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Marathon legend celebrates his 60th Birthday
Most of the famous athletes with their athletic performance to legends. With two Olympic marathon victories Waldemar Cierpinski here has made some. But really Cierpinksi was legendary, his 60th on Tuesday Celebrates birthday, but by the television commentary of GDR sports reporter Heinz-Florian Oertel.
As Cierpinski 1980 in Moscow ran to Olympic gold, Oertel shouted into the microphone: "Dear young fathers, they have courage. Give them quiet their new arrivals of the day Waldemar. Waldemar is here!" Just four years earlier had commented Oertel Cierpinskis first gold run: "Now they come, the heroes of the highway. Tear the window, and if you stand, the bow is lower." Cierpinski was on the Oertel-words in Moscow did not initially pleased: "I was shocked by this remark, because I expected something really nice like as in 1976. And then suddenly: 'Give your children Waldemar." I thought that's probably not true. " The anger is now gone. Among other things, probably because the runner legend following happened: "has during my last stay in Japan, even the Emperor recalled," told the Halle, "he said at the presentation, this is the man, after they call in Germany sons .
The story of the Oertel comment is certainly at the birth of the double Olympic champion on Tuesday again be mentioned. Otherwise expect the birthday boy a rather quiet day. "I'm quite normal to work, at lunch I'll let a little air to receive well-wishers and friends and after work with business friends sit together," says Cierpinski. The proper celebration should then rise on Saturday: "As we celebrate the 120th birthday, as my wife Marita has also recently become 60."
10,000 meters still under 40 minutes
employed is difficult Cierpinski to today: The marathon legend runs for nearly two decades of sports shops in Halle and Quedlinburg, is the German Athletics Association involved and supported the marathon national team plays three times a week soccer and taking sporadic nor in community runs. The 10,000 meters, he is still running under 40 minutes. "The beauty that I currently have the time, five times a week to exercise. I hope to old age is." A wish of the 60-year-old for his son Falk, who had to abandon because of tendinitis on the start at the European Championships in Barcelona: "I wish good health for our entire family. And I hope that Falk at the 2012 Olympic Games London can start. "
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