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Their race-winning time was 6 minutes 23.66 seconds. At the same time, the Sinkovic couple wrote another chapter of their own at the Olympics and also wrote a chapter in the history of Croatian sports. With today’s success, they became the first Croatian athletes to win four medals at the Summer Olympics since independence.
“We always knew we were going to win, but to get people a little excited because they said we were getting boring,” Martin Simkovic joked.
“We didn’t start cautiously, we started strong, even well, but everyone was ahead of us. Nothing went as we thought, at 1,000m we felt tired, we didn’t really rest, we felt the semi-final race. At that time I thought, if we get that medal we will be happy. Then we started from 1,000 and it wasn’t the case. But when we started, the numbers went up. So we surpassed the Swiss, the Romanians, saw the British we were half their length, and at 100m I thought we would be behind, but we squeezed them and they collapsed. It couldn’t have been better,” said Valente.
The Simkovich Brothers: Never Write Off the Old Goat
“I don’t know what to think, all the positivity, I wasn’t even happy at first, I should have sobered up. Don’t ignore those experienced old goats,” Martin shouted, adding: “We never give up, we always try our best, we enjoy training and this is just the icing on the cake.”
Valente said it rounded out their careers in an amazing way, but it wasn’t the end.
“We could have gone further, but right now we don’t really need to do anything more.”
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