> From: Jack Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Jack Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:23:53 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: t-and-f: Meanwhile back at the hall of fame.... > > What are some nominees for >> Top Moments of the Century in T&F? A few possibilities (in no >> particular order): > > Bob Hayes' 4x1 anchor in Tokyo > Beamon's LJ in Mexico City > FloJo's 10.49 > Rafer Johnson vs CK Yang > Wilma Rudolph in Rome > Jesse Owens in Berlin > 1952 4x4 Jamaica vs US > Lindgren defeats Russians at 10k > US-Russia dual at Stanford during Cuban missile crisis > Lusis vs Wolfermann in Munich '72 > Mills's win over Clarke and Gammoudi in Tokyo > Ryun vs Liquori in Philadelphia>>
Bannister probably has to be No. 1. Jesse Owens 6-WR hour Nurmi's '24 Oly 15/5 double in a little more than an hour Zatopek's triple in '52 Dorando Pietri's DQ Jim Peters gruesome marathon finish in the '54 BCG (although Schiess-Andersen took some of the "uniqueness" off that with her '84 stagger) Any post-meet party Wilt ever went to.... :-) Gh
