Athena Velasco same
G'day g'day ya bloody legends
A lot of people don't seem to know but going into this race he already had an Olympic Bronze and a World Championship to his name. He wasn't some casual skater he was one of the best in the world.
Yup it annoys me when people carry on like he was a nothing or a nobody. Not only was he the former world champion and had been a bronze medallist eight years previously, this was his fourth Olympics which is an amazing achievement in itself. Most athletes count it as the pinnacle of their careers to get selected for even one Olympic team, and Bradbury did it four times, so obviously the guy is pretty freaking good, and has serious staying power, as he demonstrated so well here.
You'd know what it's like to have people scoff at your abilities wouldn't you Russell. It must hurt.
@@davidwillis7991 And you'd know what it's like to have people laugh at your attempts at trolling wouldn't you David. Off you scurry, poppet.
Obviously...he was in the olympics 😒
Hey Russ. Been getting into any All Aussie Adventures lately?
At worst he's the fifth best skater in the world, at his best he's a gold medal winner, difference is he didn't have millions of dollars backing him and a world class program like the other 4.
well he pass the semi because of a fall to, and the quater because of a disqualification
no. He wouldn't have gotten through the quarter had there not been a DQ
He wouldn't have gotten through the semi's had there not been a fall.
He wouldn't have won gold had if any of his opponents didn't fall.
His opponents were fighting for positions moving back and forth and this costs a lot of energy, yet he wasn't even close to being within reach.
@@DonLee1980 I feel you fail to understand the concept of this sport is to not fall. If the worlds best skater still falls over in every race he isn't the worlds best.
@@DonLee1980 that's his tactic
SuperJohn12354 it’s also hard to train for winter events seeing as how almost all of Australia stays snow-free year round
Even being American and wanting Ohno to win... I couldn't help but think Bradbury outsmarted all of them. He knew they were all aggressive skaters and it was unlikely he could beat them physically, so he played a tactical race, letting them destroy each other at the line.
THAT'S quite a delusional comment, dude.
Good point! Based on the way Bradbury even got to the finals, I'd say this was the most proven approach he could take. The Olympics are filled with surprise victories. None quite as encouraging as this one.
Wasnt really aggressive skating... the Korean who caused this crash did so intentionally (not meaning he meant to crash himself but he was trying to keep ohno from passing him my any means necessary)... this same Korean skater later got suspended for doing the EXACT same thing in the EXACT same way in another race at the same Olympics
Are we gonna ignore the fact some dudes name is ohno
@@armwrestlingfan6804 you mean.. "american" thinking.
1:40 “He inspired a generation of Australians, well, four to be precise”
So yeah, a generation of Australians
He did inspire other Australians to get more involved in winter sports - it's worth noting that we've won 15 other Winter Olympic medals since then, plus other notable firsts such as Harley Windsor, the first Aboriginal to represent Australia at the Winter games (in figure skating) and Australia's first Olympic medals in snowboarding and aerial skiing.
4 are a lot of aussies! Don’t underestimate!
And thus the expression.
"doing a Bradbury"
was born
Essentially doing a homer lol
IMO, you don’t do ‘a Bradbury’, ‘a Bradbury’ happens to you. 😂
Chuckin' a Bradbury has a better more Australian ring to it. No one would say "Do a uey"
@@chriswelcome8102 Nobody says chucken a bradbury though. the saying has always been do a bradbury. Part of baing Australian is not putting much thought or effoort into your sayings.
I thought it was pulling a bradbury
This is a classic Australian sporting moment and just such a great story. Us Aussies still have a chuckle whenever this pops up in conversion. To have 'done a Bradbury' is now a saying we have. Also, if you read his lips as he crosses the line he says 'Oh my f***ing god!'.
Goes to show you have to be in it to win it and never give up.
most epic moment ever! :D :D :D
he is just 'son of a nature' i think. 'Survivor is a Winner' he followed nature code.
SeJong Lee I suppose I never thought of it that way. Great example of Taoism at play.
This is my favourite sporting moment of all time. It still gives me goosebumps to this day.
Last man standing - he fully deserved his medal.
