FloJo's 21.34 200 meters in 1988! Who speeds up at the end of a sprint? I swear she seemed to be elevating the last 30 meters. It was other-worldly. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
This is joke, right? Robby Andrews had an insane kick that won him two national titles. He never hit his ceiling because he had several injuries that plaqued his progress. It’s scary to think about what he could have been. I swear people on this board are truly idiots who probably don’t even watch track.
I am an idiot and I don’t watch track, but you are aware who Andrews is being compared with, right? A 1:41.73 800 runner with better 400 speed than Andrews who used his famous kick to win two Olympic golds. Andrews had a great kick, but not the “best ever” and it was never as impressive as Coe’s kick in this race.
It’s an insanely impressive kick. If Rudisha or Kipketer had come off the turn dead even with Coe in lane 2, I think they would have lost, but they would have finished much closer to Coe than second place in that race. But of course, I think Rudisha would have had control of lane 1 and begun winding up the pace from further out.
Here’s the 2015 World Championship race THOUGHTSLEADER mentioned:
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Rudisha reacts pretty quickly when Kszczot makes a move with ~230 to go and splits a (verifiable) 24.3 last 200. It’s not as visually impressive as Coe’s kick in the OP’s video, but it would have been tough for Coe to overcome and Rudisha wasn’t in his best form that year.
Is there an 800m runner around now who could kick that hard off a pace that fast?
The 18 year old in second used the same tactic 3 years later. The greatest kick of all time. WR holder Walker stepped off the track (had LR existed then he would have “gone home devastated”).
Bekele's kicks are epic as fukk. He has 11 second 100m speed which is epic even for a pure 800m runner. He has closed some 5 or 10,000m races with a sub 12 100m. He ran track in an era when men were men, and not boys chasing wavelights
Is there an 800m runner around now who could kick that hard off a pace that fast?
The 18 year old in second used the same tactic 3 years later. The greatest kick of all time. WR holder Walker stepped off the track (had LR existed then he would have “gone home devastated”).
I've read that Ovett started developing his kick after that race, trying to imitate Susanji.
Susanji had to go into the army after this. He had only been running the 800m rather than the 400m for a year. I wonder what his potential could have been?
People say Coe was such an outlier, that he must have doped. But the 800m in the 60's and 70's is a bit weird, with the best athletes retiring early, getting injured, or even in the case of Ivo Van Damme - getting killed. Pretty sure the likes of Snell, Susanji, Wottle, Ryun, and Juan Toreno himself could have run much faster than they did.
Also, Marcello Fiasconaro developed stress fractures shortly after he broke the world record.
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