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Showing posts with label Bogdan Bogdanović. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bogdan Bogdanović. Show all posts
The men's marathon was scheduled on the last day of the Olympic Games. The athletes started it in heavy rain. 140 runnes could complete the race out of the 155, Anđelko Rističević finished 119th clocking 2:30:17. Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya won the race with 2:08:44.
Then came the basketball final. There isn't much to talk about the mutant aliens of Area 51 American team knocked out Serbia to 66:96.
If we see the positive side: nobody is better than Serbia in the world. (Americans don't count now, their position in basketball is the same as Germans' in football.) Well done, boys!!!
A message to Nemanja Bjelica from the podium (Bjelica had to cancel his participation at the Olympic Games in the last minute because of an injury): this medal is yours, too!
The water polo boys were there to support the team
Serbia earned 2 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 2016 Olympic Games:
Gold - Davor Štefanek (Greco-Roman wrestling, 66 kg), men's water polo team
Silver - Tijana Bogdanović (women's tae-kwon-do, 49 kg), men's basketball team, women's volleyball team, the Marko Tomičević/Milenko Zorić duo (men's kayak double 1000 m)
Bronze - Ivana Španović (women's triple jump), women's basketball team
Our Olympic broadcast has ended, thank you for your attention.
Vladimir Savanović finished 42nd out of 80 competitors in men’s 50 km race walk. Only 49 athletes could finish the race
salutations to the other Serbian, Predrag Filipović to also be able to cross the finish line
but racers freaked out completely by the 32 degrees Celsius and the 80 % humidity. It’s a miracle 49 people could finish it at all.
I caught an interview with Bence Venyercsány, the only Hungarian athlete, who could finish the race. He said (while trying to find his breath) that it was his toughest race ever, the heat was killer and the worst was seeing fellow athletes giving it up, one after the other, many of them collapsing while walking.
Big respect to every single athlete, but especially to Vladimir Savanović, who completed the race. You are all champions!
Here is Vladimir Savanović’s post-race message to the fans.
In the evening came the men’s basketball semifinal. Australia vs. Serbia.
The Serbian team washed off Australia with a fantastic, amazing game, winning to 61:87 and marching into the final.
First quarter: 5:16
Second quarter (half-time): 14:35
They had such a game that they could make even this at the end of the first half. Teodosić throws the ball, and then... ALLEEEEY-OOOOOP!
And it continued like this, until the final buzz. Great game, basketball gala, at the end Australians just had a dry smile on their faces while assisting for Serbia. The final will be on Sunday, Serbia plays against the United States for the Olympic championship title.
Before to leave Rio, I took some time to wish an happy birthday to Bogdan and wish him good luck for the rest of the competition ! ⚪️⚫️
Posted by Joffrey Lauvergne on Thursday, August 18, 2016
Congratulations and salutations to Tijana Bogdanović for the silver medal and Ivana Španović for the bronze!
Bogdanović clashed with Kim So-hui from South Korea in the final of women’s 49 kg tae-kwon-do. Getting to the Olympic final at the age of 18 is a victory in itself. For the next Games it will surely be a gold medal :)
Tijana Bogdanović on the podium
Ivana Španović finished 3rd in women’s triple jump with 7.08. Two Americans got the two other medals, the gold went to multiple world and Olympic champion Tianna Bartoletta (7.17), while also multiple world and indoor world champion Brittney Reese won silver (7.15).
Ivana Španović and her bronze jump
And now the best part: the Serbian basketball team WON over Croatia in a bloody battle and qualified to the semifinal!
In the first quarter Serbia was leading with one point (19:20), for the half-time it changed to 38:32. Then came the Raduljica-Bogdanović-Mačvan trio
PARTIZAN!!!
and brought up Serbia to 52:66.
In the last quarter the Croats clenched their teeth and came up to 72:74. Bogdanović was fouled out around the end. Croats were just one step behind Serbs (79:80). The last minute was about fouls and free throws only. The game was fragmented. Finally Serbia won to 83:86 scoring their last points only from free throws. (Adriatic League feeling...) In the semifinal they will play against Australia.
Friday brought two games at the Olympic Games with Partizan-players. The first one was a basketball game, where the Serbian team got definitely the best team from which everyone (or almost everyone...) expects gold medal: the United States.