I wouldn't say "fully." Had he been a bit fitter, he probably would have stumbled into the others and gone down with them, so he won thanks to his not being fit enough. You have to be in it to win it, but this was 100% luck, an absolute fluke including the qualifiers.
But it was still a strategy, although it was based on luck. Thereby I think it was kind of deservable
Agreed, he knew very well he wasn't as fast as the others. His strategy was to hang on the back and, hopefully, not get involved in a cash in case it happens.
In his case, relying on luck was his strategy. I know it sounds weird, but if your chances of winning are so slim by actually trying, you might aswell.
I don't know what's more statistically unlikely - him winning by truly doing his best, or the other 3 falling. But he went for the latter, and it worked.
@@Shouttz Holy Moly, batman.
It's not strategy if you're slower.
"Strategy: a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim."
Seems to be a strategy to me, overall aim was to win, the strategy was trying to not get caught in a possible crash.
I was exactly 11 years old, I, as much as everybody in Germany, saw this live after what happened in the semifinals. My entire family was there watching. How we all ended up screaming, laughing, celebrating is still beyond me bc it was way more intense than any footballing victory we've ever witnessed. And that means something for a german family.
This is my favourite olympic moment of all time.
Pjotr, Your entire family is hereby awarded the title 'Honorary Australians' for your support and joy at Steven's won and the first ever gold medal for Australia at the Winter Olympics. 👍🌝🥇🦘🇦🇺
A Japanese proverb says that "運も実力のうち".
This means "Luck is also a part of your skills".
He was worthy of winning a gold medal. That is all.
I think it was the Duke of Wellington who said, “The harder I worked, the luckier I got.”
@@thethirdman225 lol, that's Gary Player: a golfer.
@@mikespearwood3914 He probably did say it but it’s been around longer than Gary Player. One variation has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, so it probably predates even the Duke of Wellington.
This is movie material right here.
You would just have to figure out who would play the part of the cheating Korean who was later suspended for doing the exact same thing in the exact same way in the exact same situation in a later race
lol the korean is a kid and did nothing wrong if it was at the current olympics china should have a penalty for a bad attempt of a overtake. AHN (korean)goes on to become the one best speed skaters of all time.
Like a brother to Eddie the Eagle :)
@@skylarkan7909 South Korean skaters are some of the most dirty and unsportsmanlike. In Peongchang, a Canadian skater got a medal cause a korean skater fell infront of her, she then got death threats from South Koreans. Another SK skater got sliver and was FURIOUS about it, I get that it's your dream to go to the olympics and all but sliver is still REALLY GOOD. South Koreans love to make room where there isn't, usually by impeding another skater, same with Chinese skaters.
@@coastaku1954 You may be right about them being unsportsmanlike however you have to admit that they are brilliant skaters
"His autobiography is called 'last ... man ... standing."
Gold medal for the tackiest pun/ending ever. 🥇
That's not a pun. It's literally correct.
@cool Knight He thought two would take each other and that would get him a medal.
I mean it fits his personality. He is legit a inspirational speaker now
It's also his brand for a beer he sells lol
Yeah - I read it recently. Steve certainly paid his dues. It's such a typical Aussie story. He wasn't from Queensland actually - he's from New South Wales but his entire family moved to Queensland to form a sort of secret society of World Class Speed Skaters in Brisbane. It worked.
"Never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake" - Napoelon
Whenever he speaks about his career and this moment he has always remained so humble, and at times I think he feels he didn't deserve the gold. But he had a strategy, stuck to the plan and it paid off. He's a loved figure in Australia because of the way he approached his career and never gave up. Not to mention a winter Olympic pioneer in our country.
That’s awesome. Well earned gold, well deserved, so much respect for the guy!
Yeah, and he worked so bloody hard to get there in the first place. Absolute legend.
Funny how now in Australia when similar things happen , we call it a Bradbury.. forever immortalised ... Champion..Bloody Legend...
Well, that works in Sweden to, at least among people interested in sports.
I watched it live! And we have to accept that a gold medal is not easy to win; the field showed that when stumbled and only Bradbury resisted on his feet.
What do you mean resisted? He was so far behind he had no chance of being taken out by the others, he didn't have to do anything but casually skate over the finish line.
