Petra Majdic (Petra Majdič) Vancouver 2010 Olympics...Her Story Of Willpower

Petra Majdič (born 22 December 1979 in Dol pri Ljubljani) is a Slovenian cross-country skier. Her best results have come in classic style races. She has twenty World Cup race victories, sixteen of which have come in sprint races, but she also won a marathon (30 km race) in Trondheim in 2009.[1] She is the first Slovenian cross-country skier to win the World Cup race, the first to get a medal at the World Championships and the first to get an Olympic medal. At the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Majdič earned a silver in the individual sprint event. 16 wins in World Cup sprints makes Majdič second most successful World Cup sprinter on skis in history.




2010 Winter Olympics

During the warm-up for the 1.4 kilometre classic sprint on the February 17 in the 2010 Olympics she skied off-course, down a bank, into a 3 m (10 ft) deep gulley where she crashed on rocks breaking both ski poles, a ski tip, and sustained four broken ribs along with a pneumothorax.[2] The start time for her qualifying round was pushed back, but she collapsed in pain after qualifying and was taken to hospital to be x-rayed. She returned and, despite the agonizing pain, won her quarterfinal, just got through the semifinal as a lucky loser, and finished third to win the bronze medal in the final, the first individual Winter Olympic medal for Slovenia in 16 years. She earned the highest praise from other skiers, staff and the media for her amazing bravery as she attended the medal giving ceremony with a tube in her chest to relieve pneumothorax[3]. She said at the press conference afterwards "Today, this is not a bronze. This is a gold with little diamonds on it"[4].

Two days after the race she was awarded with the Golden Order for Services by the President of Slovenia Danilo Türk


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[MsOnessa]

Majdic is the best:)))) .congratulations from Poland!!!!!

[yuvtrub]

Congratulations and respect from Russia, Petra! You are a real Champion and fighter, you showed to the others what is the true courage and the spirit of the Olympic´s athlete!

[zielaq87]

youtube jest od filmów a nie zdjęć!! zdjęcia to se kurwa w google znajde co za popierdolec

[MrsLollipop777]

Petra najboljša si !!! <3

[madnalle]

Hopefully she will all her competitions next winter!

[zielaq87]

WTF its not movie, just some shit photos...

[law103157]

I have followed the Olympic games since 1968. Petra's performance after her injury was the most amazing and inspiring performance I have ever seen, a true Olympian achievement. This American salutes Petra Majdič.

[SilveradoInEldorado]

Amazing! With admiration from Russia

[MrLukasz191]

Respect from Poland

[Tiriltoget]

Respect from Norway

[MrKaruccho]

nobody have original movie or what...

[Duanematic]

we are the only in the world except canadians who won terry fox awards