The fact these hamburger-fed yankees Americans could score only 3 (THREE) more points than Serbia, that's really something to be proud of. Team USA won 94:91, at a surely very heavily struggling game and I'm sure if any of their players might see again the clenching teeth and sweaty face of Bogdanović and Mačvan in their nightmares, they wake up crying, chewing on their pillows. Compared to the half time score (50:41) and to Americans still leading with 10 points in the third quarter (72:62), Serbia could make such a final that is written in the Big Book of Basketball.
Bogdan Bogdanović
...when Bogdan Bogdanović gets the grip...
Nenad Beđik and Miloš Vasić were there to support the basketball team
The basketball team is now 4th in their group - keep this place, boys, because then you will qualify to the next round!
At the evening game (early Saturday dawn CET) the Serbian and the Australian water polo teams clashed with Serbia gaining their first victory. The first quarter finished with 2:2, Serbia took the lead, then Australian equalized just 6 seconds before the end. The second quarter was tough. A lot. Australians were leading, sometimes with 2 goals (2:4) and even the half time result was for them (4:5). Then came the third quarter and a more or less square water wrestling (6:6).
Then the last quarter.
It started with 7:7.
Then it was 10:7, for Serbia. 3 minutes before the end they performed an amazing water polo show. Australians could pressure out only one single goal from themselves. The end result was 10:8 for Serbia.
Filip Filipović is teaching: see, children, this is the ball, that is. And that’s how you score a goal with it... (BOOOM!!!)
Players celebrate after the victory
The entire basketball team was there to support them
Serbia is now 4th in their group, they have only one game left, against Japan.
This day should rather be forgotten.
The rowing events had to be cancelled again for bad weather. It means, the Beđik-Vasić as well as the Šljukić-Marjanović duos will race for the 7-12th place on Thursday early afternoon CET. Update: or not. The weather is again very bad in Rio, so the events are postponed to 17:40 CET.
The basketball team was defeated by France to 75:76. After a very tough first half (first quarter: 17:26, second: 36:40) Serbs took the lead in the third part (60:57), but finally the French team won with one point.
Bogdan Bogdanović’s facial expression tells it all
Bogdanović vs. Tony Parker
Saša Đorđević cannot believe his eyes
Simonović comforting Bogdanović after the game
Viktor Troicki was there to support the basketball team. Next to him stands Vlade Divac, former player of KK Partizan, currently the vice president of Sacramento Kings
Viktor Troicki in the company of Vlade Divac and Novak Đoković
The basketball team is 4th in their group. They have two games left, one against the US, and one against China, both will be more than though.
The water polo team surprisingly got defeated from Brazil to 6:5. Looking at the statistics of the game, it could be a real struggle. The first quarter seemed to be smooth (0:2 to Serbia), then the half time turned to be 3:3 from 1:3. In the third quarter the Brazilians took the lead (5:3), Serbs equalized in the last part (5:5), but then, when only 46 seconds were left, the referees gave a penalty to Brazil which decided Serbia’s fate (Duško Pijetlović had an attempt though afterwards, but the Brazilian goalkeeper, who is that Slobodan Soro, who used to be Partizan’s goalkeeper, but in the meantime was naturalized by Brazil, so, this Slobodan Soro saved Pijetlović’s shot.)
Filip Filipović is blocked, Soro is watching from the background
Dušan Mandić with the ball
And well, the truth is, that the Serbian team is very much behind in their group. They are second last, they have only 2 points. Only Japan is behind them. They have one game left against Australia, then one more against Japan, they must win both, if they want to qualfiy to the quarterfinals.
Partizan was the home team at the second clash of the superliga final. On one hand it meant Grave Diggers could finally occupy Pionir Hall (only a handful of red fans were allowed this time, in a well-separated corner of the hall, surrounded by security guards and gendarmerie). On the other hand a lot of honourable guests came to see Partizan.
There was Novica Veličković...
When these two players entered, Pionir Hall exploded. They got an amazingly warm, loving welcome, that only Pionir Hall can give to its former players.
National team coach Saša Đorđević was watching the game, too, from the VIP-tribune.
(screenshot)
The team started to warm up way before the arrival of the guests. It is always elemental.
Then the match started.
Not even one and a half minutes have passed when Lazić already got his second personal foul. Blažič hit Pavlović on the face, and when he was fouled for this, he just threw the ball to Pavlović.