It was his strategy. To fall of a little bit, since he knew that a face to face speed race was not possible for him against these 3 best of its best. Such crashes happen a lot in this kind of sport so his strategy was valid. Depending on luck, but stil!
I don't think realizing you're the slowest skater there and relying on luck is what he was going for, but whatever you say.
Well, Bradbury himself did admit to doing just that after all. He used it in the semis and it worked, so he saw no reason to change the strategy that worked best for him.
Great. From ROK
In speed skating, keeping your balance and distance and making good calls are just as important as skating fast. He did all of that and the game was ruled as his victory. If all your opponents mess up, that just means you're better than them. He deserved that gold.
I mean, from Queensland and chose ice skating? He must really have loved that sports. The passion alone deserved that gold medal.
That's in fact called a participation trophy. We have an epidemic of those already.
Well it's not like snowfields are just down the road in the tropical north & i wouldn't imagine very many ice skating rinks either, there was probs still more roller skating rinks back in the day 🤣
@@Tully_23_32 Just pointing out, there are in fact six ice rinks in Queensland. Two in Brisbane, three on the Gold Coast and one in Townsville.
The original Olympic commentary is so much better. It gives you a better understanding of his accomplishment and listening to the crowds reaction made it a great sporting moment.
He should be thanking the Korean skater who later got suspended for doing the EXACT same thing in the EXACT same way and in the EXACT same situation in a later race
Do you know where I can watch the original commentary, I cant find it.
@@MRFlackAttack1 If you have found it could you tell me where it's from?
Lol I want to know it io
it only looks bad because he makes a mistake on a corner, when he was interviewed he said his plan was to sit in the back because these 2 skater had been in a lot of incidents with each other, so his plan was to wait for the last 2-3 corners and make a move, he makes a mistake and loses some distance but never gives up, people should realise that he earnt his place in that final at worst he's the 5th best skater in the world and the hard work he put in earnt him that medal, he was very polite and respectful to the other people in that final even though they showed no sportsmanship towards him when they lost. There's no money in skating in Australia, he doesn't have a world class program behind him like the other 4 guys in this final, and to do his sport he has had to travel a lot.
Very well explained. Thank you.
to be fair to the other athletes, they did applaud Bradbury as he stood on the dais. That was sporting.
Everyone seems t
up the aussies
> He earned his place in that final
Yeah because the exact same thing happened in the semi final
The silver and bronze medalist were like throwing themselves over the finish line to salvage the situation.
his skating career is worth a movie, being brought up in a place where ice is extremely rare and constant summer, nearly bleeding out to death on the ice, then breaking his neck, then going on to win the first gold medal for australia in the winter olympics. and he was past his prime too
Hey mate, I'm Australian and I can assure you we do not have constant summer here, we do have winter in Australia too! Ice is not extremely rare either, we have several ski resorts in the southern states including in the Snowy Mountains, at Thredbo, Charlotte's Pass, Mount Buller, Mount Hotham, Perisher and Falls Creek. Most large cities have at least one figure skating ice rink as well.
@Langdon Dude, I AM a Queenslander, but even I know that there's snow in the southern states. Not sure where you got the Victorian label from?
@Langdon It's all good :-) I visited Cradle Mountain in Tasmania last year (prior to COVID obviously) and had a great time in the snow there as well. I just thought I would address the misconception by non-Australians that Australia is "constant summer" and that it never gets cold or snows here - we have winter just like every other country in the world. I recently had some fun trying to explain to some American mates on FB that our ski season is June, July and August and that Christmas Day is traditionally the hottest day of the year - for some reason that seemed to make their heads explode, they just couldn't grasp it
Ice in Queensland is usually reserved for drinks!!
@@shoresaresandy ice is usually for ice where i'm at aye;)
As the saying goes: "you gotta be in it, to win it" and thats all it takes sometimes..
Half of winning is just turning up.
i remember meeting him in primary school and getting his autograph for my mum, because she thought it was the greatest win. i keep looking back to this and it soo is.
I'm Canadian and this is one of my favourite Olympic moments, I remember watching it live!
I remember watching this from the telly at home. It was a big moment already, an Australian being in the finals of a winter olympic. And when he crossed that finish line first, I swear the entire country was stomping and shouting and crying and laughing. It was honestly one of the craziest moments in Aussie history.
