1972 Olympic 800m Final
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the 800 is the hardest run ever!!
it's like a long distance sprint
3 years ago 39
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Much like Andriy Borzakovsky's finish in 2004, only Wottle's is even more dramatic. Never seen this before - incredible.
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1000m is harder, its the 800 but with 200 meters tagged on at the end
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Wottle ran the SMARTEST of ANYONE in this field- if you time his splits, you will see that he didn't so much kick, but ran each 200m at virtually the same pace to the tenth of a second.....!
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holy shit that was incredible running! totally his own race, where everyone sprints ahead at the start, it looks like hes going for a stroll. but what a finish!!
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I remember watching this live. Incredible to watch then and now.
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Wottle you left it late but you got the Gold in your back pocket at the end of the day, not to many can say i was an Olympic Champion.
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i read he was getting over injury and couldn't sprint, that was him going through the motions; maybe a victim of overtraining
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I loved the 800.
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Anything can happen in a "tactical" race where everyone's too scared to race more than the last 200m. If you're gonna win by kick, you're looking to win in 1:45 or 1:46, which everyone in the final can do. So it's really a terrible tactic unless you've got by far the best kick.
Leading isn't really a disadvantage, being in lane 1 the whole time makes up for
the extra wind resistance.
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I remember watching that live. Still sends shivers down my spine. What an amazing finish by Wottle.
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Actually, it was totally legal for Wottle to wear that hat, and he always did. It wasn't until sometime after this that you were no longer allowed to wear hats and such. He did, however, forget to remove his hat on the podium and had a lot of explaining and apologizing to do afterwards.
rjschroed 5 years ago 8