Paula Radcliffe - 2:17:18 ! .... Oh, wait, That's my short-term memory kicking in.
How about Walter George, 4:12 3/4 mile, '86? As in 1886. Altho there was a 4:12.6 mile in 1915, George's time wasn't significantly bettered until Nurmi ran 4:10.4 in 1923, 37 years after George. -----Original Message----- From: Jack Pfeifer [mailto:pfeiferj@;nytimes.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: t-and-f: Meanwhile back at the hall of fame.... >i couldn't agree more, gh. i grew up with cal ripken but was shocked >to see his passing gehrig chosen #1. it doesn't even belong in the >top 5. my personal choice for #1, the 1951 Shot Heard Round the >World, apparently merely dates me (even though I was too young to >have known about it when it occurred). 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 ... What else? JP >aka, what happens when the public gets involved: > >Today's local paper had a "nasty" article about the choosing of baseball's >all-time 10 greatest moments by the fans. Obviously that's an exercise in >futility, and one with a lot of subjectivity involved. The most telling >point in the article was that in a sport more than 100 years old, 5 of the >10 moments happened in the last 17 years. > >How does this relate to track's HOF (my favorite rant at the moment)? I >wrote a column on the subject for next month's issue of T&FN and in it I >noted that while all four of the people who will be inducted this year had >bona fide credentials for so going, of the 11 people who were nominated, the >4 who got in came from the group of the 5 youngest. > >If you're incapable of voting for anything that happened before your time, >then don't vote. > >gh
