| Linford 10:43 - Jul 26 with 6547 views | Superhoops2808 |
I know we talked about the Daley Thompson documentary, but last nights one about a local boy Linford Christie, is superb and well worth a watch.
How he dealt with the drugs cheat Ben Johnson, his own drugs test failure and also before he was a household name when he was incorrectly arrested for theft of a motor vehicle.
Be warned though, Colin Hart is just as horrible in this as he was in the Daley one!! |  | | |  |
| Linford on 17:15 - Aug 5 with 599 views | NewBee |
| Linford on 13:08 - Aug 5 by CamberleyR |
The thing is, nobody was running sub 10 seconds times back then though. Jim Hines' 9.95 altitude assisted 100m world record had stood since the 1968 Olympics and in the dozen years since nobody was even getting close.
The three Americans he would have been up against in the Olympics didn't run below 10 seconds (or even remotely close to it) in their trials held in late June 1980.
The result in that was:
1st - Stanley Floyd 10.26 secs
2nd - Harvey Glance 10.27 secs
3rd - Mel Lattany 10.30 secs
And that wasn't even into a headwind, the wind speed reading was zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_Olympic_trials_(track_and_field [Post edited 5 Aug 13:14]
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June Olympic Trials was it?
President Carter had given the USSR a deadline to pull out of Afghanistan by end February, after which the USA was going to boycott.
There was never a lot of money in US Track & Field back then, and without the incentive of the Olympics, it's hard to see how their athletes could have been motivated.
Nor did they have the benefit of the usual pre-games training camp to fine tune their preparation. [Post edited 5 Aug 17:18]
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