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  • Virén's '72 Olympic 5K victory came from his careful running of almost all the bends (curves) near the inner edge of the first lane, which spared him tens of metres compared to his chief rival Steve Prefontaine-United States. Prefontaine gave Virén a handicap of over forty metres at the 1972 Olympics 5,000 metres. Prefontaine actually ran a 5K distance faster than Viren, but the 40 metres handicap gave Viren the victory. This fact makes it difficult to label Viren a faster runner.

  • i ran my first 5km race in 24:31 as a 9 year old girl! I started running in the end of September of 2011 so about 2 and a half months. my goal is to run it in 18:00-19:00 my dad was a runner and he told me about Pre and I want to run at Oregon like him in 9 more years

  • In the time it took us to waste time wanting to run...Steve Prefontaine could have ran a 3:59.2 mile...Pre was a runner...nothing more..nothing less. PRE LIVES

  • I joined cross country this year. I was second best freshman on our team and first race I came in 8th out of 150. Then I watched a movie about Steve prefontaine. Without limits. I was really inspired and I won the next cross country race. I ran a PR. Of 15:58.84 and second place guy behind me from MLK ran a 16:27.32 I was so proud of myself. And I owe it all to pre.

  • This is probably one of the greatest YouTube videos because of this song and how it was so brilliantly done (the compilation). Thank you. It seems this music is perfect because of the words and the time it came from- the era of the Great Steve Prefontaine. And I think runners to this day run to this song- motivated like never before.

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  • To think of some of the brutal workouts he must have done on that Oregon track, he inspired millions and continues to do so. There's no kind of natural ability that creates something like Steve Prefontaine. That's what is so great about him. He created who he is out of pure guts and determination. My coach always used to say, "If you don't see the white light then you can keep going." I think he lived by that

  • He is my hero becuase, yes i might never be as fast as him or even close but no matter what he has tought me if you have balls enough to run your heart out You will never lose! all us runners look up to you and i am going to strive to be like you:)

  • my first ever Cross country was a 5k and I ended up running a 18:36 and my coachw as yelling at me the whole race to slow down that I was going to die.

    At the end I got 18th out of 140 and one of the other school coaches asked me if I wanted to Steve Prefontaine or something so I had to look him up.. Such an inspiration!

  • @Unhuman6 Actually, he was more or less making a reference to the fact that you ran far beyond your limits and ran well below your optimal performance. I have to say though that I was not all that different in my first ever XC race...

  • @Unhuman6 If you ran your first cross-country 5k in 18:36, you are very talented. You should continue to apply yourself - run hills helped me to improve in a hurry. Keep up the good work. I would be happy to offer advice and encouragement if you need it.

  • You may have taken all of my footage for this video but I don't mind. It's Pre, he should be shared with everyone. You have my blessing.

  • what song is this?

  • @bombdiggitychad Moby - Extreme Ways

  • Estimado.

    En mi canal usted pregunto que si existia pagina Web de la Sociendad de Historia de Reynosa.

    Desconosco eso..

    Si gusta yo tengo algo de Historia en mi Pagina de Facebook

    el nombre es............Historia de Reynosa ....... si gusta agregarme con gusto lo aceptare

    Que tenga una excelente noche !abur!

  • @PapaDelPato

    Acabo de leer tu comentario. Estaremos en contacto. 

  • wow. steve prefontaine is awesome. how could u dislike this video? 6 people have no soul.

  • pre was an American legend..lest us too soon

  • Didn't realize how bad of teeth he had.

  • @ratliff2006 and that the best thing you can think of to say?!

  • he so dumbbbbb drinkin and drive

  • This running thing isn't just another exercise, it is a way of life. Running is the message and I am delivering it. Period,

  • 6 people sacrificed the gift

  • PRE never got the chance to go PRO!

  • He gave it his best when the dumb drunk killed himself!

  • @InsaneGoonRules brilliant comment there Insane

  • music not so good

  • Cross Country truly is the best sport out there and surely the most rewarding as this video clearly shows.

  • @Eeescape5FPCHS Cross country, besides fitness gains, only rewards the three people who come in first and one team who triumphs over the rest... a small percentage are rewarded, the rest are either disappointed or happy that it's over. But that's just my opinion, and I recommend XC to anybody, but not so much to zealots as cross country can destroy your life... as it almost did mine.

