Peter Elliot = LEGEND. Worked full time in a steel factory yet achieved 4th in 800m final and won silver in 1500m. A local hero for South Yorkshire who continued to put his efforts into local athletics after he retired from competition.
Yes he was a gutsy performer for sure. Although, for the 1500m at Seoul , fancy being a British selector and not picking double olympic champion in S.Coe - they should hang their heads in shame
GB athletics could have sent Coe too, but they stuck with Elliot, because of the draconian trials system. He didn’t bring back gold and Coe may have, as he was in great form just after the trials. The IOC gave Coe a wild card, but GB athletics still didn’t let him go. Stupid decision.
He was underrated.. I was told by his coach that he ran a 1500m in 3 27!! In training.. and was going to take the world by storm in 1991.. he got injured.. never got close to that form again.. how frustrating...
I had forgotten that Cruz had finished second in the race . In fact, I had forgotten so many details of who competed it was like a new race for me . I correctly forecast the winner unlike the television commentator
Paul Ereng was a truly phenomenal athlete. He produced the most sensational performance to come from nowhere to win this race. His stride was simply incredible.
I think it's there in the results. This one is still good so we can have a laugh at their incompetence ahah. The 4x400m W final they didn't anything better, in case you want to check....
American commentators at the time were some of the worst. They didn't know the players or strategies. All they know is someone is boxed in somewhere and that is bad, even when the supposed boxed in runner wins the race. In the 1972 Olympic 800m they speculate if Wottle is injured even though he ran the same even paced race everytime.
@@bfc3057 Mamede was a great talent, and had a WR. But every time he faced international competition he crumbled under the pressure and has no medals to back it up.
@@bfc3057 Heard of Arturo Barrios,Fermin Cacho, Eamonn Coglan or Rui Silva? Among the best European runners who also these days are not given the credit they deserve. Rui Silva for example in 2004 went from last to 3rd in the final lap with a ridiclous 51 second last lap and a 1:46 last 800 m!
In 1987 I was in high school and was running the 4x800m relay with a club team at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh NC. It was a college meet but had some High School participation. Paul Ereng won the open 800m for Virginia that day. I think he ran 1:47+ (very good but not great), but his long lean body and running style left an indelible impression like I had just witnessed greatness. His victory in 1988 was stunning, but had you seen what I had seen in 1987, it was certainly no upset victory.
29 years later I remember this race like it was yesterday. watching World Championships 800m final today (Aug. 6, 2017) and heard the announcer listing the entrants say that a Kenyan attends UTEP and is coached by Paul Ereng, the 1988 Olympic champion. I immediately blurted out at my tv "yeah, I knew Ereng won the Olympic race but the idiots who broadcast the race didn't." When today's race was over, I googled the 1988 Olympic race; so glad I found this film on U-Tube. I remember one other broadcasters' mis-call in the 1988 Olympics track&field... women's 400m hurdles wom by Debbie Flintoff-King in her Australian green uniform. It was obvious that DFK caught the Russian at the finish line but the announcers simply ignored her, pronouncing the Russian the winner. Just like the men's 800 m race, the announcers discovered the true winner while they commented on the down-the-stretch replay. Gotta google the women's 400m hurdles now.
Dave Silverman ,I remember the frustrating thing about that time,I think seb Coe was , coming back from injury and was not picked.and with his finishing kick would of worried them,that was the disappointment,off this race Eliott,and Coe should off both been at this Olympics
Aouita had an injury coming into the final, which this race further aggravated, costing him a chance to race at 1500 or 5000m at these games. I think this is the only race he lost this year, a year in which he defeated the defending Olympic champion and silver medalist here, Joaquim Cruz.
Interesting how he cam along the inside. At the top of the straight they usually shift out to pass those last 2 or 3, but this guy held his line (and his nerve). Coming along the inside for so long was a bit out there, but worked. Ereng and Said were sprinting parallel when the white guy got intimidated a bit and bumped into Said on the outside, checking him and ruining his run. That's something to think about for runners with a poor start. Interesting how so many back-runners win at elite level
The interesting part is that Charlie Jones took the blame for calling Kiprotich the winner, but it was Shorter who made the mistake when Ereng made his move in the last 100 meters."And Kiprotich!!"
