The Agony of Defeat: Vinko Bogataj wiped out 50 years ago

SportsCasting.Com ^ | 03/21/2020 | John Moriello

[crz]

Boy do I ever remember that.

I was kind of a Ski Jumping fanatic back then.

[Kid Shelleen]

Wasn’t Bogataj in reality a very good skier?

[yarddog]

I consider myself as brave as the next guy, maybe even braver, but there is no way I would try ski jumping.

[mabarker1]

Classic Vintage Crash Scene Ping)))

[rossusa]

I remember watching that too. I seem to remember that the ski jump got really icy that day and they eventually stopped the competition. So it wasn’t the skiers fault, just bad conditions.

[dfwgator]

Ski Jumping is one of those things I’ll never figure out how anyone can have the guts to do.

[SamAdams76]

Used to watch Wide World of Sports when I was a kid back in the 1970s.

Innocent times.

[logitech]

No crash helmet back then.

[Alberta's Child]

If you've been to a ski jump hill you might notice how low the actual height of the jumper is relative to the slope beneath him.

In winter sports, it’s the men’s downhill that has to be the most treacherous event of them all. And the skeleton (like the luge, but HEAD FIRST down the hill) is like racing at Daytona without a harness or a windshield in the car.

[dfwgator]

My all-time Olympic moment is still Franz Klammer in the 1976 Winter Olympics downhill.

[crz]

VERY good jumper. VERY good. Like all the Euro jumpers.

I used to go to the Pine Mountain Classic-as they call it now, every year. Thats in Iron Mountain MI.

The jumpers, although they compete against others, will tell you that the number one competitor they compete against is the hill.

I have watched them group up and talk to each other on how the heck they can beat that hill.

[crz]

Tell you what, you can actually say that they are NUTS.

Ski flying is really something. I dont even know what the record is now and I would bet its over 700 feet.

[dfwgator]

Eddie the Eagle was my favorite...

[crz]

Back in the early 2000s the first to adapt the “V” shape style was a Fin. A kid who was 16 at the time..I think.

[MrEdd]

Because it’s fun.
It’s like repelling, only sideways.

[crz]

Here it is..the record. Over 800 feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96BkG0TYKrY

[The people have spoken]

I’ve stood at the top of the ski jump hill in Park City (2002 Olympic Venue), and OMG it is steep!

[Pox]

A few different years of the intro on youtube. Mostly low quality, but from a different era.

You can see a few interesting sports legends in most of these intro’s.

My favorite so far is from 1980 which gives you a second “Agony of Defeat” along with this one.

Starts at 3:38 in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dis2PJLvaJc

[kiryandil]

I used to go to the Pine Mountain Classic-as they call it now, every year. Thats in Iron Mountain MI.

Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer [Ghostbusters]:

Many Old Mils and Pabsts knew what it was to be chugged in the depths of the Finns and Swedes that day I can tell you."