I thought he was the slowest in the finals in both Tokyo and Rome over 200…..
Could be. It was something like that. Whatever it was it underscores his point about your top end speed matters less at the end of a race than what per cent of that speed you can get to.
Doping was unknown in md and distance running then. There were no drugs known then to increase endurance. Blood doping didn't appear till the '70's.
Ya may wanna revisit your sources on these.
I'd be astonished given the circumstantial evidence if Vladimir Kuts wasn't doping in the early to mid 1950s. Very possible amphetamines given the description of his state at the 1956 Olympics.
Does anyone know where to get a reprint copy of this? I have been looking for this and a few other classic running books but it seems everything is a fairly expensive original off of Amazon. This and a few Jim Ryun books have been on my wish list for a while but I am holding out that there exist some cheaper paperback copies rather than nearly $100 originals used on Amazon. I've even tried scouring some vintage book stores in my area but their running selection is disappointingly sparse.
I think you can get the book for a fair price but the shipping is high (New Zealand).
You obviously have failed to see how the world has changed in more than half a century. The "drug obsession" is with those who use it - whose numbers you couldn't count - and not those who identify it.
But you're constantly glorifying drugs whilst pretending to be anti doping.
You can see the effect of the Lydiard training on the ability to kick when you watch the 5000 or 3 mile from the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth. Halberg's explosive acceleration away from Clarke and Bruce Kidd looks very Snell-like.
Halberg ran just over 53 for the last lap. His fastest 440 was 52.
I thought he was the slowest in the finals in both Tokyo and Rome over 200…..
His fastest 200 was 22.3. Some of the guys he beat were 21sec runners (George Kerr) and 46sec 400 runners (Crothers). They were amongst the fastest but 22 low is still respectable for an 800 runner then. What no one else had was his strength and his power.
Halberg is very inspirational. Partially paralyzed on one side from a rugby injury. Wins the Rome Olympics 5000m and jogs over to the 200m area to acknowledge Lydiard.
I'd be astonished given the circumstantial evidence if Vladimir Kuts wasn't doping in the early to mid 1950s. Very possible amphetamines given the description of his state at the 1956 Olympics.
Whatever he was on it didn't do much for him. The best in his era and scarcely faster than an E African woman today.
Halberg is very inspirational. Partially paralyzed on one side from a rugby injury. Wins the Rome Olympics 5000m and jogs over to the 200m area to acknowledge Lydiard.
Actually he hit the deck when he crossed the line. No peds in sight. But he always acknowledged Lydiard. Snell also remembered that when he and Murray were entering the stadium Arthur said to them, "Peter, you will get your gold before Murray". A bit of ginger for both of them. Their races were less than an hour apart. Arthur was right.
It's hard to top Tokyo '64. 6 races in 9 days and on sh*tty rain-soaked cinders. The way he crushed his competitors in the last 250m of the 1500 is one of the great sights in championship athletics. Nearing the end of the amateur era in the sport.
That wasn't a 1500m race. It was en route to a mile. The only time he raced the 1500 was at the Tokyo Olympics, which he won convincingly. He never lost over the distance and was the best miler of his era.
But to compare him with Ingebrigtsen over longer events - which Snell never raced - invites comparing Ingebrigtsen with Snell over the 800 - which they both raced. Ingebrigtsen would have been annihilated.
That wasn't a 1500m race. It was en route to a mile. The only time he raced the 1500 was at the Tokyo Olympics, which he won convincingly. He never lost over the distance and was the best miler of his era.
But to compare him with Ingebrigtsen over longer events - which Snell never raced - invites comparing Ingebrigtsen with Snell over the 800 - which they both raced. Ingebrigtsen would have been annihilated.
He raced the 1500m not only in Tokyo. And he lost many Mile races during his senior career.
Snell was much better over 800m than Ingebrigtsen - great contribution to to the subject. A contribution on YOUR OWN level.
Snell was a great runner, an all-time great. Ingebrigtsen is a great runner, an all-time great with a realistic chance to become the greatest in history.