How was Jim Ryun bad at other sports?

How does this work wrote:

So I was watching this video on Jim Ryun where he was saying he was cut from every other sport he tried out for in middle school and track and cross country. Then in his first season of xc he goes from being the 21st runner on the C team to being sixth at the state meet. What I'm wondering is how he never noticed his talent for distance sooner and how as a such a great runner he was bad at every other sport. It just seems implausible to me.

^1:38 intrinsic, basic speed 36* last 300m dusseldorf /cadence 231 - air temp 29c max velocity translates into punching power of 7.18 decibels > Cassius Clay 1967 version estimated on speech rhythms only 7.12, intrinsic KO by Ryun 3rd round, world heavyweight boxing champion.

^3:23 intrinsic better than El G % aerobic velocity 92.52*arm swing 2.45km/s intrinsic in video footage 67 shape >John Newcombe %87.21*arm swing estimated 2.41, sectioned psychiatric unit = 1967 US Open tennis champion 6-2, 6-2, 6-0

What you're saying is that Jim Ryun is the greatest athlete ever.

So wrote:

What you're saying is that Jim Ryun is the greatest athlete ever.

^Intrinsic.

Obviously drugs like EPO will help you run a better mile then help you bat, control, kick or bounce a ball etc.

Banana Bread wrote:

Obviously drugs like EPO will help you run a better mile then help you bat, control, kick or bounce a ball etc.

This.

A Jim Ryun without his EPO would have been no match for a clean GOAT like Bekele.

He had bad balance.

Jay Nair wrote:

He had bad balance.

Is this why he fell so easily when he was tripped in the 72 Games semi-final? (serious question).

Coevett wrote:

Jay Nair wrote:

He had bad balance.

Is this why he fell so easily when he was tripped in the 72 Games semi-final? (serious question).

He writes an account here:

After I finished the race, the United States Olympic coaches and officials came up and said, "It was obvious you were fouled; you'll be reinstated."

Banana Bread wrote:

Obviously drugs like EPO will help you run a better mile then help you bat, control, kick or bounce a ball etc.

He probably literally wasn't on EPO, because that was literally wasn't synthesis until the late 1980s. Unless Jim Ryun was literally a time traveler. But, they did literally know about the performance enhancing effects of blood transfusions from the 1940s. And, literally some were using speed and juice in sports during that time period. And, when I say juice I literally do not mean orange juice.

agreed, you forgot the mma ability, i pick ryun to KO everyone in the psychiatric unit. including the nurses.

Right on Sir Vent

Paul Bunion wrote:

I've heard and read numerous stories like this over there the years, where some champion runner was allegedly such an uncoordinated putz as a youngster that he he couldn't even walk without stumbling, but then he started training for track...

More often than not these yarns are apocryphal rather than factual, meant to burnish someone's legend or make them seem "inspirational."

I was a 54sec/2:01/4:36 400m/800m/1600 my sophmore year but just a year earlier I didn’t make the varsity soccer team. And that was the sport I wanted to excel at. There is a lot more to soccer than speed as I believe I posted one of the best 40 yard dashes in tryouts. As for basketball, too short, football too skrawny (110lb?). Also to this day I can’t dribble with my non dominant hand when driving to the basket.

three years in a row, i was cut first round for soccer team in HS.

3rd time i had the flu, but beat everyone in situps, sprints, goals., etc.

lost it, went into the coach's office, and chewed him out.

he said he thought i was showing off. prima dona, but i was just a sick dog trying to make the team.

got put on the team. up from there, made the provincial squad.

people are weird in the mind. no kidding.

the soccer experience turned me to track.

while i much preferred team sport, in track if you ran your guts out, you got the win, and did not have some random coach decide the result. imagining you're the bad boy, prima dona or what have you.

i am not an animal. it was a bloody disgrace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfChDxrz4Ow

Banana Bread wrote:

Obviously drugs like EPO will help you run a better mile then help you bat, control, kick or bounce a ball etc.

Right then, please stop pretending you're Bekele's biggest fan here, because you're not, and I am.

Bekele could easily have become champion at just about any sport if he trained for it, from UFC to the Bobsleigh. Luckily for us fans of track, he chose running, and he's the all-time GOAT.

Jay Nair wrote:

Coevett wrote:

Is this why he fell so easily when he was tripped in the 72 Games semi-final? (serious question).

He writes an account here:

After I finished the race, the United States Olympic coaches and officials came up and said, "It was obvious you were fouled; you'll be reinstated."

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/13/12077672/olympics-jim-ryun-track

Thanks for the article, interesting read. Explains exactly what happened and also why he retired after Munich at age 25 (largely because it was still an amateur sport and he had a family to support).

I posted here some time ago a new video of the trip and wondered why he didn't get up straight away. Although he finished in last place, when you compare this video to the YouTube videos of the race, you can see if he had got up straight away, he was finishing so fast he likely would have qualified or even won the semi. But as he explains himself in this article, he actually lost consciousness for several seconds.

Imagine if El G had been forced to retire at 25 because there was no money in athletics and there hadn't been world championships in his era? We would probably rank him below Ryun now. I wonder also where we would rank Ryun if he had continued on and beaten Walker in Montreal in 76?

As a P.E. coach I can tell you that a lot of "success" involves having had a little experience and then being enough of a jerk to be a ball hog and always try to get in on the action. Apparently youth coaches think this is competence and/or confidence. I coach HS, was a college star, and am appalled by the arrogant attitude some youth coaches have to be planting in their athletes' minds.

Coevett wrote:

Paul Bunion wrote:

I've heard and read numerous stories like this over there the years, where some champion runner was allegedly such an uncoordinated putz as a youngster that he he couldn't even walk without stumbling, but then he started training for track...

More often than not these yarns are apocryphal rather than factual, meant to burnish someone's legend or make them seem "inspirational."

Running surely requires a high degree of co-ordination (most obviously the arms and legs, especially sprinting). And I'm sure co-ordination skills are very closely related in the brain. I doubt very much you could have world class co-ordination between your arm and leg movements and have below average hand and eye co-ordination.

No eye for a ball is completely different.

Not that much co- ordination needed for middle distance it's not the same as sprints.

An Olympic champion boxer once said he went skiing he said not only is there no guarantee you will be good at another sport there is no guarantee you will be any good at all. One sprinter did American football they joked he had 9.9 feet and 10.9 hands. Other sports rely much less in fitness much more on technique and natural skill. Look at Williams at tennis she's overweight for most other sports.

Sand Dunes wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

Obviously drugs like EPO will help you run a better mile then help you bat, control, kick or bounce a ball etc.

He probably literally wasn't on EPO, because that was literally wasn't synthesis until the late 1980s. Unless Jim Ryun was literally a time traveler. But, they did literally know about the performance enhancing effects of blood transfusions from the 1940s. And, literally some were using speed and juice in sports during that time period. And, when I say juice I literally do not mean orange juice.

Typical NPC cu(k virtue signaling. What a weakling you are. Of course with all the evidence of E. African cheats you'll say nothing, all the better to remain friendly with the Somalian refugees who take your woman out most nights, your kowtowing to PC dogma making you hope that they'll bring her back in time for morning lattes. 60s middle distance runners in the US blood doping and on 'roids. Go back to your soc professor's crotch.