One Louie Quintana.
One Louie Quintana.
Adam Goucher
Scott Fuqua. I have no doubt he would be running sub-4 and well under 14:00 for 5k by now had he never recovered from a back injury that led to countless other minor injuries. It sucks so bad... once someone gets badly hurt, it often leads to a string of lesser injuries from which he/she can never recover.
Curtis Beck. Ran the mile in 4:04 and the two mile in 8:48 as a junior at Santa Monica High School. He had back injuries that curtailed his career, although he did run for UCLA.
Shannon Butler, not so much an injury as a liking of the whiskey and diet coke.
Pascal Dobert
Juli Henner
The answer again is Adam Goucher. If he ran his PR at 31 then think of how much faster he would have run at 26-27 if he had been healthy.
Tyrone Pannell
Jonathan Tillman.
Earl Jones - car accident.
Living in the Past wrote:
yesteryear. wrote:Jim Ryun-overtrained at a young age.
I think Ryun reached his peak in 1967, when he was only 20. He started showing chinks in his armor in 1968, when he developed mononucleosis and a lot of junk injuries and then dropped out of the 800 meters in the Olympic trials.
Jim Ryun got married and found Jesus. That's what ended his running career.
Read his book wrote:
Jim Ryun got married and found Jesus. That's what ended his running career.
Ryun found Jesus when his running career went south.
As of yesterday, Ben Cheruiyot
Ryan Deak...
He's the boss.
Kim Mortensen. She still has the high school national 2 mile record of 9:48...I think?
Pre, death
Bearer of bad news wrote:
As of yesterday, Ben Cheruiyot
What happened?
How about Noah Ngeny?
Beat El G for gold in the 2000 olympics and has the second fastest mile of all time (3:43.4ish). Achieved all of this around the age of 20, but go into a car accident which ruined his career.
No runner has ever fulfilled his potential.