He had a tea with a toast and went to the bike track: the incredible story of the Wynants Olympic Medal

Tomorrow of September 20, 2000 in Sidney. Milton took his bike and went out to roll for a while. Gentle. At night he had to compete. It was expected by the demanding competition of cycling on the track of the Olympics.

After the movement, he appealed to the tradition of the interior man and threw a nap. He rested well and woke up quiet, without nerves.

Before leaving the test, Milton Wynants passed through the dining room of the Olimpic VillaOh had a tea with a toast with honey. And started by bike for the velodrome. Yes, it was by bike.

Before the test, scheduled for the night, he began to warm up and while he was rolling with the bicycle above the roller, he told his wife Marlene how well he was.

While all this happened, his coach Hugo Scricky He got out of some wheels that allowed Milton to compete in other conditions. They did not get them up to an hour before competing.

Before going to the track his partner Gregorio Bare He went to stop the number on the shirt with pins and noticed that Milton’s mesh had a little hole that covered with the poster. To the track!

A handful of Uruguayans, where his coach, his wife, delegate Daniel Gutiérrez, mechanic Julio Fuentes, a secretary of the Olympic Committee and the cyclist Gregorio Bare, were witnessed by the competition.

In the absence of 10 laps, Wynants was fourth. But along each return, Milton was perceiving that the feat could be possible and gave the fight against the Spanish Joan Llaneras and the Russian Alexei Markov.

The last Wynants Sprint was huge and ended up achieving 18 points to conquer the silver medal at the Olympic Games. The curious thing is that, when he arrived, he raised his arm believing that he had finished in third place. However, on the screen they indicated that it was a silver medal.

After 36 years of drought, Milton Wynants cyclist gave another medal to the small country of the exploits. That day, when climbing to the podium to receive the medal, a cry came out of the soul: “Uruguay pa ‘everyone!”

And while Milton kissed the medal, his coach Hugo Scricky argued with the representative of the Mavic wheels that, as he said in a note with exclusive rights of Radio Uruguay, had promised that he gave him the wheels for the bicycle if Wynants was a medal. “Milton was above the podium and I was fighting with Mavic’s because he wanted to take out the wheels he had promised us. And also the tires were mine.” To the Uruguayan.