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For me it was Michael Johnson winning the 200m at Atlanta in 1994.
He absolutely smashed his own world record with a time of 19:32. At the time I remember thinking to myself that that record will never be beaten, and to be honest if it wasn't for a freak like Bolt that record would still stand today.
Either switching channels or turning the tele off and doing a crossword.
Bores me rigid.
I think for me it was the 800 and 1500 metres finals in Moscow where Ovett and Coe shared the gold medals.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Alien
There was so much hype at the time with both chasing world records every time they raced.
Athletics was shown live in the evenings just because there was a chance that the world record would be broken and quite often it was.
Also Ben Johnson's infamous "win" in 100 metres 1988
Danny Boyle's opening ceremony 2012, fantastic viewing, one of the best bits of television I've ever seen.
Beach volleyball :sherlock:
ladies version that is
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Originally Posted by splott parker
I watched a programme about the making/run up to the ceremony the other night,worth a watch if it comes on again if you missed it
This fantastic running from 2 well matched athletesQuote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
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Originally Posted by light up the darkness
Is there any other :hehe::hehe:
Martin Woodroffe, who lived about one hundred yards from me at the time, winning a silver medal in Mexico 1968 in the 200m butterfly. I was twelve at the time and already the Olympics meant so much to me that I couldn't believe that we had a medalist in the community.
It was fifty years yesterday since England won the World Cup, yet my memory is that two years later, the coverage the Olympics got rather said it all about how it was considered to be more of a big event than the football was. Maybe because there were so much fewer of them back then, but Olympic medal winners in the 60s were remembered after the Games had finished much more than they are now.
The truth is though that the first I got to know about Woodroffe's medal was when I got to school on the morning after he had swam. it was confirmed at Assembly that we had a Olympic medalist in the school (he was in the sixth form to my form two) - even though we lived so close to each other, the divide which says that a sixth former never speaks to a second year in school unless they are related, meant that I've never got to say more than about three words to Woodroffe in my life, but for a while in the late sixties he was more of a hero to me than any City player was.
1988 Seoul....Ben Johnson beating Carl Lewis only to be stripped of the Gold for steroid abuse.....The begining of the end.
Yep - absolutely brilliant. It reminded me what a brilliant country we live in.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Same olympics - but super Saturday where the medals kept coming. Rutherford was the stand out moment for me - it just seemed to encapsulate the craziness of the whole evening because (if I am not mistaken) he wasn't given much of a chance.
You have missed out on hundreds of hours worth of crotch, nipples and arse watching! Skimpy outfits abound in track and field events.
If you don't like ogling fit and nubile young ladies wearing next to nothing in slow-motion then you must be a kinky swine.
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Evidence that this a sludge secret account piles up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
Not guilty. Sludge is somewhere along the aptly named Crack Hill area of Cowbridge right now. He's the biggest rotter in that diocese.
It's a wonder you didn't say beach volleyball. It excites me rigidQuote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
I love that race so much that I can't stop myself being the twatty pedant - it was 1996. He knocked 0.4sec off the oldest track record in the space of a couple of months, such an unusual but effective style. He absolutely destroyed everyone in that race and it's not often remembered that he was double Olympic 400m champ too. I also love listening to him talk, he speaks with such authority and confidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Alien
Lots of other amazing Olympic memories, but number 1 for me is Bolt in the Beijing 100m. I remember telling someone with a vague interest in sport to watch it as he would do something out of this world and he delivered
Steve Redgrave's fifth Gold Medal in the coxless fours, at the Athens Olympics. He won a gold medal in this event in FIVE Olympic Games in a row. Pretty incredible and the GBNI crew won it on the line after being behind for the entire race.
^^ I was going to go with Alan Wells, no Americans admittedly a great moment as was Linfords
Alan Wells maybe the last white 100m winner?
There hasn't even been a finalist since!!
I was going to say Christophe Lemaitre, but looks like he didn't do the 100m in London.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhiw-Blue
Helping to construct the London Aquatics centre
There were allegations on the BBC last year claiming that Wells was a roiderQuote:
Originally Posted by Nelsonca61
Nuts isn't it!Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Christophe is sub 10 seconds but to have no white finalists in 32 years is just bizarre. I get we're physically different as it goes the other way for swimming but 32 years and not one finalist is just odd.
White people lack high twitch fibres in their muscles apparentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Rhiw-Blue
The 200m final at the 1980 Olympics was incredible. Pietro Mennea came from miles back to pip Wells on the line, great, great finish from Mennea who looked nothing like a sprinter, he was thin as a rake but super fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nelsonca61
Regarding Wells being on steroids, I think it was Drew McMaster who gave the game away. If you look at footage of Wells in say 78, he was a lot smaller than two years later when he was all muscled up.