The Bridge Digital newspapers Croatian edition 1990s | Page 32

They started the 25 th of July. They could have had the best Olympic opening ceremony with the song “Barcelona” of Freddie Mercury. Unfortunately, the famous singer from Queen died last year of AIDS. Despite this setback, they made an awesome performance, especially with the Olympic flame. It was lit with a flaming arrow, shot by Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo. That shot “entered” (it didn’t enter but with a specific angle of the camera, it looked like that) and lit the Olympic Cauldron. After this opening ceremony, Olympic Games officially started with 9364 sportsmen and sportswomen from 169 countries. Curiously, the best country in this Summer Olympics was the Unified Team made of 12 out of 15 former Soviet republics. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania competed individually. These Olympic Games have been the Athletics had more surprises for best for our country. We’ve won a total all of us. American athlete Gail Devers of 22 medals (13 gold medals, 7 silver won in 100m women after recovering medals and 2 bronze medals) and set from an illness in which she could have some Olympic and World Records. For lost her feet. It was needed a photo- example, the cyclist José Manuel finish to know who won in that race (Gail Moreno with his gold medal and World Devers won with a difference of 0.06 Record in 1km Time Trial. We had two seconds). One of the big surprises in surprises too: the goal of the football athletics was in 400m men. British player Kiko at minute 90 which set the athlete Derek Redmond was one of the score to 3-2 and made us won the favourites but he injured his Achilles’ match and the gold medal of Fermín tendon in the middle of a race. He Cacho at 1500m who passed his rival in wanted to end even though everyone the last 300m and crossed the finish line (even his father who jumped over the raising his hands with hundreds of fence to stop him) tried to stop him. He people shouting his name. crossed the finish line helped by his