Yeah I can still remember seeing it on the six o'clock news that day - when he took the gold you could hear the neighbourhood collectively going "Holy s**t!"
I'm an American, and even I cheered when this guy won.
How could you NOT?? We love the underdog.
Yup. Plus we still got 2nd and canada 3rd lol.
I think the whole world did.
I'm also American, and that may have been the best race finish in all of human history.
Some people say it's luck, but a champion needs both luck and skills. Proud of his achievement.
Clari Lotus agree and it take more than luck to have stayed at the top of your game for so many years to even get to the Olympics
tashalee666 Thhhhyuuuuhhjhiiim j f ghhvjillpp
Of course you need luck. But this has nothing to do with skill. Just pure luck
Clari Lotus right. he qualified in the Olympics multiple times. Luck won't be enough to give him that.
Except when luck played the most of it.
In my opinion one of the most deserved gold winner ever. Bradbury was there after being very damaged, but still he know he could take gold. No one else in this world believed he could win, but he did.
I'm from Sweden and have seen my country win alot of medals in the olympics but this is my favorite olympic moment ever!
this is literally such an analogy on what Australia is
Hate to say it but it's true.
What does that even mean??
+Nira Chien Australia tends to be unfancied in pretty much everything. But from time to time, Aussies will make the rest of the world look bad by beating people at their own games, be it music, sports or whatever other thing. This even extends to Australia as a colony and as a former one. The British Empire wasn't expecting Australia to succeed that well as a nation but it did.
Kytota Well I've never viewed Australia as an unfancied sporting nation. The country, for it's population, has always been rather successful. The Winter Olympics is clearly not Australia's best fit, but is the only Southern Hemisphere country to have had the success it has.
I think many of us can agree that many of the former British colonies have far exceeded their expectations.
By winning things you’re bad at via luck?
If I ever feel discouraged or down, I just watch this video and feel inspiration and tearful joy for this man, who persisted no matter hard the race was. He always was a winner deep down inside. Now he has a gold medal and an incredible story to show for his heart and passion in sport.
Steven Bradbury is our national treasure, this video demonstrates why. I love this tribute it is very inspiring and motivating. As Steven says 'winners never quit and quitters never win'. So let us all learn from him and "Do A Bradbury".
Not ashamed to say that I'm crying at my desk at work. This is the best thing I've seen all day! He is blessed and really smart too. He totally deserved that medal.
Blessed??
@@allancouceiro9905 Yep he is blessed, because he's a genuinely nice guy, a modest and humble man and winning a gold medal didn't change him one bit. Not only is he a top athlete but a good human being as well. I call that blessed.
The underdog strikes again
Not underdog , just lucky that all.
Ha ha . He had luck at every turn leading to that medal.
A great way to approach life. Work hard, stay in the game and eventually the cards may fall your way.
or in this case... the skaters
be somewhat above mediocre, hope for the best to fall and drag the entire top with them; got it!
exactly. !!!! :) works very often :) luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Gotta be smart enough to put yourself in these opportunities. He recognized two of the skaters had incidents with each other and thought there was a chance of an incident like this happening.
or work hard and just make it by yourself
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -Napoleon Bonaparte
Bradbury played smart. He deserved the medal
That medal wasn't just won on that race, it was earned over many years of racing and traveling, which most was likely out of his own pocket. The injuries, the fatigue, the disappointments. They all lead to that race. And experience won him the race. He knew it could happen. Played it right, skated his own race. He deserves it.
^^^This^^^
I still remember watching this live when I was in 6th grade 😂
Gal Axy so you're close to being 30 now? How's that feel?
I was a few months old when this happened, wish I could remember it lol
A ‘Tortoise and the Hare’ story!
The 'Tortoise and the four Hares'
A 'slow and steady wins the race' story
And so… ‘to pull a Bradbury’ was coined into Australian folklore, to commemorate achieving a completely unlikely victory, from the most fortunate set of circumstances.
Bloody legend turned a waste of ice into a way to show us what hard work, passion and an opportunity can do.
I'll never forget this moment and watching it live. It still gives me inspiration... you never know when your luck will change or what can happen, hang in there and never give up!
