London 2017 wrote:
This is the right glance I am talking about.
https://ibb.co/yFkCvtG
Good job of freezing that shot. Also look at the angle of her lead leg kicking to the side to try to find room.
As I said, I would love to hear her thoughts.
London 2017 wrote:
This is the right glance I am talking about.
https://ibb.co/yFkCvtG
Good job of freezing that shot. Also look at the angle of her lead leg kicking to the side to try to find room.
As I said, I would love to hear her thoughts.
What are the odds that this thread was started by some Oregon runners who then replied to their own thread that it was Centro?
Wouldn’t it be Billy Mills in the 10,000? I believe he ran his 5,000 PR at the halfway mark in the race.
The Russian basketball team 1972. I saw the game, the US was totally hosed by the refs.
you all are showing your young age. you don't remember something flukier than Centrowitz, who was also World 1500m Indoors champ that year and had a silver and bronze already on the world stage? kiprop ran like an idiot, and mahkloufi almost go there but just couldn't quite make it, but Centro was a decent bet for a medal and ended up winning. big deal. that happens in some event every single olympics and world championships.
you wanna see a fluke? let's talk NILS MF'IN SCHUMANN over Wilson Kipketer.
Schumann only qualified for 3 WCs/Olympics in his entire career. He never ran under 1:44 in his career. In 2000, the year he won the Olympics, he didn't win a single major international race except the Olympics. That's a fluke. Centrowitz is not a fluke.
stan the corgi wrote:
The Russian basketball team 1972. I saw the game, the US was totally hosed by the refs.
The short track guy who won when everyone else wiped out. 1972 wasn't a fluke. That was a screw job?
Rono is probably the best answer for a distance guy in the last 60 years. There are few guys who don't have a bunch of results to back up those gold's. They might not have been the same level. (i.e. centro was a surprise but he had been a medal contender in every 1500m for half a decade) bit they were close.
Cacho
my two pennies wrote:
Hard to fluke your way into a gold medal. Any medal, maybe, but gold there will always be at least one person who is a truly top runner who has a good day that you have to beat. Centro had to beat Willis on a great day and Makhloufi on a good day, and he’s the most recent example of what someone might call a fluke. Every other runner that ever won a gold was in a similar situation. There are no flukes.
Centro probably the least flukey.
How about this — he was undefeated in 5 tries against Willis that year who won bronze.
He won the world indoor the same year.
Had a prior silver, bronze, 4th etc.
7x USA champion
Almost about as dominant as a person can be that’s not a WR holder when it’s comes championships.
Hagos Gebriwet over Farah.
Let it Rupp wrote:
Hagos Gebriwet over Farah.
(Thing that did not happen)
birdbeard wrote:
Let it Rupp wrote:
Hagos Gebriwet over Farah.
(Thing that did not happen)
Totally on point in this thread, birdbeard, both with Nils Schumann (which was gonna be my contribution) and this zing-y parenthetical. I assume he’s thinking of Edris, who basically proved it wasn’t a fluke by repeating as champion, not to mention his 12:54 PB or five Diamond League wins. Ibrahim Jeilan over Farah seems more fluke-y.
Events like relays are wrought with stepping over the line, which is fluky enough for the losers to get medals.
I assumed he was thinking of Edris as well, although that was WCs and not Olympics, and like you said, he repeated in 2019.
Based on what I have read about Edris, it seems like he is just insanely talented but not very durable. Rounded into form in time two times in a row, and it would be great to see what he could do with some uninterrupted training, but we’ll probably never know and he’ll just be a fun LR trivia Q someday. I agree Jeilan was the bigger upset in hindsight.
Volker Beck in Moscow.
There is no way he could have won if either Edwin Moses or Harold Schmidt was there.
His winning time was the slowest since 1964. (And they don't run "tactical" races in 400mH.)
Cilantro.
Spade Detectors wrote:
Peter Rono.
Always my first thought.
3:35 PR the year he won. 3:39 PR going into the year.
Couldn’t win an NCAA title that year or even the next year. Not even the best miler on his college team.
The flukes that helped him.
Aouita (world record holder) not running the 1500.
Bile (reigning World Champion) being hurt.
Coe (reigning Olympic Champion not being selected)
Cram (mile record holder) off form.
Spivey didn’t make the US team after getting a bronze the year before.
Peter Rono had the one great race taking the lead with 600 to go and holding everyone off.
No other credentials to his name.
Some great posts in this thread. I realize that most people have the summer games in mind but as a very young Canadian at the time, I have an indelible memory of this event. Wonder how many of you watched it live? Miracle on Ice:
Not track, but this guy takes the cake
Steven John Bradbury OAM (born 14 October 1973) is an Australian former short track speed skater and four-time Olympian. He won the 1,000 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics after all of his opponents were involved in a last corner pile-up. He was the first athlete from the Southern Hemisphere and Australia to win a Winter Olympic gold medal and was also part of the short track relay team that won Australia's first Winter Olympic medal, a bronze in 1994.
Of course this was not the gold medal game but the semis if i remember correctly. In any case the Russians were by far the most feared and skilled team in the tournament. Don't think anyone gave the US a chance.
[quote]Concupiscurd wrote:
Some great posts in this thread. I realize that most people have the summer games in mind but as a very young Canadian at the time, I have an indelible memory of this event. Wonder how many of you watched it live? Miracle on Ice:
Not sure I buy the concept but if I did I'd go with one of the Kenyans from 1968, Biwott or Kogo. I don't see either winning if the Games weren't at altitude.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?