Aouita got bumped twice in the 150m damn it!! He’s the greatest track runner the world has ever seen. His range and record breaking ability were unmatched...G.O.A.T
"there" or "their"? Coleman was a twat who annoyed those who knew their athletics...he was all about entertaining those who couldn't have cared less anyway. Only Ron Pickering was worse (among the British commentators)
@@archiewoosung5062 You're a complete moron. David Coleman was generally regarded as the best athletics commentator that the BBC ever employed. Ron Pickering was also very highly regarded. You must have been born upside down, because the shit comes out of your mouth and you talk through your arse.
Why do Americans who are defeated always have to have an excuse for their defeat. How about just saying the pace was too fast and he wasn't able to stay in touch or that he made a tactical error or something like that. Blame yourself and give the other guys credit for a great run. The athletes already knew when they were getting called in. Work on it in training. Some European athletes have had workouts where they would warm up, then sit in a car for 20-30 minutes. Then have a few minutes to loosen up and run a workout. This simulated conditions at a championship meet so they could "adjust" as Gray said he couldn't do. Sorry it was too hard for you Johnny. It was the same for all the guys in the race. How come they all still ran so well. Aouita ran well and got a medal and it's not even his event.
Was that Frank Shorter commentating? Man was he out to lunch. First he says "Johnny Gray is flying" (mistaking Gray with Ereng) then 15 secs later "Johnny Gray is flat. He's way back". And the other dude didn't name Ereng till after the race. Bad day at the office for both of them.
Well, Paul Ereng was almost unknown before OL, and he still unknown during the race lol....he had a pb around 1'46 before OL and as an outsider really unknown he qualified for the final in which he performed his pb 1'43''45....after OL he disappeared again and nobody has anymore seen him in a race....a monster, who knows what he could do with adequate preparation and with a steady career....
In regards to Barbosa i dont think its idiotic at all. In the australian commentary the great Ron Clarke said beforehand he thought Barbosa would set it up for Cruz and thats exactly what he did. Barbosa was usually a sitter who usually went from 150m out. A lot of knowledgable people feel Barbosa did indeed sacrifice himself. Look at 250m in, Cruz runs up to Barbosa's shoulder and Barbosa almost on cue accelerates and takes the lead from Kiprotich. Looks like team tactics to me.
" Barbosa in lane two seems to be going out the fastest... Barbosa, Johnny Gray is right with him and Johnny Gray is flying... Johnny Gray is flat, he is way back!" = Frank Shorter = It is hard to believe the blunders this commentator (Frank Shorter) made in this race. he obviously mistook Nixon Kiprotich for Johnny Gray at the beginning of the race and later he is the one who blew the call by mistaking Paul Ereng' for Kiprotich towards the end of the race!
Wow! 200m to go and there were 6 in contention with all bunched together. Aouita did get bumped 50m to go but he was nowhere near striking distance of Ereng nor Cruz. Tremendous strategy by Ereng with superbly timed surge at the end.
"tremendous" strategy by kenia to sacrifice kiprotich - not too difficult to predict that brazilians want to take the lead early - so kiprotich destroyed them both for ereng
Okay, I listened again and I agree. His frist comment was that "There may be team tactics" and he didn't say "He did sacrifice himself", until he looked pretty much like burnt toast. So, I'd have to agree with you that they got that right. It is just that that commentator always bugs me. He sounds like he's commentating a precise event rather than the complicated randomness that is track and field.
1) Shorter named him right the first time, then named him wrong in the last 50 meters. 2) A loaded field, with the LA, Seoul and Barcelona Gold winnners in that race! 3) 49.54 at 400!!!! 4) Gray should've went to high school in NYC and ran PSAL; he'll really know what "40 minutes of nothing" is!!!!!
Aouita DEFINITELY takes Silver ahead of Joaquin Cruz if Elliot does not physically block his momentum @ 3:31 with his arm in the final 60 meters, maybe Aouita even challenges for the Gold.
Que desastre la NBC dio todo el rato como ganador al otro keniata Nixon Kiprotich. puesto que Paul Ereng no estaba en los planes de nadie, que buena historia, que gran victoria.
i think the british selecters,got it wrong not selecting seb coe , i think he was injured ,early in the year but proved,his fitness,and was running 1.43 s,and would of got a medal in 1988 olympics.a year later i think he got silver medal in the world cup of athletics after,being cut up or block, by the runner bile
Coe knew what he had to do to qualify, and didn't...so the selectors didn't get it wrong, Coe did. Elliot later said he peaked for the trials, Coe peaked for the games...but you have to be in it to win it...not sure he would have.
