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The Summer Olympics in Paris were not just a public celebration.
Without a big rain of medals for Sweden as well.
Now the SVT profiler Jacob Hård chooses his very best moment.
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are over and we can summarize an extremely successful championship. We were treated to absolute world-class excitement, a rarely seen folk festival and our Swedish athletes exceeded all expectations.
Hard about the Olympics
Sweden had its best Summer Olympics in 24 years and won 11 medals in Paris. The SVT profile Jacob Hard thinking back to those wonderful weeks of warmth and now ranking his very best sporting moments from the Olympics.
– Paris is perhaps the very best of the ten Summer Olympic Games since 1980 that I have experienced. It was an absolutely fantastic party!, he says to SVT.
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The two given Swedish names to highlight are of course the big stars Armand Duplantis and Sarah Sjostromwho win one and two Olympic gold medals respectively in Paris.
– It wasn’t just for Swedes that the world record at the Stade de France by “King Mondo” was one of the moments, perhaps even the moment, that defines the Olympics in Paris, says Hård.
– Sarah Sjöström won her first international medal when she was 14 years old. Since then, there have been any number of them. 16 years later, she wins double Olympic gold and is better than ever. It is phenomenal and worth a closer study, or a dissertation.
“Straight into the heart”
The experienced SVT commentator also wants to see a closer study of our successful Swedish duo in beach volleyball.
– If we go to two 22-year-old Olympic debutants in David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig, who in a few years go from almost unknown to world number one and Olympic gold medalists. And not only that, they are doing it by changing a sport. Make a thesis out of it too, he says to the television channel.
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Jacob Hård obviously also wants to highlight the blue-yellow table tennis fever that has arisen and he is so deeply impressed by the success of the Swedish table tennis men. But if he is to highlight a specific moment that stands out the most, it is about something completely different.
– It’s not just the gold medals that stay with me from Paris and that I think will do so for a very long time. Tara Babulfath’s smile as she is about to win her first judo match, it is on the retina and will remain there. And her continued path, brave path, until the medal went straight to the heart, admits the popular TV journalist.
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