You are driving East .... On your left is a statue of a historic track event, involving two athletes. You are in which Country, which City, and who are the principles, and what was the year and name of the Event? And which Street are you on?
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Originally posted by rasbYou are driving East .... On your left is a statue of a historic track event, involving two athletes. You are in which Country, which City, and who are the principles, and what was the year and name of the Event? And which Street are you on?
Canada
Vancouver
Bannister-Landy
1954
British Empire Games
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That is one fine SWAG. The street is Hastings, corner of Renfrew, right outside the PNE Grounds. It's a magnificent bronze, capturing very well the moment when Landy looked left, and Bannister went right.
Apparently, this was the first ever live sporting event shown across North American on television. I was only 8 years old, and we didn't have a TV, but Donnie Thomson and family, who lived 2 doors away, did, and I remember the drama of that race as if it was yesterday. And the Jim Peters saga as well.
Very moving stuff for an impressionable kid...
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Originally posted by rasbThat is one fine SWAG. The street is Hastings, corner of Renfrew, right outside the PNE Grounds. It's a magnificent bronze, capturing very well the moment when Landy looked left, and Bannister went right.
Apparently, this was the first ever live sporting event shown across North American on television. I was only 8 years old, and we didn't have a TV, but Donnie Thomson and family, who lived 2 doors away, did, and I remember the drama of that race as if it was yesterday. And the Jim Peters saga as well.
Very moving stuff for an impressionable kid...
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Victoria has a statue of Terry Fox at Mile 0 of the Trans-Canada Highway. The Victoria Marathon, 10K and 8K all go by this point, and many runners glance towards the statue on the way by, and perhaps offer a silent prayer.
Although Fox was not a track athlete of note, anyone that can run half-way across Canada on one leg, while struggling with the final stages of cancer, makes my list.
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The Jamaicans put up a nice statue in 2005 of Merlene Ottey at the national stadium in Kingston.
And in Carpi, Italy, they put up this past July a statue of the marathoner Dorando Pietri, who nearly won the 1908 Olympics, but collapsed in the stadium just yards from victory.
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There's a statue of Paavo Nurmi outside of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... lsinki.jpg
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http://www.taidemuseo.hel.fi/english/ve ... tby=statue
artist Terho Sakki (1930 - 1997)
sculpture Lasse Viren
map Paavo Nurmen kuja, Taka-Töölö
year 1994
images 1
The statues of the two greatly admired Finnish long-distance runners are placed in the immediate vicinity of the Olympic Stadium. One of the statues is the one dedicated to Lasse Viren (1949-), who was the first ever sportsman to win Olympic gold in both the 10,000 metre and the 5,000 metre races in two consecutive Games.
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