[the age 17.02.2002]Steven Bradbury has become the first Australian to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympic Games, but he had to rely on all the other competitors stuffing up, in order to take the title. The event was the 1000m short-track speedskating. Bradbury, in his fourth winter olympics knew he was not the fastest skater in the competition, and was working on the strategy of holding back, hoping that some of the skaters in the lead might crash, thereby given him a chance at a possible Bronze medal. On the final corner, a Chinese skater caused a four-person pile up, handing the race and the Gold medal to Australia's Bradbury. Fantastic!!
"Obviously I'm not the fastest skater but they were my tactics and they worked like a charm."
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