This magic word helped the Soviet skier win the Olympics in Sapporo in 1972.
Skier Vyacheslav Vedenin was calmly preparing for a 30 km race, when suddenly, a few minutes before the start, thick snow suddenly fell.
Vyacheslav began hastily smearing his skis, which was noticed by a Japanese journalist who was nearby and spoke a little Russian.
He approached Vyacheslav and asked, “Do you think this would help? Because the snow fall is so thick.
. In response, Vedenin muttered something that the journalist did not understand, but wrote it down just in case.
As a result, Vyacheslav won the race and became an Olympic champion, and the next day a newspaper was published in Japan with the following headline:
after saying the magic word “dahusim”, the Russian skier won the Olympics.