The Re-Match

Zola Budd and Mary Decker Slaney re-match in London 20.7.85

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Sports

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• Zola Budd
• Mary Decker
• Ingrid Kristiansen
• Cornelia Burki
• 3000 metres
• athletics
• running barefoot

[bobtrouper]

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[runneruk1]

@sc0ner watch what the Kenyan athletes do very carefully especially at championship races. It is an African way of controlling the pace and it is totally legal. Budd/Decker is the same as what Morceli did to El Guerrouj in 1996 Olympics

[LesbianVampireLover]

Hey, didn't Mary's hair look GREAT??!!!! Mary has thrilled us all many times in her career. I've had the privilege of seeing her several times, the last time in the 1996 Olympic Trials 5000m race in Atlanta where she made the team. No gold, but what a career. Thanks for the memories, Mary.

[jimmymack1973]

@sc0ner If you look back at the LA race Decker was slowing, and it was Zola's injection of pace that took the leading four clear of the pack. While she slowed when she got to the front, it was back to the level Decker was previously going at. Decker didn't have to run up Zola's heels - there were faults on both sides. In a fair run race there is no way Decker would have beaten Budd by 14 seconds like she did here. (They would both have beaten by Puica anyway.)

[zeering]

Decker was a trumped up "favorite" in the '84 Olympic race only because it was held in Los Angeles, Maria Puica was the better runner and had the best time in the world that year going into the games, not Budd or Decker, and would've won the Gold even had there been no trip & fall.

[sc0ner]

If you wrong, you know that what Budd did was absolutely wrong. While I'm sure it wasn't malicious-- after all, she put herself at risk-- but it was foolhardy. A good runner shouldn't have pinned Decker in and slowed down. Period. Good to see Decker whip her ass here. That's what should've happened in LA.

[JYoder]

I think both runners were and are great! They both have very different running styles and personalities. I do think it is sad that Mary still blames Zola for what happened at the Olympics. Its interesting to see how different their lives are now.

[jimmymack1973]

Zola's form transformed remarkably after this race. Her coach said that she was so wound up by the fuss over this rematch that it affected her greatly until it was out of the way.

That sounds slightly implausible, but if you consider she was a 19 year old girl who had already endured so much negative publicity I can imagine the focus on this race was something she wanted to get over with.

Zola gave a far more honest account of herself a few weeks later when she ran 8:28 to Slaney's 8:25.

[88cyclones]

do you have any more of these ladies?? Mary or Zola, would be great.....this was a great run and nice way to put all things behind them