what talented athlete most squandered their natural ability?
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Re: greatest talent--- - wasted
If not "wasted," then at least "unfulfilled": Philip Mosima, who ran 12:53 at Rome in 1996 as a teenager, then (if I remember correctly) was in a car crash and didn't do much afterwards. Of course, Kenya has a nearly endless list of such examples...
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Re: greatest talent--- - wasted
House bros - saw one of em run a 9.2w (Pretty sure).
another so cal guy - Brent Tubb - sub 21.x y, 46.7r, 1:49.4m (1:50.1y), 3:01r as soph, 4:09.2jr close to 22'lj and 46'6 or 7" tj. Most of HS was injured or sick (walking pneumonia - [Rockin Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu] much of sr yr.) Hardly ran in college.
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Bob Duncan:
I agree with your assessment. Being from Ohio, I saw this guy rise thru junior high, high school, and finally up thru Ohio State. His achievements here are legendary. Chris truly did waste his talents thru his rape(s) of that minor girl. At the time that Chris was "involved" with that girl, a friend of mine was his coach and I can tell you that both, not too mention the rest of you, were stunned. But in the years that followed, I have been informed by someone close to me that Chris had evidently "looked" funny at many young women and teen girls. This person close to me told me that he'd even hit on her (she was in her early 20's at the time), despite the fact that he already had a gf and I think a kid at the time. Chris was his own worst enemy, and now he is serving some serious time. Truly sad.
Kurt
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