Pre was only 24 when he died but he looked mid 40s?

throw a low taper fade on him and he would fit right in today

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this is the only picture where he looks muc older than his age, and it's the picture I saw RIGHT before I saw OP's post that he had JUST put up on here.

Coincidence-ey, eh?

Steve looked younger Prefontaine.... than he did when he was Fontaine.

Doubt Pre smoked

How did Postfontaine look?

Not good. The Fontaine will f you up!

How do you know he was "an alcoholic?" He liked a few beers now and then and you can fixate on his death, but by all viable accounts he wasn't that much of a drinker. Can you prove otherwise? Or else you choose to disparage him because he was superior to you in every conceivable way.

he drank more than I do, you idiot cvck

He smoked pre and post his training

Because boomers had it so easy back then, right, millenials? All that easy living aged you quicker.

It's just because y'all were dumb and liked the Smokey Smokey Chokey Chokey too much. Safe to say that most of America wasn't big on fresh greens and antioxidant-rich foods, either

People who like to point the finger (at people who are successful in some capacity) generally are the least accomplished/noteworthy people themselves. I'll go to war and drink to the legend Pre, any day of the week.

It's a well-established fact that hard training and racing will age you prematurely. Anecdotal evidence: A college teammate who became an Olympian looked like my grandfather, both body and face (minus the white hair, though), when he ran in Seoul.

Much like all the Kenyans, he was an age group cheat.

Pre might have been one of those teenage phenom types who benefited from early physical maturation. This is another way of saying he ages quick. After college he wasn't so dominant. His performances plateaued, he lost races to other Americans and former college teammates and was starting to lose his hair. Athletes back in the day did not take of themselves like they do now. Drinking was pretty common. Diet and recovery in general just was not a thing.

His blood was tested at .16 and everyone said he didn't appear drunk. A .16 that's walking, talking and driving is not a casual drinker, you need some tolerance to do that and only someone that drank more regularly than "a few beers" could. The guy gets drunk and kills himself and a bunch of skinny, beta fembois worship him like he was Jesus with a pornstache.

should there be a statue of him?

He just looks like a young guy in a black and white image with a moustache and mutton chops.

My relative saw Pre in college and said he looked really old and was very short. Sounds like he was a drunk, and that aged him. Did he smoke weed too? What a shame he threw his immense talent away like George Michael, Wacko Jacko, Whitney.