You probably all still vividly remember the scene when Petra Majdič fell off the track and into a three-meter ditch during training at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. At that time, Slovenia's breath stopped, and Petra, despite broken ribs and a punctured lung, later won the bronze medal for Slovenia in excruciating pain. A heroine was born in Canada, who was sung by the whole world, and today her epic story is brought to life in the documentary Against All Odds - Petra Majdic's Incredible Story of Sacrifice.
The Olympic story cross-country skiers Petre Majdič from Vancouver, she offered herself and according to the documentary film by the long-time RTV journalist Marjan Fortin, Peter five years later we got another international story about the best Slovenian cross-country skier of all time.
Against All Odds - Petra Majdic's Incredible Story of Sacrifice outlines the events in Vancouver, where Majdičeva, despite broken ribs and pneumothorax (puncture of a lung wing) with inhuman energy flowed to the bronze.
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Petra, after a breathtaking performance, with which she crowned hers a career spanning more than 20 years, said: "I wanted to give up a few times, but when you know why you're fighting, you still keep going. In the end, I was as tired as ever. Enduring three hours of such pain and still running is something incredible. In such circumstances, I did not expect a medal, but I really wanted it. I think under normal circumstances she would have won, even my competitors admitted to me that they deserved to win."
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