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Re: John Konrads selling all his golds
Originally posted by ghhttp://www.smh.com.au/news/national/olympics-hero-says-goodbye-to-gold/2008/10/31/1224956332595.html
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On a somewhat related note, who were the women who lead the torch parade in 2000 in Sydney? I recall Cuthbert, Strickland, Boyle and Kathy Freeman - was there anyone else? (Dawn Fraser? - but she was always out of favor with the powers that be.). For me, the most moving moment was to see Cuthbert in a wheelchair (pushed along by Boyle). This was the woman who won four Oly golds over 8 years, and prompted that most unforgettable of lead headlines in a major (city, Melbourne) newspaper in 1956 with her anchoring the 4 x 100 m relay victory. "Betty, You Beaut".
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Re: John Konrads selling all his golds
Originally posted by eldrickOriginally posted by catson52in 1956 with her anchoring the 4 x 100 m relay victory
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modern times tells us that if americans have a good run, they shoud be no worse than 2nd
if they were outside this in the"ole" days, then either they ran crap or had got some inadequate talent on show
looking at this event, it looked severely under-developed until ~ '64 when poland (?!), presumably with irena put the record to a respectable level with 43.69
a very arcane correlation is that the relay record shoud be ~ 1.5s faster ( maybe upto 2s ) than men's individual 400wr at the time if relay is not under-developed
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Originally posted by eldrickno smiley
modern times tells us that if americans have a good run, they shoud be no worse than 2nd
if they were outside this in the"ole" days, then either they ran crap or had got some inadequate talent on show
looking at this event, it looked severely under-developed until ~ '64 when poland (?!), presumably with irena put the record to a respectable level with 43.69
a very arcane correlation is that the relay record shoud be ~ 1.5s faster ( maybe upto 2s ) than men's individual 400wr at the time if relay is not under-developed
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Originally posted by eldrickchecking the books, americans between '48 - '60, out of a possible 18 medals over 100/200 garnered an absolutely pathetic
1 bronze
this fact alone shoud underline the under-development of sprints at the time
And what sort of a criterion is that, anyway? Americans won no medals in 1972 or 1976 - would you say the women's sprints were less developed then than they had been in the 1960s, when US sprinters were dominating?Było smaszno, a jaszmije smukwijne...
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Re: John Konrads selling all his golds
Originally posted by catson52On a somewhat related note, who were the women who lead the torch parade in 2000 in Sydney? I recall Cuthbert, Strickland, Boyle and Kathy Freeman - was there anyone else? (Dawn Fraser? - but she was always out of favor with the powers that be.). For me, the most moving moment was to see Cuthbert in a wheelchair (pushed along by Boyle). This was the woman who won four Oly golds over 8 years, and prompted that most unforgettable of lead headlines in a major (city, Melbourne) newspaper in 1956 with her anchoring the 4 x 100 m relay victory. "Betty, You Beaut".
Betty Cuthbert (pushed by Boyle)
Dawn Fraser
Shirley Strickland
Shane Gould
Debbie Flintoff-King
Cathy Freeman
Marjorie Jackson would have been in it but she had a leg problem and so was one of the eight gold medallists who carried the Olympic flag into the stadium
Originally posted by eldrickchecking the books, americans between '48 - '60, out of a possible 18 medals over 100/200 garnered an absolutely pathetic
1 bronze
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Re: John Konrads selling all his golds
Originally posted by Vault-emortOriginally posted by catson52On a somewhat related note, who were the women who lead the torch parade in 2000 in Sydney? I recall Cuthbert, Strickland, Boyle and Kathy Freeman - was there anyone else? (Dawn Fraser? - but she was always out of favor with the powers that be.). For me, the most moving moment was to see Cuthbert in a wheelchair (pushed along by Boyle). This was the woman who won four Oly golds over 8 years, and prompted that most unforgettable of lead headlines in a major (city, Melbourne) newspaper in 1956 with her anchoring the 4 x 100 m relay victory. "Betty, You Beaut".
Betty Cuthbert (pushed by Boyle)
Dawn Fraser
Shirley Strickland
Shane Gould
Debbie Flintoff-King
Cathy Freeman
Marjorie Jackson would have been in it but she had a leg problem and so was one of the eight gold medallists who carried the Olympic flag into the stadium
Originally posted by eldrickchecking the books, americans between '48 - '60, out of a possible 18 medals over 100/200 garnered an absolutely pathetic
1 bronze
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