1988 Olympic Games Men's 800 meters final

[newromantic888]

lol 6.41 the camera man goes over and the mistake from the commentator. I love this video.

[TheBaloothebear]

EVM3point0 that time is shit i did 2.22 at the age of 10 and two other kids beat me

[TheEctomorph]

@TheBaloothebear They must have been talented kids ..... if they were capable of running the 800m in less than 2:22 at 10 years of age.

[wiwrd11]

kenya is all we can say , kenya! paul ereng only 20 years of age!

[legendair]

idiot this elliot he pushed Aouita the favourit

[raulevich]

Que desastre la NBC dio todo el rato como ganador al otro keniata Nixon Kiprotich. puesto que Paul Ereng no estaba en los planes de nadie, que buena historia, que gran victoria.

[newromantic888]

Elliot baulked Aouita twice and pushed him wide and essentially cost him any chance of gold. Thats racing.

[inmanmark]

Anybody can make a simple mistake like getting the two of the mixed up in the heat of the moment. But concluding that Barbosa sacrificed himself for Cruz was just plain idiotic. That was the only really bad commentating here.

[mahtivaari72]

I still can't understand why Aouita chose to run 800m. He would have surely won 1500m or 5000m.

[iMaDeMoN2012]

Johnny Gray...That sounds like a superhero's alter ego.

[muc390]

Epic commentary FAIL!

[sniffinu07]

@runnerrunnur1 I used to run my 1st 400 meters at 57 or 58 and finish off between 56 and 59 . but during training, i ran 200 meters at the end of my workouts at 25 or 26 and the last 200 at 23 or 24 so i was confident i could handle the finish.

[runnerrennur1]

i hear that you should positive split an 800 race... but by how much? i wanna break 2:10 so what do i need to run my first 400 in??

[cosg9531]

I run an 800m in 1:46. I'm a sophmore in high school. Should I pursue it, or is that time too poor to consider it?

[runyashrun]

v.gud



[fidelis51]

@cosg9531 thats 3 seconds off the world record. And know you shouldn't persue it cause you can't run that time.

[turniptod12]

@cosg9531 bullshit

[runandski1]

@cosg9531

hahaha no you don't

[Co2Und3rground]

Big mistake by the commentators lol

[cegtown]

In 1987 I was in high school and was running the 4x800m relay with a club team at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh NC. It was a college meet but had some High School participation. Paul Ereng won the open 800m for Virginia that day. I think he ran 1:47+ (very good but not great), but his long lean body and running style left an indelible impression like I had just witnessed greatness. His victory in 1988 was stunning, but had you seen what I had seen in 1987, it was certainly no upset victory.

[Chocosizzles]

Half of the races had really bizarre running form. Never seen that many in one race before.

[captainampersand]

I would kill to be able to run only their second lap as a 400m

[Cyclonex1CA]

I have this one VHS and it still works :-) Said Aouita Was Fast in that race.Soon as I saw the finish I mumbled to myself Aouita should tell him "2 more laps" .. lol

[jorgebenbrasil]

might be the worst commentated race of all time

[thISxTHplacE]

awesome race. thanks for posting

[Jimmy911ism]

Interesting how he cam along the inside. At the top of the straight they usually shift out to pass those last 2 or 3, but this guy held his line (and his nerve). Coming along the inside for so long was a bit out there, but worked. Ereng and Said were sprinting parallel when the white guy got intimidated a bit and bumped into Said on the outside, checking him and ruining his run. That's something to think about for runners with a poor start. Interesting how so many back-runners win at elite level

[bike4aday]

Did anyone else see the camera man fall at 6:40? LMFAO

[SneakerZeeker]

bryant gumble lol

[j0wled]

It's clearly Ereng, and they call him as such only moments before switching his identity to Kiprotich. Sheesh.

[GOATAli]

Clowns couldn'tt even get the winners name right roaring home in the last 70 metres

[asadraza5367]

That is NOT Nixon Kiprotich. That is Paul Ereng!

[PrincessUnicorn69]

Yeah thats my 400 pr that they just did their first lap in. Niiiice.

[legendair]

pity no clip of the 10000m at that same olympics , a moroccan athlet of 21 years old won that race with a beautiful style and big marginal, stoped and walked virtualy on the ground before the finish and stil it was an olympic record ! his name Brahim boutayeb, google it otherwise

[1973stefant]

@legendair Brahim boutayeb for president

greetings from you'r friend from the Netherlands write me

[1973stefant]

did you know why the Moroccan win?

he thought the police was chasing him

[rondolce]

That was a fantastic race. Salvatore Antibo took out the first lap in 61 sec and the first seven finishers broke the existing Olympic record.

