4x10 km stafett - Herrer - Lillehammer OL - 22. februar 1994

[Fanden861]

Nå er det dramatikk- er det en STAV de bytter der? For en sport

[festkjeppen]

The Italians were on drugs.

[redemit60]

@festkjeppen The problem exists and no one is without sin...Blood doping is taking root in Scandinavia: Sweden, Finland and Norway have the first blood transfusion in distance races.

[festkjeppen]

@redemit60 are you suggesting that Bjørn Dæhlie was doped? Blasphemy!

[Snauzer67]

It was bad sportmanship from Fauner but always nice to see Vanzetta and di Zolt.

[giusi1972]

Ascoltate il sottofondo al 3:32 :-)

[cankanorey83]

@giusi1972 ahahah! :D

[furlaschi]

sono un fondista gia da piccolo e sono stato anche nello sci club,essendo fortunato ad avere un campione in casa come mio padre,ringrazio il MITICO SILVIO PER LA PIU BELLA MEDAGLIA D'ORO CHE L'ITALIA POTESSE AVERE

[Bemmsheini]

the best winter games ever......

[redemit60]

That unforgettable day the Vikings broke their horns, perhaps too much presumption, for there were too sure of winning. They are traditionally the number one, and this enhances the performance of the legendary Italian quartet.

[larilin]

@redemit60 It's pretty clear that the performance of the Italian quartet was enhanced by something else as well.

[andrep99]

Sounds like Kjell-Kristian Rike was cheering for Italy ... Still my favourite commentator.

[heathey2]

Very intense tempo

[depeche79]

Abbiamo sconfitto una nazione intera...abbiamo battuto la Norvegia nella loro olimpiade con in volata la leggenda Dahlie...grazie di esistere Silvio.

[VyseNice]

There hasn't been a Winter Olympics like the one served by Lillehammer in 1994 since then. Everything about that arrangement was perfect, so there wasn't anything to do better anyway. I wonder how Northug would do against Dæhlie at his peak, or even Thomas Alsgaard... These three skiers are BEASTS!!!

[davd1986]

@VyseNice In mass starts, he would probably win. In everything else, tough, very tough.

[JLKAJFLKDFKSDKJF]

Does anyone have the nbc coverage of this? It was so good with slow motion and music

[matteosandrin]

Guys, this's just sport. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Norwegian remain the Masters of cross-country but that day Italy were better then them...for one, beautiful, golden day. Peace & respect !

[OettingerCroat]

poor norway... to lose AT HOME in their #1 national discipline, to the Italians nonetheless. I was rooting for Norge...

[superbex1]

it's so funny how it's always italy and norway who end up fighting for the relay gold, almost every single time.

[TheACacello]

@superbex1 no, really?

[Trulyloyale]

but in case they were true , the same we take no lesson by hypocrit countries whose doping use was massive in 1977-1995 years and who have cheated their olympic medals by doping even horses in Bejing 08 Equestrian show jumping competition !

Be sure that if Italy team was on Epo , Norway team was already on 2nd generation of it !

[nevemirtilla]

Fauner makes Dahlie BLACK!This is the story!Epo is in your brain!

[Trulyloyale]

In fact , I never said Fauner got took Epo

he was not even rumored of any Epo use

( which was x Di Centa and Albarello ) , so I could have I spelled such a false & absurd statement ? If you check better my comments, you can see that I denied Epo abuse by those athletes and said that in such a case, other teams more than Italy should have been blamed for doping abuse , in such a case .....

[Trulyloyale]

Italy's antidoping standards were quite high

those years and they are among Top 5 strictest & highest of the world nowadays : someone in below comments named skater Koss and his strange haematic values in those years to underline how some countries should stick to their garden and just put on a part their ridiculous 1way selective memories .

Those about Epo use by a few cross country skiers inside Italy's team were nothing ore than rumors,

[Trulyloyale]

Italians may celebrate loudly a few victories of theirs but traditionally they keep themselves modest and they don't be cocky when they win and respect the rival , thanks God we are no arrogant & ignorant US cow boys who are confident that their home shit is the best ever no matter what thing they are involved into

( sport or work or whatever ) and most of times they can only cause troubles and make bloody mess !

[Trulyloyale]

whole team ? Dream on something else:

the one who, years after Lillehammer Olympics , got rumored of Epo use was

Marco Albarello ( just rumored 'cos blood

tests were always negative ), x the others 3 they declared the use of decompression chamber in team's training program, which was allowed and not considered doping .

Italy was simply better than Norway that day just like in 2006 Olympics 4x10 relay and as far as I've been seeing we alwasy respected the norwegian team .

[Blomsterfinn7]

The whole Italy team on EPO

[pallinocg]

Una gara che resterà x sempre nella storia dello sport italiano!

