great link
great link
said88 wrote:
One of the best lineups ever:
World Record:
Steve Ovett: 1500m, 1 Mile, 2 Miles
Dave Moorcroft: 5000m
Sydney Maree: 1500m
John Walker: 1 Mile, 2000m
Peter Koech: 3000mSt
European/African/American Record:
Thomas Wessinghage: 1 Mile, 2000m
Mike Boit 800m, 1000m
Steve Scott: 1500m, 1 Mile, 2000m, 3000m
Sydney Maree: 1500m, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m
Olympic/World Medal:
Steve Ovett: 800m, 1500m
Mike Boit: 800m:
John Walker: 1500m
Steve Scott: 1500m
European/Commonwealth Gold:
Thomas Wessinghage: 5000m
David Moorcroft: 1500m, 5000m
Mike Boit: 800m
One of THE great races ever.
I wonder where Aouita was, lol?
If Ovett had been back to top form, as his back to back 2000m victories in Budapest and Oslo had suggested he was getting close to, then this would have been the greatest ever non-championship race on British soil, but sadly his astonishing post-railing accident comeback was err. derailed..in the days before this race. Otherwise, he probably would have pipped Moorcroft.
Peter Koech also won a silver in '88.
God, I miss vent. Him and his "wabbits" and "Pekings" and various other phrases. Guy was a legend.
Nice throwback to old ventolin!
Moorcroft was on fire in '82. Too bad he was burned by injuries in '84....
Coevett wrote:
said88 wrote:
One of the best lineups ever:
World Record:
Steve Ovett: 1500m, 1 Mile, 2 Miles
Dave Moorcroft: 5000m
Sydney Maree: 1500m
John Walker: 1 Mile, 2000m
Peter Koech: 3000mSt
European/African/American Record:
Thomas Wessinghage: 1 Mile, 2000m
Mike Boit 800m, 1000m
Steve Scott: 1500m, 1 Mile, 2000m, 3000m
Sydney Maree: 1500m, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m
Olympic/World Medal:
Steve Ovett: 800m, 1500m
Mike Boit: 800m:
John Walker: 1500m
Steve Scott: 1500m
European/Commonwealth Gold:
Thomas Wessinghage: 5000m
David Moorcroft: 1500m, 5000m
Mike Boit: 800m
One of THE great races ever.
I wonder where Aouita was, lol?
If Ovett had been back to top form, as his back to back 2000m victories in Budapest and Oslo had suggested he was getting close to, then this would have been the greatest ever non-championship race on British soil, but sadly his astonishing post-railing accident comeback was err. derailed..in the days before this race. Otherwise, he probably would have pipped Moorcroft.
Aouita was probably having tea with Coe.
We saw Dave win the Commonwealth 1500 in 1978 in Edmonton. As we were leaving the stadium and walking home we encountered Dave stopped at a traffic light as he was running to his hotel. We asked "didn't you just win the 1500m" and he smiled and said yes. My wife saw him at a road race in Las Vegas a few years later, and he remembered her from that traffic stop in Edmonton. Nice guy!
Had to cringe at around 7:00... when the commentator says:
"Maree, the 'coloured' South African, now American".
In the context of South Africa under Apartheid, the term 'coloured' was universally hated and a racial slur because it was a govt imposed racial term on a group.
BTW, Maree wasn't classified so called 'coloured' , as a Xhosa he was classified black or 'African',