Morceli - El Guerrouj Atlanta 1996 and right after Grand-Prix Milano (7 Sept. 1996)

To all those who claim: El G wouldn't have had won the gold medal if he didn't trip, since Morceli had anyway a better finish. I'm posting this video, which shows what would have happened, if El Guerrouj didn't trip. From 3:10 you can see the latest 400m of the Grand-Prix in Milano 1996 (7. September 1996), which shows that El G can not only win races when he starts his speed-up 600-800m, but had a powerful last 400m-100m to win any race even against big athletes such as Morceli. Sorry for the bad quality :-(.

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[celinefan13]

IL est difficile de comparer Morceli à El Guerrouj, vous oubliez quand même que Morceli est plus âgé de 4 ans. Et ses 3'27"27 auraient peut-être valu beaucoup mieux si il y avait un El Guerrouj des 3'26"00 en son temps. Pour moi en 1996 c'était plus le même Morceli, il était déjà sur le déclin. Celui de 1995 fut le meilleur

[RaiseDZ]

Why he did not win 2000 games ? "quelle histoire vous allez inventez cette fois, peuple de malade mentaux"

[oujdishinoui]

I think no1 could know what would have happened if hicham hadn't have stumbled over nouredddine's foot.anyway, they remain both ones of the best athletes I have ever seen along with aouita.

[DavidK1616]

Since his 400m split for:

800m - 1200m = 52.99, and

1100m - 1500m = 52.6 (approximately), then

he must be averaging 52.8 seconds per lap.

That's approximately a 1:46 last 800m!

[YiftertheShifter1]

Actually, what I notice is that El Guerrouj did go from a long way out (that would explain why the third lap was 52.99!); Morceli resorted to his usual tactics and took to the front, but trying to accelerate from a pace like that is suicidal, and you see the result. After the Olympics, El Guerrouj learned to be more in control of his races.

[chijanai]

J`ai oublié de mentionner qu'il s'agit de l'année 1996, où Morceli a réussi bien d´eviter el Guerrouj pendant toute l'année.

[chijanai]

Je suis tout à fait d'accord:

23 Février: (Stockholm), 1. place 1500m (salle) 3:34.97 min. et donc le troisième athlète qui court le 1500m en salle au dessous de 3:35!

08 Juillet: (Stockholm), 1. place 3:29:59 min

10.Juillet: (Nice), 1. place 3:30:61 min

03. août: (Atlanta) vous connaissez lhistoire

14. août: (zurich): 1. place 3:30:22 min

16. août: (cologne): 1. place 3:33:45 min

23. août Bruxelles: (zurich): 1. place 3:29:05 min

7. septembre, finale grand-prix: 1. place 3:38:80 min

[GetUpAndTryAgain]

wow, that's the first time i've ever seen el guerrouj actually wait until the last 100m to win it.