On the never-ending Track History thread, Dave Johnson has just suggested that Woodruff-Harbig at 800m was the greatest match race never to have taken place.
I'd like to nominate another candidate for that title--Nehemiah and Moses at 400mH. In the late '70's and early 80's, Moses was unbeatable at the long hurdles. But those of us who saw Skeets run that 44.3 anchor leg at Penn used to salivate at the thought of the WR holder at the short hurldes taking up the 400mH and challenging the WR holder at that event. Both hurdlers were absolutely at their prime at the same time.
If that race were ever going to take place, I'd have traveled anywhere in the world to see it. But as great as Nehemiah's talent was at both hurdling and running 400m, he never combined the two, and the race against Moses just never happened.
(Edited to fix two typos--something we couldn't do when this was first posted.)
I'd like to nominate another candidate for that title--Nehemiah and Moses at 400mH. In the late '70's and early 80's, Moses was unbeatable at the long hurdles. But those of us who saw Skeets run that 44.3 anchor leg at Penn used to salivate at the thought of the WR holder at the short hurldes taking up the 400mH and challenging the WR holder at that event. Both hurdlers were absolutely at their prime at the same time.
If that race were ever going to take place, I'd have traveled anywhere in the world to see it. But as great as Nehemiah's talent was at both hurdling and running 400m, he never combined the two, and the race against Moses just never happened.
(Edited to fix two typos--something we couldn't do when this was first posted.)
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