Kathrine Switzer.
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missBS wrote:
Webb. Random kid from Virginia who grew up when the US was at its absolute lowest in distance running. Normal parents. Happened to be the fastest person in the world (particularly in an era when nepo kids like Rupp and Centro were starting to pop up).
"Nepo kids like Rupp and Centro..."
Whatever dude. Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder! Nepo kids don't exist in track and field...they're either fast or they're not. The stop watch or finish line doesn't care who your parents are.
Or maybe you're completely right and a better way to state it is that all T&F athletes are "nepo kids" because every elite star revieved their genetics from their parents.
Dont blame Centro or Rupp for the fact that you're slow.
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samcallan wrote:
Brianruns10 wrote:
Personally I think you could do a great film about Wes Santee - his difficult upbringing, phenomenal rise, race for the sub 4:00 mile, and ultimately, his tragic, undeserved downfall due to the onerous restrictions of the AAU.
I would extend that and make it based on the book about the three men chasing the 4 minute mile.
That was a terrific book. The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb. Another similar book is The Perfect distance by Pat Butcher, about Coe and Ovett.
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Ellison (Tarzan) Brown would make a great Hollywood movie.
Also, Herb Elliot with Percy Cerutty.
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Gabriele "Gabe" Grunewald...good for TV?
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Suzy Favor Hamilton. It can go into the struggle to find peace she faced after her career ended. Or perhaps, careers, plural, is more correct.
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I think the illinois distance sensation would be a good movie!!! Farm kid who had one of the most decorated running careers in US history....
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otter wrote:
Ellison (Tarzan) Brown would make a great Hollywood movie.
Also, Herb Elliot with Percy Cerutty.
+1 about Herb Elliot. Amazing (if all-too-short) career.
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This is funny
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Parker Valby.
Expect great things!
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Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
Kathrine Switzer.
I'd watch that movie, and it would have to include the backstory of Bobbi Gibb.
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Pre.
Oh, wait...
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warden norton wrote:
Pre.
Oh, wait...
Same for McFarland cross country team.
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Newbury Park.
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It like to see a movie on the cut throat sub culture of wheelchair racing.
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Get Over it Already wrote:
Tapped in LA wrote:
David Mack.
Talent, violence, his membership in the Crips, the Biggie Smalls hit, bank robberies, pacing Steve Ovett to a 1500 WR and more. Fun for the whole family.
It would be an interesting film. Someone should at least do a deep dive documentary about this guy. He also dated Flo Jo for awhile, that could add interest. Raced him on HS (I was in the Marine League, he was much better lol) but he seemed friendly at the time, didn’t come off as a gangbanger. He has never revealed where the money from the robberies went/where it was hidden. He’s also been released from priaon.
Yeah, Mack would be a good one. Imagine the casting possibilities alone. A killer old school soundtrack… lol
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Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, no question.
Born in poverty in the ashes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI.
As a child, works like a dog to help the family eat, and plays in the street with no shoes because his parents won't let him wear shoes for play.
As a teenager, the Nazis take over his country. WWII ensues.
As a young man, the Soviets take over his country.
It turns out he can run a little.
Before the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Zatopek refuses to travel to the Olympics with his national team, because one of his teammates has been barred from participating due to his parents' political incorrectness. The communist government draws up plans to punish Zatopek, make an example of him--most likely he would have been sent to the uranium mines with other bad actors, where the life expectancy was five years.
At the last minute, the communist government bends, and sends Zatopek to Helsinki with his teammate.
Zatopek wins the 5000m and 10,000m. Zatopek has never run a marathon, but he enters it anyway, and wins.
Zatopek becomes an international sports star and the symbol of Czechoslovakia.
Then in the 1960s, in the Prague Spring, Zatopek takes the side of his countrymen against the Russians.
The Russian tanks roll in. Zatopek is punished by being sent to the countryside and made to work as a laborer for several years.
In his old age, Zatopek is allowed to return home, where he reunites with his wife. They live in modest financial circumstances but are together again.
1989: the Soviet Union crumbles. Zatopek is finally a free man. All his old records have been broken, but his legend lives on. He is still the only runner to have won the 5K, 10K, and marathon--in the same Olympic games.
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About half of this movie is about Meb.
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Cade flatt
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Colleen Quigley.
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