RE: RE: t-and-f: SI article about most overrated and underrated

[Mcewen, Brian T]

In a message dated 8/24/2001 7:31:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Big fish in a fairly small pond.  Even in the US distance Golden Age,
holding a bunch of US NRs is admirable, but not that big a deal in the
overall picture.  It's kind of like holding all the basketball national
scoring and rebounding records in Canada.

Kurt Bray >>



Kurt ... you are usually right on ... but not this time.  Setting NRs (close
to WRs) in events ranging from 5:00 to 28:00 is an amazing feat physically.
Also, note that I said:

<< Has anyone in the world ever held world-class 2k, 3k, 2M, 5k, 10k NR's
... >>

Canada is NOT World-class in basketball.  If you look at the US distance and
MD runners over 1964, (forget 1968), and 1972 Olympics ... we were a good
distance nation.  We were NOT third-class.  

Pre was fairly high up on the all-time lists with some of his times (his
27:43.6 was 6th all-time).