It's been nearly half a century since the term "agony of defeat" joined the lexicon of American sports. To this day, the phrase remains a broadcasting staple, whether it's coverage of the Olympics or ...

If there’s one thing sports fans around the world have in common, it’s the indelible memories that the games themselves have given us. Sometimes even memories we would rather forget. But for one ...

Almost 53 years since his ski jump accident made him an unintentional celebrity and the epitome of “The Agony of Defeat,” Vinko Bogataj was on the Big Nansen jump in Milan on Saturday demonstrating to ...

It was at the International Ski Flying Championships in 1970 that Bogataj (Bo*ga*tie) became a legend. The Yugoslavian ski jumper proceeded down the ramp on his third jump. And as he neared the end of ...

Editor's note: To mark the 50th anniversary of ABC's "Wide World of Sports" on Friday, Page 2 looks back at one of the series' enduring memories. He had a name. Vinko Bogataj. A pin-wheeling rubber ...

It is the enduring image of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.” Vinko Bogataj, a 22-year-old from Yugoslavia, hurtles off the ski jump at the 1970 International Ski Flying Championships in Obertsdorf, West ...

Vinko Bogataj holds a pair of 1980 Kneissl jumping skis that William McCrillis of Hopkinton still uses on Tuesday. BELOW LEFT: A undated photo of Vinko Bogataj ski jumping. BELOW RIGHT: Vinko Bogataj ...