VINKO BOGATAJ AGONY OF DEFEAT WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS

INTERVIEW WITH VINKO BOGATAJ BY JIM MCKAY.

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Entertainment

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• AGONY
• OF
• DEFEAT
• WIDE
• WORLD
• SPORTS
• JIM
• MCKAY

[skyking1961]

I think he is still alive.

[bryandamadman]

So is the new agony of defeat video going to be the luge guy nailing the pole?

[skyking1961]

Vinko didnt die from what he did. He didnt even have any injuries. You are comparing apples to oranges.

[norbiu]

So you never stopped being an asshole?

[noaanhc]

There is a another funny story that is related to his famous ski jump crash.Years later Vinko Bogataj was on in his way to do a TV interview on ABC sports when he was involved in a very minor car accident.Responding later to the accident he replied.

"Everytime I'm on ABC,I crash."

[geeksgaloremarmora]

I remember this, it used to be on the theme intro of wide world of sports

[altfactor]

I believe Bud Palmer and former U.S. Olympic ski jumper rt Devlin were the commentators at the ski jump event where Bogataj fell.

[altfactor]

If "Wide World" were still on the air today, chances are Vinko Bogataj's ski jump would no longer be "{The Agony Of Defeat".

It probably would be replaced by the crash that cost J.R. Hildebrand the 2011 Indianapolis "500".

[altfactor]

Didn't he once do an American Express TV commercial in which he said "Do you know me?? Every Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, I fall off a ski jump".

I believe Bud Palmer and Art Devlion (the latter a former U.S. ski jump champ and an Olympian) were the commentators at that event.

[johnny10301968]

This happened in 1971 he retired from ski-jumping 20 years later.

[gunnvon]

@skyking1961 He had a concussion.

[mkulanator]

oh wow, that embarassing. yeah, maiden name. but yeah, he is my distant uncle

[mwjk13]

@Rorix9 snow is hard only new fluffy snow doesnt hurt that snow looked like ice snow