As an Australian, watching this live put me through way too many emotions.
This makes me proud to be Australian even though I’m not Australian
There's an aussie phrase that came out from this:
"Doing a Bradbury"
He is really smart....he takes risk by being patient....he wait for the perfect moment and again either miracle or luck he knows how to take the chances given....and he got the gold medal.....
Proud to be Australian 🇦🇺 much respect to Steven
This guy was lucky. NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF.
It took a Korean trying to cheat to stop ohno from passing him in order for him to win...this same Korean was later suspended for doing the exact same thing in the exact dame way and situation in another race
Matty Crayon Proud because he’s a scrub who was just in the right place at the right time.
@@TheLyricsGuy You appear to be resentful of your luckless existence, coupled with an unattractive angry outlook.
The Korean was like, if I’m not winning I’m taking out everyone lol
Lol !!!!!!!
Watch it again. Li and Ohno are the primary suspects.
@@hybs9473 The korean could have let others go instead of grabbing and obstructing them
@@pomni8696 sure, he can control direction while crashing on ice.
@@hybs9473 Watch it again. Nobody is talking about his direction but his hands on other players’ legs.
Apollo probably said "Ohno" when he saw Bradbury crossing the line first
Bradbury deserved the gold medal because he won it fair and square it wasn't his fault that the other skaters fell over.
I'm Mexican but I always feel joy watching the race.
Kudos Australia!
"The result was upheld by the judges" implies that there was some sort of protest? Everyone else fell over, he crossed the line first, he wins. End of story. What's to protest?
Of course there was protest. 3 of the 4 other skaters got taken out by someone else. As far as I can tell the judges were just like "nah, you all deserve what you got lol."
@@AllUpOns I don't think it's a matter of "you deserve what you got," but rather that part of the skills needed is that the skater avoid getting into a position where they can be taken out by a crash in the first place. The other three got greedy and put themselves in a vulnerable position, and paid the price for it.
The other skaters would be all protesting against each other. The silver and bronze were still up for grabs
Bradbury himself wasn't sure at the time if the result would be nullified and the race rerun. With the benefit of hindsight it couldn't be due to him finishing but from what I understand it was one of the more dusty areas of the rule book.
I love that Bradbury won, but if I were one of the other skaters that got taken out by someone else, I'd definitely protest. This is their dream here - it would be absolutely soul crushing to have it taken away because someone else lost their footing.
Pretty sure protests like this happen all the time whenever someone has a mishap that ends up hindering someone else (ie. someone taking someone else down in hurdles or running).
Steve is s humble Champion and a wonderful human being and a hero! He was just involved in an incident where he saved the lives of four teenaged girls from drowning! A remarkable life well lived!
I can't think of anything that encapsulates Australia's laid back attitude better
He became a national hero XD
Dry Fruit like most Aussies.....get rewarded, and celebrate hollow victories.....Yaaaaa....we won because nobody else showed up.
A hero of what??? He relied on a Korean cheating to try to keep ohno behind him in order to win...the same Korean who was later suspended for doing the exact same thing in the exact same way and situation in a later race in these same Olympics
Richard Grace he won the gold. Who cares about it.
There's a monument to him beside our founding fathers, and the giant can of VB.
Cameron Glover He didn’t WIN gold, he GOT gold.
Aussie Aussie Aussie. Bradbury goes to show all you need is hope.
I will never forget watching this moment live…
OMG I remember watching this live. It was the most surprising, unbelievable thing I had ever seen at the Olympics. I just remember being so happy and overjoyed for him. Never knew his name til today. You Go Boy. Much love to you Steven Bradbury.
He is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet.
Remember that race vividly and jumping out of the chair screaming wildly. Inspirational story. What a competitor. Humble trailblazer for the sport. Solid Gold Steven Bradbury.
After watching this, I have nothing but more respect to the guy. I've been watching his highlights over the years. This is really a classic story of triumph, a film-worthy story.
wish they had just let the crash played and not paused for each person, even now I still sit on the edge of my seat waiting for them to all clump and fall together
it took me a while to understand that " Oh no" was one of the competitors
Very droll.
