Luckiest Ever Gold Medal
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2022
- 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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He didnt just win gold. He won Australias first ever winter olympics gold. Hes a national treasure
Onya aussie
Not just Australia. He’s the first athlete from any country in the Southern Hemisphere to win a Winter Olympic gold.
In the most Australian way
He says he's lucky but to get to that position required years of hard work, determination and skill. He had the self belief, talent and work ethic to get him to the starting line of that final and on that day he was the fastest speed skater of the world's best athletes to complete the course. Hard work pays off.
@@terrancedactielle5460 he is comparing himself to other athletes. Luck is what's different
“Luck is a matter of preparation meets opportunity” dudes a legend
I've seen a similar quote from an anime I watched. Opportunities present themselves to people who are well prepared.
@@lennoxavaiki4 Haikyu, To the top
yesssssssss exactly you need to be prepared to take an opportunity when you see it people let things pass them by all the time and call others lucky for being prepared to look for opportunities and being prepared to take said opportunity
There’s a common spots saying where I’m from: you have to be skilled to be lucky. Basically it’s not lucky that they fell unless you can capitalize on the moment.
@@excelg5674 both great animes 🫡
this is the absolute peak of athleticism. He understood his strengths, was good enough to get to that level and keep up, took a huge chance, and correctly predicted the course of events. that deserves gold
That's the peak? Winning by disqualification? I want your drugs. They hella powerful.
I mean I get what you're saying but isn't it at least a little bit unsportsmanlike? I'm not saying he doesn't deserve the metal or something but I can't help feeling a little uncomfortable. In a high stakes competition like this, shouldn't you at least give it your all?
@@MattFyrm I would argue that he did give it his all. He knew his best strategy and his best chance based off of how much faster some of the other skaters were. They were also aggressive, and he played off of that and won. Absolute genius move for one of the fastest skaters on the planet that day.
@@MattFyrm Guess athletes using strategies that work with their strengths in any way is unsportsmanlike now. No brain, just go full tilt from the beginning and hope for the best.
It's just such an incredibly weird thing to say.
@@JayJonahJaymeson that's not what I'm saying, just that he held back waiting for other people to mess up. In my eyes there's just an implied contract in competitions like this that you play upon your own merits. It's not like he was dodging and weaving, he just fell back and prayed to God that they'd fall.
Again, now I'm sounding like I think he doesn't deserve it but I wouldn't call this "the peak of athleticism"
I remember seeing this live. It was the most Australian thing in the world
This was amazing. How often can you take advantage of _everyone_ falling and just sweep in?
Just being past the qualifying round in the Olympics means that the skill level is amazingly high.
I watch both the final and the round before. It's hard to believe. Playing smart payed off.
Busted his ass his entire life to get to the top of his sport, and nailed the strategy. Champion.
I mean the point is he wasn’t near the top of the sport he kinda needed everyone to crash to best them multiple times 😂
And he’s beloved because he owns it. He knows he isn’t nearly as fast a skater as the elites but guy played his best hand and got th cards he needed
@@Rowsy91 lol we wasn't near the top of his sport? He made it to the Olympics.
@@Rowsy91 being the 6th fastest skater in the world is pretty near the top lmao
@@gregothy9190 that’s a great point. I mean he made it to the finals. Maybe he got lucky in the semis and something like this happened I don’t know but even then he got to the late rounds of the Olympics. He wasn’t some random guy from the stands they just threw in because they needed to fill out the field
@@troyclaerhout2412 olympics is an amateur event. Why do u think only amateur boxers and semi professional footballers are allowed to play? The only exceptions are basketball or volleyball
When your enemy is making a mistake don't interrupt.
your supposed to end it with sun tzu
@@goodebening6564 I remembered it from the movie "Moneyball".
@@UMCPastorMNM Napoleon Bonaparte was the one who said it
He didn't know a mistake was being made... He just hoped... And boy, did it pay off. 😂
Apollo didn't make a mistake. The replay showed the South Korean skater hit his leg and took him out.