I always thought Charlie got a bit of a bum rap. It was Shorter who first misidentified Ereng. Charlie took all the blame which I thought showed class.
The winner in 1988 would have finished SEVENTH in 2012, but Andrew Osagie who finished 8th in 2012 would have won the SILVER MEDAL in 1988!!!! How weird is that??
yea and the funny part is when Paul is jogging by with his flag and the camera man falls, he (Paul) just glances down at him, and continues on.....lol....
What are the announcers doing? Great run by Paul Ereng. Nixon Kiprotich will go down as the best 800m runner who won no major title. Make mo mistake, he was so versatile! I always admired his long strides. I believe, he was the nest 600m runner of his generation
pity no clip of the 10000m at that same olympics , a moroccan athlet of 21 years old won that race with a beautiful style and big marginal, stoped and walked virtualy on the ground before the finish and stil it was an olympic record ! his name Brahim boutayeb, google it otherwise
those blacks all look alike....did you notice when kip was passed by paul....really great to have announcers in the ozone layer...leave johnny gray alone...wrf!....a great competitor!....blunders......they were looking so hard....blind men!
Anybody can make a simple mistake like getting the two of the mixed up in the heat of the moment. But concluding that Barbosa sacrificed himself for Cruz was just plain idiotic. That was the only really bad commentating here.
No forgiving. They are pathetic. And that was one of many screwups because they obviously didn't give a damn. Keenya? No, it's Kenya. OUAYTA? No, it's Oita. They didn't do their homework ahead of time.
Well at least he owed up to it. The US athlete said he didn't make excuses, but...he's making excuses. You get the order of events, the athlete check in, and protocol weeks perhaps months ahead of time and you're saying you can't adapt?! YOU AND THE COACHING STAFF HAD TIME TO FIGURE OUT A PLAN! The other runners still banged out 1:44s in the same conditions as him. Excuses are weakness coated in lies.
Ovett largely abandoned the 800m after 1984, and whilst he still raced the odd mile/1500m, he moved up to 5000m for the Commonwealth Games in 1986 - winning easily and on that form could have smashed the world record - but failed to set the world on fire in 1987, finishing 10th in the World Champs. He moved back to the 1500m in 1988 but niggling injuries and self-doubt prevented him from qualifying for the Olympics. Cram was knocked out in the quarter finals. He ran 1:43 800m and 3:30 1500m pre-Olympics, but a couple of weeks out for injury made him less sharp. Coe's lack of fitness at the trials prevented him from qualifying for either the 800m or 1500m, although he could have automatically been chosen by the selectors but wasn't.
Peter Elliot = LEGEND. Worked full time in a steel factory yet achieved 4th in 800m final and won silver in 1500m. A local hero for South Yorkshire who continued to put his efforts into local athletics after he retired from competition.
Superb athlete
Yes he was a gutsy performer for sure.
Although, for the 1500m at Seoul , fancy being a British selector and not picking double olympic champion in S.Coe - they should hang their heads in shame
GB athletics could have sent Coe too, but they stuck with Elliot, because of the draconian trials system. He didn’t bring back gold and Coe may have, as he was in great form just after the trials. The IOC gave Coe a wild card, but GB athletics still didn’t let him go. Stupid decision.
@@MoominJude Not their first&I'm sure not their last!
Agreed agreed agreed, but I do think he would have won the 1500m had he not run four rounds of the 800m in Seoul.
You could always count on Peter Elliot performing at his top every championship final, what a great athlete!
Great effort Peter Elliot, what a fearless runner he was.
He was underrated.. I was told by his coach that he ran a 1500m in 3 27!! In training.. and was going to take the world by storm in 1991.. he got injured.. never got close to that form again.. how frustrating...
@@elizabethevelyn9761 tough guy and a stayer. Got slaughtered by the UK press, but he was a class athlete who could beat anybody on his day.
I had forgotten that Cruz had finished second in the race . In fact, I had forgotten so many details of who competed it was like a new race for me . I correctly forecast the winner unlike the television commentator
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Joaquim Cruz - LEGEND!!!!!
One of the best 800m fields ever? The grit of Elliot....remember, this guy went to work everyday.....the epitome of the great club athlete
Paul Ereng was a truly phenomenal athlete. He produced the most sensational performance to come from nowhere to win this race. His stride was simply incredible.
Can someone upload a BBC version where the commentator actually manages to get the name of the winner right?