I have a newfound appreciation for this sport. Physically and tactically intense. Brilliant stuff Stevo!
I watched this live when I was 11 and it will forever be my favorite sports moment in history.
I absolutely love everything about this story!!! This gold medal is a perfect example of the Olympic passion in my opinion. Ultimately, one competes for oneself - just getting to the Olympics is a victory. The medal count is for one's country. Good for Australia to support an athlete in a nationally unpopular sport.
The most funniest and also surprising olympic winning moment ever I watch, sometimes the bottom number is not always be the loser on the game. These event reminds me of a children storytelling about the race between a turtle and a rabbit :D
It was incredible and to me, not all that surprising. Even his own expression after crossing over was like he was expecting a win, maybe not a gold but he wasn't in it for nothing. I could not take my eyes off him the whole time, even though he was the last he was steady and was holding up the rear like a champion, he wasn't giving in at any moment. This is pretty phenomenal
Dude fought his whole career to be in this position, not luck, earned. This was just a part of it. Well earned.
I watched this -
This was Pure Gold 🥇
I was laughing with joy and was very very happy for Steve ⛸️💛
I remember this moment very well, we were so happy I just could not believe it.
Who says lightning never strikes the same place twice? It did three times!
As an Aussie, I remember watching this live and just flipping put how it all happened. And then in 2015 I went to a motivation talk held by Steve Bradbury, it was excellent and he was a really cool laid back person who took it all in his stride. And remember, Australia does not have much in winter sports as we are such a hot country.
"Brandbury, will you come up to accept the gold medal" -- Tyrion
"What do you think I have come all this way for" -- Steven Brandbury?
Our man Bradbury really said "Don't work harder, work smarter."
dang
One of the best winter Olympic moments ever.... Cheers from Canada
20 years later we're still here
The miracle on ice. He made the boots for many of the top skaters,
was happy to be able to compete in the final,
& his humility shone through.
This reminds me of a saying I once heard (Oprah perhaps?)..."luck happens when preparation meets opurtunity". Steve was well and truely prepared. Literally thousands of people acrosss the world compete to be where he was on that day.
Honestly, I play this video anytime I need a pick-me-up for my Speed Skating, just watching everything fall into place for him, it's perfect. Also, I'm amazed they even had the Aussie National Anthem there, and more amazed it's not some pirated version that they got last minute when they found out that an Australian just got a gold
Apparently they got really strict on making sure they had copies of ALL nation's national anthems, no matter how obscure, after the public embarrassment of 1994 when Oksana Baiul of Ukraine won the ladies individual figure skating and the medal ceremony had to be delayed for 30 minutes while organisers ran around trying to find a copy of the Ukraine national anthem. There was a shakeup after that
He was seen as the "old man" but great thing that his experience helped him win. March 31, 2021
I remember watching this live. You could not make this stuff up. To have falls in 2 races, unbelievable! It goes to show, work hard, never give up, and sometimes life tosses you a little luck and then a lot of luck. That's an honest win. Celebrate your successes however they come.
It takes a lot of work to get that lucky
I'm not ever gonna see this man as less than legendary 👏👏
An Aussie legend. I started tearing up with the aus fair started playing.
This guy is a legend - so Aussie and so humble .... a true champion in every sense of the word
One of my best of all time olympic moments that I actually watched live on TV. I was 12 years back then, and rooting for the outsiders/exotics (still doing this today).
As a traditional speed skater way back in the 1960s in The Netherlands I Love this story.
When they start to fall
Apolo: "Oh no"
Very well done. I saw it live at the time, we were shouting at the screen. So delighted for him. Yaass
For some reason the CZcams algorithm brought this into my feed, but I'll happily watch SB win his Olympic Gold again any day.
The crowning achievement of a hard, hard career chasing success against the odds.
Sporting hero. 👍
waw so inspiring ...... i love australia's sport culture ..... Love from india 😘
"And the winner is...like expected: Apolo Anton ......Oh, No!!!"
I have tried ice skating once in my whole life. Like Steven, I'm also from a tropical country. But this has to be one of the greatest moments in sport history, any sport. Never give up, keep fighting till the end. Even with all the odds against you.
"I saw no reason to change my tactics of other people falling down"