What's the best race celebration you have ever seen?
What's the best race celebration you have ever seen?
Rod Dixon raising his face and arms to the rainy heavens while Geoff Smith lays sprawled on the pavement, New York 1983. Great photo - not showboating, just joy.
Two words: Air. Plane.
The best? Ours when we won our first State XC title - Florida 2A-1A XC - in 1982. Reason? There were 22 teams in the race and it was clearly between us and our hometown friends and rivals from Belen in Miami. But when they announced the results, the announcer began "In 22nd place with 786 points (or what ever it was)" so-and so. And then 21st and their points and 20th and their points and 19th and 18th etc. Finally - finally! - we heard : "In 2nd, with 92 points (and even then it could have been us because of the individuals who were displaced) Belen" - and we leaped into the air, as a photo shows, and never even heard our name and 85 point score.
I coached 32 years and we won four more, but that was the best single moment and celebration
This was totally sick: