Rocket Mann wrote:
Probably Sebastian Coe. He only won due to the diluted field from the 1980 US Boycott of the Olympics. Had the US come, he likely wouldn't have even gotten top 3.
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Rocket Mann wrote:
Probably Sebastian Coe. He only won due to the diluted field from the 1980 US Boycott of the Olympics. Had the US come, he likely wouldn't have even gotten top 3.
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John Wesley Harding wrote:
restrunner wrote:
I thought you agreed his best position was 9?
Yeah, when I said he was #10 back in 2019 (which you corrected me on yesterday) I was missing that 2 week window after 1:44.09 but while he was still ahead of Coe; then last night, before I saw your correction in the other thread, I came up with #8 because I’d failed to include handheld timing was just looking at the FAT filter. Good thing you’re here to keep me honest.
Never again will I say anything except #9.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdcFPjGsm8
Good guy, Andy!
Another small mistake is that Coe was 1.71 seconds ahead of the next in 81, Juantorena's time was electronic 1:43.44. If not, a difference in 1/100 would make no sense at all.
The good thing, I was reminded how terrible this Beatles "song" is - heaven't heard it for a loooong time.
Paul Ereng's win was such a fluke that the announcers will still calling him Nixon Kiprotich (who had been first Kenyan until the turn when Ereng zoomed past him) the winner through the replay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqmRLeDxnjU
Ereng was talented, no question but this was a shocker, as was Peter Rono's victory. However, the field in the 800m was much stronger, Aouita, Cruz, Gray, Barbosa, and Elliott, among others. In the 1500m, the best guys were not in top form or were missing.
Fani Chalkia winning gold in the 400mH in 2000
Machado wrote:
Fani Chalkia winning gold in the 400mH in 2000
Fani Chalkia won nothing before and after her fluke gold where she came out of nowhere to win
What about fanny Chmelar?
Anybody in the sprints and jumps from the 1980 Olympics. The United States boycotted.
Questionable3 wrote:
Anybody in the sprints and jumps from the 1980 Olympics. The United States boycotted.
Nah, American sprinting was weak back then until HGH came on to the scene in 82/83. The flying Scotsman defeated Lateney and the rest the next year. He was a legit champion. The Moscow track was slow and he almost broke 10 seconds in the heats.
How did very average CENTRO win a gold medal? College kids have better PR's in CENTRO's events than CENTRO has.
#FLUKE
Spade Detectors wrote:
Peter Rono.
100%
Alfred E. Newman
Sir Bastion Newbold wrote:
Spade Detectors wrote:
Peter Rono.
100%
Peter Rono ran a perfect tactical race beating Elliott, Cram and that doped to the gills East German.
And Peter Rono was NCAA champion multiple times at a time when the best athletes in the world often competed in the NCAA. No fluke.
I suspect his career faded because like many Kenyans, he was run into the ground by American college coaches. In 1991, he was winning the 800, 1500 and 5000m in some meets.
Coevett wrote:
Questionable3 wrote:
Anybody in the sprints and jumps from the 1980 Olympics. The United States boycotted.
Nah, American sprinting was weak back then until HGH came on to the scene in 82/83. The flying Scotsman defeated Lateney and the rest the next year. He was a legit champion. The Moscow track was slow and he almost broke 10 seconds in the heats.
Interesting that you of all people are so certain he was a "legit" champion.
He is pretty high on the list of suspicious athletes in british athletics history as you probably know deep down...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32883944Budda wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Nah, American sprinting was weak back then until HGH came on to the scene in 82/83. The flying Scotsman defeated Lateney and the rest the next year. He was a legit champion. The Moscow track was slow and he almost broke 10 seconds in the heats.
Interesting that you of all people are so certain he was a "legit" champion.
He is pretty high on the list of suspicious athletes in british athletics history as you probably know deep down...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32883944
Coevett certainly has his “biases,” let’s just say. Meanwhile he implies that Wilson Kiprugut was doping in 1964 ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres_at_the_OlympicsCoevett wrote:
Nah, American sprinting was weak back then until HGH came on to the scene in 82/83.
Yeah the U.S. historically sucked at 100m ?
Coevett wrote:
Questionable3 wrote:
Anybody in the sprints and jumps from the 1980 Olympics. The United States boycotted.
The Moscow track was slow and he almost broke 10 seconds in the heats.
OK. But how did you detect that?
Olisarenko would have run 1:51 on a little bit faster track, correct? And the USSR and GDR sprint relays 37.5 and 40.9? Without running wide, Coe would have finished a 1:42 in sub 49? And Yifter fast distance races in sub 50?
Wells has run 10.35/-0.12 / 10.11/+1.31 / 10.27/+0.44 in the heats. That's almost sub 10 to you? And Wells was clean, different to any other top class sprinter not coming from a small island in the north of Europe, correct?
Good to have some objective posters like Coevett on this board.
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