16 days of glory - Henry Marsh - part 2

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From the official film of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Henry Marsh of the USA runs in the 3000m steeplechase. Copyright 1985 Bud Greenspan and IOC.

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  • Henry Marsh showed the human side to the Olympics. He proved to everyone, that he is worthy of being called an Olympian. It is not always about the Olympic medals, but what makes a person a true sportsman, and Henry Marsh did that. God Bless you for that Henry Marsh.

  • Henry Marsh is a humble man, and a great speaker.

    It takes a greater man to get up more times than he falls than a man who wins everytime.

    Henry Marsh is a winner

  • That's for greatest steeplechaser in US track&field, then, not the world.

  • Julius Korir was in peak shape and took

    the lead with about 1.5 laps to go. Henry

    Marsh had to use up quite much energy to rise to the second place from the second

    last place. He surely tried his best, but

    wasn't quite in peak shape. Maybe he

    mentally gave up after losing the gold and silver medals. Anyway, he had a long

    and great career, despite never winning

    a medal in the Olympics or the World

    Championships.  By the way, Korir and

    Mahmoud didn't have long careers.

  • I'll take Diemer's 8:13 and a Bronze over 8:09 any day

  • Henry Marsh; he made even Greg Norman look like a big occasion competitor.Overrated, but 8.09 is good running.

  • That is hilarious! Henry always traveled with his bag of excuses when he raced-and he gave a sampling of it here. It is always something- "Virus", "went around barrier", "fell", etc. If he wins, he won in spite of it; if he loses, he has a reason. In sports, I believe they call this "choke in the big ones." Henry, you had the physical ability, but lacked the final 1% to get gold. You had a great career, but lacked the last little bit to win the big ones. Congrats to Brian Diemer for his Bronze!

  • Maybe this will help advance your steeplechasing career. Accomplish this, and you can pass Marsh and lay claim to being an all-time great:

    - Became the second male runner to make four US Olympic Teams

    - 13 straight years as one of the top ten 3,000 meter steeplechase runners in the world

    - 3 years as number one

    - Ten national titles

    - Four American records

    - American record of 8:09:17 which he held for 27 years

    Better get started!

  • The narrator (in Part 1) said Henry Marsh was considered the greatest 3,000m steeplechaser of all time despite never winning a gold medal at any event. Which makes me the second greatest 3000m steeplechaser ever. And i've never ran a 3,000m steeplechase.

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