(photo: sportske.net)
The standing was 4:4. Pavlović, who was burning on 10 000°C already at this point made a giant block - as a result, referees whistled free throw for Zvezda. Not much later Đumić also got his second personal foul (barely 3 minutes passed from the game...). The two teams had a nip-and-tuck game. We switched the standing from 8:11 to 12:11. From 12:15 we equalized with Pavlović’s amazing 3-pointer (15:15), and we even took back the lead (17:15). Duško Vujošević got into heated debates with the referees every now and then, while Andrić was fouled after Kalinić hit him (!!!). Milosavljević was also hit inside Zvezda’s paint, but none of the referees seemed to be interested. Even at this point it was clear we’d have a tough game against a 8-member team. We finished the first quarter with 17:19.
With lots of love, from the fans of Partizan
In the second quarter Zvezda switched the pace of defense to "brutal", while referees kept on giving us fouls. Still we switched from 17:21 with blood, sweat and the scores of Tepić and Mačvan to 22:21, when something happened. There was an upheaval at Zvezda’s bench.
As we got to know, an angry Partizan-fan threw a chair to Jović. Maybe the target wasn’t actually Jović (or maybe he indeed was), nevertheless the chair hit the Zvezda-player’s head. Jović was surrounded immediately by medicals and finally he left the court and walked to the locker-room with an icebag on his head.
Players were a bit confused
The match could eventually continue, Pavlović equalized (23:23), but from this point on things really started to be very tough for Partizan. Referees openly whistled against us, while Zvezda-players switched to moron mode. Blažič intentionally - and brutally - pushed Milutinović to the floor (it was so clear that the referees had to give us a free throw, though they did not whistle technical foul to Blažič), then Williams smashed Dallo brutally. At this point there was no foul or free throw. But when Milutinović tried to block a Zvezda-attack, the referees didn’t just validated the score but gave an extra bonus shot to Zvezda (31:37). Mačvan reduced the difference (34:39), we finished the first half with 36:40.
Mitrović cheering for Partizan
In the half-time Bogdanović was surrounded by journalists
In the half-time break there was some terribly corny music flowing from the speakers, for the great amusement of Grave Diggers. (I do not want to get into details, as I would cross the delicate borders of political correctness - in short, everyone who knows what’s going on will laugh at it as hard as I did.)
In the third quarter we took back the lead with the scores of Tepić and Mačvan (41:40). Then Milosavljević equalized (43:43), while Zirbes was hanging on him with all his weight. Then Tepić was brutally pushed down by Kalinić. No foul, no free throw, nothing happened.
Pavlović couldn’t watch it passively. Zvezda came up for an attack, Pavlović ran up and clashed into Kalinić with full force, so much that Zvezda’s player flew out of the court with an elegant arch. Pavlović immediately got a technical foul. Then Milutinov got an offensive foul, who knows, why. Duško Vujošević complained heavily, referees gave him a technical foul as well, as an answer. After the lot of free throws Zvezda increased their advantage to 43:51, even making the 10-point difference (45:55). We finished the quarter with 51:58.
In the final part we reduced the difference to 2 points with Marinković’s fantastic 3-pointer (he could even throw an extra bonus shot) and Milutinov’s hook. This time Kalinić pushed Dallo to the ground. Dallo stood up, bent very closely to Kalinić, right into his face and whispered there what Zvezda’s player should do and with whom.
My life for a video. Or at least a gif.
The unsportsmanlike behaviour was clear, so we got a free throw. We equalized (58:58). Kalinić switched the moron mode to full force
interesting, while Blažič is this backboneless rat-alike idiot, Kalinić plays the dirty, stuck-up asshole card
Zvezda increased their difference to 58:64. We reduced it to 63:64 with the 3-pointers of Tepić and Pavlović. Zvezda wanted so much to increase the difference, but we kept on hanging on their back. Finally Mačvan equalized (69:69), Marinković was so happy with it that he jumped on Mačvan and hugged him.
Then, in the very last minute Zvezda got a free throw. The first shot got to the ring (69:70).
The second rebounded! We can still make a counter-attack!!! There are a few seconds left!
But no.
Because Kalinić jumped up, caught the rebound and smashed it into the ring with an evil grin.
69:72.
And after all these this rotten bastard ran up to the Grave Diggers after the end buzz and made it clear what a wonderful, fair-play knight sportsman he is.
May it be a terrible example for everyone.
At the other side Partizan-players were desperate.
Marinković was especially down. Here he is comforted by Milutinović
Tepić comforts Pavlović
And if it’s still not enough, the basketball association punished Partizan for that chair-throwing incident. Partizan must pay 200 000 dinars and they must play their next home court match behind closed doors.
Third match will be on Thursday, from 21:00.
