I am writing a paper in my coaching and philosophy of track and field class. We need to write it over a famous person, event, or historical event (example 1972 olympics) I am a huge Pre fan but like 5 people are doing Pre. Any good ideas?
I am writing a paper in my coaching and philosophy of track and field class. We need to write it over a famous person, event, or historical event (example 1972 olympics) I am a huge Pre fan but like 5 people are doing Pre. Any good ideas?
ivo van damme
From wiki:
"Also in track and field, two black American 400 m runners, Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett, acted casually on the medal stand, twirling their medals (gold and silver, respectively) and joking with one another as "The Star-Spangled Banner" was being played during the award ceremony. They were banned from the Olympics for life, as Tommie Smith and John Carlos had been in the 1968 Summer Olympics."
Matthews and Collett are nowhere near as well-known as Smith and Carlos. You could write an interesting essay on using the medal podium as a venue for protest. What the heck did those '72 400m runners think they were doing acting so disrespectful? Was it appropriate to ban them for life from the Olympics? etc...
Yes--much better suggestion. Imagine what he could have been?
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ivo van damme
If you want an A+, write about Bill Aris at FM. not much secondary material, but he's the real deal. It would make your paper stand out. His podcast on lrc would be a good place to start. Maybe he would even talk to you for an hour.
question is how he mentally prepares his young athletes
Jim Spivey. You can probably just call him up or interview him for the paper. he was an athlete and then a coach and he is very friendly.
Compare Ritz and Bekele's strides.
Ashenfelter or Zatopek
billy mills
viren, kuts, elliot, altitude effect on '68 mexico city games, dellinger....
I would like to read a good book on the 1988 US Womens Marathon Trials. Lots of interesting players involved. Put that on paper.
What a fun-sounding class! There's SO much more to write about than Pre.
You could write about the ethics of offering aid to an athlete apparently in trouble, e.g. Dorando Pietri in 1908, Gabriela Andersen Schiess in 1984, and Kayoki Fukusho in Osaka (2008?).
You could write about runners who have won at multiple distances, esp. including the marathon.
You could contrast some training for ultras with marathon training.
You could write about runners who won a race after falling down en route, e.g. Viren. Or just falls, e.g. Mary Decker.
You could contrast LSD with hard/hard training, e.g. Zatopek.
You could write about the demographics of distance runners. Or changes in the demographics.
When you're done ... share the result with us.
That's a class? Where?
Walter George is always interesting.
Write about US distance runners who actually did something in the 1972 Olympics that actually mattered--Dave Wottle and Frank Shorter.
What Shorter did to foster running that Sunday Morning when we watched him win the marathon gold (yes, I was watching on TV) trumps everything Pre ever did in his whole life.
how about zamperini?