  • I can't run 18 min 3 mile. 21 is the best so far. When I ran 21 one time I felt like I was a flying bird, like an out of body experience I shocked myself when the time was read back to me. I can imagine what PreF felt like too

  • Pre is a great inspiration for runners everywhere.this video inspired me to run my hardest the next time I run.The music also gives the video an inspirational feel to it.To all runners out there, always watch inspirational videos about running it keeps u motivated and study the best of the best, which Pre is one of them.I did'nt have no one to push me but I still manage to run a 10:08 2 mile without hardly any coaching.U can do anything u put your mind to.Just believe in yourself and keep pushin

  • My favorite part is 0:00 to 3:59 :-D

  • God bless his Heart, Soul, Mind, Body, & Legs! :-)

  • 0:46 one of these two men is an Olympic 5,000 meter medalist.

    And it isn't Pre.

  • @fosbury68 dellinger....pre's coach for one(the last) year in college....bronze, '64 tokyo games.

  • @MargaritasAntesPorco

    Actually Bill Dellinger was UO's Head Cross Country coach for all 4 of Steve's years. Took over for Bowerman as Head Track & Field coach in '73.

  • Steve Prefontaine, Guts and Heart.

  • I think this is music from Bourne Identity,,,Moby,,yea!  I'll be running later,,what an inspiration Pre is!

  • GOD SO INSPIREING RAN A 4:20 AT MY VALLEY MEET AND IM JUST A SOPMORE I HAD THIS AT THE BACK AT MY HEAD :)

  • my teacher looks exactly like him

    ge tries to

  • Yay Preaster is coming up!

  • cool song, pre lives

  • What's this song....works good with the video...Pre 1 of the greatest guts runners ever.

  • "Extreme Ways" by Moby. Good tune.

  • thanks man....have a great day

  • unbelievable heart =will this pre has

  • best video ever.best runner ever.long live prefontaine. GO PRE !

  • Thanks for adding some music to this video. MUCHO GUSTO!

    A big thanks to everyone who's out walking, running, biking, or whatever. Helping to create the environment that makes a town a fun place to exercise.

  • This is my favourite thing on You Tube. thanks very much for taking the time to put it together and post it. I especailly love the parts aroun 1.50 when the first chorus comes in. I love Steve more every year.

  • I have 8kms of pain today... Nothing gets me pumped like this.

  • There will NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER PRE!!! There will be great runners but he surpassed that by a longshot...and alot of the AAU guys making big bucks today and thank Pre!!!!

  • Check out the movie: Without Limits. It's not always about what place you came in, but how hard you try!

  • 0:47 is coach Vandinbush i meet him at a high altitude traning camp.

  • the fallen, shuttup if u dont believe go somewhere and kill yourself, "pre" was the best CC runner ever.

  • @lacrosskid33 Nope, that belongs to Kenenisa Bekele.

  • no one's ever going to surpass him. regardless of performance...like pre said "I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting."

  • GO PRE! your freaking amazing! you changed the sport 4ever.

  • AWesome video man! its pretty nice : ]

  • I personally hate running. BUT when I learned about Steve it blew my F*in mind. What a rock of a personality. SOLID

  • steve was an awesome runner

    R.I.P

  • extreme ways - moby

  • what is the name of the song?

  • Awesome video, where did you get all of the clips?

  • R.I.P.

  • I would have loved to seen him run in person. RIP PRE

  • Without even realizing it, today I went out and ran the hardest 5 miles I ever had.

    It was Steve Prefontaine that pushed me today, it was a race, not to show how fast I was but how much Guts I had. Thanks pal

  • @MarqueeMagic You must be a Marine too, You must be Capt T. even thought I fall behind, trust me I am doing the best i can. I can't run 18 min 3 mile. 21 is the best so far. When I ran 21 one time I felt like I was a flying bird, like an out of body experience I shocked myself when the time was read back to me. I can imagine what PreF felt like too

  • @armywar30 Never say can't buddy, if you allow yourself to do all that you do as if there is no way anyone or anything could place any limits on you (that's including yourself) the feats we are capable of are epic. Keep pushing yourself and one day you will run 3 miles in 18 min. Having a goal and overcoming the obstacles that occur while on the path towards acheiving that goal shows perseverance. "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up everytime we fail." - Emerson

  • Never seemed to Dissapoint...BEAST....

