The world may seem upside down right now, but this Saturday, we got a wondrous cause for celebration:Olympic gold medalist大屠杀幸存者阿格尼斯·凯莱蒂100岁了。她在一个（Covid保险箱）庆祝了里程碑式的生日在她的家乡布达佩斯庆祝，她从2015年起就住在那里，时隔半个多世纪。
She is, according to theInternational Olympic Committee他是健在的最老的奥运冠军。她也是有史以来获勋章最多的犹太女奥运选手，曾获得10枚奥运奖牌，她的故事确实令人敬畏。
Despite the pandemic, Keleti had a respectable birthday party, thrown by the Israeli Embassy in Hungary. It was attended by local and Israeli press (who Zoomed into the event), and her son, Rafael, who does not often leave her side. Keleti was presented with a beautiful layer cake covered with chocolate shavings (which she happily sampled before getting her own slice), decorated with two alarmingly loud sparkling candles as well as three numbered candles that indicated the milestone birthday. When she was unable to blow them out, she daringly waved at them until they were extinguished. On the table, for a crowd of professional photographers, Keleti displayed her Olympic medals.
她穿着一件缀有珍珠珠的毛衣，谈吐活泼。晚会上，带着历史奖章来的凯莱蒂还收到了一本关于她生活的新书，体操皇后：艾格尼丝·凯莱蒂100年. “That’s an exaggeration,” she countered humbly to the regal title.
“These 100 years felt to me like 60,” shetold现场的记者们。然而，她的100年是动荡和胜利的100年。她出生在布达佩斯的一个富裕的犹太家庭，小时候，她是一个有成就的体操运动员和大提琴家。到了16岁，她已经是匈牙利体操冠军了——这个头衔她被授予了10次。
Keleti was slated to compete in her first Olympics in 1940, but the competition was canceled due to World War II. A year later, she was barred from her gymnastics club for not being Aryan, and her main focus turned to survival. In 1944, she married another gymnast, István Sárkány, after she heard a rumor that married women were not taken to camps. (The couple divorced in 1950.) She paid a Christian maid, Yuhasz Piroshka, to use her identity, and Keleti survived the war by adopting a rural accent and working as a furrier and a housekeeper.
“健在的奥运冠军阿格尼斯·凯莱蒂100岁生日快乐。你的奥运故事很鼓舞人心；10枚奥运奖牌，其中5枚金牌。你一生都表现出勇气和决心——一个真正的奥运冠军。国际奥委会主席巴赫pic.twitter.com/jIpJNjpi2d
-奥运会（@奥运会）January 9, 2021
Keleti says she does not remember much about the war, and that talking about its events leaves her with profound sadness. During the siege of Budapest, she recalls helping collect the bodies of dead Jews in the morning: “We dug tunnels with our bare hands to throw the bodies of the Jews inside,” she toldIsrael Hayom.
While Keleti and her mother and sister (who were aided by Swedish diplomatRaoul Wallenberg) survived the war, her father and other relatives were killed in Auschwitz. “I thought about how it was, what a horrible death,” she told国土报in 2005. “Before I left [home] I said, ‘Dad, do like me, don’t wait.’ He said, ‘I don’t have strength anymore for this, I’m too old for this.'”
尽管经历了所有的冲突，凯莱蒂仍然保持活跃，这有助于她保持活力-并使她能够恢复她的体操生涯战后。失去，为生存而战，以及她所经历的一切——这并没有阻止她，也许，这甚至驱使她追寻奥运梦想。她因伤不能参加1948年伦敦奥运会，但在1952年，当她31岁时，凯莱蒂赢得了她的第一枚奥运金牌。四年后，35岁的她在墨尔本奥运会上又获得四枚金牌，并被宣布为世界冠军。
终身成就奖祝贺艾格尼丝·凯莱蒂……10枚奥运奖牌，包括5枚金牌、3枚银牌和2枚铜牌，被认为是有史以来最成功的犹太奥运会运动员之一。100 b日快乐❤️pic.twitter.com/4rSvWXJFbG
— Nadia Comaneci (@nadiacomaneci10)January 9, 2021
1956年匈牙利革命后，凯莱蒂离开祖国65年，开始了以色列生活的新篇章。34年来，她在温盖特体育学院任教，对教学产生了强烈的热情。“快乐就在那——当你看到体操运动员如何开始形成稳定的体形，当她拿到更好的成绩单时……”她告诉记者国土报. “I was able to give my heart, you know, my soul, for a girl. I didn’t deal too much with the talented ones. I wanted the weak ones first, to advance the weak ones — that was the joy, that they made progress.”
在许多方面，凯莱蒂帮助以色列的艺术体操成为今天的样子。“我们从来没有见过像她这样的人，”查亚·哈尔佩林说，她9岁时就成了她的学生。然而很多年来，凯莱蒂并没有得到她在犹太国家应得的认可，她的职业生涯大部分时间都在以色列为她喜爱的运动争取资源。然而，在过去几年里，这一切都发生了变化。今年，以色列体操协会宣布，将以2017年参加艺术体操比赛的凯莱蒂命名赢了the Israel Prize, the country’s greatest honor.
Israel marked another important chapter in her life, as it was there that she started her family. In 1959, she married Reuven (Robert) Biro, and the couple had two sons, all while Keleti was in her 40s, which, her son Rafael reminds国土报, was quite unusual in the 1960s. “It was very extraordinary. For her, starting a family with kids and all that, that was her victory against the Nazis.”
在接受采访时国土报Sports上周，凯莱蒂说，尽管她有很多职业成就，但她最大的成就是“在以色列开始了新生活，开始了她的家庭，有了两个成功、快乐、热爱自己所做的事情的孩子。”
Mazel tov, Agnes. You are truly an inspiration. May you live to be 120!
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