Bob Philippes, whose imagination was first captured in the 1950s, reflects his own experience and how the sport, particularly medium mileage, was created
It was a real deed of faith in the greenhouses called a monthly magazine. “Athletics“In December 1945. In fact, it was very little athletic when reported. World War II has not been over for a long time and hundreds of thousands of men in different allied forces.
The word “rest” is not lightly used. There was no money in athletics, or, at least, it was supposed to be there. It was expected that everyone would be strongly amateur, and the leading athletes were only allowed to spend strictly approved.
However, sports did not fully stopped during the war. In fact, amazing amount of athletics took place during those years, and even the world’s records were broken. The most wonderful of them took place in neutral Sweden, where two trunk runners, Gunder Hägg and Ara Andersson, during their fastest period. The couple defines 21 posts in everyone, in ¾-of-a-Mile, 2,500 m, miles, two miles, three miles and 5000 m, as well as investing 4 x 1500 m relay. All these events are officially recognized. Hyung and Anderson went down to 3,500 m. 47.8 (by Jack Lovelock), New Zeardander, Trained at Oxford University, at the 1936 Olympic Games) 3. 43.0 for 1942-1944. They 4: The time of the mile was dropped from 06.4. 06.4, Britain’s Sydney Wooderson, 1937
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38 races reported in 1945. However, this competitive IDYLL soon reached a sharp end. The proposed impetuses proposed by the proposed prepaid cash received, and eventually the Swedish hierarchy had to take action. The post pair was forbidden for life.
All those meetings were present in London, in the White City Stadium, where 60,000 spectators packed an old grandmother (thousands were locked). Anderson beats the wood of 4. 08.8 miles while Hägg won two miles race.
When we all know, the sub-mile would survive another nine years, and the end of 1952 was not a serious idea again. John Landin was completely unexpected in Melbourne. 02.1, and in June in June 1953, only three tenths were slow in California.
In 1953, I first aroused a teenager interest in Athletics, which soon became a mile in a mile in Spitak, which is not one of the record competitions.
Wes Santee was a pictorial visitor, and in the absence of Bannister, the British challenge unexpectedly offered the bank’s servant Gordon Piri, who ran for South London for South South South South.
Piri’s time 4. Time 06.8 was not a threat to Hägg, which was there to see it as a guest invited, but Jimmy Green perfectly captured the taste of that occasion.
Bannister’s Listmark 3: On May 6, 6.4 (I did not give to school for a school for me) until Finland 3. 57.9 Duration, when “Milo” won in Vancouus. As the Age was typical, Bannister went to retire immediately, and focused on a more serious business in the life of the surgeon.
Australia had a more or less tradition as a million nation, until the land has emerged, but her heritage would soon be taken. In 1960, I traveled by train and ferry in the Rome Olympics at Watford Harriers At Clubmer, where I was driving in a modest club level in 440 yards and 880 yards.
Their metric equality was quite neglected by the United States of Insular, but my attitude was soon changed by almost unknown New Zealand, which is called Peter Mushroom, which was more like a rugby union than 800 m.
My head went four days later, Herb Eliott, who won 880 and miles in the Cardiff Communfealth games in 1958 and set 3. 36.0 World Records 1500 m and 3. 54.5 for that summer miles away. In Rome, 1500 m gold at the Olympic won 3 World Records. 35.6.
The marathon, in particular, was also a discovery, and at the other end of the scale, Sprinter Wilma Rudolph shook us from our chauvinistic position that the female athletics was just decorative.
In the 1950s, women did not even allow you to compete in more than 200 meters in the Olympics. It was unclear that they could drive a marathon, and when Dale Stottsmen named Dale Graig was made in 1964. The glorious Paula Radcliff should put a dear old sum, good importance, but touches a shadow, firmly in their place, faster than in the 1930s.
In the early 1960s, I found journalism in Mexico’s high-level Olympic Games in Mexico, and in the 1990s as a BBC Radio Five Attletics, which would mean my diary.
In 1995, when we were in Gotheburg for the World Cup, John Iverdale asked. “Bob, you’ve seen a lot of medium distance. What is the largest? ” Given that the Sebastian Council of Europe was sitting next to me, it was an artificial investigation, but I answered all the honesty.
“I saw that Elliott won the gold medal in a record period in 1960,” I said. There was a short silence, and then someone spoke. “You can’t win that.” The voice was the Council of Europe.
After four years after that, I had a stadium for the return of the Grand Prix for the return of the Hykh, where the captain ran 3. 43.13 miles still standing as a world record. After that, I so happened to see him near the press area and call my best French, I told him.
El Guerrouj, ever merciful, answered: “Ah, May Ou, Le Grand Elliott, Quel Champion.” During the 1980s, my diverse journalistic career has distracted me for writing about other sports, so I had to contact TV reps, Council of Europe, Steve Wind and Steve Ovet, but in the end of the 1986 Cooperation Games.
CRAM is a lively, a boycott-upset with one of its most brilliant exploits – 1: 43.22 for 800 m, dozens of meters, and Ovet will win one of the first performances a month later. Elegance is also the essence of the essence three days ago, as the Council of Europe caused Tom Makkkkyan and the pure cleaning of 800 m.
In 2001, my 17-year standard with BBC ended, and the athleticians changed from all recognition in 70 years. In that first issue, in 1945, the issue was presented. “Will the four-minute miles be a fact?” At the time of writing (I was checking), one minute of 84 different countries, 849, from 84 different countries, and Kenya from Great Britain, and Kenya.
I am a jubilee in such progress. Of course, I am, but in the shadows, he was saddened that so many of us were considered the supreme challenge of Athletics. If there is only one lesson to learn such athletes for such a long time, it is the justification that what is extraordinary in one generation is the next one is the next issue.
Bob Phillips has been writing about athletics for more than 60 years and has been a member of the BBC Radio Radio Five Oneam, from 1985 to 2001.
