i'm watching it now on tape... let you know how it turns out...
i'm watching it now on tape... let you know how it turns out...
24.1 at 200 (gray)
49.99 at 400. gray stringing them out.
kiprotich flying on the last turn...
gotta love johnny gray. put himself on the line every time.
tanui closes hard in the last 100. hold off kiprotich and gray gets the bronze.
ballsy run by gray. only finshed 2m out of first. 1:43.67 for the winner.
fantastic.
post race interview with gray:
interviewer: "would you have done anything differently?"
j.g.: "yeah, i would've gone out harder."
Doped up...I love it dude that was a classic very well done.
I almost woke up my baby laughing so hard. He barelt held on and he would have went out harder?
"that's called putting it in the gray zone, baby!"
i love how he gave a name to his crazy-ass race tactics!
the gray zone! wrote:
"that's called putting it in the gray zone, baby!"
i love how he gave a name to his crazy-ass race tactics!
in this episode he called it: "putting them in the twilight zone."
actually, his tactics worked great here. with 200 to go there were only 4 guys with a shot at the medals (gray, tanui, kiprotich, barbosa) - he had burned off everyone else. so he had to beat only one guy to get a medal, and he did. i doubt he could've beat tanui or kiprotich running any other way - except of course, going out harder.
Great race. I have it on tape, too, but he ran more than a second faster during the Trials -- 1:42.8, I believe. In retrospect, yeah he should have gone out faster.
yeah i read that in an interview once...it still cracks me up. now every time there is a group workout or run, and someone pushes the pace even a little, someone else always wonders aloud if they are trying to "put it in the gray zone!"
good times. johnny gray was the man.
In retrospect, he should have finished faster.
He also looked back coming out of the curve and tightened up. And I don't beleive he was wearing his necklace.
At the Trials, he never looked back or tighened up an eased to a 1:42.80 (with his necklace on).
In the Olympics, it was an ugly finish for all 3 medalists who were rigging like crazy the last 50. Props to Tanui.
Anyone have a link or video clip on their hard drive that can be uploaded. I would love to see this race.
same here, i'd love to watch this classic, email listed with my name
I taped it off the TV back in 1992 and have it on a VHS tape somewhere, although not digitally. I watched all the 1992 Olympic races again 2-3 years ago. That was one of my favorites, as well as Kevin Young's WR. I missed the 10,000, however.
That was a great race, but I don't think that anything will ever top Dave Wottle's 1972 Olympic 800m win.
Whetever happened to Kevin Young?
I've got the last 200 meters of Wottle's race on the same tape, although Bob Costas is talking over it. It was a "where are they now" feature and focused as much on Wottle's hat as anything else. I read something last week that Kevin Young was presenting awards at one of the major track meets recently.
I've got the 10,000 on tape from the NBC Triplecast so it's almost the entire race. Skah (Mor) is sitting on Chelimo (Ken) just dying to blow by him as they're lapping runners. They're about to pass another Moroccan (Boulami?) who doesn't get out of the way. Boulami messes with the pace trying to help his country mate as the crowd starts booing. Skah is apparently telling him to get the hell out of the way because he knows he can outkick this guy. Eventually Boulami moves out, Skah drops a massive kick and wins. Skah gets disqualified. Skah gets reinstated. It was a thrilling race until that guy got in the way though.
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