2024-08-08 04:18:28
August 24, 2004, the 21-year-old Cuban Mihain Lopez Nunes goes up against the Russian Hasan Baroev on the Olympic carpet in Athens. And lost with 0:2. On August 6, 2024, Mihain took off his wrestling clothes on the mat in Paris after his fifth consecutive Olympic title and made history.
Between the two events there are exactly 7287 days, or 19 years, 11 months and 13 days, or 239 months and 13 days, or 1041 weeks.
Then in Beijing, he took a convincing revenge over Baroev with 6:1 in the final. Then in London he beat the world 16:0 in all his matches. In Tokyo, he is even more convincing – 24:0 over his rivals. And in Paris, he beat his compatriot Yasmani Acosta Fernandez, who is fighting for Chile, 6:0. In reality, Yasmani decided that 9 years in the same category as Mihain was enough for him, and changed his citizenship.
This is briefly the story of the 41-year-old phenomenon who likes to prepare for the games in Teteven. It was like that before those in France. In reality, he went into complete hiding after his title in Tokyo, not competing in a single event. Even his quota was won by Oscar Pino, who then gave way to him without a murmur.
Since the last Olympics, he has been at the top of the fight. Because legends like Alexander Medved and Alexander Karelin each have three.
The Cuban deleted quite a few serious names from the record book of the Olympics. The first to achieve four consecutive individual titles in one discipline was the Dane Paul Elvström in sailing (1948-1960).
Then came US shot putter Al Orter (1956-1968), long jump great Carl Lewis (USA) (1984-1996), title and medal record holder Michael Phelps in 200m medley (2004-2016) and in Paris the American Katie Ledecky in the 800-meter freestyle was awarded to them, and her streak started in 2012.
In Paris, the American Vincent Hancock also took his fourth Olympic title in skeet, but with him they are not consecutive – there is no difference from the games in Rio de Janeiro.