intriguing - rono in 1976 - that he could have been the mix with quax, dixon, viren.
looking back, rono did appear on the scene big time in 76, and there is a lot of evidence that he was capable of certainly the final, and maybe podium
in 1976 he took out many big names,
i'd pick him to metal in the steeple, maybe bronze in the 10k.
but viren and the new zealanders were capable of the sub 4 minute mile finish, and there is no evidence that rono was ready for that.
amazingly, rono's first race was apparently a 3k steeple without water and came in at 8:36???
http://www.thegreatdistancerunners.de/HenryRono.html
rono wasn't human.