FOUND IT!! 1996 OLYMPIC 5K

Dang,

Johnny Gray looked good for a while in the 800M in Atlanta...

My goodness didn't flo-jo hsve a deep voice ! I never heard her interviewed before. With my eyes closed I cannot tell if it is her or her husband speaking. Is this normal ? Is this why people say she was using drugs ?

I pray your server gives you unlimited bandwidth.

Oh. My. God.

He was 20 when he did that. Two 3:40 1500's back to back, except it was more like 3:38+/3:41+. How many American men have been under 3:39 this year for *one* 1500?

Jonnie Gray was a bad-ass! Was he in the final in Barcelona?

84-88-96 he was, what a career.

I downloaded the 88 800 and still can't get over that race and how dramatic it was. And what a gamer Peter Elliot was, he was fighting tooth and nail with Aouita down the homestretch. It looked like that 49.54 first 400 was too much to handle for Aouita but with 150 to go it looked like he could win it.

But Paul Erengs move with 75 to go was astonishing. I saw him sit in dead last at NCAA's in 89 (ovbiously not the Olympics) and toy around and wake up with 200 meters to go and pass the whole field in lane 2 on the curve to easily win.

I loved the focus on Aouita saying his prayer before the race. Would have rather seen him fresh in the 5000 and seen what he would have done to John Ngugi but he was a one of a kind. That would have been old-hat, like Geb winning the 10,000. Aouita was a different cat. I think a little crazy, or at least more daring and provacative and that's why he will always be my favorite track athlete of all time.

I'm looking for the 5000m and 10000m videos for the 2004

Olympics and also the 2004 5000m WR performance by Kenenisa Bekele. Thank you.

slaps wrote:

But Paul Erengs move with 75 to go was astonishing. I saw him sit in dead last at NCAA's in 89 (ovbiously not the Olympics) and toy around and wake up with 200 meters to go and pass the whole field in lane 2 on the curve to easily win.

I saw Ereng do something similar at the '88 NCAAs in Eugene. He just opened up those huge strides of his and bounded away from the rest of the field in the stretch. I saw that and told the friend sitting next to me, "there's the next Olympic champion." But I was actually surprised when Ereng made me look like a prophet a couple of months later in Seoul.

By the way, my impression of Aouita, which seems to run contrary to the prevailing view, is that he was a helluva of a nice fellow. He sat and chatted with me for a good half-hour after a meet in Japan once, just the two of us sitting in some bleachers adjacent to the main grandstand. I had to pinch myself a few times.

It's official.

Bandwitdth has been maxed out.

It was either maxed out, or he recieved a strongly worded letter from a lawyer.

damn - would love to see this

The site says it will be back up 9.1, so check back then. I would have loved to see this too.

I don't know how many of my videos are the same as his, but I figured I'd post this to continue this thread on video download.

I don't know- it's pretty rare that the guy setting a fast pace winds up running away with it and winning. Bekele can do it, but Kennedy was a medeal contender and not the fastest guy in the race. I'm sure he was hoping for a faster pace, but he didn't want to sacrifice himself by leading the whole way.

yes my bandwidth was maxed out. Why would i get a letter from a lawyer?

Is there anyway you could put it online somewhere else? Maybe YouTube or something or some sharing site?

At joff's site that's an awesome race with Snell and a young Jim Ryun

im going to put the Olympic Videos (with the exception of the Athens Videos) back up online tongiht. and then just rotate videos in and out

I had never seen Ryun defeat of Snell in '65. Muchas gracias.

SCTNF wrote:

yes my bandwidth was maxed out. Why would i get a letter from a lawyer?

Because you're rebroadcasting copyrighted material, which is illegal without the permission of the copyright owner.