Let's start some trivia.
We'll use the honor syste; don't use Google, and answer off the top of your head so others can have a chance.
If you get it right, you get points and you get to ask the next question.
First question, 1 point: Who was the first Ethiopian to go sub-13:00 in the 5,000?
Bonus, 1 point: What was his time?
Bonus 2, 1 point: What was his time to the hundredth of a second?
Geb-12:59.87
Nope.
Try again.
worku bikala? 1994 or 1995.
the answer wrote:
worku bikala? 1994 or 1995.
Bikila in 1995, you have it.
Try for the bonuses?
1256 WR breaking Said Aouita's.
P.S. I dont want points, I want dollars.
Ted K wrote:
Nope.
Try again.
On June 4,1994 in Hengelo Haile Gebrselassie ran 12;56.96
breaking Said Aouitas 12;58.39 Rome July 22,1987
Worku Bikila ran his PB of 12:57.23 on June 6 1995 One year and 2 days after Geb's WR breaking 12:56.96.
Ted K wrote:
the answer wrote:worku bikala? 1994 or 1995.
Bikila in 1995, you have it.
Try for the bonuses?
Sorry to break up the fight for bonus points but it IS Geb not Bikila who did it first.
Wineturtle, my mistake. Apologies. For some reason I was thinking Geb ran his after Bikila.
Your turn for the question.
maybe you should have used google to see if your honor syste would work...
Which Olympic Games had sports venues so far flung some were in a different hemisphere?
Here's a bit more history.The next season in '95 Kiptanui took about a second off of Geb's year old w.r. with the help of teenage Komen for a 12:55 and 12:56. Kiptanui didn't get to enjoy his new record for very long cause Geb dropped an Ethiopian atom bomb on the w.r. I remember seeing 12:44 in the newspaper and thinking "Holy Sh******t!!!!!"
wineturtle wrote:
Which Olympic Games had sports venues so far flung some were in a different hemisphere?
48?
Not London-1948
wineturtle wrote:
Not London-1948
Easy, Melbourne '56. Horses weren't allowed in Australia because they were not native to the ecosystem, so the Equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden.
I think the quarantine was six months and that made it impracticle I'm not sure if they shipped horses by air transpacific then just that much longer if by boat.
wineturtle wrote:
I think the quarantine was six months and that made it impracticle I'm not sure if they shipped horses by air transpacific then just that much longer if by boat.
I believe you're correct about the quarantine. Almost none of the athletes could afford to move down under so far in advance and spend several months training down there before the games.
Interesting history of OG concerning the Italian brothers Raimondo and Piero D'Inzeo.If that sort of stuff intrests you also check out my old drinking buddy General Hugo Mariles gold show jumping 1948.......maybe the best jumperrider I've ever seen....could get more out of a mount than any one I've ever seen.
The names from that year
Dumas,Bell,Richards,O'Brian,Oerter,Connelly,Cambell,Morrow,(2)Jenkins,Courtney,Calhoun,Davis and McDaniel------Golden Oldies!!!!