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Vinko Bogataj

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The talk around town was that this guy died during his ski jump. The story lasted almost 20 years until the internet was invented and ruined a bunch of fun stories.

Fans of a certain age almost certainly remember the image of Slovenian athlete Vinko Bogataj wiping out on the takeoff ramp and hurtling toward a gallery of spectators.

Bogataj, then 22 years old and competing for Yugoslavia, suffered a concussion and a broken ankle in a terrifying tumble at the 1970 World Ski Flying Championships in Oberstdorf, West Germany. It wasn't long before ABC began using the clip of the crash to accompany the phrase "agony of defeat" in the "Wide World of Sports" introduction. With that, Bogataj became famous in the United States -- quite literally by accident.[1]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/17310907/happened-agony-defeat-ski-jumper
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