I think it's there in the results. This one is still good so we can have a laugh at their incompetence ahah. The 4x400m W final they didn't anything better, in case you want to check....
American commentators at the time were some of the worst. They didn't know the players or strategies. All they know is someone is boxed in somewhere and that is bad, even when the supposed boxed in runner wins the race. In the 1972 Olympic 800m they speculate if Wottle is injured even though he ran the same even paced race everytime.
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People in Britain take for granted how good BBC coverage of any outdoor event is. As implied here the BBC is the gold standard for athletics.
Great race by Paul Ereng. Hopefully the stadium announcer called the race correctly. Humble apology by television announcers well done
Aouita ran this all the way to the 10000 m. Perhaps one of the most versatile runners of all time.
@@bfc3057 Yup.What's to note is that this time was in the top 20 of the time. And he was a 1500/mile/5000 m runner,
@@bfc3057 Sorry I do not know who that is.
@@bfc3057 Thanks for sharing. And I do know about Mamede who very few know about sadly!
@@bfc3057 Mamede was a great talent, and had a WR. But every time he faced international competition he crumbled under the pressure and has no medals to back it up.
@@bfc3057 Heard of Arturo Barrios,Fermin Cacho, Eamonn Coglan or Rui Silva? Among the best European runners who also these days are not given the credit they deserve.
Rui Silva for example in 2004 went from last to 3rd in the final lap with a ridiclous 51 second last lap and a 1:46 last 800 m!
Peter , Very UNDERRATED good as coe , cram , ovett , Special ! Athlete .
In 1987 I was in high school and was running the 4x800m relay with a club team at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh NC. It was a college meet but had some High School participation. Paul Ereng won the open 800m for Virginia that day. I think he ran 1:47+ (very good but not great), but his long lean body and running style left an indelible impression like I had just witnessed greatness. His victory in 1988 was stunning, but had you seen what I had seen in 1987, it was certainly no upset victory.
29 years later I remember this race like it was yesterday. watching World Championships 800m final today (Aug. 6, 2017) and heard the announcer listing the entrants say that a Kenyan attends UTEP and is coached by Paul Ereng, the 1988 Olympic champion. I immediately blurted out at my tv "yeah, I knew Ereng won the Olympic race but the idiots who broadcast the race didn't." When today's race was over, I googled the 1988 Olympic race; so glad I found this film on U-Tube. I remember one other broadcasters' mis-call in the 1988 Olympics track&field... women's 400m hurdles wom by Debbie Flintoff-King in her Australian green uniform. It was obvious that DFK caught the Russian at the finish line but the announcers simply ignored her, pronouncing the Russian the winner. Just like the men's 800 m race, the announcers discovered the true winner while they commented on the down-the-stretch replay. Gotta google the women's 400m hurdles now.
Dave Silverman ,I remember the frustrating thing about that time,I think seb Coe was , coming back from injury and was not picked.and with his finishing kick would of worried them,that was the disappointment,off this race Eliott,and Coe should off both been at this Olympics
How appropriate. The bumper music at the end of this was “You Can Call Me Al.”
He mistook Kiprotich from Grey first, then mistook Kiprotich for Ereng
Aouita had an injury coming into the final, which this race further aggravated, costing him a chance to race at 1500 or 5000m at these games. I think this is the only race he lost this year, a year in which he defeated the defending Olympic champion and silver medalist here, Joaquim Cruz.
Interesting how he cam along the inside. At the top of the straight they usually shift out to pass those last 2 or 3, but this guy held his line (and his nerve). Coming along the inside for so long was a bit out there, but worked. Ereng and Said were sprinting parallel when the white guy got intimidated a bit and bumped into Said on the outside, checking him and ruining his run. That's something to think about for runners with a poor start. Interesting how so many back-runners win at elite level
That was a fantastic race. Salvatore Antibo took out the first lap in 61 sec and the first seven finishers broke the existing Olympic record.
61? Whaaaat?
The interesting part is that Charlie Jones took the blame for calling Kiprotich the winner, but it was Shorter who made the mistake when Ereng made his move in the last 100 meters."And Kiprotich!!"
Aouita got bumped twice in the 150m damn it!! He’s the greatest track runner the world has ever seen. His range and record breaking ability were unmatched...G.O.A.T
But he took human growth hormones I heard via Australians he was training
Except for Kip Keino.
Hicham El-G was better.
