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The day had a good start. The rowing repechage events could finally happen and Partizan's both duos could make it to the qualifying. Nenad Beđik, Miloš Vasić, Andrija Šljukić and Marko Marjanović will race on Tuesday at 15:00 CET for the final.
The water polo team played draw with the Greek team, the match ended with 9:9. Team Serbia is third now in Group A.
Vladimir Vujasinović was also there, he came to see his "sons"
Dušan Mandić in action
At the tennis fields Nenad Zimonjić and Novak Đoković clashed in men’s double with the Brazilian pair Melo and Soares. They were defeated to 2:0 (6:4, 6:4), the Olympic Games have ended for them, too.
The day finished with basketball. Serbia wrestled played with Australia, then in the very last minutes they were defeated to 80:95. Serbia is 3rd in their group behind Australia and the United States.
Ana Ivanović and Viktor Troicki were there to support the basketball team
The rowing events must be cursed. Yesterday the whole event was postponed due to bad weather. It was so windy in the bay and the water was waving so hard that the repechages and qualifyings could not get started. So the Beđik-Vasić and the Šljukić-Marjanović duos will have to perform on Monday afternoon CET.
At the tennis fields Viktor Troicki was defeated by Andy Murray at the men’s singles. The game finished with 0:2 for the Englishman (3:6, 2:6), the Olympic Games have ended for Troicki.
Viktor Troicki and Andy Murray
(photo: mondo.rs)
Nenad Zimonjić with Boris Becker watching the game between Novak Đoković and Juan Martin Del Potro. For everyone’s shock the Argentinian won over Đoković and qualified to the next round
(photo: Facebook/Olimpijski komitet Srbije)
At swimming, Velimir Stjepanović could get to the qualifying of the men’s 200 m freestyle, but he finished 13th, he could not make it to the final.
One more thing that was missed out from yesterday’s report, cyclist Ivan Stević couldn’t finish the race yesterday. There’s no info about why he had to give it up.
Partizan’s athletes had a struggling start at the Olympics. The first event of the first day was shooting, female 10 m air rifle, where Andrea Arsović was expected to win a medal. Instead she finished at the 26th place, she couldn’t even get close to reach the final.
Andrea Arsović at the qualifying of the 10 m air rifle
Later Arsović talked very bitterly to Mondo. She said she had stage fright and it didn’t calm down, so she couldn’t find her usual pace. On Thursday comes her other discipline, 50 m rifle in 3 positions, she wants to focus on that now.
Then a switch to the swimming pool, where the Serbian water polo team incl. Dušan Mandić, Filip Filipović and Nikola Jakšić
yes, yes, there were the Pijetlović-brothers, too
clashed with Hungarians right in the first round.
It was not easy at all. The Hungarian team had a blitzkrieg, winning the first quarter to 3:5. At the half-time they were ahead to 6:10. Serbian goalkeeper Branislav Mitrović was mostly just watching the action in a quiet and sad manner. He was substituted by Gojko Pijetlović for the second half, that was the point when the Serbian team sped up. The standing was 9:12 for the third quarter. Ćuk, Mandić, Filipović and the others kept on scoring, Pijetlović saved as if his life would have depended on it. 7 seconds before the end the standing was 12:13. After hitting the crossbar the ball got back to the Serbian team. Filipović wasted no time, he grabbed it, shot and scored a huge goal, equalizing 4 seconds before the end buzz, finishing the game with 13:13.
Dušan Mandić during the game
Filip Filipović shots...
...and scores!
Then came rowing, where Heat 3 of the men’s pair was surely one of the weirdest heats of the entire Games. The event was placed to Copacabana, and when it was the turn of the Beđik-Vasić duo, there was a very heavy wind in the bay and the ocean was waving.
The heat started by default with a fail, though it was impossible to see from the slow motion replay which boat wanted to start the race too early. As an extra, the Serbian boat was leaning very heavily to left, almost crossing the line to the other track, where the Italian duo were waiting for the start. If I could see well, something was wrong with the rudder, nevertheless finally everything was put in order. The race started and until 1500 metres Beđik and Vasić massively kept the 3rd place. (The Hungarian boat on the 4th place was behind them with at least half kilometre.) Though at 1000 metres something was wrong, the Serbian boat was leaning very much on the rope between the tracks. Then at 1500 metres all we could see was the Serbian boat being turned over, while Beđik and Vasić were swimming around it, being rather desperate.
The other duo, Andrija Šljukić and Marko Marjanović finished 4th at Heat 1 of the double sculls. Both Beđik-Vasić and Šljukić-Marjanović will compete in the repenchange on Sunday as a chance to get to the qualifyings.
At the tennis fields Ana Ivanović was quickly eliminated by Carla Suarez Navarro. The Spaniard won to 1:2 against her (6:2, 1:6, 2:6), so the Olympic Games have finished for Ivanović.
In men’s double Nenad Zimonjić (paired with Novak Đoković) won against the Croatian duo Čilić-Draganja to 0:2 (2:6, 2:6), they qualified to the next round.
