Absolutely phenomenal. No other athlete won the Olympic 100 gold training as far north and in such awful conditions as this - not even Borzov. Wells didn't enjoy dealing with the media and partly as a result, he has never been given enough credit for his astounding achievements.... except by the other top athletes including Mel Lattany (after Wells beat he and Floyd in Koblenz in that post-Olympic meet "As far as I'm concerned, you're the champion") and Michael Johnson during his documentary on the Olympic 100 champs "You'd have to go a loOOOng way to find someone as dedicated as this" - coming from MJ himself and he doesn't say that about other 100m sprinters..... I love showing this video to my NCAA D1 scholarship Kenyan 8/15 guys... and telling them you can't imagine before you see this, but onceuponatime Whitey sprinter was hard. They know about Coe and Ovett but not about Wells. They can hardly believe this either. Their response, "Yes it's true he trained...hard!"
This is true dedication, amazing how training, ringing out the sweat from his shorts, a bowl of porridge and his missus shouting C;mooohn Ahlaaaaaan can get a man an Olympic gold medal. And not a steroid in sight, amazing.
@@deangarratt4965 I was 22 at the time and touring Europe Hippie style until a hairdresser down in Greece misunderstood my hand gestures so I ended up with a marine style haircut.
CZcams still waits for the humdinger in Koblenz after Moscow. The Americans at the time called Koblenz the real Olympics...would be superb seeing Wells win that 100 again.
Drugs or no drugs, I'm not not sure. Regardless, you still have to put the work in, and Allen did. He was all guts, I'm a fan. Love the old school training methods too.
Drugs !? Yer arse. Thats a body built on tha finest Scottish cuisine, ... deep fried haggis, followed by a desert of deep fried mars bars all washed down with Irn Bru ... Ye Dafty !!
You are assuming that different training would make him better. There’s no evidence that lifting is necessary to become a faster sprinter, or a world class sprinter. Wells also trained on tartan tracks. And: He did things that sprinters don’t do today, like the boxing - that gave him an advantage.
@@patricksweeney5308 are you suggesting it was down to drugs that they suddenly became elite sprinters. Perhaps lewis and borzov were a taking drugs from a young age. Its not as if the Americans and Russians have never used drugs in the Olympics.
8:24 I have found that hiking up a fairly steep, undulating and random surface hiking trail helps to heal calf injuries, which can be very stubborn. These help because they are a natural walking motion that also helps build tone through the entire range of ankle flexion.
@@paulmcdonough1093 Absolutely I massively supported Over & Coe, I hold Alan Wells on the same pedestal I hold Eric Liddell. As a Scot of course our ain kin are dear to us, I have lived & still live in. a wider world that refers to Britain as England, that is just sadly a fact. That makes our Scots men & women achievers so important to us.I hope you understand where I am coming from, it is not any way intended to be offensive.
What a beast of a man and a great sprinter . He wrote a really informative book , "The Allen Wells book of sprinting " in the 80s with his wife\coach Margot Wells , herself a very good sprinter . He breaks everything down from training , technique , to diet , with excellent photos . The English sprinter Creg Pickering reminds me of Mr. Wells technique wise . There is also a documentary on another Scotch legend in sprinting from the 70s , George McNeill who could only compete on the professional circuit because he was a professional soccer player initially , and athletics were a lot more " amateur' back then . Check out the " Powderhall New Years sprints " in Edinburgh. This stadium was built in 1870 along with Lillie Bridge stadium in west London specifically for foot races . If you haven' t seen " profession sprinting , its a treat ! Each athlete starts on different marks , depending on their handicap , and they run 110m !
I bought that book - and still have it. I did some of the training and it was really tough. You're right about Craig Pickering - I always thought the same
sara kingdom Sara, I hope your right b/c the "Catch Me If You Can" Documentary by BBC journalist Mark Daly. doesn't put Allan Wells in a good light, which is a shame as I consider him one of the finest sprinters, ambassadors and gentlemen in athletics, as well as a great role model of how hard work and dedication pays off
LukeBoys2 If he was on drugs then thats disappointing, would've expected a sprinter of his calibre to have gone under 10/20 secs in the sprints. Never mind.