@@APBCTechnique they're all taking something at that level
Elliott was a gutsty runner
one of the best 800 mtrs event
Que grande fue Joaquín Cruz¡!
That why David Coleman,and the BBC,has the best commentary when doing athletics ,they do there homework. In 1988.
"there" or "their"? Coleman was a twat who annoyed those who knew their athletics...he was all about entertaining those who couldn't have cared less anyway. Only Ron Pickering was worse (among the British commentators)
@@archiewoosung5062 You're a complete moron. David Coleman was generally regarded as the best athletics commentator that the BBC ever employed. Ron Pickering was also very highly regarded. You must have been born upside down, because the shit comes out of your mouth and you talk through your arse.
At least Coleman and Pickering would have got the very basics right, that is correctly identifying the winner.
Johnny Gray...That sounds like a superhero's alter ego.
I ran 800m in sports day today, and I won! I went from second last to first in the last 100 meteters! Woohoo!
Joe Curran 10 years flys by
How old where you at the time? And did you keep running?
Why do Americans who are defeated always have to have an excuse for their defeat. How about just saying the pace was too fast and he wasn't able to stay in touch or that he made a tactical error or something like that. Blame yourself and give the other guys credit for a great run. The athletes already knew when they were getting called in. Work on it in training. Some European athletes have had workouts where they would warm up, then sit in a car for 20-30 minutes. Then have a few minutes to loosen up and run a workout. This simulated conditions at a championship meet so they could "adjust" as Gray said he couldn't do. Sorry it was too hard for you Johnny. It was the same for all the guys in the race. How come they all still ran so well. Aouita ran well and got a medal and it's not even his event.
Ereng is human. We forgive you, Charlie.
Actually the Barcelona winner Tanui wasn't here. The silver medalist Kiprotich was.
A big headline on one of Kenya's local daily read: Yes, It's a Gold!
And rush for more begins
Was that Frank Shorter commentating? Man was he out to lunch. First he says "Johnny Gray is flying" (mistaking Gray with Ereng) then 15 secs later "Johnny Gray is flat. He's way back". And the other dude didn't name Ereng till after the race. Bad day at the office for both of them.
Well, Paul Ereng was almost unknown before OL, and he still unknown during the race lol....he had a pb around 1'46 before OL and as an outsider really unknown he qualified for the final in which he performed his pb 1'43''45....after OL he disappeared again and nobody has anymore seen him in a race....a monster, who knows what he could do with adequate preparation and with a steady career....
He won world indoors
Yes, that was Shorter, "other dude" was Charlie Jones
All blacks look alike
I think Johnny Gray would have run better without the long wait - he was quite a temperamental runner - up and down. On his day could of won gold
Warming up and then waiting an hour makes sense if you’re not used to it. It was a great race.
Cruz was never the same runner he was in 84-85 again. He lost all his speed and fitness.
In regards to Barbosa i dont think its idiotic at all. In the australian commentary the great Ron Clarke said beforehand he thought Barbosa would set it up for Cruz and thats exactly what he did. Barbosa was usually a sitter who usually went from 150m out. A lot of knowledgable people feel Barbosa did indeed sacrifice himself. Look at 250m in, Cruz runs up to Barbosa's shoulder and Barbosa almost on cue accelerates and takes the lead from Kiprotich. Looks like team tactics to me.
" Barbosa in lane two seems to be going out the fastest... Barbosa, Johnny Gray is right with him and Johnny Gray is flying... Johnny Gray is flat, he is way back!" = Frank Shorter =
It is hard to believe the blunders this commentator (Frank Shorter) made in this race. he obviously mistook Nixon Kiprotich for Johnny Gray at the beginning of the race and later he is the one who blew the call by mistaking Paul Ereng' for Kiprotich towards the end of the race!
SHORTER YOU FUKKIN JACKAAAAAAAAAAAAAS !!!!!!!!! DICKHEAD !!!!!!!!!
Fantastic race.
Did anyone else see the camera man fall at 6:40? LMFAO
bike4sday
You are so observant
Would have noticed had you not mentioned it😂😂
Wow! 200m to go and there were 6 in contention with all bunched together. Aouita did get bumped 50m to go but he was nowhere near striking distance of Ereng nor Cruz. Tremendous strategy by Ereng with superbly timed surge at the end.
