Speed Skating 1,000 Meters - Steven Bradbury 2002 Olympics
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Steven Bradbury.
He trained for over 10yrs. Once had his leg cut by another skaters blade, lost 4 litres of blood. All four quadricep muscles were sliced through, he had 111 stiches and was lucky not to bleed to death. Another time a skater fell in front of him, he tried to jump them but he clipped them and crashed and broke his neck in Two places. Told to never skate again.
People falling over doesnt make you deserve first place. Chasing your dream and never giving up makes you deserve it.
That was well said.
Here here.
It's the Olympics for Olympians and Olympians don't fall... on ya Steven.
@Truth Seeker gonna buy it now😊
Just adding to this super old comment:
If someone thinking "how can you lose 4 litres of blood?".
If you count blood transfused to him before they got the bleeding under control, he can very much lose that much. For example litres of his own blood, and then a few more of transfused blood.
He has a biography called “Last Man Standing” the guy is pure class.
it was a Coles supermarket advertisment.
Bradbury stands in a queue at a checkout, with 3 or 4 people in front of him and SUDDENLY, a woman opens another checkout and he walks to the front! amazing! heheh
Haha 2012 jokes were so good man where did the time go
people who go to the open checkout lane from the back of their current line are assholes. "I can help the next in line" does not mean the person in the back of the line.. they are quite literally last in line.
@@WaffleShortage true, but it's an ad, don't take life too seriously.
That was never a commercial
@@Flobbie say mums
Notice how the commentators never mentioned Bradbury's name prior to the mishap as if he was never in the race.
well i mean he was in last place the entire race
They do the same in other races, no point on focusing on the last place participants when the action is all at front.
Frodo Sings Because he never was in the race till the final turn.
@@dane21dc strategy
uh, that's because he was a goner until the big wipeout, dumbass
@yurkler I'd say Bradburys biggest luck was he wasn't killed after his big crash were they said he wouldn't walk again, he was also lucky 18 months before the games when he broke his neck and they said he couldn't compete. Ohno knew Bradbury had suffered a lot thats why he told him to accept the medal, not for the 90 seconds but for the 12 years.
Exactly. The dudes entire life revolved around skating. He was also the founder and owner of the revolutionary boot company that designed, made and sold the most popular speed skates in the world at the time, including the ones that the silver medalist was wearing here.
9 years ago bud
He's awesome
The video cuts off right before the best line of Ted Robinson's commentary that night: "Just when you think you've seen EVERYTHING in short track!"
I wanted to hear that. It's hard to find a full video with commentary today.
itsMegHarding you legend!! Couldn’t find it anywhere on YT. Lol the boos after he won, so funny
As another famous Australian once said: "To finish first, first you must finish."
Looks like a few others forgot that that night in Salt Lake City. But Bradbury never did. The Americans and Koreans can whinge and whine all they like, but at the end of the day, Bradbury fulfilled the most basic tenet of any ice skating discipline: STAY ON YOUR FEET. (And Apollo Ohno accepted the result for that very reason.)
but everyone did finish the race???
Josh don’t be a smart ass
GladiatorKnightGhost as an American I think Bradbury is a legend
@@Josh-xw1yt Bo No Josh not everyone finished the race Li Jiajun was disqualified and therefore did not finish, as for the rest of the field, they did not first did they Josh...not one of them finished first except for the smartest man in the race and according to the wiki page on his win, it was his strategy all along to hang back and let them crash around him putting him in medal contention. Plan worked to a tee.
What a fucking legend
that ohno guy prolly said his own name when he fell
So, that explains how some sperm won the race...
That explains you?
lol you said sperm.
Thats generally how most sperm win the race. The one up the front isn't the one that gets there first isn't the one that gets in
He was the last man standing and first to cross the line. Period. Steven knew he would have come last even if he got into the mix, but his tactic was to sit back and take advantage of the clusterfuck he knew could possibly unfold, which is what happened in his semi-final.
Polpiv4tifish no, he had been injured loads, and only was in the final because this happened in the semi as well. He is a terrible skater compared to the rest, admittedly because of his previous injuries.
Bradbury had been one of the favourites for the gold in a previous Olympiad. Ironically he lost that final due to a crash very similar to this one, in which he sustained potentially life (nevermind career) ending injuries. You cannot really make an argument that Bradbury wasn't a deserving winner.