He didn’t overestimate his opponents or the situation and that is what made him a winner that day, what a legend!
You mean he didn’t overestimate his opponents.
@@johnferreira2231 lol exactly
He didnt underestimate his opponents potential to make fools of themselves and for one of them to crash the others out of the race....
@@johnferreira2231 hahaha thanks John that’s what I meant to say 😂
I love the fact that he’s not ashamed or in rejection to his win like some people would he’s just happy and thinks it’s a laugh
I like that too. He's thankful for the opportunity.
Last year this guy also rescued 4 girls from drowning. Absolute legend
And he just finished his doctorate. I hear he’s already working on a cure for cancer.
Didn't he create perpetual energy as well?
No a bunch of lifesavers drowned trying and he just came in at the last moment
Google it lads
@@ninjaduck3534this. This is the correct response
The crowd: BOOOOOOOO
Bradbury: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
😂
Cruck the
Frowd
Bradbury: what color is your medal?
@@xfade3486
G🥇 to the
O🥇 to the
L🥇 to the
D🥇 to the
Bro, you are a gold medal in every way shape or form. You were there, so you were good enough to challenge amongst the best and you used your brains when other people had more athletic skill. You are a gold medal champion.
I love that this dude is completely self aware of how he got the gold. But also credit to him for qualifying to even race here, he must be absolutely amazing
He, uh, did the same thing to qualify
@@nategarrett8058 if you have an ice skate on your foot at the Olympics, it most likely means you are the top 1% of that sport no matter what. Except in cases like Eddie the eagle....
@@nategarrett8058 So did the Korean and Chinese competitors in this race. Did you have a point?
Ikr? People forget that this was his FOURTH Olympics, he already had one Olympic bronze to his name, and he'd won the Worlds' four years previously. It irritates me when people burble on like he was just some kid from the local high school team who happened to wander into the Olympic stadium. Dude was a world class athlete, one of the best in his field, and he had every right to be there.
He worked hard just to be there. He deserved every inch of his win
This happened in the semis too tbf, it is quite lucky. Smart, but lucky too
@@psyche1182 define luck
@@goomba7495 low probability event
Time trials are won by speed. Races are won by speed AND strategy. He had the best strategy that day, a well-deserved win.
@@suarezzz4586 In reality, luck is often created. People who are more 'lucky' are just people who live in such a way that they create more opportunities for themselves.
He was still good enough to be in a final so it wasn't that much of a fluke.
Hehe, you should watch the semi finals. Kinda similar thing happened!
I mean the only reason he was there was because the same happened in the semis, and the only reason he was there was because 2nd place in the quarter got disqualified
@@PWR_Jesper88Ros dispualifaction happens a lot in this sport and is a legitimate reason for not advancing. The man did not steak this one
@@jeffw9465 Maybe so, but adding the DSQ with 2(!) times where the entire field falls it is hard to say that "it wasn't a fluke"
@@PWR_Jesper88Ros Well if you look at it another way, 3 times in a row, the same guy stayed out of the melee and succeeded. Once might be a fluke, but 3 times in a row, hard to say that is a fluke.
Proudest moment in Australian sporting history right here
I'll always defend anyone who says that he was just lucky. He was in that event but he was also a bronze medalist in 1994 and won other 3 medals at the Worlds. And most of all, Steven was a survivor of a horrible crash in 1994 that almost halted his career...and his life! It's a miracle that he recovered and was able to go compete again and get back tot the Olympics. This man deserves respect!
Didn't know he was a survivor of a crash. He also saved a girl from drowning i think. He has a life like the most interesting man in the world.
He crossed the line first, he won.
If your not first your last
Anyone in a final has earned the chance to win .
Any more insights?
@@shant756 Be good to ya mum.