"tremendous" strategy by kenia to sacrifice kiprotich - not too difficult to predict that brazilians want to take the lead early - so kiprotich destroyed them both for ereng
Okay, I listened again and I agree. His frist comment was that "There may be team tactics" and he didn't say "He did sacrifice himself", until he looked pretty much like burnt toast. So, I'd have to agree with you that they got that right. It is just that that commentator always bugs me. He sounds like he's commentating a precise event rather than the complicated randomness that is track and field.
I remember this was the beginning of the Kenyan Dynasty. I believe the Kenyans pretty much won every race distance race after this win.
it's 2019 but i need to say, it started even earlier, during Kipchoge Keino's time...
1) Shorter named him right the first time, then named him wrong in the last 50 meters. 2) A loaded field, with the LA, Seoul and Barcelona Gold winnners in that race! 3) 49.54 at 400!!!! 4) Gray should've went to high school in NYC and ran PSAL; he'll really know what "40 minutes of nothing" is!!!!!
Imagine saying that in 2019! The commentator would be escorted away from the stadium and never seen again...or at least never in one piece again!
nah
@@dante3660 ur yeeeeh
Aouita DEFINITELY takes Silver ahead of Joaquin Cruz if Elliot does not physically block his momentum @ 3:31 with his arm in the final 60 meters, maybe Aouita even challenges for the Gold.
aouita runs 820 meters or more.
Said aouita 😍😍😍
1'43''45,
IL GAGNE
INTELLIGEMMENT,
LE PLUS FORT,
L' EMPORTE.
CONGRATULATIONS.
Paul Ereng, what a run...
Que desastre la NBC dio todo el rato como ganador al otro keniata Nixon Kiprotich. puesto que Paul Ereng no estaba en los planes de nadie, que buena historia, que gran victoria.
It was Paul Ereng and not Kiprotich as commentator puts it
But even could take a silver in not full power, what a runner.
Whoa! If people are offended by THIS, how do they handle real life?! Man alive. Lighten up, my friends!
I still can't understand why Aouita chose to run 800m. He would have surely won 1500m or 5000m.
because he was injured before the Olympics
For me one of the greatest, but this was his worst distance. Need everything to go right and it didn't.
i think the british selecters,got it wrong not selecting seb coe , i think he was injured ,early in the year but proved,his fitness,and was running 1.43 s,and would of got a medal in 1988 olympics.a year later i think he got silver medal in the world cup of athletics after,being cut up or block, by the runner bile
Coe knew what he had to do to qualify, and didn't...so the selectors didn't get it wrong, Coe did. Elliot later said he peaked for the trials, Coe peaked for the games...but you have to be in it to win it...not sure he would have.
If I remember rightly, Coe was concentrating on the 1500m that year.
Charlie...give it up!
I always thought Charlie got a bit of a bum rap. It was Shorter who first misidentified Ereng. Charlie took all the blame which I thought showed class.
thanks for giving away the result
Agreed! How dare they give away a race that happened 25+ years ago. I’m still waiting on their coverage of WW2.
The winner in 1988 would have finished SEVENTH in 2012, but Andrew Osagie who finished 8th in 2012 would have won the SILVER MEDAL in 1988!!!! How weird is that??
You can't look at it like that mate
yea and the funny part is when Paul is jogging by with his flag and the camera man falls, he (Paul) just glances down at him, and continues on.....lol....
It's clearly Ereng, and they call him as such only moments before switching his identity to Kiprotich. Sheesh.
What are the announcers doing? Great run by Paul Ereng. Nixon Kiprotich will go down as the best 800m runner who won no major title. Make mo mistake, he was so versatile! I always admired his long strides. I believe, he was the nest 600m runner of his generation
My favourite 800 metres runner was Wilson Kipketer. He made running seem effortless
Can you imagine if the commentators said this in 2020! 🤣😁😁✊ They wouldn't see the light of day again..
you can hear the crowd laughing at him too haha its great
He was Paul Ereng not Kiprotich..
I would kill to be able to run only their second lap as a 400m
What you can't have syndrome. If you were national level you meet guys whose worst is better than your best. I speak from experience.
Don't feel bad about making the mistake mate. It's hardly surprising commenting on an underwater video.
They all look alike!
i hear that you should positive split an 800 race... but by how much? i wanna break 2:10 so what do i need to run my first 400 in??
Yank commentators, can't even get Paul Ereng right. And the other one going Johnny Gray Johnny Gray.
pity no clip of the 10000m at that same olympics , a moroccan athlet of 21 years old won that race with a beautiful style and big marginal, stoped and walked virtualy on the ground before the finish and stil it was an olympic record ! his name Brahim boutayeb, google it otherwise
Damn. And I was content with 2:09. My mistake.
