Who would have won in 1984?

[Guest]

Assuming no boycott....

100 - Carl Lewis, USA
200 - Carl Lewis, USA
400 - Alonzo Babers, USA
800 - Joaquim Cruz, BRA
1500 - Seb Coe, GBR
5000 - Said Aoutia, MAR
10K - Alberto Cova, ITA
Mar - Carlos Lopes, MAR
110H - Roger Kingdom, USA
400H - Edwin Moses, USA
4x1 - USA
4x4 - USA
20K Walk - Ernesto Canto, MEX
50K Walk - ? - Hartwig Gauder, GDR
LJ - Carl Lewis, USA
TJ - Interesting...I'll stick with Al Joyner, USA, although the wind might have gusted for someone else.
PV - Sergei Bubka, URS
HJ - Dietmar Mogenburg, FRG
HT - Yuri Syedikh, URS
SP - Udo Beyer, GDR
DT - Luis Delis, CUB
JT - Uwe Hohn, GDR
Dec - Daley Thompson, GBR

Only 5 different winners on the men's side, I'll have to think long and hard about the women...

[tandfman]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

Carlos Lopes was POR, not MAR.

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

>Carlos Lopes was POR, not MAR.

I knew that...

[dj]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

Good luck with your women's list. I think you'll find the reverse of the men, with perhaps only five westerners still winning. I've always felt that on the women's side, the finals were generally the equivalent of one of the two semis of what the meet should have been. In other words, we saw only one-third of the best races.

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

After taking a brief look at the '84 Annual Issue, the only LA women's champs who would have been prohibitive favorites in a real OG were Ashford and Samuelson. Some of the Romanians (Puica in the 3k, Stanciu in the LJ) would have had a good shot at it, and Meyfarth in the HJ and Sanderson in the JT might have had a chance. Other than that, it's the commies all the way . . .

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

You had to look at an issue to figure it out? And here you've been trying to pass yourself off as an expert all this time, and I almost bought it.

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

>Assuming no boycott....
Only 5 different winners on the men's side<

Looking at your list, I see seven, including Gauder.

[Powell]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

I see six - Gauder, Bubka, Beyer, Syedykh, Delis, and Hohn.

[tafnut]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

Well, since the Russians and E. Germans have openly admitted that they were at the height of their 'enhancement' programs, isn't the real answer, "Who cares?" The more relevant question is - who had the most sophsticated 'program'?

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

>I see six - Gauder, Bubka, Beyer, Syedykh, Delis,
and Hohn.<

Never mind.

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984?

>You had to look at an issue to figure it out? And
>here you've been trying to pass yourself off as
>an expert all this time, and I almost bought it.

I don't consider myself an expert, just someone who wastes far too much time on this stuff. The most important skill for a lawyer is to know where to look things up--and I'd rather have you make fun of me than get my facts wrong.

I was also in the 7th grade when those games happened, so I thought I'd check to see if my recollection was correct. I'd have left out the LJer if I hadn't.

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984 (women)?

100: Ashford USA
200: Brisco USA
400: Koch GDR
800: Olizarenko USR
1500: Just pick a Soviet Girl
3000: Kazankina USR
100h: Kalek POL
400h: Stepanova USR
4x100: USA
4X400: GDR
Marathon: Benoit USA
high hump: Meyfarth FRG
long jump: Daute GDR
shot: Lisovskaya USR
discus: One of the 3 East Germans, Meszynski, Beyer or Opitz
Javelin: Felke GDR
Heptathlon: Just pick an East German Girl

[Jon]

Re: Who would have won in 1984 (women)?

100m: Ashford USA
200m: Koch USA
400m: Koch GDR
800m: Kratochvilova URS
1500m: Podkopayeva URS
3,000m: Kazankina URS
100mH: Kalek POL
400mH: Khromova URS
4x100: USA
4X400: URS
Marathon: Benoit USA
High Jump: Andonova BUL
Long Jump: Daute-Drechsler GDR
Shot Put: Lisovskaya USR
Discus: Sihlava TCH
Javelin: Felke GDR
Heptathlon: Sabine John GDR

[Jon]

Re: Who would have won in 1984 (women)?

Whoops - the above was meant to say "Koch GDR"... obviously...


It's about time this message board had an "edit" function!!

[Guest]

Re: Who would have won in 1984 (women)?

'Tis a poor crafsman who blames his tools.