I remember Dixon's 4th in the 1976 5000 quite well.
Pre is a well known American runner. Not so well known world wide. He's a well know American runner because of his NCAA record and his American records - of which he held quite a few.
People keep mentioning prefontaine. Talk when you hold many american records at the same time. The guy was dominant and at the top of his game, will never downplay that. At 21 got 4th in the Olympics. Was a back to back NCAA champion. You guys are flipping crazy.
If you have an Olympic Gold you can never, ever, be overhyped. So remove Farah, Jakob, and Centro.
Wrong.
Medals are overhyped because casuals dont understand how huge a factor luck is and everyone is programmed to buy into the olympics' artificial scarcity.
You are wrong about gold medallists not being able to be overrated because there is more to accomplish beyond winning a gold medal. Breaking a world record, becoming an all time great. These things lie far beyond a gold medal. This is true because if it werent and I were wrong then all of these athletes would have retired the moment they won their first gold medal. If I'm wrong then whats the point of continuing when theres nothing more to gain.
This is a silly argument against Kouros, he was so far ahead of anyone else in his time, no one has come close to replicating his career, especially in terms of sheer distance ran. Saying that because someone now is better than him makes him overrated doesn't do his efforts justice in context. Not to mention the fact that he is relatively unknown compared to track runners who his achievements dwarf.
If you have an Olympic Gold you can never, ever, be overhyped. So remove Farah, Jakob, and Centro.
Wrong.
Medals are overhyped because casuals dont understand how huge a factor luck is and everyone is programmed to buy into the olympics' artificial scarcity.
You are wrong about gold medallists not being able to be overrated because there is more to accomplish beyond winning a gold medal. Breaking a world record, becoming an all time great. These things lie far beyond a gold medal. This is true because if it werent and I were wrong then all of these athletes would have retired the moment they won their first gold medal. If I'm wrong then whats the point of continuing when theres nothing more to gain.
You race to win. There is nothing more important than winning. Times and everything is secondary.
Medals are overhyped because casuals dont understand how huge a factor luck is and everyone is programmed to buy into the olympics' artificial scarcity.
You are wrong about gold medallists not being able to be overrated because there is more to accomplish beyond winning a gold medal. Breaking a world record, becoming an all time great. These things lie far beyond a gold medal. This is true because if it werent and I were wrong then all of these athletes would have retired the moment they won their first gold medal. If I'm wrong then whats the point of continuing when theres nothing more to gain.
You race to win. There is nothing more important than winning. Times and everything is secondary.
Wrong. Objective metrics, such as time, are the most important thing in our sport of Athletics. It's what separates us from sportsball. If you only care about winning then go watch sportball.
You race to win. There is nothing more important than winning. Times and everything is secondary.
Wrong. Objective metrics, such as time, are the most important thing in our sport of Athletics. It's what separates us from sportsball. If you only care about winning then go watch sportball.
No. If objective metrics were the most important thing, then runners like Nurmi would be irrelevant. I've run fast than him. But in no way was I better than him.
Winning races is what matters. Placing matters. Medaling matters. Beating other people matters.
Sure, times and PRs and all that are important, and that's what separates us from football, baseball, soccer, etc., but the common element here is competition.
Attempting to make it all about objective measures is to remove the competitive element. I mean hell, why even have races at all? Maybe we should just all time-trial on our own, submit those times, and declare a "winner"?
People like you salivate over Milesplit rankings and Strava, and make excuses when looking at actual race results.
Webb's a nice guy, but non-sypayhetic British announcers both mention Webb's relevance and potential at the outset of that race and then lay bare Webb's self-defeating choice later. It's worse than being tripped, he took himself out.
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