First australian gold at the winter olympics, and if i remember right still the only one.
He got through the previous round because of dsqs ahead of him, then in the final this happens.
Dude must have bought a lotto ticket that day.
True, but he worked his arse off for over a decade to get lucky.
In the 94 Olympics, he was a red hot medal prediction on his pure pace, but was taken out in a fall.
In 98 he was again impeded by collisions and missed out.
in 2000 he broke his neck while trying to avoid a collision in training.
In 2002, he knew he'd lost pace through time and injury, so he intended to keep out of the pack, knowing that there would likely be contact. It paid off in the semis and the final.
He had a lot of bad luck for a long time, but he took his chance when it came.
I'm actually so happy as a Russell fan 😭 Those complaining that he got 'gifted' the win as if like every other driver has also not had that happen to them too
Ikr. I hate that argument so much. It takes so many people to build a car fast enough to be in the best of the rest position and the driver to extract the maximum out of it to stay there only for armchair experts to dub it as a "gifted win".
And what if we flip this argument. What if the likes of max, lewis, Seb, Michael were "gifted" their wins because they had the fastest cars. Just plain reductive tbh.
Hillarious aint it. Especially the Max fans, "He wouldnt have won if Max and Lando hadnt crashed" blissfully unaware (becasue most of them only started watching F1 in 2021) that Max got his first win by Hamilton and Rosberg crashing into eachother.
Max won because Rosberg and Hamilton took each others out
Gasly won because Hamilton got a penalty
Max won Barcellona and Baku 2022 because the Ferrari engine decided it was enough racing for the day.
Imagine the fucking headline is Piastri had been able to over take Russell for the win. It would be said that Russell couldn't win a race that was dropped in his lap on a silver platter.
He had a great race, beating Sainz and Piastri who were in arguably better machinery, and didn’t make any mistakes like Max and Lando did. He fully deserved that one
“Boom Shakalaka, yaba daba doo” type moment
Georges version of cursing in celebration.
Drake celebration
Australian legend.
My favourite winter Olympics moment
The crazy thing was it happened to him twice!
He spoke at my school. It was like staring into the sun.
Saved someone from drowning once too
First australian gold at the winter olympics, and if i remember right still the only one. He got through the previous round because of dsqs ahead of him, then in the final this happens. Dude must have bought a lotto ticket that day.
It's not our only gold, but it was definitely the first.
Didn't that wriggleys extra lady win gold too?
Alisa Camplin won Gold in same Olympics in the Aerials.
Nah it was even better, the exact same thing happened in the semi final, and he was only in the semi final because of dsq's in the round before that
True, but he worked his arse off for over a decade to get lucky. In the 94 Olympics, he was a red hot medal prediction on his pure pace, but was taken out in a fall. In 98 he was again impeded by collisions and missed out. in 2000 he broke his neck while trying to avoid a collision in training. In 2002, he knew he'd lost pace through time and injury, so he intended to keep out of the pack, knowing that there would likely be contact. It paid off in the semis and the final. He had a lot of bad luck for a long time, but he took his chance when it came.
He was part of the team that won the Bronze in the 5000m relay in 1994. That was the first medal Australia won at a winter Olympics.
“Pulling a Bradbury” still in our regular vernacular… the stuff of legend
 Watching the mess in front of him
Reporter: So George, how did you manage to win this one? GR: Basically by staying on the track and not crashing...
to finish first, first you must finish
*Will Buxton smiles, looking slightly off camera with a gleam in his eye*
Mmmm, yes. Very wise.
Which to be fair is a huge accomplishment for Osama "bin that car into the wall on last lap" Russell
First thing that came to my mind lolol
Right? Said to my mates "Shit, did George just pull a Bradbury?"
I'm actually so happy as a Russell fan 😭 Those complaining that he got 'gifted' the win as if like every other driver has also not had that happen to them too
Ikr. I hate that argument so much. It takes so many people to build a car fast enough to be in the best of the rest position and the driver to extract the maximum out of it to stay there only for armchair experts to dub it as a "gifted win". And what if we flip this argument. What if the likes of max, lewis, Seb, Michael were "gifted" their wins because they had the fastest cars. Just plain reductive tbh.
Hillarious aint it. Especially the Max fans, "He wouldnt have won if Max and Lando hadnt crashed" blissfully unaware (becasue most of them only started watching F1 in 2021) that Max got his first win by Hamilton and Rosberg crashing into eachother.
You gotta be good to be lucky, baby~
Max won because Rosberg and Hamilton took each others out Gasly won because Hamilton got a penalty Max won Barcellona and Baku 2022 because the Ferrari engine decided it was enough racing for the day.
It makes no sense. That's fucking racing. People just want to be negative about everything.
If only the skater T-posed across the finish line.
Imagine the fucking headline is Piastri had been able to over take Russell for the win. It would be said that Russell couldn't win a race that was dropped in his lap on a silver platter.
Would have been the perfect clip if Oscar won.
To finish first, first you have to finish.
This would be so much better if it had been Piastri...
I like George Russel I just hate Mercedes.
[Source ](https://youtu.be/lfQMJtilOGg?si=qx7WoNonPuqlEa5P) [Short documentary ](https://youtu.be/vN7ih576VYM?si=oQwKpLGc6yFaY7mf)
what does audi have to do with this?
George goes brrrrrr
"Oh, shit. I'm winning?!"
Thats racing 🤷♂️
It’s amazing that the whole cause of this was a shitty Red Bull pit stop, which like never happens.
Sums it up. Homie celebrating like he did something other than be in the right place.
bro let this man be happy jeez
I mean he had a good race 🤷♂️
as if it’s not the case any other race verstappen doesn’t win
His second sentence after the checkered flag was „ah well, picked up the pieces there“…
Lol racing is literally entirely about being in the right place.
No one said this when Lando won because Max hit a pole in Miami
Ikr he just won his second ever race. He shouldn’t celebrate.
He had a great race, beating Sainz and Piastri who were in arguably better machinery, and didn’t make any mistakes like Max and Lando did. He fully deserved that one
It would be very fucking awkward and weird if he didn't celebrate.