Love this. I feel like the old time long ago British mantra was that it was poor taste to show elation and joy after a win. Back in the strict amateur days during Bannister’s time.
Love this. I feel like the old time long ago British mantra was that it was poor taste to show elation and joy after a win. Back in the strict amateur days during Bannister’s time.
That's the kind of race track junkies live for! Well worth the sleep deprivation it took to stay up and watch it on the east coast. Not to gripe, but what happened to the on-screen timer? I would have started my stopwatch if I had known it wouldn't show up!
Priceless!
Still can’t believe Coe’s finish in 1980 was 12.1…and at the end of a final 700 at 1:48 pace or so
on the bbc in the uk - it showed no clock, and josh mf kerr as the champion!! looked like the international feed. how they ahve so much tech and still mess up the basics I'll never know.
Even the way they show the time differential, not the actual time of each athlete, so annoying. they have some great graphics and then they get the basics wrong
Partly that was an Oxbridge 'effortless superiority' thing. Now they have opened up the team - Team GB as it is now entitled - to a wider demographic.
And it was 12.6 in LA in a 3:32 race, at end of 1:49.8 last 800m