After Great Britain and Hungary, the only two national teams that won Olympic gold three times in a row in the oldest group sport of the Olympic Games, the Serbian water polo team joined them today with a victory over the world champions, Croatian water polo players.
After the matches of the group stage of the tournament, I did not expect a medal from our water polo players, although I was rooting for them with all my heart.
After the semi-finals on Friday, when the Serbian dolphins defeated the water polo players of America (and thus took revenge on the basketball players who left our boys without the best honors), I couldn't wait for today and the final.
And in the final, dominance over Croatia, the current world champion.
Well done, golden water polo players.
I didn't have the opportunity to be in Paris, so I took pictures of the broadcast on TV 😀
And a big bravo to the bronze basketball players who, after an incredible semi-final with America, outplayed the German national team in the battle for bronze.
Well done to Aleksandra Perišić, who won the only silver medal for Serbia in Taekwondo and thus continued the series of medals won by Milica and Tijana at the previous Olympic Games (Milica Mandić won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Games, while Tijana Bogdanović was the second in 2016 and the third in 2020)
Novak Djokovic's gold medal brought me the greatest joy. In the previous three Olympics, he was not lucky enough, but this time, even though I thought he wouldn't participate at all because of the knee surgery he had two months before playing the final, he won a medal, a gold one at that. And so he writes another page of history.
His games in the tournament were the hardest for me, because unlike in team sports, he has no one to replace him, to hit the ball better, when he is not doing well. And his games last longer than the games of other medalists in individual sports, which makes the result more difficult to achieve...
And well done to our shooters in the mixed doubles in air pistol shooting, Zorana Arunović and Damir Mikec, who secured our first gold medal...
I use this opportunity, on the last day of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, to congratulate all the other national teams and competitors on the great results and medals they won.
Until Los Angeles, stay healthy dear Hivers!