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Old 07-21-2008, 12:29 PM   #24 (permalink)
dlish
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just personally...

1 - Derek Redmond finishing the 400 Metres semi with a torn hamstring... I remember watching it at the time, and everytime I watched it since it always gets me when you see his dad - this short tubby guy in an ill fitting tee shirt - come charging onto the track with a couple of security guards chasing after him, because the only thing he thought of was helping his son finish.

2 - Michael Johnson winning 200 and 400 in 2000

3 - El Guerrouj in 2004 winning the 1500 Metres as well. I remember his reaction at the end when he just collapsed on the floor as was weeping with joy.

4 - Linford Christie in 1992. At the time anyway.. Shame it wasnt clean.

5 - Kelly Holmes - Athens 2005 800M/1500M - the single performance by a British female athlete I ever remember seeing

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oh, and I guess Dwain ain't going to the Olympics... in a way its sad because even taking the sport half seriously he is better than anyone else GB have and it shows what a talent has been wasted, but I think its the right thing.

and best of all (and not track or field I guess)

Men's coxless 4's rowing - Sydney 2000. Just remember really wanting Steve Redgrave to win it, and it was such a close race with the Italians coming back at them all the while in the finishing straight, and they just hung on by a couple of feet to win it.

i forgot..the marathon runner who was delirious ..1988 maybe? i cant recall now. memories live forever.

as for linford.. i met him once when he was in sydney. what an obnoxious prick! as a teenager my life was running and swimming. i admired linford. he was one of my idols along with carl cheating lewis. he was sitting with some guy along Manly beach and i asked for an autograph and he just shooed be away like i was a fly. i musta been about 13.

i dont recall what he and the guy were talking about but it wasnt business. i lost respect for him after that.
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