It is a good tactic tbh and he told his coach at the time and he was ok with it
It gets better. In the 1/4's he finished 3rd but got through when Canadian Gagnon was DQ'd. In the semi's he got through when two skaters wiped out on the last turn. Then this. AWESOME!
Wow
That was a gold medal for the 14 years of hard work he put in. Legend.
What a badass win. lol
Arguing the fact he deserves his medal - Ohno said afterwards "thats just speed skating" it happens a lot, true it was the first time in an olympic final. Ohno was also the one who said in a interview after the olympics that to finish first you first have to finish. I do think Ohno is the better skater but on the day Bradbury was the first over the line and that's all that matters. There is a good video on here with Bradburys side of the story, its quite good.
.You have to be that good just be in that race.
He only got past the quarter finals because someone got disqualified and then he only made the finals because two of the skaters crashed.
And in the end he won the Gold Medal.
Is not how you win but that you did Win.
It was his destiny.
Seems strange how people like to discount somebody's win.
If this person was born at the same time they would have won.
If this person was not sick they would have won.
If i had been there i would have won.
To Win is not just because they are the best.
It is because on that day, at that time, in that year, and in that place they were the first to cross the line first before anyone else.
May not happen again,
or maybe it could???
He was good at not falling.
This clip makes me smile every time. I'll call it the Bradbury Principle in his honour: "It isn't over till it's over".
Australia just rocks in every respect. =D
It felt like he predicted it thats why he stay back so far away.. what a genius.
ilikeyoutub07 The same thing happened in his previous race
There's another video where he says that, since he could tell he was only 8th best, he stayed back just in case something like this would happen. Search for his name on the official Olympics channel.
I read somewhere that his coach of the time told him to "skate behind"
It goes to show that it's always worth giving yourself a 0.01% chance because it's better than nothing.
This still makes me crack up every time I watch it. Bradbury wasn't stupid or lazy, he knew he wasn't fast enough to get up the front, but he also knew that the other guys would do exactly that and fall over, as they did in the semis. True Aussie nous.
The greatest sporting moment of all time
Ummmmm .... no.
I think a lot of people misunderstand the basic idea of this race.
Staying back and being prepared for the leaders to fall is an accepted tactic in speed skating; Bradbury himself later said that it was recommended that if you were slower than the lead, you stay in touch with them but hold back.
It often can get you into the next stage of the race.
It seldom gets you the gold medal, but as we see here - in exceptional circumstances, even that is possible! :)
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best moment in olympic history
we australians just think this is pure comedy, and it really is.
Fuck yeah go AUSTRALIA!
So? First one to cross the line wins. Bradbury was a bronze medalist in 1994, world champion in 1991, 3rd in the world in 1993 and 2nd in 1994. To make a come back nearly 10 years later, during which he suffered a broken vertebrae, lost four litres of blood on the ice (same accident severed his thigh and he couldn't walk for 18 months) and he decided to come back and race his best in 2002. He did that and won, don't say he doesn't deserve Gold. To finish first you first have to finish.
Dudes, staying on your feet is the basic of basics for this sport. He got the medal because he was the only one who did it right. SIMPLE RULES. YOU WILL NOT GET GOLD IF YOU DID NOT FINISH THE RACE
I remember when i saw this one live on TV. I laughed then, and i laugh just as much now. An instant classic.
Best. Moment. Ever.
it might not seem fair to the haters, but in the olympics, the first guy across the finish line wins the race.
he won, he deserved to win. he skated 1000 meters before the other guys did. that was the object of the competition. what's so hard to understand about that?
they give the gold medal to the guy who crosses the finish line first, not the guy who PROBABLY would've crossed the finish line first but then got knocked over.
scoreboard.
"it's gonna be between these two" Famous last words hehe
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Proud of 12 years in the top 10 short course speed skaters culminating in a gold medal. He must have a lot of luck to be at the top of the game for over a decade. He wasn't the fastest on the rink but he did have the sense to finish the race on his skates rather than on his arse.
it makes you smile yet makes you laugh
Thanks for the laugh Brady
Actually, this video is proof that it _does_ pay to give up. If he had tried his hardest, he would have crashed with the rest of them.
