The Ultimate Track Dinner Party

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Protocol Dude,
I was pretty sure I had spelled their names wrong, but I was just too lazy to go upstairs and check. And "the Nazi" & "the Mafioso" seemed really out of place.

My list would be mostly decathetes, with Nurmi just because:
Nurmi
R Johnson
Thorpe
Thompson
Dvorak
O'Brien
D Johnson
Mathias
Sebrle
oh hell, Willie Banks to lighten things up

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For me,,,Arthur Lydiard, Peter Snell, Jim Thorpe, Jesse Owens, Steve Prefontaine,

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Mac Wilkins
Feuerbach
Me
Lance Deal
John Powell
Freeman
John Godina
Beaux Greer
John Davis
Connie Price Smith
Seilala Sua
Kris Kuehl
David Krummenacker
Prolly need lotto food though.

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1. Gerry Lindgren
2. Buddy Edelen
3. Ron Clarke
4. Gunder Haage
5. Emile Zatopek

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>I'm still thinking about my list. Probably won't
include Brundige or Niebollo.<

And that's a good thing, Mike, because if you couldn't spell their names right, they probably wouldn't accept the invitation. (Dead people are particularly fussy about such things.)

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For Lynn Cannon,
I went to school with Lingren at Wazu. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to be at the same table with him (unless you like right wing crazies with squeeky voices). Van Reenan, on the other hand was a pretty cool guy. Must be the discus, brings out the best in people. I'm still thinking about my list. Probably won't include Brundige or Niebollo.

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cc, now THAT was funny.

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Shorter, Hill, Clayton, Rodgers, Bikila, Seko and DeCastella

The conversation would be about how to train for a marathon.

Larson, Browne, Culpepper, and other US marathoners would be gagged, bound and brought in to listen only.

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>Raul Gonzales, Ron Laird, Kerry Saxby-Junna,
>Valdimir Golubnichy, Robert Korzeniowski.>>

I can't imagine that the conversation would be too stimulating, what with them all trying to whisper the loudest. :-)

[racewalker]

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Raul Gonzales, Ron Laird, Kerry Saxby-Junna, Valdimir Golubnichy, Robert Korzeniowski.

Most honorable mention to: Henry Laskau, Elliott Denman

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

By the time Ryun had finished babbling about god and Lindgren had finished babbling period, you'd look up and find it was just you at the table. Landy, Pirie and Truex would have slipped outside and taken up smoking.

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

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Jane Flemming
Susen Tiedke
Suzy Favor
Tatiana Gregoryeva
Erica Johansson

[Per Andersen]

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

[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.