Lifeline Full

[EPelle]

If you could talk to a genie living in a bottle, and the genie told you that your one wish -- competing against any athlete in any venture anytime during the past (as of 31/12-2005) -- would come true, and turn out favourably, which athlete would you compete against? Which event? Which meet?

[tandfman]

Re: Lifeline Full

If you could talk to a genie living in a bottle, and the genie told you that your one wish -- competing against any athlete in any venture anytime during the past (as of 31/12-2005) -- would come true, and turn out favourably, which athlete would you compete against? Which event? Which meet?

That's very easy. I'd compete against Donovan Bailey (and Michael Johnson) in the 150m race in Toronto in 1997, where the winner's prize was $1 million.

[kuha]

Herb Elliott in Rome.

No, no...on second thought, Kip Keino in Mexico City!!!!

:shock:

[SQUACKEE]

pre and lindgren, pac 8 cross country champ. they finish in a dead heat but out of nowhere and i mean nowhere comes squack who out leans both of them. and then they hug me and we three go for a beer and they ask why i am so good and i tell them im not, im a fig newton of they're imagination from a thing called the internet of the year 2006. they laugh and order another round.

[mojo]

Perdita Felicien in Paris.
I'd win gold for Canada and she would get the silver. 8) 8)

[cullman]

Men's 100m Seoul 1988. In a perfect world I woulda whupped Ben and Carl for the gold. Could have lived off the endorsements and never worked another day in my life. My original choice was the 1964 Olympic high jump final head-to-head against Brumel but a gold medal back then would have been worth 12 bucks and maybe a free pair of spikes.

cman

[dukehjsteve]

I'd High Jump against Valery Brumel in Tokyo Olympics and CLEAN HIS CLOCK. He was lucky to win as it was; he was having a so-so year by Brumel standards anyway, and almost lost to a over-the-hill Thomas at a low 2.18/7'1.75". I could bust 'em both !

Dream on.........

[cullman]

I'd High Jump against Valery Brumel in Tokyo Olympics and CLEAN HIS CLOCK. He was lucky to win as it was; he was having a so-so year by Brumel standards anyway, and almost lost to a over-the-hill Thomas at a low 2.18/7'1.75". I could bust 'em both !

All that and the fact that nobody had seen the Flop back then would have made you really big in Japan.

cman

[kuha]

I've always assumed that hjsteve was a straddler only, NOT a flopper...no?

[EPelle]

No pioneers here? First under 13.00 (first to finish line against Aouita-13.00,40 & Maree-13.01)?

[Guest]

I'd go back to 72, miraculously turn myself into Eddie Hart, turn up for the 2nd round, win my semi and then......

[Powell]

I'd go back to 72, miraculously turn myself into Eddie Hart, turn up for the 2nd round, win my semi and then......

...get yous ass whooped by Borzov in the final 8)

[Guest]

I'd go back to 72, miraculously turn myself into Eddie Hart, turn up for the 2nd round, win my semi and then......

...get yous ass whooped by Borzov in the final 8)

Correct, thus stopping 5 million future threads (mostly my own).

[JohnG]

Atlanta Olympics, final track event (4x400), last leg replacing Roger Black up against the US guy with the huge neck who dated Perec. I'd produce a split of 43.2 and listen to the silence ................... (as opposed to the 999th chorus of "USA.. .. Number One" that we had to endure back in the real world, sat in the stands).

Alternatively, beat Coe in the LA 1500 and spare the world from Little Lord Fauntleroy's smug, strutting celebration.

[DrJay]

Despite being a distance type, seeing the field event posts made me think of DrJay/Powell/Lewis in Tokyo 1991. Three guys over 29'. What a competition. And Bob Costas would interview me (I have the highlights on tape, and the Powell interview.)

Hey, there are fantasy baseball camps where you play with the big-leaguers and computer technology is pretty advanced--when will a company emerge that takes some video footage of a person running or jumping or throwing a bit then inserts that person in the Mexico City 1500 or the Munich 5000. What a stocking stuffer.