Gold medalist waits 28 minutes at finish line for most Olympic moment ever
Here’s how a last-place cross-country finish became one of the best, most-inspiring moments of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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This is Peruvian cross-country skier Roberto Carcelen. He is Peru’s first Winter Olympian. He is so the man, too!
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Cologna won his second gold medal in Sochi on Friday in cross-country’s 15-kilometer classical race. He finished with a time of 38:29.7 Good for him!
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Carcelen, competing with a broken rib, finished last, 87th overall, 1:06:38.
With the rest of the field across the finish line, he grabbed a flag for the final stretch. Here is, exhausted, across the finish line.
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Here’s where it goes from awesome to AWWWWWWWW man. Cologna, the gold medalist, was waiting at the finish line, almost 30 minutes later.
This greeting is pretty much everything the Olympics is supposed to represent.
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Sports feelings are the realest and best feelings.
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