you are too stoopid to understand
'70s with few exceptions was a lost decade
name the guys from the '70s who are considered GOAT material in their event ???
effectively take 10y of any record duration as those times in '70s were poor
no moron
see above
poor talent decade, with still amateur status & a boycott game in middle
why he was considered the GOAT for so long
moron
add 0.24
that makes 19.74 - close enough to carl's easing down 19.75 in '83
15y
moron
did you not see bert cameron in '84 ???
anyways, smith easily was a 20y wr holder calibre - he thumped soon-to-be 43.86 evans by 0.5s
work it out moron
moron
NO ONE actually ran <1'44.3 until '73
11y as wr holder
err...
of shit pacing & 95F
still be wr today
anyhows, aouita's '85 wr is also = 3'29.4, which makes it 18y
feel better idiot ?
no
still be wr today
nonsense wr until jazy
he was similar level talent to walker
remarkable how similar their times for 2k are...
moron
he smashed 6s off the wr
t&fN called it "greatest wr of the decade" at the time
ron was phoned up with news & he thought it was a joke - he hadn't run within 7s & he had busted a gut trying
moron
nonsense distance
try 1.08 for perspective
yup
that's how good he was
1 gold medal & he wouda been called GOAT of longer track
he woudn't have lost title thru viren era or even rono - not until geb
however, i can tell you keion reckoned he wouda taken him at any pace for 5k, even if it had been <13'10
moron
read above
- '70s was shitty talent pool decade
- ryun woudn't be 21y wr holder
he'd still be wr holder going on 43y
moron
it was the main global sport in the '60s after kickball
huge, huge numbers of participants from school on
certainly, no greater talent pool than that decade was available in the west in latter decades when kickball & other ball sports took hold
moron
do you have any idea how good keino was in mexico 1500 ???
for 1st time in his life, he was allowed a full 3/12 ( paid as normal wage ) to train exclusively for the games as kenya wanted a gold - he was working as a policeman 1/2 time thru all his previous career & won '66 & set 3k/5k wr of 1/2 time training
after his gold he never had inclination/interest to train that hard & took to the easy life
moron
he got a big, pay bonus for winning the gold - long term
he did virtually no training in '69 or '70 apart from some long jogs occasionally
he whipped himself into shape by '70 but shockingly lost the 5k
he got more serious after that but legs were gone by '72 or he woud never have let a blown-up 800 guy like vesala beat him in '68, but he coudn't drive like before from 800 out to crush the guy
he lamented he didn't go for the 5k there, as he had no hesitation in believing he wouda outkicked viren/pre/dixon et al for that gold - he never rated those guys - he'd whupped ron-the-GOAT in '66 in the 3 miles - these guys coudn't carry ron's jock
however, unhesitatingly, he called ryun GOAT of all distance runs & why he ran 5k/10k in '68 as well as he figured he had no chance of the 1500 & wanted to bring any gold back to kenya - he figured it woud be the 5k, but he got outkicked in a lethargic race ( suffering from biliary colic ) - he won the 1500, but it was desparate & he had recovered from the colic
still he picked up 3ksc gold as a virtual debutant in 3rd or 4th fastest time ever...
moron
i offer discerning, unbiased analysis
you offer drivel
utter moron
read & try to comprehend "fastest 1500s of the '60s" previously
it's no surprise your day job has evolved to it's limit teaching kindergardners arithmetic
you offer nothing
then f*** off & then don't post under :
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ukathletics
middle distance
grand slam
credit shit