"Just do the math!"
Gold? Brief confusion among our Olympic heroes
Lara Vadlau and Lukas Mähr are Olympic champions! When our sailing heroes arrived at the finish line off the coast of Marseille, however, there was brief confusion.
"We knew that we had won a medal, that was incredible, very few people would have thought that," said Vadlau after the medal race. The 470 duo finished seventh in this race. Whether it was enough for gold was initially unclear to both of them: "Then I said to Luki, he's the numbers guy with us, or better than me at least, just do the math, will it work out?"
Party in red-white-red
Seconds of disbelief, then the score was confirmed. The Austro duo celebrated in the traditional way. They capsized their dinghy, stood on the upturned white hull and waved the red-white-red flag.
They finished the regatta with 38 points ahead of Japan's Keiju Okada/Miho Yoshioka (41) and Sweden's Anton Dahlberg/Lovisa Karlsson (47). It was the second medal for the ÖOC at the Summer Games in France after Michaela Polleres' judo bronze.
"It wasn't for nothing"
"It's the best thing you can give back," said a delighted Mähr. "You haven't spent so much time with the children, you haven't seen them learn how to ride a bike. The sailors are always abroad, 280 days away. It wasn't for nothing that we worked so hard."
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