30 km ski race in Sapporo, 1972 The story, which there, in Japan, is still transmitted in legends. Then there were no mixed zones and press conferences, and journalists quietly wandered among the athletes right in the starting town. And suddenly, when half of the riders had already fled, the snow fell. Thick and lipid. And Vyacheslav Vedenin a minute before his start started to smash his skies. And a local journalist, who knows Russian, turned to him, saying, you think, it will help - the snow is falling?

What Vedenin replied to him, only we, in Russia, understand. And in Japan the next day the newspapers came out with headlines: "Speaking a magical word
“Dahushim, the Russian skier won the Olympics.”