My pick would be a classic thread from a few years ago on Johan Fourie, a South African miler with exceptional talent who was prevented from competing in the 1980's due to the apartheid boycott, and yet who ran 3:33 and 3:50 with no serious opposition or even pacemakers. The thread was deleted seemingly at random by the moderators.
Johan Fourie (born December 2, 1959) is a South African middle-distance athlete who was one of the world's leading 1500m/mile exponents in the 1980s but was prevented from competing internationally in his prime due to the sporting sanctions imposed on South Africa in condemnation of the policy of apartheid.
Fourie's best 1500m performance was 3:33.87, a time recorded at the SA Championships in Stellenbosch in 1987 without significant opposition or pacemakers and his best mile time was 3:50.82 also recorded in 1987. During the mid-1980s he trained with Swiss Pierre Délèze in Europe. Délèze, who defeated Sebastian Coe over 1500m in Zurich in 1985, believed that Fourie was capable of running a sub 3:30 1500m, given the appropriate race conditions
Perhaps the most nominated thread gets to be restored as an Xmas gift to us from the Brojos?
