Talk:Éva Risztov

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 17:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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> She retired in 2005

That brief statement of the WP article glosses over the story quite a bit. She actually suffered a nervous breakdown right in the pool early in the 2004 summer games, due to her perceived poor performance and refused to compete in the other races she qualified for in the same olympics. After that snafu, she was literally excommunicated by the hungarian swimming sport establishment. This was a disaster for her, since she had abandoned secondary school to focus on the 2004 olympics preparations. No medal, no job skills and for a time she went vagabond around the country on a moped.

Eventually the council of Debrecen, the second largest city in Hungary, encouraged her to move there and granted her an exclusive lane in their newly built 50 meter pool, where she literally spent 2.5 years swimming, dawn till dusk. The result is a 10km open water gold medal in London 2012.

The thing is, Debrecen city only has water if one looks down wells, no river or lake, not even a stream. Previously all hungarian swimmers came from the capital Budapest and other towns located on the major rivers of Danube and Tisza. The gold medal is for Debrecen as much as it is for Risztov and she did emphasize that aspect when speaking on the hungarian state radio. 91.82.39.124 (talk) 22:40, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. It would certainly be worthwhile to mention some of this in the article, if you can find references. Gap9551 (talk) 09:29, 13 August 2012 (UTC)