Ana Ivanović
Zimonjić (left) and Đoković celebrate after their victory
(photo: mondo.rs)
At the heats of the men’s 400 m freestyle swimming Velimir Stjepanović finished at the 7th place in his heat, which was very far from being able to get to the qualifyings. It’s not such a big tragedy, as Stjepanović’s main discipline is 200 m freestyle, he probably focuses more on that.
Velimir Stjepanović
The last event of the day was the basketball game between Venezuela and Serbia, which took place at 3.30 am CET on Sunday. The Serbian team with Bogdan Bogdanović, Stefan Birčević, Milan Mačvan and Miroslav Raduljica (and Saša Đorđević on the bench) swept Venezuela away with 62:86. Meanwhile the French team with Joffrey Lauvergne was defeated by Australia to 87:66.
Bogdan Bogdanović
(photo: nbcolympics.com)
(unmarked photos: Facebook/Olimpijski komitet Srbije)
What a game it was. It is definitely a match to remember.
Warming up
Edo Murić was also there sitting in the crowd. He got injured during the previous match - Duško Vujošević noted, it seems to be a tradition that Murić gets injured against Crvena Zvezda.
There were some famous guests there, too. Novak Đoković, the alpha and omega of Serbian tennis visited the game together with Viktor Troicki, another star of Serbian tennis.
The best of Serbian tennis could be found on the tribunes. Nenad Zimonjić was also present, though he had his place at an upper tribune, together with his son.
Here is a video, for you, to see what kind of an atmosphere there is at Pionir Hall. (In case you have never seen it yet.)
Keen-eyed people could see Ivan Bandalovski and his girlfriend making a selfie at 2:59 as well as Nemanja Kojić with an adorable baby at 3:25.
Now you go back and watch it again. I know you didn’t notice them.
Troicki was great by the way. He was singing along with the fans, couldn’t stay calm, jumped up, didn’t seem to care much about the cameras focusing on him, while the openly Zvezda-fan Đoković’s face got more and more sour. (Here I must admit, Đoković acted like a gentleman for the whole time. It couldn’t be easy though.)
At the beginning it was tough again. Pavlović gave a good start though (2:0), but Zvezda had two very fast american players, Williams and Jenkins. We tried to increase the difference, we took the lead first to 13:8, then to 15:12, mostly by Pavlović’s scores, but the two Americans equalized with their 3-pointers, what is more, at the end of the first quarter they took over the lead (15:17).
The second quarter found Zvezda still domineering, thanks mostly to their American players. It was almost only Jenkins and Williams being active among them, among us Tepić, Marinković and Milosavljević were working hard to earn points. Despite our efforts the situation got tougher and tougher. The standing was 22:28, then 27:33, the two red-white striped Americans seemed to be unstoppable. (Interesting, Luka Mitrović scored zero points at this match. Mountain-sized Marjanović could make only 5 points, "Rat of the ABA League" title winner Jaka Blažić also made not more than 5 points.)
And then came the point when Mačvan got fed up.
The beast broke out of Mačvan. Mačvan took the whole team under his armpit, ploughed up Pionir Hall, ground the wooden pieces of the paruqette to saw-dust with bare hands, ran through the shocked Zvezda-players like a bulldozer and made an unbelievable 10-point series. (37:33)
He even high-fived with fans
We finished the first half with 38:33, Đumić scored one point from free throw.
This little girl was the half-time sensation :)
Then we ran back to the floor, Pavlović again gave the keynote (41:35) and then it was again Mačvan time.
MILAN MAČVAN.
He was simply amazing.
One of the many priceless moments of the game. It doesn’t even need any further comment
Nothing worked for Zvezda. The ball always dropped down from the ring or flew too far. But the greatest moment was when Mitrović stole the ball, ran up and clearly wanted to make the Dunk of the Year. His pace was just too big, the ball hit the ring and instead of falling into the net it dropped down and flew back at least to the half-line.
I know it was cruel from me, but I died of laugh. Mea culpa.
Meanwhile we took the lead to 53:41, Milutinov made an XXL-sized block, Tepić scored (while at least 3 Zvezda-players were hanging on him), Jenkins got a technical foul after hitting Đumić, we got a free throw, Đumić threw and scored easily (59:41).
And that was the moment, too, when Jenkins dropped the ball in the most critical moment. Zvezda-players were yelling with each other while we didn’t let control out of our hands.
The atmosphere was more than huge, the fans were singing in ecstasy. (Mačvan is the official atmosphere-maker of the team.)
And then came the final quarter.
Mačvan could have some rest, because Milutinov took the role of Partizan’s Steam Roller Engine. He increased the difference by himself from 59:44 to 64:53. At this point the pace got a bit slower, but only to give space for the last and greatest attack.
And to Milutinov.
Then again to Milutinov.
(Watch how Blažić drops the ball in the beginning and how Dallo steals it.)
Zvezda fell to pieces. They could only assist to Partizan’s festive show. At the end Milutinović joined the team, said hi (74:61), and for the last seconds only Dallo’s spectacular action was left.
Then it was time for the well-deserved celebration.
The best moment can be seen around 2:35, when even journalists forget about their official masks and turn into happy fans.
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