Anyone have that CRAZY relay video at Penn a few years ago where Laurynn Williams seriously passed like 7 runners in the last 50 meters?
Anyone have that CRAZY relay video at Penn a few years ago where Laurynn Williams seriously passed like 7 runners in the last 50 meters?
Most Dramatic:
1. Dave Wottle 800m '72 OG
2. Billy Mills 10,000m '64 OG
3. Emil Zatopek 5,000m '52 OG
Best:
1. Peter Snell 1500m '64 OG
2. Steve Ovett 1500m '77 World Cup
Two I remember vividly from when I was a kid:-
1) Ovett's burst with 200m to go in the '77 World Cup 1500m ~ 11.9 penultimate 100m!
2) Coe, toying with the field in the Europa Cup final in '79. About 4th with 200m to go, then running the last 200 in 24.1 (all of bend in lane 2, so it was worth sub 24) and last 100 in 11.9, easing up and waving at the end in 1:47!
Ovett 77 World Cup
I still get a "kick" out of this one.
Mike McLeod beats Brendan Foster
1992 800 meter Olympic trials final. Johnny Gray, Mark Everett, Jose Parrilla.
Parrilla was 40 meters back and dead last at the end of the first lap. At 150 out he was still last when he started a drive to finish third. Gray went 1:42 going away but the young Parrilla running everybody down with a 1:43 high was very impressive.
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Anyone have that CRAZY relay video at Penn a few years ago where Laurynn Williams seriously passed like 7 runners in the last 50 meters?
It was actually the PA state meet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxggBFV3d7IAouita (in a losing effort) to Cram in '85.
That Dorniden video was amazing.
Drug cheat or not, I'll always remember Mary Decker's finish in the 1983 World Championships:
As far as losing efforts go, Jenny Barringer's kick at Pre was pretty incredible. She didn't even look like she was close with 200 to go.
Only one answer.
Look at Mills! Look at Mills!!!!!!
That was some type of ancient Indian shaman buffalo hunter thingy.
Billy Mills unleashed some hunter gather on them.
Even a little weird, which is why it's unmatched.
Outstanding, dominating kicks on the big stage:
Snell, 1964 - starting at 2:06...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZ1F4KN8Mw
Herb Elliot - 1960. This video doesn't do it justice, starting about 1:08
Sponge wrote:
Either Wottle in the last straight of the Munich 800, or Baumann in the last straight of the Barcelona 5K. How Baumann blasted through that traffic was incredible; he must have brushed his teeth that morning.
Wottle didn't actually speed up very much--just maintained, which the other guys didn't.
Baumann, on the other hand, ran his last 200 faster than the medalists in the 800 (same OG) ran theirs.
Mark Matusak rolled up everyone, even Barnicle. I don't like Barnicle, thought i dont know why. hahaha.
at the nec championship's this spring i witnessed one of the most unbelievable kicks chris mills of st. francis(pa) came back with a mile to go after being more than 200 meters of the leader, sanderson from Central connecticut state university.
The last 100m of the Rome 800m World Cup in '81
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvYkDiKA8o
Dreadful commentary and music. Sounds like a 70's porn film soundtrack!
Coe putting 12m between him and Robinson, Wagenknecht and co. in the space of 100m was pretty awesome.
to be honest you could easily have a whole thread devoted to Coe's finishing kick. 84 OG is as good as any - I truly believe Coe would have beaten anyone that day, even ELG at his best.
Cacho - Barcelona 1992