Sports

We mentioned already in the previous article Poles in Olympic Games - Medals Count that Polish sportsmen disappointed in Athen Olympic Games, 2004. Polish team consisted of 202 sportsmen and women, but they we received only 10 medals.

There were some nice surprises and new sport stars emerged. Let's start with these positive surprises.

Polish swimmer, Otylia Jedrzejczak, 20 years old became a Polish hero. She won 2 silver medals (100-m butterfly, and 400-m freestyle) and one gold medal in her big race with a wonderful finish - the 200-m butterfly.

Read more: Polish Golden and Silver Medallists at Athens 2004

In the article below we will present the 5 Polish bronze medalists.

Agata Wrobel repeated her success from Sydney, 2000, proving that she is the strongest European woman. She was third behind the strongest woman of the world, Gonghong Tang from China, see here picture, and behind Jang Mi Ran from South Korea.

Read more: Polish Olympic Bronze Medallists at Athens 2004

Read about medal count in Winter Olympic Games for Poles, read also about 2004 Olympic Games is Athens. The performance measured as the efficiency, amount of medals per one participant, was the worst since 1952. Some newspapers write about it as a failure or even a catastrophe of Polish sport. Poles received only ten medals - 3 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze. Four less than during Olympic Games in Sydney (2000) and seven less than in Atlanta games (1996).

Read more: Poland in Summer Olympic Games: Medals Count

Salt Lake City Olympic will be remembered for many reasons. First of all because of the corruption scandal that revealed the dark site of the International Olympic Committee and towns and nations who compete to win the right to organize the games. The article in the BBC explains the scandal in which large sums of money were paid by SLC top officials to members of the International Olympic Committee to secure the bid.

Read more: Poles in Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games 2002