Donald Sutherland shmoozes about Bill Bowerman

Donald played Bill Bowerman in a movie called WITHOUT LIMITS.

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[PREmarshall]

Sutherland did a most excellent job pet-raying Bill Bowerman., I know the story is not 100% correct, but what great movie is? The acting that was done in this movie was on key. Donald will always be a asset a important person of our generation and the past.

[SuperOlds88]

oh for God's sake, Donald Sutherland talking about track and field. It's like listening to Richard Petty talk about cooking. Prefontaine might have been better if he ran someplace else. Bowerman and Dellinger certainly were great coaches but so were alot of other coaches. I give the credit to Prefontaine that he was succesful despite Oregon.. Oregon had an aura for runners, it drew the best, lots of coaches could have been successful in that situation.

[xxxDAPROBLEMxxx]

this guy knows nothing about running.....

[laceup1967]

Sutherland is introduced as 'one of the country's most prolific and versatile actors..." which makes Bowerman and his intern writers looks idiots. His is not American.

[carryon1600]

I am not talking about him running now, I was comparing his fastest 5k time to the olympic A standard now. The fastest time Pre ever ran is slower than the 2008 Olympic A standard. Don't get me wrong I am a fan of Steve Prefontaine, and am saddened by the fact that the world will never get to see what might have been.

[connorqualheim]

well no shit! if he was still alive he would be in is 50's rite now. all that stress he put on his knees for all those years he would have been done running in his late 40's even earlier

[carryon1600]

He was not the best distance runner ever to live, he was very good and had he lived longer he would have busted some sick times. But his pr at the trials back in 72 wouldn't even make the A standard for the Olympics now. He has the trials record still but that only because the trials are now just a purely tactical race.

[connorqualheim]

dude just shut up. Steve prefontaine was the best long distance runner to ever live! if his life wasnt cut short he would have raped everybody in the montreal olympics

[carryon1600]

4:03 and 4:10 that is another huge difference. 4:00 and 4:03 not that big for a 5k but 7 seconds in a mile is huge, since they were all pretty lose during that last mile. I Would say that the miles for Viren, Stewart,Gammoudi, and Prefontaine all ran fast last miles. All probably faster than 4:10 but if pre had run his 4:00 mile he would have won the race, probably. It was a failure of the athlete to perform what he said he was going to do. End of story.

[kingwilson06ad]

Not when you are running twice the distance. Pre was just throwing the 4:00 minute number in the air. At the end he cracked something like a 4:03 in the last mile of the 5000-meter final and he still did not medal.