Corothers ran a faster last two hundred metres in coming second
ArmstrongLivs wrote
"He was so confident at Tokyo that when he found himself boxed in at 200m to go in the 800m he actually dropped back to extricate himself and then turned on the turbo-charge to go right around the field. It's kind of funny watching the guys floundering behind him in the straight, as though they have been caught in a jet stream - or the turbulence of a battleship, and they are bobbing around like dinghys. The 1500 was much the same. Everyone else in the race was waiting for his inevitable move in the final lap, and when it came it was like a tsunami, demolishing all before him and leaving the other runners scrapping desperately for the minor placings. A tank, for sure, but with jet-engines."