If you were chosen to erect 4 statues of T&F greats in Hayward field, who would you select?

None.

Photos of them would be better.

rojo wrote:

Trackalerts has an interesting article stating that 4 statues of Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Asafa Powell will be erected in Jamaica's national stadium over the next two years.

http://trackalerts.com/Articles/statues-of-bolt-fraser-pryce-vcb-and-powell-to-be-erected-at-national-stadium/26251

It got me thinking. Oviously we don't have a national stadium but if USATF was going to erect 4 statues and put them in Hayward field, who would you choose? Actually, the more I think about it maybe I should ask two different questions.

1) If the US had a national stadium, whose 4 statues would you want in it?

2) If 4 statues were going up in Hayward field (Nike/Oregon ties), whose statues would you want?

1) Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Jesse Owens, Jim Ryun, Carl Lewis

2) Bill Bowerman, Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar, Ashton Eaton

Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis, Mike Powell, Florence Grifith Joyner. All four of them are legends. Usain bolt and Micheal Johnson have too much ego and don't deserve to be immortalized....

Masters&JohnsonAthlete wrote:

Slated for erection:

Suzy Favor Hamilton

Emma Coburn

Laura Roesler

Ariana Washington

Why would you choose only female athletes? Are you trying to say women are better than. Men?

1) Pre, Shorter, Rodgers, Ryun

2) Pre, Eaton, Rupp, Decker,

Prefontaine, Rupp, Mo Farah and Salazar. All would be posing with arms across each others shoulders except Rupp would be sitting on Salazars shoulders.

Jesse Owens, Joan Benoit, Jackie Joyner, Carl Lewis

The use of the word erect in the subject line made me think that Justin Gatlin is a definite must.

Surprised no one has said LaShawn Merrit

Here we go with this "Pre" crap.

He was a drunkard and a doper... someone I would want my children to look up to.

salazar

eaton

pre

bowerman

i don't like bowerman and salazar so much, but those two put or kept eugene on the map since 1950 till today. bowerman made nike and eugent, which made the u of o football program. salazar was #2 to rono - wr in marathon, had a hundred races at hayward. plus he is also world famous as coach, a pioneer of sorts.

pre is james dean say no more. if pre is not there, the other statues will be destroyed

eaton represents every area of track, 2 x wr, 2x og.

Masters&JohnsonAthlete wrote:

Surprised no one has said LaShawn Merrit

He only got third in RIO in a world record race. He couldn't rise to the occasion when it counted most. Merrit I'm sorry is a failure and if a statue of him goes up it should be of him with his hand on his chin show great disappointment for not trying and not performing his best.

Masters&JohnsonAthlete wrote:

Surprised no one has said LaShawn Merrit

Slated for erection:

Suzy Favor Hamilton

Emma Coburn

Laura Roesler

Ariana Washington

Suprised you never mentioned him earlier. Your choices were the females above. Are you into only to women or something?

Jesse Owens

Steve Prefontaine

Jim Ryun

Billy Mills

ruppandroll wrote:

The use of the word erect in the subject line made me think that Justin Gatlin is a definite must.

Letsrun ain't what it used to be. No erect jokes until the 4th page... wtf.

Definite Musts:

Jesse Owens

Wilma Rudolph

Billy Mills

4th statute probably would have to be Pre, because it's Oregon and white people need a hero.

My choices for the 4th statute would be Ashton Eaton or Joanie.

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two of max siegel, obviously[/quote]

POD

miles and miles of texas wrote:

ruppandroll wrote:

The use of the word erect in the subject line made me think that Justin Gatlin is a definite must.

Letsrun ain't what it used to be. No erect jokes until the 4th page... wtf.

I've already had 9 deleted so letsdelete is the same crapsite it has always been

such as it is wrote:

Marion Jones

Justin Gatlin

Tyson Gay

Brian Oldfield

Don't forget Lance Armstrong.