  • quizá no sea de los que mejores tiempos tiene en el panorama internacional,pero hay que ver las circunstancias de las competiciones de aquellos años, y con lo joven que tuvo el accidente... Si hubiera tenido más tiempo, quizá nos hubieramos encontrado con otra situación.

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  • Prefontaine is one of the greatest athletes in americas history. Nuff said.

  • Great job! Pre is still, my greatest athletic hero of all time, probably influenced my own life in more ways than I realize. What a role model, what an attitude! . We're almost the same age, both 50% German. And I love the duration of this video (3:59). God bless Pre!

  • he is a stud!!

  • his VO2 max was only 70, yet he was excellent runner, coudl ahve been lactate threshold... he oculd just have easily been a college wrestler...also eny1 know what he died from??

  • drunk driver supposedly swerved at him and he drove off the road and was killed in single vehicle roll over i believe

  • he was in a convertible with the top down and the roll over killed him by crushing his rib cage

  • He got into a car wreck after a party and his chest was crushed by his own car,man,it was sad to hear wen i watched his movie

  • he smiles very arrogantly at the camera. like he knows its going to be something important almost. idk its just weird.

  • it's because he was something important retard

  • I followed Pre when I was in H.S. in Oregon in the early 1970s. In May of 1974 when I went to State in the 880, held in Eugene, Oregon at the U of O, I was warming up in the warm up area. Running up next to me was this guy, he says ...hi. I look over and it was Pre. We ran together for about 50 yards, then he peeled off. That made my day, and was the highlight of my High School running career. My team mates yelled "You ran with Pre!" Sadly, a year later almost to the day, Pre was killed.

  • dude, you are lucky.

  • I love Pre!! My brother looks exactly like him!! NO JOKE!

  • R.I.P Pre

  • this song is on the end of the bourne supremecy haha

    steve prefontaine is amazing

  • stef prefontaine el mas grande atleta de la historia...

  • no no tampoco tampoco jaja... te puedo nombrar 10 atletas mejores que el en este momento, pero es un grande por su fuerza mental, su autoestima y claro por sus grandes tiempos

  • Loved the film- it was amazing! Such an inspiration, what an amazing man, Go Pre!

  • love Pre

  • rest in peace steve. you're such an inspiration

  • Badass song, this dude is my inspriation!!!!!

  • from .56 to 1.01 - he is so absolutely gorgeous...

  • i love pre

  • With the real audio instead of this stupid Moby song would be way better. Still, 5 stars because you just don't fuck with Pre.

  • hahah WORD!

  • WITHOUT LIMITS great movie about the triumph and tragedy of Prefontaine......must see

  • LOVED THAT MOVIE

  • NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Champion for 3 straight years.

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  • extreme ways

  • name of the song i think its from moby

  • Great video man. We'll never forget

  • One of the answers to the age old question: "If you could go back in history and meet three people, who would they be?". For me, one would be Pre. No one better, ever.

    Thanks for sharing this. To do anything less than keep the memory of Pre alive is to sacrifice the gift.

    Thanks---Steve

  • Lol-me too! I suppose my list would be Jesus, Pre, and hmm...I guess Roger Banister.

  • That is not the correct spelling of Bannister. Maybe he is not really who you would like to meet. Besides, he is still kicking. He was also willing to stop running for medicine, but glory and the four minute mile eluded academics. I don't know if Roger Bannister loved running even half as much as Steve Prefontaine; but he was very talented indeed.

  • Yeah thanks for the correction...I can't spell very well for anything. I use to spell Prefontaine without the e at the end. Pretty much I just never read when I was young because I have a type of vision problem that makes reading very hard for me, but I've gotten help for that. I do wish he would have kept running even if not competitively but just the fact that he was the first to go sub 4 is amazing. I run 5:57 mile and that just seems beyond me. I have respect for anyone that can break 4.

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  • i dont believe you, i'll race you anyday.

