Pretty impressed with the Algerians who appeared out of nowhere in the 800.
Yaseen Abdalla. He was running 24 minute 5ks in 10th grade
Ex L wrote:
Marcell Jacobs of Italy
He never broke 10 before the 2021 Olympics.
I never heard of him before the Games.
I don’t think anyone here ever heard of him or certainly didn’t mention him.He runs 9.80 and wins the Olympic 100m Gold.
About 6 weeks before the Olympics Jacobs lowered the Italian national record to 9.95.
Deno wrote:
This is about an athlete nobody had ever really heard of then in one race/jump/throw BOOM there they are.
There are probably a number of viable candidates. Peter Snell is one. Peter Rono and Paul Ereng in 1988 and Waldemar Cierpinski in 1976 are others. Snell is probably about as good as one gets in going from nowhere to the top and then staying there for a good while and not only winning at the OGs but also elsewhere, setting WRs, etc.
Hey Deno, are you by any chance this guy?
I came \"out of nowhere\" to this thread! wrote:
You finally came out of the closet. You were in there hiding with Tom Cruise
