Today would have been Pre's 60'th birthday.
Today would have been Pre's 60'th birthday.
Hard to believe he'd still be so young.
For the day. Not as many people seem to have seen this (long) version as the other Pre clips on youtube. Frank and Gerry and a host of others.
light feet wrote:
For the day. Not as many people seem to have seen this (long) version as the other Pre clips on youtube. Frank and Gerry and a host of others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRHExlAueIQ
Thanks for the link.
Band-AidBob wrote:
Today would have been Pre's 60'th birthday.
Let's all have a drink on the rocks to celebrate
thanks for this great link
wonder if would still be running?
Pretty sure Pre is dead?
Now *that* was racing.
Hammering on each other from the gun.
And the history! Never saw Shorter and Lindgren in the same race before.
Or the bob on Frank.
A great birthday tribute.
Thanks for the link.
Holy unnecessary apostrophe, batman!
Terrific race! Makes me wonder why Pre is portrayed as this arrogant ass in most of the movies about him. He seems nothing but gracious and respectful of his competition there.
You know what's sad? Jack Whitaker, who pretty much coverered every sport under the sun and wasn't really a "track man", still does a better interview with Pre than the so called track experts we are subjected to now would have. Damn ... Carol Lewis could learn something from him.
Oh, and by the way ... great clip!!! Thanks for that!
I totally agree regarding the way he's portrayed in movies. Jared Leto's a tool anyway, but I would have expected more from Billy Crudup.
What we see of Pre in those interviews is a man aggressive in his approach to the sport (and really freaking in love with it) and the competition, yet gracious and humble to his competitors. Really, what better person to represent competitive running, or sport in general.
Maybe someone will get it right one of these days.
Does anyone know who this guy is? He has collected a lot of photos of Pre.
Who's Pre?
I was fortunate to see him run in person. Pac 8 XC races and some indoor meets back in the early 1970's.
Never saw anyone who pushed that hard. I ran 2-3 races a year at the hammering effort he ran almost every race.
I would think to myself, Oh yeah, so that's what it feels like.
Still think that had he lived he would have taken second or third in the 10,000 at Montreal. Viren was still too good. Lopes had a kick. I think he might have beat Foster. That was his plan. To focus on the 10K.
I don't think he would have done well in the 5K. It was a kicker's race. Quax, Dixon, Hildenbrand, Viren.
We will never know.
You're all welcome and thanks mostly for the youtube post go to "jdaikoku", whom I know by name and is a fine runner himself in norcal.
Happy 60th! wrote:
Terrific race! Makes me wonder why Pre is portrayed as this arrogant ass in most of the movies about him. He seems nothing but gracious and respectful of his competition there.
Nobody says he was arrogant, just the stupidest racer ever and the most destructive to the development of American distance running.
I will never forget when Pre showed his Olympic Gold Medal at Hayward Field. People were packed in the aisles. Hippies hung on the fences to get a peek. That was the greatest moment in Oregon Track and Field history. I was there.
Hayward Field Natl Monument wrote:
I will never forget when Pre showed his Olympic Gold Medal at Hayward Field. People were packed in the aisles. Hippies hung on the fences to get a peek. That was the greatest moment in Oregon Track and Field history. I was there.
You were NOT there. The hippies weren't trying to get a peek. They were trying to pee.