New Czech hero: Ester Ledecka and her incredible Olympic story!

Hi everyone,

I usually dedicate the last post of the day to promoting my beautiful homeland, the Czech Republic, through my Travel Tip series but I will make an exception today as I want to introduce you to someone who has just promoted my country in a truly fascinating fashion.

If you followed the 2018 Winter Olympics (held between 9 and 27 February in South Korea), you are probably familiar with the incredible feat performed by Ester Ledecka, a young snowboardist from the Czech Republic.

At the age of just 22, Ledecka was the first athlete ever to compete at the Winter Olympics in both alpine skiing and snowboarding.

Source: sport.cz

On February 17, she shocked the whole sport world when she won the gold medal in the female skiing Super-G event and one week later, on February 24, she won another gold medal in the snowboarding parallel giant slalom (her prime discipline).

Source: Sporting News

Thanks to these unbelievable achievements, she became the first female Winter Olympian ever to win the gold in two separate sports at a single tournament. Ledecka also became the first competitor (male or female) to win Winter Olympics golds in two totally unrelated sport disciplines.

What makes her achievement even more outstanding is the fact that she actually won the Super-G on second-hand skis that belonged to an American athlete Mikaella Schiffrin before.

Ledecka´s inspirational performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics made her a national hero in the Czech Republic overnight. She also went viral on the internet as thousands of memes featuring her have flooded the web as soon as she finished her remarkable double-gold run.

Source: G.cz