Nah, giving up would be not racing at all. He was still in the race. He was just strategic about it.
he said that 9 years ago :o
He did try his hardest, to stay back because he knew that shii was gon' happen.
That man is a true testament to never giving up.
Oh this is such a classic! I remember seeing this and thinking "How the hell..?"
Even funnier is that him getting to the final itself was pure luck. In the quarter-finals he was 3rd, when only two get through, but the 2nd one was disqualified!
Then in the semi-finals he was last again, but similiar incident to this happened when hree skaters fell allowing him to get to the finals...
And then this happens... :)
he is 1991 world champ and 1994 olympic bronze medalist
My favourite winter olympic moment ever. I just absolutely love it.
The man, the myth... the LEGEND!!
All these years later, this is still bloody brilliant
well done bradbury, the only one who could stay on his/her feet.
WOW!!! I was like "it must suck to be that guy in bluegreen, he's gonna finish last." But I was dead wrong! This is an inspiring video.
Yep, Same thing happened in the semi's for bradberry, he finished second after the top two skaters jizzed into the sidelines.
Also, he finished third in the quiarters but one riders was disqualified.
Quite an effort ;).
Unbelievable!! I remember this, I was sitting in front of the tv with my mouth open like wtf xD Still cracks me up
easily one of the greatest moments in sporting history
To the people saying he never gave up, he literally talked to his coach before the race and knew he couldn't keep with them so he basically conceded to them and stayed in the back of the race the whole time hoping that they would crash at the end and they did. He had a strategy in mind and it worked to perfection. Has nothing to do with no giving up.
I was meaning the 12 years of training and the time he had to have 111 stitches due to a collision and lost 4 litres of blood and nearly couldn't walk again because of it, he also the oldest in the race and the fact he was an underdog and won is a large part of Australian tradition, for us it wasn't how he won it was that he wasn't expected to, plus he didn't fall ova not his fault that happened I don't understand why your complaining about it, the guy finally had something go right for him.
He lives around 2 minutes away from me at northgate brisbane, bradbury that is
That's the beauty of the sport ... that is unpredictable
I remember watching this live. i couldn't believe what i saw lol! amazing moment.
"ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
funny the circumstances in the way he won, but many people don't realise that he was actually at one time, 2nd fastest in the world, and 18 or so months before, he nearly bled to death when another skater fell and cut his leg nearly off. Apparently it was only luck that a medical wizz was there and able to pinch his severed artery.
The lesson is: never underestimate an Aussie when a gold medal is on the line.
Hey if 32 cars crash in the Indy 500 and your start and park is the last car standing, you deserve the win as much as anyone else
Every race and every competion is about the moment, it is about being the best athlete in the moment and only that.
yes tranining and all this is a factor, but the fundamnetal thing is being the best athelete in the moment, and Steven bradbury was that, he was the best athelete in that moment, the others failed, they fell theyr were not the best atheletes in the moment, Steven bradbury did not fall and thus was the best in the moment, a very well deserved gold byt the superior athlete in the race at the moment
I hope the footage of the Australian TV coverage or the radio coverage of this race exists somewhere
Stuff like this is why the olympics are amazing!
LMFAO! OWNED. That was brilliant, if i was australian i would have been soaking up the glory that day.
I can't think of a more fitting way for Australia to win their first gold medal at the winter olympics
greatest moment in australian sporting history :D
nahh not really.. but its still fkn hilarious
Sums up the Australian way of life perfectly.
rip steven
Man that fucking Korean took everyone out right at the end!! O_O
If it wasn't for him, Bradbury wouldn't have won. Steve should've bought that Korean dude a nice Rolex or something. :p
Hahah, a Canadian here- I still remember that moment- everyone screaming and wondering who the heck had the bluegreen skinsuits. :p
That is possibly one of the funniest things i have ever seen sure it was kinda a fluke but i agree that it took a tremendous amount of skill to get there in the first place if anyone watched "what a year" on Aussie TV last night you will understand the hardships he withstood 2 get there in the first place. Well done Stephen u Aussie legend!!
HOLY DAYUM that last dude must've been like "thank you god"
I love how the two asians throw themselves over the finish line at the end for 2nd and 3rd place LOL FTW XD
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watching this win is SUCH AN INSPIRATION go go aussie
That was awesome.