To finish first, first you gotta finish
This is such an Aussie approach, possibly some of the most laid-back and happy people in the world 😄
Actually they’re the 12th happiest people in the world technically. Finnish people have been the happiest 5 years running
Shut up mate you got a ciggy butt brain
Kiwis and P.I are definitely more laid-back ngl
That’s definitely gonna change from now on. That country isn’t fun anymore it’s a prison
@@mosalad7176 yeah but im also from Melbourne. So the combo of most liveable city and happiness levels means im basically in the Goat location.
Nobody can ever discredit him, he put in the work, the effort, the time, blood sweat and tears to make it to the grand stage and then he took a risk, chose to sit back and hope it would pay off, and it did
"It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning."
- Dom Toretto
That quote is not applicable here at all???
@@stumbling whatever he won
@@ahmedkamlani4011 Yes but the story had nothing to do with winning by a narrow margin. He won because of a freak incident where the better skaters all took each other out. There are many more applicable quotes to this situation, for example, "Slow and steady wins the race."
@@stumbling but it's still winning though so...... I mean ....... 🤣
Wow. So wise. Such a quote. 😁💪👍
The only Aussie who knows how to skate.
Yeah, those skates are made in Europe, I can't even get them on because my foot is too wide from running around barefoot throughout my childhood.
@@billk9856 what's your height
@@billk9856 or you just have large feet
@@billk9856
hahaha LOL
I like this comment 😂
@@yodukenukem I even try a couple of sizes above my normal size - I have plenty of room in front of the toes but the sides are still crushed.
Bro you earned that medal as much as anyone else out there. And amazingly humble. Your an inspiration
Dude is humble af for being the smartest (and technically fastest) guy on the ice that day.
Technically would mean he’s the slowest
But technically is the best kind…
Technically he posted the fastest time so technically he’s the fastest lol
@@Berry47867 but he did the fastest time, so…
No smart and not good tactic, realy slow in quart, he have luck in all round.
Rad. Let him claim it. Intuition spoke to him and he was chill enough to listen.
Thats a very generous way of saying he knew he was worse
I completely agree
Let him claim it? He won.
Nice.
Intuition = being so much worse that when you try your best people assume you're a genius with another tactic.
He had to be fast enough to qualify for the final anyway. Seems well deserved.
You might be the luckiest gold medalist, but you had to be in it to win it and it came up 'gold' for you. 100% fully deserved.
It's not the fact that he won for me, it's the fact that it happened TWICE that makes it so unbelievable
He fucking did it again? Lmao
@@thehappyloaf Nah.. He only got to the final because the same shit happened in the semi final as well lmao
does it happened in the semis too??
@@paololayug8707 Yep! But he finished 2nd in the semis rather than 1st but still made it through
@@PWR_Jesper88Ros wow!! What a lucky man.
Very smart and humble athlete. Knew he wasn't favored straight up, and he played to his only out to win, a crash. He was rewarded. I remember watching this race during this Olympics well.
What is smart on that?? He obviously acts like every weaker athlete in the world. You can’t hold the speed like your opponents but when you got your chance you take it. That’s the normal strategy.
@@MrJonbo that was very smart. its a strategy and this time it worked on the right at the right place. Cant say it wasnt smart
@@MrJonboe got all the way to the Olympics man. I'm sure when he was in races that he had a more reasonable chance of winning the normal way, he won the normal way. He's still a super super fast skater.
Victories in games and sport are useful because they can expose metaphors for success, this example is so popular because of how applicable it is to so many other things. Not using brute strength, knowing your opponent and yourself, the usefulness of humility, knowing what battles to pick. The normal lessons of sport when it comes to perseverance and exertion are the way to go most of the time, and they're what got this athlete to the Olympics, but this sort of cleverness is a much more accessible path to victory if you know what it is and when to use it.
Animals avoid losing battles in nature to the best of their abilities. That in itself is a form of victory.
Bro waited for the opportune moment and got it.
He was so smart and articulate.