[Bluewhiteeagle]

Grandissima gara, la più bella che abbia mai vista! Beautiful race. In order to beat the great norwegian team in Lillehammer you had to be superlative:

[SplitteMineBramseil]

Et nasjonalt idrettstraume. Vi skulle funnet opp en tidsmaskin, og enten tatt med Petter Northug i den eller overtalt Inge Bråten til å sette Dæhlie på tredje og Alsgaard på fjerde.

[europa51]

grande silvio!!

[Lasermannen]

Oj vad väl jag minns den där spurten, vilken skräll av Italien att besegra världens mäktigaste skidnation på deras egna hemmaplan och 90-talets bästa åkare i en spurt.

Lycka till i Vancover Norge.

[SplitteMineBramseil]

I Vancouver vinner Sverige stafetten. Dere har i alle fall det beste laget på papiret.

[seaking77]

dove si puo' trovare con il commento in italiano ??

[Icestad]

De var dopet garantert.

[NIGGAKILLAMF]

it's not about countries or civilizaitons or races, its about people. don't conclude that one country is better than any other. i love the norwegians, they are modest wonderful people..cant say that for the italians who tend to be arrogant , but only when they win.

[alexciuvildo]

De Zolt, Albarello, Vanzetta e Fauner, devastata la terra norvegese!

[JBLACK12]

I remember watching this live. They showed on the Today Show. I got up early for school and was lucky enough to catch the last 15 minutes of the race. I wasn't into cross-country skiing at all, but till this day, it remains one of the most exciting things I've ever seen on live television. The crowd was going bonkers during the sprint at the end, and they went dead silent when they found out that they had lost. This video doesn't show the little game Fauner and Daehlie were playing either. Cool.

[ghicaccatta]

vola Fauner vola...

[alexciuvildo]

l'Italia che vince a casa del gigante norvegese! un'impresa che rimarrà negli annali storici! poi a torino 2006 il bis, a casa nostra si vince!!!!!

[tbg0o]

haha jealous haha

[AndreaLaika]

Che gara.. Me la guardo integrale almeno ogni inverno.. Ma ogni volta il cuore mi batte come la prima.. Io avevo 9 anni ai tempi.. FANTASTICA!!!!!!!

[piscininbrutecativ]

fantastico, probabilmente il ricordo sportivo più bello che ho... andavo ancora alle scuole medie!

[bellad76]

Bra av Dæhlie å vise skuffelse over å bli slått. Bjørgen, Størmer Steira og Johaug jubler alltid hver gang de blir slått i en spurt, utrolig å se på.

[Ugotabe]

Fauner, Alsgaard and Isometsa were the fastest guys in 1990s. Northug however makes them all look very ordinary Petter is from new planet

[TheGoldenSphinx]

Härligt Italien! Forza Italia!

[44jens44]

I don't think Norwegians should be any disappointed, because they almost always win the relays anyway. So it's great to see someone else winning rarely too! And currently it's basically impossible to beat Northug at the finish, so the relays are quite boring.:P

[loribiss]

Pazzesco, anche per me è un ricordo indimenticabile, e anche io avevo 13 anni... ...forse tu ne avevi 15!!

[steelfloating]

Grande e furbo Fauner! e tutta la squadra.

[mosbrick]

Fan avd grymt med publiken ändå. Låt Norge ha OS igen. Så jäkla grymt.

[daggalaggabagga]

dette er lenge sia og jeg var to år da det skjedde men au jeg fikk vondt i hjertet

[Martinbett]

azz che batosta che si sono presi quei norvegesi,in casa loro tra l'altro...

[larilin]

@Martinbett Si, e sappiamo che gli italiani erano dopati.

[kakeper321]

Well, this was a humiliating defeat for Norway. (I'm a norwegian)

Italy was better than Norway this time. If Alsgaard had taken the last step, Norway probably would have had a great chance to win. But hey, that didn't happen.

The whole Italian team was good in OL94. Some people think they used illegal substances. I don't think so, because all of them were doing good races the whole season.

Di Centa on the other hand seems more suspicious.

[thekadath]

im italian and ican say that you have reason: alsgaard was faster than fauner probably(see in nagano). On doping problems all that athletes demonstrated good form for many years. About Manuela Di centa im also suspicious because she refused blood test years ago, but she losed from egorova the most dopated athlet of the history

[pequenadivina95]

altro che campioni del calcio

[nevemirtilla]

hai perfettamente ragione,ogni volta pelle d'oca

[mariottonove]

Si mi ricordo anch io... i tabloid Norwegesi scrissero che "siamo stati battuti da la banda dei vecchietti bevitori di vino" (in modo simpatico..).. grande emozione..

[hnnacrew]

avevo 11 anni...ma quanto ho goduto!!! grandi ragazzi...grande fauner...