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This is a top 3 Sporting moment of all time for me. One for the battler.For the bloke who never gives in. The bloke who keeps on pursuing his chosen sport because he loves it. Steve was and never will be an Apollo Ono, but he pushed on, scraped up the money, designed the boots for the speed skaters..still he kept going. Nearly died at one stage when a skate nearly sliced a leg off.. then this divine intervention..Gold. It still gives me goosebumps!
slow and steady wins the race. even in speed skating
At school we are doing a report on steven bradbury, hes a really kool speed skater. Ohno is stupid why did hw have to grab ahn back leg and make him fall???
This is so great I LOVE it! Totally cracks me up and is a proud moment in Aussie sporting history! =P
I will never get tired of watching this. His face as he crossed the line!!! Love it.
hahahah imagine training bare minimum 4 years for this and then fucking up with 2 seconds left. sad but hilarious. schadenfreude, right?
I’m not into ice skating even though it’s an awesome sport, but that is just pure GOLD !! I never get sick of watching this.
I love the shit people try to give Australia. Fact is with a population of 20 million and a 10 year long drought it's amazing we still have athletes winning gold medals in Vancouver and we're coming 13th, ahead of Great Britain, Poland, Japan etc. Still two more events ahead that we have a very good chance of winning gold in!
I get goosebumps watching this. I've never seen snow fall from the sky as a born and bred Perth Aussie so seeing this play out is like our version of Cool Runnings.
so your saying that any skater who has broken their neck 18 months earlier and been told they can never skate again would win from that position? I find it amazing he can even skate at all, let alone at an international level.
It hardly ever snow's in Australia and there are probably only around 3 ice skating rings in each city compared to America and other countries where it continually snows every winter. its called skill. Bradbury's a fuckin legend
Like I said before, that kilometer (5 furlongs) inside the EnergySolutions Arena aka Delta Center aka Salt Lake Ice Center I saw the absolute greatest race EVER. I don't care who says what.
except for the fact that he only made the final coz skaters fell in the semifinal. Even in the heats he only made it through coz somebody else was disqualified. The ultimate luck.
What makes this funnier is that the exact same thing happened in the semi-final. Only Ono and Bradbury stayed on their feet and Bradbury went from last to 2nd.
Oh there's a faller oh they've all gone
how wasnt it fair. They fell he crossed the line fair and square. They don't deserve gold just because they fell. He won that race as good aS anyone else.
yo no wat they say....the slow ones always beat the crash
that was awesome
Before accident :
1USA - 2China - 3Korea - 4Canada - 5Australia
After Accident :
1Australia Gold - 2USA Silver - 3Canada Bronze - 4China - 5Korea
So that Good for the Australian and the Canadian =P
In skating, I'm pretty sure tripping and falling down is the worst thing you can do
He was the only one who didn't trip
Bloody Legend
whoooooaaaaaaaaaaaa they are going to fast
@lacrossefan2 Lol, what? Sure, Bradbury is an incredible athlete. He fought the odds to even compete, let alone win. The fact remains, if EVERYONE ELSE IN THE RACE didn't crash in the last corner, he would have come in last. The only reason he was even in the final to begin with is because he did the SAME THING in the semi final. Cruised behind everyone, waited for someone to crash, cruised to victory.
I'm actually quite sure that Bradbury planned it. He said in interviews after the event that he anticipated a crash near the final corner specifically because he knew how 'hungry' everyone else would be.
How true this is is debatable, but looking at how far back he was keeping his distance, I believe that someone of his skill, even if he isn't the best, wouldn't be THAT far behind unless he was expecting a crash.
He also lost out to a gold medal due to a fall ova when he was 'hungry', I can see where your coming from bout the hard work but then luck also comes into consideration then with if someones not feeling to well on the day, with the cruising thing, that happens with most things, example is in soccer when the goalies have fallen ova and the striker does a small kick to just get it in. I don't see why he had to 'look' hungry to deserve a medal. Either way I'm just gonna leave it at this bye
Not really considering what he actually went through to get to this point, not to mention he knew he actually had little to no chance keeping up with the others so he planned to chase behind and hope that they would fall ova or something along those lines and maybe catch a medal, he was so shocked that his strategy worked that he just coasted to the finish, kind of like the old saying of the tortise and the hare.