Printable View
Dai, Splott Dai, is that really you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Splott Dave
Speculation was rife when you disappeared. Had you nabbed the pikey who shot you in the arse then inserted your bicycle pump up his left nostril and currently doing time in Parc nick? Were you renditioned by Mossad? Did Moggis send the boys round to have a word?
Coe v Ovett in 1980
Coe was the better 800 runner and Ovett a better 1500 runner but Ovett upset the form book and won the 800. Coe stormed back to beat Ovett in his best event. Ovett had won 40+ 1500 races in a row before that.
To be fair to Wells, I think McMaster had a personal grudge against Wells and wanted to blacken his name, I don't think there has ever been proof that Wells cheated? Also I watched a program about Wells many years ago, basically he upped his training regime and went from starting without blocks at race starts to using blocks, which helped the speed of his starts no end. Also Wells had a very competitor streak, he was always there or thereabouts in major games, even though on paper the Americans were much quicker.Quote:
Originally Posted by ian gibson
The last White man before Wells to win 100 metre Olympic Gold was Valery Borzov of the USSR in 72.
My most memorable moment is that infamous 100 metres in Seoul 88. It was billed as Lewis v Johnson. I remember the heats and Johnson was staring out Lewis during them. In the final, Johnson blew everyone away, he even slowed up at the end. Think the first five all were sub 10 seconds in that race, which was phenomenal at the time. It was great TV! Of course over the following days we all know what happened.
I'd like to think that Wells was clean but people raised eyebrows when he went from 11st to 14st of pure muscle in a relatively short time. If I remember correctly, a GB team doctor admitted to giving Wells Stromba, an anabolic steroid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario Miethig
Didn't know that. That paints a different picture of Wells for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ian gibson
Meeting 'Canton Boy' at the 2012 Olympic Games. :-)
Guardian did a good series on 50 great moments for 2012. Here's the Michael Johnson one:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/lo...ichael-johnson
Kelly Holmes double gold medal effort where she kept to the back of the pack before hitting the pace and nipping it at the end. Running usually bores me rigid but I enjoyed that.
An obscure one was during Sydney 2000 when a Wallaby jumped right in front of one of the competitors during the outdoor cycling and put him off so much he fell. I can't find the clip online but it definitely happened, I was on a night shift after a heavy night before on the beer and limited sleep, i though i'd imagined it but it was in the paper the following day.
I remember this well Paul , for the same reason . He live on Pentrebane road opposite Ashcroft I think .
.QUOTE=the other bob wilson;4654547]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.[/QUOTE]
That's right, his parents were still there until about four or five years ago - he was living in Leicester the last I heard of him, but that must have been twenty or thirty years ago.
Can't stand the Olympic Opening Ceremonies.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
If I wanted to see 700 people walking around and around in tracksuits I'd spend a day at the Quadrant Shopping Centre.
Nadia Comaneci, the perfect 10
Things that stick in my mind.
Derek Redmond's dad helping him over the line.
That diver smacking his head on the board.
Greg Louganis?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Interesting docu film about him on TV the other week. Reason he was freaking out about it at the time was he was secretly HIV positive.
Well that and also he could have died smacking his head on the platformQuote:
Originally Posted by TH63
Isambard Kingdom Brunel in a tracksuit :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve R
Bob Beamon 1968 long jump.