BUDAPEST, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The winners of the first-ever Hungarian gold medal in Winter Olympics were qualified as "legends" by the president of the Hungarian Olympic Committee on Thursday.
The Hungarian team won the short track speed skating men's 5,000m relay final in PyeongChang on Thursday.
"These kids have become legends today," President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee Krisztian Kulcsar spoke on national television after the victory.
He added: "It was a miracle, it was dazzling... I looked, I hardly wanted to believe it ... Knowing that they could do it is one thing.. They kept their cool until the end!"
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also said on his Facebook page: "Grateful for living to see this day! Go Hungarians!"
"It was unbelievable: this race was very hard, it was a long journey to get here, we went out as a team, we had to put ourselves together, we are the best, the team made no mistake in the final, we all wanted to win, we cannot find the words," Liu Shaolin said in interview by Hungarian sports television channel M4. "I bit the air towards the end like no one else," he added.
"All the individual problems disappeared in the race, I can only think that after thirty-eight years, after so much happened, we got a new medal and a gold! It is amazing," his younger brother Liu Shaoang told.
Liu Shaoang talked about the last time Hungary won a winter olympic medal, a silver in 1980.
The Liu brothers became famous in Hungary two years ago, when RTL Klub television presented a documentary introducing the family's life, where the mother is Hungarian and the father is Chinese.
They started skating at the age of 14. Before that, it was swimming, and ice hockey. The father left China 30 years ago.
