1980 Olympic Men's 100m final - Alan Wells

GOLD - Alan Wells (GBR), 10.25
SILVER - Silvio Leonard (CUB), 10.25
BRONZE - Petar Petrov (BUL), 10.39

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• Petrov

[Woodlander65]

Great stuff, would of been good to see his Mrs screaming him on again.

[CaneFu]

@beutuoy1

The same thing was said about tennis until the Williams sisters came along. The same thing was said about golf until Tiger Woods came along...

and in the 2008 Olympics we had our first African-American gold medalist in swimming, Cullen Jones. My guess is that in 50-60 years black swimmers will also dominate. African-Americans have been denied access to these other sports until recently.

Maybe you can still have ice hockey - I hear black people don't like cold weather.

[jordify1]

Wells still managed to hand the US runners their arse after the Olympics and in the golden sprints a year later. Everyone keeps going on that he only won because the US athletes weren't there. If they were such hot favorites how come they only ran times in the US Olympic trials comparible to what Wells and Leonard ran in the final here. The US athletes wouldn't have got close to Wells or Mennea in the 200 at these games either.

[CaneFu]

@TheEctomorph

"The weather conditions endured by Allan Wells were APPALLING...Therefore, one cannot conclude - from Wells winning time that he was not a great sprinter.

YES, ONE CAN. Wells career best of 10.11 was more than 2 tenths of a second off the world record. Ask yourself this one question...

If Wells was not white, would you even remember his name or have bothered to watch this video? We both know the answer to that is a big NO.

[CaneFu]

@capcom1

Allan Wells never even came close to running at world record speed. In fact, the last time a white guy held the world record for 100 meters was in 1960 - 52 years ago - by Armin Hary with 10.0, his record only stood for 24 days & was broken by a Canadian sprinter of African descent. No white guy has even come close to the world record since.

My original point being that Allan Wells is only remembered & idolized by some simply because he was white, not because he was great.

[CaneFu]

@beutuoy1

Why did you even post this? Anthony Nesty is NOT African / American but was born in Trinidad and moved to the Republic of Suriname when he was 5 months old. If you actually read my posts you would see that I was talking about African / Americans being denied training opportunities in certain sports. You must be one of those racists that lumps all people with dark skin - i.e. nonwhite, together.

[CaneFu]

@beutuoy1

YES, African-Americans have most definitely been denied access to these other sports by lack of training facilities for them in their neighborhoods. Most Olympic athletes start training as children and a place to run or play basketball has usually been accessible to inner city youth. Rare is the Olympic pool, golf course, hockey rink, or tennis court in the ghetto!!! As African-Americans are able to move into the the suburbs so will their exposure to these lesser sports.

[beutuoy1]

@CaneFu Wouldn't necessarily agree that Afro Americans/Caribbeans have been denied access to these sports. Anthony Nesty won a gold in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

[beutuoy1]

@CaneFu White guys are to swimming what Black guys are to sprinting. They are far the superior in that field of sport.

[CaneFu]

@capcom1

Alan Wells also had the slowest winning time since 1956.

[CaneFu]

@capcom1

I'm not trolling, I'm just stating a fact that people don't like to face....

How many white Olympic 100 meter champs have there been in the last 30 years?