OMNIHASH: btw Packers jsou skvelej fenomen, jedinej NFL team, nevlastnenej nakym prachacem, od zacatku (1919?) je to neziskovka vlastnena fanouskama, maj asi pul milionu vlastniku, je mi to hrozne sympaticky:)

A ne, neni to zadost o sejrovej klobouk, az tam zas pojedes;))

Ragnar Skanåker

Pochází z farmářské rodiny, od roku 1952 působil ve švédském letectvu a zúčastnil se mise Organizace spojených národů v Kongu, po odchodu z armády provozoval benzinovou pumpu. V letech 1972 až 1996 startoval na sedmi olympijských hrách v řadě (dostal také divokou kartu na LOH 2004, ale Švédský olympijský výbor ho s odvoláním na slabou výkonnost do nominace nezařadil). Získal čtyři olympijské medaile v disciplíně 50 metrů libovolná pistole: v roce 1972 vyhrál, v letech 1984 a 1988 byl druhý a v roce 1992 třetí. Na mistrovství světa ve sportovní střelbě vyhrál soutěže ve standardní pistoli na 25 metrů v roce 1978, v libovolné pistoli na 50 metrů v roce 1982 a ve vzduchové pistoli na 10 metrů v roce 1983.

TRISSIE: a jeho medailonek:

Hoketsu, 71, was the oldest competitor in both Beijing in 2008 and London 2012, where he finished 17th in a field of 24 in the men’s dressage competition,­ almost half a century after making his Games debut in Tokyo in 1964.

After that first taste of Olympic competition, Hoketsu studied for a master's degree in economics at Duke University in the US, but continued to ride. And throughout his business career in Japan he rose daily at 5 a.m. to ride before heading to the office.

When he retired, his wife urged him to make a comeback to competitive sport — and he went on to qualify for Beijing and then London.

But he revealed preparations for his latest Games appearance had taken their toll. Such is his dedication to the sport that he didn’t see his wife for a year prior to competing in Greenwich Park.

He told journalists: ‘It is difficult to be away from home for this long as an old man, and I owe everything to her patience and understanding.’

The Japanese horseman, who trains in Germany, doesn’t see his age as a problem, saying: ‘I don’t know how you’re supposed to feel at 71. I’m the same physique as I was at university. There’s no special secret. I get up at 7 a.m.

‘I used to get up at 5 a.m., go riding, go home and then leave for the office for 30 years when I was working. Now I can sleep until 7 a.m. Luxury.’

Hoketsu’s Olympic career also saw him quality for the 1988 Games in Seoul, but he was unable to compete because his horse was quarantined.

Sadly, he has ruled himself out of making an appearance in Rio in 206 – not because he feels he will be too old, but because Whisper is getting on in years, and has struggled to recover from a tendonitis injury.

He said: ‘I want to go to Brazil, but I don’t think I can. It will be difficult to find a horse for Rio de Janeiro. My present horse is too old for that. The biggest motivation for me is to keep feeling that I am improving. If I feel I am getting worse than before, then I will stop.’

He added: ‘My wife would like for this to be my last year of competition and that will probably be the case. But I still feel my riding is improving. I’m a better rider now than I was at 40.’

Hiroshi HOKETSU
https://olympics.com/en/athletes/hiroshi-hoketsu

už toho nechte, proboha, nebo se s tím přesuňte do pošty!

Tady máte ještě jednoho olympionika, Hiroshi Hoketsu v Tokiu 1964


a Hiroshi Hoketsu v Londýně 2012:

V3S: mno dokud se to bude rozmazávat a zároveň se bude tvrdit, jak to máš na háku, tak to bude čím dál vtipnější komedie

STEVIE: viz TRISSIE. Jeden z duvodu, proc to furt zkouší, je ten, ze ma olympijskou medaili pro SNS, pro Nemecko a chce jeste i pro Uzbekistan :-)

BERUSKA_CA: hlavne se kvuli klukovi museli odstehovat do Nemecka (v Uzbekistánu tehdy tenhle druh rakoviny lecit neuměli), na lecbu se skladala sportovni komunita a ona pak dlouho zavodila za Nemecko, z vděčnosti za záchranu syna. Je mu ted pres dvacet :-)

TRISSIE: proč má v beijingu německý dres?

TRISSIE: Tu jsem jednou videla a jeji soustredeni a urputnost byla vysoko nad ostatnimi. Pak mi nekdo rekl, ze v te dobe potrebovala vyhrat, protoze mela nemocneho syna a lecba byla nakladna. Pokud vim, chlapec to zvladnul.

TRISSIE: a kdo to chce i v pohybu, tak tady:
Oksana Chusovitina - From Barcelona 1992 to Tokyo 2020.
https://olympics.com/en/video/oksana-chusovitina-from-barcelona-1992-to-tokyo-2020

Oksana Čusovitinová a olympijské hry. Bohužel, pro Paříž 2024 se tahle naprosto neuvěřitelná uzbecká gymnastka kvůli zranění nekvalifikovala :-(

LU_TIEN: to mi pripomelo Faces Places od ni