I think because Kiprotich was the favored Kenyan as he won the trials, perhaps they simply assumed it was him. Very foolish of them though.
That is NOT Nixon Kiprotich. That is Paul Ereng!
دخول بطل الأبطال سعيد عويطة
kenya is all we can say , kenya! paul ereng only 20 years of age!
Esto es el Sport
EXCUSES, EXCUSES from gray
"Here comes Aouita . . . and Kiprotich!" Ugh. Frank Shorter should have known better.
C'est une erreur stratégique faite par aouita de choisir une distance plus rapide et lui il avait une blessure dans ces jambes.
@TheBaloothebear They must have been talented kids ..... if they were capable of running the 800m in less than 2:22 at 10 years of age.
Is that the correct pronunciation of "Joaquim"?
those blacks all look alike....did you notice when kip was passed by paul....really great to have announcers in the ozone layer...leave johnny gray alone...wrf!....a great competitor!....blunders......they were looking so hard....blind men!
Aouita was running with one leg, that injure was growing and he gave up afterward, otherwise those 3 medals u mention would be belong to him..
no all those medals went to kenya 800m,1500man 5000m
Big mistake by the commentators lol
Que pena Cruz, yo quería el 2do oro olímpico para él...lo merecia
Said Aouita was prevented from winning by Peter Eliot twice blocking his way...
As Elliott was ahead of Aouita for 700m, maybe you should just blame Aouita for "getting in wrong"?
SAID WAS BEATEN !!!!!!! THERE IS NOTHING HE COULD DO NO WAY COULD HE BEAT ERENG,,,,NO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody can make a simple mistake like getting the two of the mixed up in the heat of the moment. But concluding that Barbosa sacrificed himself for Cruz was just plain idiotic. That was the only really bad commentating here.
the winner was paul ereng of kenya
Elliott was distracted by the outside Aouita, and foolishly overtaken from the inside by Ereng.
He was such an underrated runner, overshadowed as he had been by Coe, Ovett and Cram.
forgive the commentators, paul ereng and nixon kiprotich running very equal
No forgiving. They are pathetic. And that was one of many screwups because they obviously didn't give a damn. Keenya? No, it's Kenya. OUAYTA? No, it's Oita. They didn't do their homework ahead of time.
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Possibly one of the most embarrassing sports commentaries I've ever heard! Unbelievable ignorance.
Unbelievably botched call, must be the worst ever. You listen in disbelief.
worst call and reporting in Olympic History!
+John Rogan Worst than the 1947 preakness stakes
@@tarheelking2515 Bad but not boom goes the dynamite bad
Well at least he owed up to it. The US athlete said he didn't make excuses, but...he's making excuses. You get the order of events, the athlete check in, and protocol weeks perhaps months ahead of time and you're saying you can't adapt?! YOU AND THE COACHING STAFF HAD TIME TO FIGURE OUT A PLAN! The other runners still banged out 1:44s in the same conditions as him. Excuses are weakness coated in lies.
Oh totes the worst EVER announcers footage that I have seen on CZcams actually LMFAO
"We made the mistake of the olympic games" ..
.oh no, it is not kiprotich ...they made mistake after mistake in calling that race.....hahahaha
Where is Coe, Ovett, and Cram?
Way past their best at this time
Ovett largely abandoned the 800m after 1984, and whilst he still raced the odd mile/1500m, he moved up to 5000m for the Commonwealth Games in 1986 - winning easily and on that form could have smashed the world record - but failed to set the world on fire in 1987, finishing 10th in the World Champs. He moved back to the 1500m in 1988 but niggling injuries and self-doubt prevented him from qualifying for the Olympics. Cram was knocked out in the quarter finals. He ran 1:43 800m and 3:30 1500m pre-Olympics, but a couple of weeks out for injury made him less sharp. Coe's lack of fitness at the trials prevented him from qualifying for either the 800m or 1500m, although he could have automatically been chosen by the selectors but wasn't.
It was a poor decision from aouita to run the 800 , he could have easily won the 5000m
sympaticoo1 he was obviously injured during these games
What lousy video quality. Clean it up with some digital editing.
That white shirt man keep punishing said aouita and block them wrong that
@themAndroydz Holy SH-t