150th gold medal for Hungary! Yay!

[wiseheart]

Let me admit something - I'm not interested in sports at all! Other than going to the fitness studio to avoid getting even fatter.

Nevertheless, I'm very much excited by the fact that fencer lady Tímea Nagy repeated her Sydney performance in the rapier category and won a gold medal again. One of our male fencers got a silver medal (I think), and one of our swimmers made it to the finals, despite a recently broken leg.

Before this year's Olympic Games we were on place 8 (or 10?) of the Big List containing all medals ever one. For such a small nation it's a great achievement, I'd say.

It's such a rare moment that I can be proud of being Hungarian. I enjoy it immensely.

Comments

[cirdan-havens.livejournal.com]

:) Oh, I agree. It's wonderful to be able to have some national pride. And even though I have little interest in sports, I think it's a _much_ better way for nations to be competitive than war.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

And so you should be proud! The Hungarians are doing very well. Just out of curiosity, what is the population of Hungary?

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to Tímea Nagy, and to the other Hungarian athletes who have performed so well!

The Olympics are unique in that they're interesting even if (like me) you normally don't care a bit about sports. During the Olympics I'll watch events I wouldn't look twice at at any other time.