[03livestrong03]

video fantastico, era da tempo che lo cercavo!!! grazie

[Trulyloyale]

Olli89 Italian athletes also were tested by IOC, not only the Norwegian ones, 3 gold medals winner Norway skater Koss comprehensive ......( selective memories ) XD

[Trulyloyale]

wow looks like majority of norwegians are still uppset since that day ...... Throughout all his step Dahlie tried to distance Fauner , but he didn't make it.

When he realized he had to sprint, he chose to draft behind Fauner and he got clearly beaten.

Don't talk nonsenses if you can't find better arguments to not accept Italy's victory and don't dream on bizarre fairness.

The Italians overcame by a 30 secs delay

in 3rd step and both Dahlie & Fauner distanced Isometsa and skied to win.

[richter75]

U based that on youtube comments? Lol, actually we would like foreigners to win more. Its more and more a national sport it seems.

[zenmachinefilms]

Doping accusations aside, as likely as they are true, this was a great win for the Italians, especially Fauner who had lost so many times to Dahlie in other races.

The Norwegians blew this by first Alsgaard allowing Vanzetta to draft for so long, then Dahlie did the same, allowing Fauner to cruise behind him, then get ahead with less than 1k to go, and then not attempting to pass until it was too late.

The Norwegians got their revenge in 1998.

[russiateam]

Come battere il Brasile al Maracanà!!!!

For an Italian was one the best day of sport. Anyway respect for the Norwegian, masters in cross country!!!!

[denbettega]

Olle89, ahahhahaa

You are right italians were full of dope, as well as norwegian athlets. daelie was the greatest, but not that day. me sboro adoso

[GWDDUE]

che soddisfazione...

[4lBa]

If that medal was won by the norwegian, I'm sure that now you weren't there telling us those bullshit about dope!! In sports sometimes you win and sometimes you loose! By the way, if you don't has any evidence about italian dope, don't talk ok??

[JLKAJFLKDFKSDKJF]

this was not a fair win because the italians only drafted and refused to swap out leading. it's only fair.

[Martinheha]

Lel, Silvio Fauner! Filled up with dope! GLZ

[Busseto]

Olli89 I understand a norwegian hardly accepts his country's ski heroes to be defeated by superior rivals, but blaming someone else by onesensed & dirty charges is not the solution .

If you're looking for dopped cheaters just take a look at Russia,Germany,Austria,USA .

I don't know about Di Centa but Albarello and De Zolt were great champs not 50 but experienced who were competing ag. the norwegian for years and sometimes beating them . The whole Italy's relay appeared out of any dopping use

[Busseto]

I remember so well that relay and most of that wonderful olympics : I won't behave your same way and I won't remind you that your mates were beaten by Italian champs even after that year in several competitions and I won't also remind you some much more strange medals catched by dopped cheateras from outer countries .

Italy's medals are fair & clean, some country

else's medals are not like Italian ones . lol

[Busseto]

Probably Dahlie that day was too confident in beating a fantastic sprinter as Fauner or simply Italy that day was too strong .

Since I consider the Norwegian people Italians friend, I won't reply remembering a guy called Johann Olav Koss .......

[Turkanen]

Any cross-country clips from 80's and 90's appreciated

[highlooz]

I appreciate all the Norvegian sport,

Dahlie, Bjorndalen, Bredesen

naturally not the phrase from Olll89.

Don't touch that gold of Italy in the norvegian temple!

[enicocentrico]

Qualcuno posti il video con la telecronaca RAI.

Quel giorno a scuola finsi di avere mal di pancia per poter tornare a casa e vedere la staffetta. Avevo poco più di 11 anni...

[highlooz]

The best victory all-times in Italian sport

[Olli89]

Fucking doped italian fuckers...albarello was fucking 50 years old... cheating fuck

[adbv67]

hey guy....

all top atlets where fighting with SAME products and materials... so please shoot up about italians or what ever country... it was 90ies where in every sport athletes where taking epo etc.

now we know it for sure...

cheers

[Olli89]

HAHAHA! All of the norwegian athletes was tested by IOC, but Albarello never showed up! Dope Dope Dope Dope... Dæhlie is the most succsesfull Skier ever so stfu u faggot!

[adbv67]

daehli was a big champ, that's true. but only with his force he could not be at that level, look at others like gunde svan, kirvesniemi, mieto etc...

by the way i was working and running during late 80 and beginning of 90 in pro races...

everybody who is in there nows it.

have a nice day and stop dream

cheers

[GWDDUE]

speriamo tu muoia lesto

[TheMammt]

@highlooz

maybe because you don t remember Spain-Italy 8-9 waterpolo final (Barcelona Olympic games 1992) ,we champions at their home after 3 extra times .You search exactly this video -->Waterpolo Tango: 1992 Barcelona

Norsk Versjon:

Finale vannpolo OL Bracelona 1992

Spania-Italia 8-9

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