Hours of practice for a few moments of glory

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The photo has nothing to do with the discussion. @lovinangelsinstead21 put up an interesting discussion which you can check out here: http://www.mylot.com/post/3206648/ so-how-the-heck. (You’ll need to close the gap.) The clip is to an ice-skating performance of Ekaterina Gordeeva and her late husband, Sergei Grinkov. At the end of the clip Gordeeva is spun and seems to be thrown away from her partner. My friend told me it’s called a triple throw. I couldn’t believe that girl was actually going to land on her feet – sorry, skates. I was pondering later on how much practice it would have taken for the movement to be perfected. How many times she must have fallen and how much courage it would have taken to push through the pain and failure to eventually achieve such a wonderful performance. It was around this point that I remembered the 1992 Olympics held in Barcelona when an archer, Antonio Rebollo, shot an arrow which had been lit by the Olympic torch, high into the darkening sky and into the Olympic cauldron thus lighting the flame. Watching the YouTube clip of that historic moment made shivers go up and down my spine. Here is the link if you want to be impressed by this guy’s talent. Like Gordeeva and Grinov, I guess it took a lot of arrows before he perfected his shot. Do you have a favourite Olympic moment? Here's the link to the Olympic flame moment.