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Dejan Čretnik, the director of the Vitranc Cup broadcasts, who was also highly respected worldwide, suddenly passed away.
At the age of 55, the director of the international signal of all major domestic sporting events, including the Vitranc Cup, where he replaced another legend of the profession, Stane kodlar, in the 1990s., said goodbye quietly and quickly.
With his excellent knowledge of the sport, Dejan added new innovations to the production of the international television signal, which roamed the homes of more than 320 million viewers from the Vitranc Cup every year.
In the decade after taking over the director's baton from mentors at RTV Slovenia, he took over independently the most difficult international projects and grew into a respected director who was entrusted with the tasks of producing international RTV signals at the Olympic Games in Vancouver, Sochi and Beijing. Moreover, international federations entrusted him with substantive analyzes of their sports and disciplines because he delved into it to the last vitreous of his being, understood it to perfection, and knew how to breathe in that more that elicited sighs of admiration from viewers in front of screens.
His colleagues on RTV Slovenia also wrote: In the last period, there has not been a major sporting event in our country that I would not immortalize in a live broadcast. Planica, the Vitranc Cup, the Golden Fox, the World Biathlon Championships in Pokljuka, the European Basketball Championships in Slovenia and the matches of the national football team ", and added," The poetic soul of our profession, director of international renown, is gone. Unfortunatelly too early. "
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