That's why he deserved the gold.
His understanding that he was outmatched is what won him the gold. Pretty amazing.
I don’t think he was outmatched I think he knew that 4-5 skaters that close has a high possibility of hitting wiping each out. Some one will get to aggressive and wipe out and then you skate on by.
@@Lowie522 No, he knew that he was out matched. He literally said that his best chance was sitting in the back and waiting for something to happen. You don't say that when you feel you can beat the other skaters.
@@Lowie522 it was a deliberate strategy as he knew he couldn't match the others.
Not only was he the second oldest in the event he also was previously involved in two life-threatening accidents (1994 and 2000).
Beat them with his wit
he legitimately won the gold... risky choice but he won it. no question there.
I agree. His competitors made their decisions, he made his and he won. Speed skating is not just about speed, it's a race to the finish. You don't have to be the fastest skater to win. Far from it sometimes as this shows.
Strategy
Risking everything unto the last second is what makes someone truly alive.
He won because of knowledge about the game, rather than his ability in the game.
Which I frankly would say is way more impressive
Remember he was good enough to be in an Olympic final. I attended a function where he was the guest speaker. At his prime he was one of the best in the world. He explained on several occasions he lost due to incidents that took him out of the race. Taking his whole career into to account he finally achieved what he long deserved. Still amazes me every time I watch it. One of my favourite sporting moments.
Well said.
@@Maaden84 I did see every race. What I am trying to convey is the man is a four time Olympian. He has two Olympic medals and 3 World Championship medals.
In 1994 world cup a skaters blade sliced his leg open requiring 111 stitches (he nearly died).
Two years before the 2002 Olympics he broke his neck in a training accident. Some see his Gold medal as lucky. I see it as incredible persistence to never give up.
Many times in his career he was ranked number 1 in the world and was victim to race incidents taking him out of the race.
His story is called 'Last Man Standing' to me that meant never giving up rather than being lucky. In speed skating staying on your feet is a common tactic as crashes are super frequent.
At the twilight of his career he knew he did not have the pace but he had smarts and the will to never give up!
@@imscruffy1244 I was also at one of his speaking gigs, I also realised it wasn't luck, it was the culmination of 20 years of hard work and being able to compete at an elite level.
@@imscruffy1244first gold medal of Australia as well im pretty sure
@@AliG_ First person from the whole southern hemisphere to win a winter olympics gold =D
"Doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile, winning is winning" feels very appropriate right here.
He only had to be half a second off the best in the world.
Eye gouging is the same.
Most deserving gold medal ever! Strategy over speed =🥇
He's so humble and has such a great attitude, seems like a great guy
I’m from the USA and his gold medal win is one of my favorites from across the Olympics, Winter and Summer. And the best part is that he used the same strategy to get to the final round because I think in the semi finals the same thing happened.
He knew things will happen and The way he pass thru the line is epic and without remorse... Nailed it man
If you knew the history of his career, you would understand why he absolutely deserved to win the gold medal that day!
Do explain 🙏
@@jburton413 he wasn't some slouch that camped at the back and got lucky. He was an amazing skater who deserved to be in the Olympic final. I don't really think this video is trying to say otherwise, but he deserves the medal 100%. He wasn't the worst guy in the pack and got lucky.
@@jburton413 He was a legit medal contender in the previous 2 Olympics he was in. He got pushed over by another skater in the semi final in 1994 (this guy got dq'd) but this doesn't really matter if he got pushed over or not. All that matters is who finishes. He got blocked by collisions in the next olympics in the heats in 1998. Hell he almost died in a World Cup meet after his leg was sliced open. The guy was legit. Everyone quick to shit on him for being "lucky" but no-one ever looks at how unlucky his career actually was.
@@Midori_Ringo ooooh thanks for that info, no wonder his intuition told him not to bunch with those guys. Definitely deserving if that gold.
