The Ultimate Track Dinner Party

[Guest]

Perhaps this belongs on the historical board, but I'll let managemetn worry about that. Here's your chance as a track freak to set the table of a lifetime. First we'll dip over to the SciFi Channel and borrow a universal translator from Star Trek so there's no language barrier and borrow a sarcophagous (sp?) from Stargate so we can rejuvenate the dead. So a table (with whatever you enjoy most) has been set. You're in the head seat, and there are 5 more places available at the table. You fill it with......???????

[Guest]

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folks with small appetite, so i can hog it all

[6 5.5hjsteve]

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Charlie Paddock
Valeriy Brumel
Herb Elliott
Glenn Davis
Dave Sime

[Guest]

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I want 5 of the plumpest, juiciest...... oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said DONNER Party!

[Guest]

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My group would be the same names I listed for the fantasy 10-mile run on another thread.

[Guest]

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In order to get all the real scoop I ask
Gabe
Webb
Bolt
Ben J

and . . . PAULIE!

[Guest]

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Wolf Mozart (was a fun runner, and good composer)
Walter George (decent miler for his day)
Don Bragg
Jim Thorpe (topic: would he score 9000 today?)
Brian Oldfield
(I'd be just eating, drinking, and listening)

[gh]

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At this point in my career, I'd probably be looking for ways NOT to have dinners w/ track people (my fantasy chow-down would more likely be to sit down Hitler and Churchill on opposite sides of the table and listen to them have at it).

But in all the famous track people I've had the pleasure of dining with through the years, the one guy you'd want most at your table would be Emil Zátopek. Old-world gentleman with a fabulous sense of humor and a terrific story-teller. His telling of his Olympic marathon win to the TAFNOT tour crowd at the WC in Helsinki in '83 was unbelievable.

[Jefferson Buffalo]

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Debbie Brill and four empty chairs.

[Guest]

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How about Mac Wilkins, Al Feuerbach, and Brian Oldfield mixed in with the powers that be from the AAU and the early TAC years....and Connie Price-Smith to referee........

[Guest]

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the one guy you'd want most at your table
>would be Emil Zátopek. Old-world gentleman with a
>fabulous sense of humor and a terrific
>story-teller. His telling of his Olympic marathon
>win to the TAFNOT tour crowd at the WC in
>Helsinki in '83 was unbelievable.

now, now garrrrry...don't forget dana!

[gh]

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Uhh, pretty easy to forget somebody who wasn't there. Sorry about that. Far as I know, I've never been in the same room (stadium?) with her.

[Per Andersen]

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Arthur Wint
Gordon Pirie
Eulace Peacock
"Stickan" Pettersson
Tom Pukstys
Daley Thompson
Glen Davis

[Guest]

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Jane Flemming
Susen Tiedke
Suzy Favor
Tatiana Gregoryeva
Erica Johansson

[Guest]

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I've always wanted to talk to: John Landy,Gordon Pirie, Max Truex,Jim Ryun and Gerry Lindgren.