malmo wrote:
Tamburlaine wrote:
This piece was fantastic. I was laughing out loud as I read all the Capel stuff.
Not quite. The first half of the article was exceptional, both content and style. Then it started to bog down .... and suddenly it stopped short! Without a resolution it just ended suddenly.
That's Frank Costanza's move Gault -- you STOPPED SHORT!
My 1977 World Cup call room story with Ovett is better than most of Gault's vignettes.
We're looking forward to your memoirs.
My all-time favorite is still the one about Carter's high school shot put record but this was a fun article, cool to get a look behind the scenes. Keep up the good work, Jon!
Great read, especially for those of us who never ran in "the bigs" to experience the call room.
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its not the best piece he has written.
Too long, too much rumour and second hand hearsay. If there was a genuine story it would be heard.
Shorter, and without the hype and the desperation to make up sensations which dont exist, it would have been a good piece.
pupil3142 wrote:
its not the best piece he has written.
Too long, too much rumour and second hand hearsay. If there was a genuine story it would be heard.
Shorter, and without the hype and the desperation to make up sensations which dont exist, it would have been a good piece.
I think you missed the point of the piece
How do you leave out Rudisha's "if you want to die, follow me" called shot in the call room before running the greatest Olympic race of all time?
Rojo - can your team do an article next Olympic cycle, from the Olympic Training Center? This is where everybody who makes the team visits to get their registration, grab a load of free USA gear, and get their logistics settled for the impending Olympic team trip. Would be interesting to see the people behind the packaged athlete personas as the reality of heading to the Olympics sinks in.
malmo wrote:
hgonnah wrote:
It's a good article with lots of interesting anecdotes.
Of course, some people around here will complain about anything.
The LRC mob will never be happy.
It’s an anonymous message board, what exactly did you expect?
B_i wrote:
How do you leave out Rudisha's "if you want to die, follow me" called shot in the call room before running the greatest Olympic race of all time?
More confirmation, this time from Amos, that Rudisha wasn't hiding his plans.
https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/news/nijel-amos-2012-olympic-800m-tokyoIs there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
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