Look at Mills! in color

No gentlemanly tactics for the first three. Spikes and elbows.

Nice

Believe, believe, believe.

this, with the English narration, is a very short, choppy version of the 7 plus minute Japanese version that I linked on the other Mills thread. There were two other good ones that I linked there, one with the American commentary ("look at Mills") and the other with Mills's own remarks on his training to run 28:25 because that's what he should it would take to win (he ran 28:24).

when I watch the one with the american announcer I get chills every time - LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS! surely one of the great moments for american distance running all-time.

a guy from sd wrote:

when I watch the one with the american announcer I get chills every time - LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS! surely one of the great moments for american distance running all-time.

impossible to watch without tears

I think Usain Bolt has copied his sprint form. I am blown away by the power of his finish every time I watch that.

I used to have a book called "Run With the Champions" (I think that was the title). It had a sample training week from him in there. The thing that struck me was the quantity of 110 yard repeats he did almost every day.

a guy from sd wrote:

when I watch the one with the american announcer I get chills every time - LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS! surely one of the great moments for american distance running all-time.

According to wikipedia, Dick Bank, the announcer, was fired by NBC for his actions. Why am I not surprised?

altoroad wrote:

According to wikipedia, Dick Bank, the announcer, was fired by NBC for his actions. Why am I not surprised?

Dick Bank wasn't the announcer, that job was Bud Palmer's. Bank wasn't a regular NBC employee, he was hired as an itinerant spotter for the Games and was the voice heard at the end. When Palmer went silent at the end Bank couldn't contain himself and started yelling "look at Mills, look at Mills," which ranks up there as one of the most significant moments in sports broadcasting history. For Bank's contribution to history, his reward was that he wasn't allowed in the booth after that.

Although the narration is obviously from some other documentary, the footage here is from Ichikawa's "Tokyo Olympiad" DVD. I strongly suggest anyone really interested in this race and others from that Olympiad buy the DVD. It is so worth it. The quality of the footage is stunning. This clip is so low-res it does not do it justice.

Plus the footage of Bikila running the marathon is absolutely stunning.

Average_Joe wrote:

Although the narration is obviously from some other documentary, the footage here is from Ichikawa's "Tokyo Olympiad" DVD. I strongly suggest anyone really interested in this race and others from that Olympiad buy the DVD. It is so worth it. The quality of the footage is stunning. This clip is so low-res it does not do it justice.

Plus the footage of Bikila running the marathon is absolutely stunning.

Like - this clip isn't low res at all. I want to check out the Japanese one now if it makes this look low res.

eh, this was better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZCCAqoSwY&NR=1&feature=fvwp

If you attended , how could you forget the great Dick Bank's commentary at the Soviet Union, USA dual meets held in Califonia in the 1960 era?

Someone finally put up the "Look at Mills!" clip with the correct audio timing. This one is better than the similar clip in which a voice-over cuts into the commentary and screws up the finish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVlKVWFmfhk

needless to say, it's a shock to see how physical Clarke and Gammoudi (was that it?) were on the first turn of the bell lap. Clarke's pushing Mills out to the third lane was enough for disqualification and Gammoudi pushes right through as well.

a guy from sd wrote:

when I watch the one with the american announcer I get chills every time - LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS! surely one of the great moments for american distance running all-time.

It was nice to see it in color, but nothing beats the black and white footage with the LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS!

It is surprising to me that Mills, Schul and Shorter don't get more recognition for their gold medals. I actually am one of the few on here that thinks it is great how much publicity Prefontaine gets because he was so fun to watch and I believe he would have won gold had he lived, but it would be nice to see the three gold medalits get more recognition. I would love to see a movie on Shorter and a better movie about Mills, although Running Brave wasn't horrible.

Not sure if this has been disclosed anywhere, but I ran into an ancient KU track guy, who among other things thinks that Lasse Viren was clean as a whistle and benefitted from heavy repeats of "wind sprint" type training, specifically the muscle load from slowing down to a jog over and over again?

His Billy Mills story is that Mills had a dream the night before that he was going to win the race.

Fosbury's Dick wrote:

Not sure if this has been disclosed anywhere, but I ran into an ancient KU track guy, who among other things thinks that Lasse Viren was clean as a whistle and benefitted from heavy repeats of "wind sprint" type training, specifically the muscle load from slowing down to a jog over and over again?

What kind of wind sprints - 100meter?

Sebby wrote:

It was nice to see it in color, but nothing beats the black and white footage with the LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS!

It is surprising to me that Mills, Schul and Shorter don't get more recognition for their gold medals. I actually am one of the few on here that thinks it is great how much publicity Prefontaine gets because he was so fun to watch and I believe he would have won gold had he lived, but it would be nice to see the three gold medalits get more recognition. I would love to see a movie on Shorter and a better movie about Mills, although Running Brave wasn't horrible.

It is surprising that some get NO recognition at all for his gold medal ...