Arrogance Personified
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Uploaded by dinadangdong on Jul 18, 2011
Arrogance Personified: 5000m race at Crystal Palace, London, England - 1980. John "The Mudlark" Treacy (IRL) personifies the "Never Give Up" attitude. Steve Ovett (GB) with an overbearing display of superiority and self-importance, loses because of sheer arrogance. Ovett was a marvelous athelete in his time. He had just won the 1500m Olympic Gold in Moscow and had numerous other titles to his name including many World Records. This is one race he would like to forget. Treacy was no mug either. He had two Wold Cross Country Championship to his hame and won Silver in the 1984 Olympic Marathon at Los Angelus. (c) BBC
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I don't think this race was of any importance. I mean they were literally trotting until the last 80m. And then kept looking around. And at the end he purposefully leaned backward as the guy came up. Someone like him would know not to lean BACK if he wanted to win. It was most likely just in good fun. Hence why he was smiling even afterward. Just my opinion though.
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Still think he's a bad sport look up this:
Steve Ovett - AAA 1,500m Heat & Final 1979
And watch last 2 minutes of video:
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One of the most epic fails in sports history!! Ranks right up there with Lindsey "showboat" Jacobellis....
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What a tool
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Read Ovetts autobiography, there are only about 8 photos in the book and one was him being beaten by Treacy. Would an arrogant person have included that? He actually found it amusing. Of course he was very confident on the track, we could do with someone with his personality & ability now. I don't think if you were 800m champion you would expect a xc specialist to do you! Some unknown runner from Wimbledon once set some obscure club, vets record who sent a mssge congratulating him, Steve Ovett!
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ha ha , smug prick , did you see how he lookad and smirked at treacy as he finished ,
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no matter how hard it may feel to speed up at the end of a 3k...you've still got to kill yourself AT THE VERY LEAST on the last lap.
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Epic
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@bzach71 dirty trick, but legal.
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Oh my God that is so damn funny!
HouseofJello 4 months ago 18
The commentator was just as arrogant!!!!!
Elbonio1 3 months ago 13