Ovett later admitted that he had partied out of his mind after winning the 800m and wasn't sharp for the 1500m as a result.
Which is patently nonsense as well. He got a bit drunk the night of the 800m (which is his own stupidity) and then had 4 days to recover before the 1500m heats. You don't close an Olympic final in 25.4/12.6 (faster than his last 100m in the 800 final - 12.7) if you are not 'sharp' or fully fit. He should have edged past a doped up Straub (25.7/12.5) but eased off when he knew he couldn't catch Coe.
Ovett hooked up with the Irish after his 800m Gold
Which is patently nonsense as well. He got a bit drunk the night of the 800m (which is his own stupidity) and then had 4 days to recover before the 1500m heats. You don't close an Olympic final in 25.4/12.6 (faster than his last 100m in the 800 final - 12.7) if you are not 'sharp' or fully fit. He should have edged past a doped up Straub (25.7/12.5) but eased off when he knew he couldn't catch Coe.
Ovett hooked up with the Irish after his 800m Gold
He met Borzakovskiy's mum in a nightclub and brought her back to the village. She produced two Olympic Champions that night (Coe and Yuri) and ruined another (Ovett).
Ovett 45 consecutive 1500 and mile races from 1977 to 1980.
Morceli has now won 54 consecutive finals in the 1,500 and mile, a streak that s tarted in 1992 after the 1996 OG final...believe he lost his next race to El G.
Hicham El Guerrouj had won 26 straight 1500m races before today's competition,
I think Kiprop had a good streak too.
I think Morceli and Ovett have the longest 1500/mile streaks in track.
I know Cram, Aouita, and Coe did not have such long streaks.
Maybe Jim Ryun? Anyone else?
Herb Elliot was undeated for his career -- Herb Elliot never lost a mile run and accomplished 36 wins over this distance
At his peak, Nurmi was undefeated for 121 races at distances from 800 m upwards..dunno how many were mile/1500
Ovett hooked up with the Irish after his 800m Gold
He met Borzakovskiy's mum in a nightclub and brought her back to the village. She produced two Olympic Champions that night (Coe and Yuri) and ruined another (Ovett).
He was drinking with the Irish and so does not recall.
and ended with an American page of a certain Joel Tetreault's in Rochester Engineering University, who had an apparent interest on Morceli performances:
"If everything is right for me then I can break every record between 800 and 10,000 metres before I finish my career," the 25-year-old Algerian said in Nice earlier this month.
Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj has shattered the previous world record in the 1500m. Running a perfect race, El Guerrouj broke away from the pacemakers at the 1400m mark and kicked out for home, a new world record time of 3:26:00, a $50,000 dollar Golden League world record bonus and confirmation that he is very much in the running for the million dollar IAAF Golden LeagueEricsson Jackpot. El Guerouj was asked in a press conference here yesterday what the figure 3:27 meant and he answered then "a world record", nobody thought to ask him what the numbers 3:26 would have meant. It's pretty unlikely also that the media in Rome for the Golden Gala, second stage of the IAAF Golden League who were asked to guess the time for the 1500m in a prize draw proposed by jackpot sponsor Ericsson would have considered this time as anything more than the height of optimism. Hicham is not short on optimism now. Speaking after his record run, he said: "My dream is to run 3:24. I hope to do it before this season is out; if not, God willing, I will be back to do it here next year. Before it was Aouita's time, then it was Morceli's, now it is Hicham's time. We are all Moslems, all brothers."El Guerrouj literally wiped out the previous mark of 3:27:37 which had been set by Algeria's Noureddine Morceli almost three years ago to the day, on 12 July 1995, in Nice. His split times were: 400m 0.55; 800: 1:50.73; 1100: 2:32.73, 1200: 2:46.34 - 39.66 for the last 300 metres!