Actually, the facts don't quite paint the same picture. From 1976-1985 more
Americans ranked in the world scene at distances than ever before.
http://digilander.iol.it/rzocca/
malmo
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> Jeff beat me to this. George Young is indeed the most overlooked runner
> in the U.S. And he is one of the runners that I point too as support for
> my theory that the golden age of american distance running was 1964
> to about 1976 and that it was after the "running boom" and the rise of
> the African nations that fortunes began to fall.
>
> Mike
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