Winter Olympics V - Steven Bradbury

Winter Olympics Series Episode V - Steven Bradbury

For almost his entire career, it felt like if Steven Bradbury didn't have bad luck, he'd have no luck at all.

Collisions, crashes, missed opportunities and truly horrific injuries, if there was any athlete at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics who had earned a bit of good fortune, it was Bradbury. And after fate had beaten him down time and time again, it took an extraordinary set of circumstances for his luck to balance out in the most astonishing of endings to the 1000m short-track speed skating event.

This is his story, downs upon downs before one huge up, an Australian legend, an unquestionable hero too as more recent event would show. This is, put simply, one of the greatest Olympic stories ever.

Steven Bradbury's Golden Moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he03dVkhLTM