1980 US OLympic Team

Here were the top three in each event 800 and above at the '80 Trials:

800 - Don Paige, James Robinson, Randy Wilson

1500- Steve Scott, Steve Lacy, Mike Durkin

Steeple - Henry Marsh, Doug Brown, John Gregorek

5000 - Matt Centrowitz, Dick Buerkle, Bill McChesney

10,000 - Craig Virgin, Greg Fredericks, Alberto Salazar

Marathon - Sandoval, Durden, Heffner

Women's 800 - Madeline Manning, Julie Brown, Robin Campbell

1500 - Mary Slaney, Julie Brown, Leann Warren

At the 2008 Olympic Trials here in Eugene, we'll be hosting a 1980 Olympic Team Reunion. Among the plans is a sitdown dinner for 1,000 at the Moshofsky Center.

luff,

you had me thinking...I also remember an

Olympic Festival kind of meet that was held

in '80 ...I thought it may have been in lieu of the trials

But was clarified by a much more informed poster.

hope all is well.

chris

I seem to remember Steve Scott running about 3:35 on a windy day (go figure in Eugene, I know) and just dominating the field. That group of distance runners had a chance to win a significant amount of medals in Moscow.

Where do you all think they would have finished?

In the women's 1500, the 1980 Olympic Team Members were Mary Slaney, Julie Brown and Francie Larrieu. Leann Warren was 3rd in the trals but did not obtain the Olympic standard.

Some people consider the 1980 team Olympic Team Members but will not call them Olympians since they never competed in the 1980 Olympic Games.

The Oregon Track Club is selling posters from the 80' trials.

Tom Jordan wrote:

At the 2008 Olympic Trials here in Eugene, we'll be hosting a 1980 Olympic Team Reunion. Among the plans is a sitdown dinner for 1,000 at the Moshofsky Center.

Do tell? You'll be glorifying convicted drug cheat Mary Slaney again?

Wasn't there a women's 3000m race at the Trials, but no such race at the Olympics? Julia Shea?

Weary O'Shea wrote:

What so you mean "there were no trials?" There was a trial, and Sandoval won it.

It was called "the trials to nowhere"......though that is actually wrong; it was "a trials to somewhere"....the White House.

Don't be foolish. Had there not been a boycott in 1980, the US Olympic marathon team would have had Rodgers and Shorter on it, and possibly Bjorklund pushing Sandoval to fourth again.

And there would have been zero chance of Salazar running there, but if he had it would have gone Salazar, Rodgers, Shorter.

I wish I could downvote you multiple times

Were ranked #1 in the world in 1980.

Renaldo Nehemiah
Edwin Moses
Evelyn Ashford

Yifter finished the last 400 in under 54 seconds, Virgin rarely was able to run under 60 seconds and would have had to be within two seconds to medal.

Virgin would have been fortunate to finish fifth.

Coincidentally I was reading the attached article today. It goes to show how much better coverage of the sport was in that era. I think many will enjoy it.

vault.si.com

TRYING HARD TO GO NOWHERE

Kenny Moore

With 400 meters gone in the Olympic Trials 1,500-meter race, Steve Scott strained to catch—through the wind in his ears—the split times being called to the

Link:vault.si.com/vault/1980/07/07/trying-h...

Don Paige also

It's always kind of spooky reading threads that started back in 2005 that someone has randomly ressurrected. Some people who posted coiuld be dead by now.