Władysław Kozakiewicz, the author of the famous gesture since 1980, joked about Piotr Žila at the Sports Champions Gala. The Olympic gold medalist from Moscow caused outrage in the audience in the hall and a huge storm on the Internet. “Is such a joke appropriate for such an event? – Internet users are interested.
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Piotr Zhila “Przegląd Sportowy” took fifth place in the plebiscite The best athlete of 2023. The Polish jumper was missing from Saturday's Gala of Champions as the final competition that day was held in Bischofshofen, Austria. Four Hills Tournament.
Sports Champions Gala. Vladislav Kozakiewicz's awkward joke about Piotr Gilles
Instead, he's a regular at the event Vladislav Kozakiewicz, Olympic pole vault champion. And it was he who gave the award to Piotr Gilles. Kozakiewicz, who stunned everyone with his gesture at the Moscow Stadium in 1980, shocked this year's crowd and spectators alike. Sports Champions Gala.
The legendary athlete decided to “joke” our jumper on stage, but no one laughed. – I have a rather difficult job. This is a man, if he were talking about me, he would say: you know this boy – started Kozakievich innocently.
And he told a joke.
– Two Olympians met in the fifties. And one is a bit lazy, the other asks: what's wrong with you? does something hurt And he says: You know, everything hurts. This liver, drops. and how do you feel I feel like a new person. How? Yes. Look, I have no hair, no teeth, and I feel like I've probably… screwed up – exclaimed the 70-year-old man.
Kozakiewicz laughed at his own joke, but not as much as the rest of the room. – Good. This is how he answers questions, he added after a while.
Kozakiewicz received a wave of criticism on social networks. “Until now, Twitter forums have been a place to help people embarrass themselves on a large scale, until Kozakiewicz suddenly proved it with the Sports Champions Gala”; “It turned out to be sad. But Kozakiewicz himself understood this”; “I don't know if it's appropriate for a gala like this to joke about pants kicking. Kozakiewicz should wish the guests a delicious scrambled egg while telling this joke of the year,” we read.
He received the statue in the name of Piotr Zhila Apollonius Tyner, and Jumper himself appeared on the screen in a previously recorded video. “Thank you all for your votes. Unfortunately there weren't many because I didn't win. It was an honor to participate, at least in the online version. Cheers. I'm very happy to join it,” he heard.
The best athlete of 2023 has been chosen!
title The best athlete of 2023 achieved Iga Switchtek. For the Polish tennis player, it was a year that really belonged to him. Recently, the Raszin player returned to the first place in the WTA ranking.
The winner of the third French Open Grand Slam in his career and the winner of the WTA final in Cancun surpassed the four-time world champion and winner of the 2019 plebiscite Bartosz Zmarzlik and the European volleyball champion Aleksandra Slivka.
is turned on Sports Champions Gala The title was also awarded super champion. This year, the jury honored the former captain of the Polish football team throughout his sports career Jakub Blaszczykowski.