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  • what race. and i'm a log distance runner. not 800.

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  • Don't believe you, doubt anyone here does.

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  • Give me proof.

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  • I'm saying give me proof you did it, I know its easy, if you can run a 4:20 mile you can run under 4 for 1500.

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  • no one gives a flying fuk what you can run... its youtube

    no need to brag about something...

    so stupid

  • Oh yeah, Jesus is number 1 lol. I love Jesus

  • Christ is amazing for all he did for us on the cross. His love is amazing and being with him forever in heaven will be amazing =)

  • Yeah jesus was pretty cool but Prefontaine would still kick his ass in a race.

  • Pre was the Zen Master

  • hes my hero.

  • You could not choose a more PERFECT song and lyrics for Pre than these. Nice job.....Extreme.....yes......G­reat stuff!

  • perfect

  • Moby

  • hey who sings this song?

  • its called extreme ways, by moby

  • woot~! thnx

  • no problem, enjoy

  • Hayward Field is the Mecca for Track and Field. I will finally get to visit it next year. I don't think America fully understands what an icon PRE was and still is. PRE LIVES in us all, and he will remain in our hearts forever. TO GIVE ANYTHING LESS THAN YOUR BEST IS TO SACRIFICE THE GIFT---STEV PREFONTAINE

  • rest in peace steve

    oregonians for life!!!!!!!! i luv oregon!

    he was the greatest guy runner man eva!!1 and i own all the movies abt him!! go ducks!!!

    and kudos to bill bowerman for coaching him and creating the awesome NIKE

  • agreed!! fellow oregonion right here as well man:]

  • i like it!

  • Amazing vid

  • R.I.P. Steve Prefontaine

    I will live up to you. You encourage me every 5k, 1600, and 3200 race I run. You embody and symbolize what I desire to be. Rest in peace.

  • Bourne Supremecy soundtrack and Utimatium Watch the movie credits

  • I will forever be thinking of this beautiful man who died too young...when I run...he is my hero..Go Pre!

  • this is awsome ,Pre was amazing and deserves our respect

  • thats amazing, its a shame he died, but think by dieing he inspred millions of us to get off our asses and try to be as good as him (even though that can never b done) but very inspirational love it

  • Love the song, awesome with the footage!

  • hes the man

  • What is the name of the song?

  • extreme ways by moby

  • pre was one of the greatest runner in the world, hes one of the main reasons i run

  • thanks for inspiring us all "pre"

    17 year old german fernandez runs 4:00.2 (mile) 8:34 2 mile ca 2008

    best hs double ever? did i really see this?

    i was in shock for 8 weeks

    pat hebert

  • haha he live like 20 minutes from where I live, he is amazing to say the least. hope to see him in 2012...

  • Dude he died in 1975. So i really doubt you'll see him in 2012.

  • no you fucking dimwit i am talking about German...

  • /fail

  • Excelente video cuate! Espero pronto poder ver mas producciones tuyas. Me gusto mucho tu edicion.

  • he was nek an nek with the other guy but lik he says he had mor guts

  • nice vid

  • seeing him run like that is nothing short of amazing.

    you can tell he was born to run.

  • really great video

  • Pre lives

  • what song is this?

  • Extreme Ways by Moby

  • thanks I dont see why people would give me a thumbs down for that.

  • so pre fans aren't welcomed here? now i know WHO(utopia1024) not to give my copy of sports illustrated with pre on the cover too. you chump

  • pre is never going to be matched in terms of what he meant to the people

  • Run Pre!

  • Super! I cried the day he died. This brought back great memories.

  • Well done! Choked me up a bit though.

  • not only was he amazing, but he was sexy!

  • good call patriksson

  • coolest runner ever...where are all the rock star runners now?

  • when was the last time you saw the crowd cheer for ryan hall even after he lost?

  • Ryan Hall isn't even Pre in his best wet-dream. Great video, dude!

  • amen!

    go pre!

  • I wasn't saying Hall is a better runner than Pre. I'm just saying that after seeing Hall's preformance at the olympic trials I was very impressed and given hope for the future of American running. Anyway, great video. Stop Pre!

  • Go Pre!!

  • great video- what race is this from?