1976 Olympics 10000m

1976 Montrealin olympialaisten 10000 metriä.

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• 1976
• olympic
• games
• 10000
• Lasse
• Viren
• olympialaiset

[PaulVinonaama]

Where did you get the idea that Viren was dirty? We Finns are the cleanest people since we use the sauna so much. If you mean dirtiness figuratively, there is nothing whatsoever to implicate Viren any more than, say, Lopes. By the way, Lopes IS a real olympic champ since he won the marathon in 1984. He was a great runner and, as far as I know, he never made any unsportmanlike accusations against other competitors.

[brockportrunner]

IMO lopes is the real olympic champ, considering he was the first clean runner to cross the finish line

[MrJuha82]

He won everything from Olympic Games!!

Paavo Nurmi is the biggest Finnish legend still of all Finnish long trip runners, no question about it.

[MrPhilosophicalpanda]

Everytime I watch this video I look around just a second for Pre. I almost tear up when I remember... Pre was a 5k runner not a 10k....

[stevetheowl12]

@YiftertheShifter1 It is true that there is a big difference between these events, but even if you change it to three, you still don't see anything like that anymore. Said Aouita planned to do so in 1988, but he only ran in the 800 after a hamstring injury. To me, the fact that no one can even come close to what Zatopek did in 1952 and Nurmi in 1924 make those the performances that will live for the ages. Several have done a single-double, but the mere idea of a triple or a five is no more.

[YiftertheShifter1]

@stevetheowl12 If someone wanted to try five events, they'd have to do, say, the 1500m, steeplechase, 5000, 10000, and marathon (or 800m). There are huge differences in these events; the schedule makes it impossible for full recovery, plus you have to factor in heats and semifinals. It is impossible today, given all that plus the specializing and the competition in each.

[stevetheowl12]

@YiftertheShifter1 @YiftertheShifter1 I read somewhere that Keino tried to do both, and was so exhausted after winning a silver in the first that he decided not to run the second. I thought it was the 5000, but I had it backwards.

You are right that athletes don't have as many chances to win as Nurmi, but I think that it is fair to point out that we now run in an era where running two events is considered to be the exception rather than the rule. I don't see anyone trying five events today.

[YiftertheShifter1]

@stevetheowl12 However, I do agree that overall, Nurmi and Zatopek had achieved much more in their careers that Viren in terms of races won, records set, barriers shattered etc.., but Viren specialized in the Olympic Games just as Lance Armstrong specialized in the Tour de France, and the result is that both achieved what the all-time greats never achieved in the highest stage. Nurmi and Zatopek are higher up in the pantheon of distance runners, but Viren is the best Olympic runner ever.

[YiftertheShifter1]

@stevetheowl12 I don't know what you're talking about with regards to Kip Keino. He won a silver medal in the 1500m, which means that he had to have started the 1500m. Now as far as CC goes, I agree that it caused athletes such exhaustion: in 1924, there was a heat wave in Paris that knocked out over half the competitors. I doubt whoever won the race could've decided the event's future, but the point is that future athletes are not given as many events/ chances to medal as Nurmi did.

[YiftertheShifter1]

@stevetheowl12 Don't compare these track distances, 1500/ 5000, with the marathon. Athletes do these distances so often during the year, whereas career marathoners do marathons only twice a year. They take so much out of you. People taper heavily in the last week and have lots of rest. Viren had run a very tough race the day before and only decided to do the marathon as an afterthought.