[legendair]

salvatore finiched secund

[newromantic888]

Amazing stuff...........really. Forgiven for the mistake. Johnny u still have the 600m WR. wE LOVE U.

[RawMarketingSolution]

Did Aouita bump into Elliot at about 1:35, messing up his acceleration to the finish line? He wouldn't have gotten there anyway, but that seemed to cause him to stumble quite abit.

[Jimmy911ism]

@RawMarketingSolution What are you talking about?! Elliot bumped into Aouita! He checked Said Aouita's run cos he shifted out after moving a bit too far form Ereng - maybe due to intimidation. Said would've got 2nd, with a ghost of a chance of victory, but Ereng did look too strong. No, they were both passing Elliot... you're a muppet!

[5overlord]

Never seen anything like the balls up the commentry team made re: the two Kenyan runners. It just shows what an unknown Ereng was.

NB watch the cameraman fall on his arse at 6.40.

[HeshimaJameni]

Kenyans won gold medals in all the three races! 800m - Paul Ereng

1500m - Peter Rono

5000m - John Ngugi

[legendair]

Aouita was running with one leg, that injure was growing and he gave up afterward, otherwise those 3 medals u mention would be belong to him..

[tedbovis]

Great effort Peter Elliot, what a fearless runner he was.

[FIFTY2WEEKS]

He ran injured at Seoul. I never saw him again after that

[Inc4ns]

Agreed. Peter Elliot had amazing effort although if he had the strength he might of actually got a silver or bronze medal.

[joetheho99p]

I ran 800m in sports day today, and I won! I went from second last to first in the last 100 meteters! Woohoo!

[scatman44]

1) Shorter named him right the first time, then named him wrong in the last 50 meters. 2) A loaded field, with the LA, Seoul and Barcelona Gold winnners in that race! 3) 49.54 at 400!!!! 4) Gray should've went to high school in NYC and ran PSAL; he'll really know what "40 minutes of nothing" is!!!!!

[YiftertheShifter1]

Actually the Barcelona winner Tanui wasn't here. The silver medalist Kiprotich was.

[crlbertone]

Excellent race by Paul Ereng. He moved very smoothly, a total surprise!

[YiftertheShifter1]

Aouita had an injury coming into the final, which this race further aggravated, costing him a chance to race at 1500 or 5000m at these games. I think this is the only race he lost this year, a year in which he defeated the defending Olympic champion and silver medalist here, Joaquim Cruz.

[dragonquest20]

habt noch kein gemacht

[Moroccan4lifeone]

Aouita could'v won this race easily if he wasnt being tackled and pushed around by those losers.

[Moroccan4lifeone]

god bless my people Aouita you are a legend.

[joshbagger]

who's the woman commentator?

"johny gray is flying!"

and literally 6 seconds later

"johny gray is way back"

[azfeet22]

The woman commentator you're referring to is Frank Shorter the winner of the men's 1972 olympic marathon..

[sbtbfanatic]

Frank Shorter does sound kind of like a woman!

[EVM3point0]

man should i run track in college? im a freshman and i do pretty good in the 800 but im scared of competition.

[sweatershiho]

How fast can you run?

[EVM3point0]

my 800 was around 2:56

[sweatershiho]

Well, I'm afraid that you have to do more training. People in my country who studies in campus has to run around 1:51. This is the level of university.

[EVM3point0]

im not interested in running anyway. im on a journey for something more worth while.

[sweatershiho]

Well enough, then why did you ask us about the 800 meters for? Shame on you. You said you disliked the thing that you couldn't achieve it that well. Even being middle-aged,some guys still can run into 2:10 during metric 800 games.

[tjshann]

The interesting part is that Charlie Jones took the blame for calling Kiprotich the winner, but it was Shorter who made the mistake when Ereng made his move in the last 100 meters."And Kiprotich!!"

[sweatershiho]

The commentator also make the same mistake in Japanese version. Why?

[azfeet22]

I Think as Frank Shorter said it. I think they were so drawn into the race that people forgot it was Paul Ereng who slipped by everyone to win the race, Kiprotich went out to hard and died coming home.

[atheytnt]

I remember this was the beginning of the Kenyan Dynasty. I believe the Kenyans pretty much won every race distance race after this win.

[ghai38]

what about Kip Keino?

[crlbertone]

Kip Keino in the '60s, Filbert Bayi & Henry Rono in the '70s. The kenyans & ethiopians were the dominating force before Seoul.

[HeshimaJameni]

The beginning of the Kenyan dynasty was in the Mexico City olympics in 1968.

[monkeyfunk72]

wow! legit RACE!

[jaimesandoval1988]

EXCUSES, EXCUSES from gray