Watching this live was nuts
"They see me rollin' they hatin'
Very humble and honest so he deserves those gold medals
The legend made the news last year for saving four teenage girls from drowning
Really? Can you give link
I’ve also saved a few from drowning, by choosing to not drown them
Too many people claim their life's a movie but I would believe him if he said it.
@@iviagis9584 😂😂😂😂
@@iviagis9584 So the rest you drowned?
He's a consummate professional. His own leg was slashed by a blade in the same setup years ago, had the stitches and instead of walking away in fear, used that knowledge as part of his training and preparation for his races. He was playing 4d chess against 3d players. He damn well earned that Gold Medal by qualifying and playing the game smart.
The fact that similar things happened in the quarter finals and the semi finals makes this even more amazing!
He saw that the competition was too aggressive and was going to build up to a mistake so he waited for the mistake. He was right.
the personification of "work smart, not hard"
He already worked hard by being there. Stop with that stupid quote lol
No it isn't...lol. Do you even know what it takes to be at the Olympics. Some people train their life away in the field and still can't make it.
@@torontodough2755 and yet using his brain to come up with a plan benefitted him more than it would have to try and overtake the others. It’s not taking away from the hard work he put in beforehand to point out how smart he was.
Not really lmao, he just got extremely lucky
A stupid personification
You know what the reaction should be. When you win gold, you throw your hands up and let the people shower you with cheers and applause. You had
technique and a plan which you stuck to. Congratulations buddy. You’re a gold medalist.
All you need is two “teammates” to “compete” and you have yourself a gold, mate.
When all the people they hired quit immediately so you get the job anyways
I love saying "well you Bradbury'd that!!"
It's "DOING A BRADBURY".
@@markdowse3572 there's plenty of versions, even in typical Aussie style just one word "Bradbury" they're all right.
Honestly. Most underrated skill in all sports is choosing the right moment. He chose not to push for the front, and it worked. Whether calculated or not, it worked.
It was calculated.
Super calculated. Listen to what the announcer says at the beginning of the clip. Bradbury used this for more than one race. Had he went all out, he would've been in that pile up. He won gold by being calculating and smart. He's an Olympic champion. Think about how many Olympic competitors have egos that would've prevented then from winning this way.
being slow is not a choice
That's humbleness yet grateful!!!
Congrats Mr. Bradbury!!
Because he knew he didn't have a chance to win and admits to it is the reason he deserves it. Well done sir
I love all the different morals this story has to offer.
You must walk your own path. Do your own thing. Don't bother to race with others, you can win a different way. Don't give up even when it seems you can't win. Slow and steady wins the race.
it's actually the opposite, he stayed back waiting for the others to make mistakes and then taking advantage of it... the opposite of doing your own thing
@@madonnax1166 was he doing the same thing as everyone else? No, he was literally doing his own thing. I can't relate to your way of looking at this
He still did race, if he wasn't he wouldn't be there to capitalise on their failures
And final moral- BE LUCKY.
@@captainobvious90 not by the definition of a race. It's a race when tit's competitive, i.e. the goal is to get from A to B THE FASTEST.
His goal was to get from A to B, but not the fastest, but at all. Which allowed him to coincidentally get from A to B the fastest.
Having a specific strategy in a Olympic sport named after you is probably one of the coolest things ever. Like I’m 100 years if we’re still around we’ll still be bringing up this dude that’s kinda cool
A man learns from his own mistakes but a smart man learns from others mistakes.
Luck has nothing to do with making an Olympic Games, let alone a final. This dude executed a plan perfectly. Gold medal well deserved
Patience is a virtue, this guy deserves what he got!
An Australian hero
The way he laconically glides across the line is fabulous
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!!
Man should take credit. Knew he might not have been up there came up with a plan and it worked.
He wasn't competing. He was just having fun
In competition, combine tactics and fun.
~Sun Tzu
Nice.
