Favorite T& F Related Movies?

[Guest]

I'm just curious what everyone's favorite T & F related movies are (or movies that just feature T & F in them), and if there's any that I haven't found out about yet. My top five are:
1) "Chariots of Fire" (could there be any other #1?)
2) "Without Limits" (Tom Cruise's Prefontaine tribute)
3) "You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown" (not really a movie, but lots of fun watching Snoopy pole vault!)
4) "Higher Learning" (I've always been curious how fast a supermodel could run the 100m)
5) "Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story" (Gail's one of my favorite athletes, so naturally...)

[Guest]

Re: Favorite T& F Related Movies?

this has been done to death

[Guest]

Re: Favorite T& F Related Movies?

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that this topic has been discussed before. I'm new to this message board. Do you know what other threads it's been discussed in? Could you direct me to them. Thanks.

[waynehobley]

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Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
They did a made for tv movie on Marion ones to. It was aight.

[Guest]

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'Wee Geordie' - a cute Hammer Throw movie, which was possibly inspired by 1956 Olympic HT. My fave t&f movies - Visions of Eight('72 OG) and Tokyo Olympiad. Oh,and of course 'Olympia'. For funkiness, Burt Lancaster in 'Jim Thorpe, All-American'. And, for sauna scene and Eugene shots, Personal Best.

[Guest]

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Disney's "The World's Greatest Athlete." Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Jan Michael Vincent...what else do you need!?!?!

[Devers66]

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Run for the dream: The Gail Devers Story...

It's one of my favorite movies, but I think that they should of had the 1992 Olympics 100mh event. other than that it is a great movie.

[Arnie]

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" Chariots of fire" if you don't care about the facts. Good movie but they took a lot of liberties with the truth.

[Guest]

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>I'm sorry. I didn't realize that this topic has been discussed before. I'm
>new to this message board. Do you know what other threads it's been discussed
>in? Could you direct me to them. Thanks.>>

Just enter "movie" n the search function. But hey, don't apologize. If somebody wants to play, they can play.

And the answer is Galipolli!

[jhc68]

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Clearly Gallipoli. And don't even to bother to bring up The Jericho Mile again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

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The Graduate. Wasn't Benjamin on the X-Country team?

[The King]

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On Wednesday 10th December, Athletics Weekly lists their vote of the 'Tp 10 Greatest Track & Field Athletics movies', so I'll post the info. on Wednesday...Wonder what number 1 will be??

[stevehj197]

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"Marathon Man." A great flick with some brief shots of Abebe Bikila.

[stevehj197]

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Chariots of Fire without a doubt.

[stevehj197]

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>Chariots of Fire without a doubt.

That is, to be rated by AW as #1. Also my 31. ASure they changed some facts around but that was to make it as better movie... and it won the Oscar for Best Picture ! And IMHO looking on as a T&F aficionado, they did not ruin it.