That's not luck but skill. He read the situation perfectly. Medal deserved. Nicely done
"to finish first, first you must finish"
and don't forget all the hard work that had to be done just to be there.he earned that medal.
When I watched it live I almost thought it was candid camera or something 😅 😂😂😂
The perfect loop doesn’t exis……
Exactly what I was looking for
You won a gold medal, mate. The correct response is to celebrate.
Bradburry had a time travel. He knew it was gonna happen. He simply waited.
I can't even tell if this is real or an Australian mocumentary skit. That's fuckin awesome
Well it's 100% real just so you know.
It’s 100% real. It also happened in the semi final. And in the quarter final a racer got disqualified to put him into the semi.
@@Agent117Smith wow
Google it. As ive said before- it was an olympic final- noone gets to an olympic final by accident
Salt Lake City Olympics 1000m short track finals. The field was stacked with people who were faster and more agile than Bradbury and there was no way he would have made the podium unless someone fell, but that was a very real possibility.
Sometimes, you maximize your chance of victory by not try-harding.
Everyone else was in a skating race. Dude was in the back playing chess.
the living embodiment of "work smart not hard"😂
It's SMART not Lucky...
He predicted shits about to happen and he nailed the opportunity.
No it's still lucky if you look at his entire path to winning gold
@@loisinonepiece5373in speed skating it's quite common that in the jostling everyone falls over, in fact he strategized based on the exact same thing happening in the semi final.
@Lois in ONE piece you have alot to learn
It is luck that the accident happened in that scenario. His intuition told him something is gonna happen, he listened to it and got rewarded.
I also listen to my intuition, didn't win me gold, but definitely saved my life. Like that one time where I would normally ride a particular bus, I didn't and opted out for the alternative. Later on, the bus got into an accident, saw it while the other bus I was ridinh in went past it.
it's always a gamble actualy to do things like that
That wasn’t luck. You had a plan and executed flawlessly 😂
He said it himself, it was luck🤣
Apparently in the quarter finals, someone got disqualified and that's how he got into semis.. and then he did this same strategy in the semis and he came 2nd
He was good enough to qualify for the gold medal race; if your opponents mess up, you take advantage of it.
He was strategic. Short track speed skating is a sport where crashes like this can happen. And the probability increases as the final race approaches. He was playing the odds and he won big. I see that more as his intelligence than luck.
Absolutely couldn't believe it when it happened. One of the craziest moments in sports.
He did it in the semis too, had been a victim of those crashes in the past and been sliced up to a point of multiple surgeries. His story is pretty good.
This wasn't just luck, he knew this was gonna happen. Man was 5 parallel universes ahead of everybody
Strategy paid off. That’s part of winning. Well deserved
One of the best Aussie golds ever. "Doin a Bradbury" still a popular saying in Aus today. Well done Steve, you got to the final, was in with a chance and took it.
I wish my pick up lines were as smooth us this videos loop. 👏🏼
Yeah that loop is crazy smooth
This called "Knowing your competition". He probably knew every one of his opponents are aggressive skaters prone to crashing and burning. It worked perfectly for him.
Definition of "Slow and steady wins the race."
When language changes because of you, you have achieved greatness. Congrats Bradbury
Man with a plan. The strategy pays off. Deserves the gold.
If he made it to the final, he deserved to be there and won fair and square
He earned the right to be in the final and in the end his tactic worked. Sounds like a true champion to me
Has a perfect loop as well. Guy keeps winning
He won gold on smarts and facts. He studied, mulled over chances and risks, and stuck to the decision of waiting on one of those chances to take place, and it did.
Solid gold.
You know what mate you will always be remembered in Aussie Olympic history bud
It's not how fast you go, it's how you go fast.
“He didn’t choose the Thug Life - the Thug Life chose him.”
Doing a Bradbury=Being “The Chosen One.”
And he got to the final of the Olympics through skill and ability, knocking out loads of people from icy countries....
Mental strength is a much bigger factor than people give credit to in the olympics!