Superb technical and ushering in a new professionalism in the sport and In dedication to power running .definitely the starting point for the Profesional standard along with Mennea ,Woronin you see now
10,2'' in those times ...just with the sprint shoes of today and the starting blocks (he didn't use them) he probably would be a 9,90'' / 9,85'' sprinter
Not a chance,he only won in Moscow due to yanks not being there.Blacks have been running sub 10 since the 60s,hardly any white boys have ever broke that while 100s of blacks have.The whole lot of them,wells also were on steroids then.
10.11 is his PB. He was setting British records all the way down from 10.3 to 10.11, which is still a Scottish record, apparently. If he was challenging for the British record today he would be in the 9.8's. Doubtful. The Whiteman WR is in the 9.9's,, I think with modern technology, equipment, diets, nutrition, rest n recovery protocols, easier lifestyle, better sponsorship, more professional set ups that Wells would be shaving that down to the 9.8's.
Always interesting that you are using an image of Lynn Davies on the holding page, and not Allan. Great film and thanks for uploading it, but you may want to change the main image
Allan Wells was a great athlete, but who produced this video? They could not spell his name properly, and the person shown on the thumbnail was not the man himself.
Because it is not beneficial, that's why.What evidence is there that a movement completely unrelated to running using none of the same muscles would help?
@@chrispegg6547 that's a total misunderstanding of arm function in sprinting.The way the arms move in speedball is absolutely nothing in common with sprinting. You might as well be peddling a bike with your arms as both are useless.
There’s no way that Allan Wells was 14 stone (196lbs) in Moscow, remember reading back in the day he was 6,0 in height, 12 stone (168lbs), so the accusation on that is a lie.
How come any Brit who sits on a bike or picks up an oar at the Olympics gets a knighthood but all time great athletes like Wells and Steve Ovett do not
British Sprinting has come on so far in the last few decades, but at the time , I saw this guy as a Colossus Just eatched the semis of the Men's 100m at the 2023 UK champs , and his best time of 10.11 , would have comfortably qualified him for the final
My athletic coach used to say it was well known that Alan rattled when he ran down the track because he had so many pills inside him. He would always train away from the other athletes with his wife Margot because they knew everyone knew ....Sad but he was rattling away ...
That's a total lie! I used to train with Allan Wells with a group of other athletes. I'm convinced his success was down to a combination of talent and unparalleled hard work, single-mindedness and dedication. Get your facts straight!!
Well the Americans boycotted the 1980 olympics... I think Carl Lewis would have won gold that year. Allen Wells was the last white man to win gold in a 100m event at the olympics... i wonder if anybody of european decent can ever take gold again?
The gold isn't important, their PB is. If they cant run a PB on the big occasion all you can ask of them is a seasons best, it doesn't matter what race they are.
My favourite Scottish athlete of the 1970s and 80s - simply a Golden legend.
He had to work hard & with no sponsorship 👍🙏🫡
Truly a brilliant athlete with a true Scottish determined and focused attitude. One of our best GB athletes of all time.
Allen wells is one of my distant relatives
@@S_cullen How lovely! Have you ever met him?
Absolutely phenomenal. No other athlete won the Olympic 100 gold training as far north and in such awful conditions as this - not even Borzov. Wells didn't enjoy dealing with the media and partly as a result, he has never been given enough credit for his astounding achievements.... except by the other top athletes including Mel Lattany (after Wells beat he and Floyd in Koblenz in that post-Olympic meet "As far as I'm concerned, you're the champion") and Michael Johnson during his documentary on the Olympic 100 champs "You'd have to go a loOOOng way to find someone as dedicated as this" - coming from MJ himself and he doesn't say that about other 100m sprinters..... I love showing this video to my NCAA D1 scholarship Kenyan 8/15 guys... and telling them you can't imagine before you see this, but onceuponatime Whitey sprinter was hard. They know about Coe and Ovett but not about Wells. They can hardly believe this either. Their response, "Yes it's true he trained...hard!"
This is true dedication, amazing how training, ringing out the sweat from his shorts, a bowl of porridge and his missus shouting C;mooohn Ahlaaaaaan can get a man an Olympic gold medal. And not a steroid in sight, amazing.
I can't believe it's nearly 41 years since he won his gold.
Incredible, I know. An excited 10 year old, I watched it live, screaming him on!
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@@deangarratt4965 I was 22 at the time and touring Europe Hippie style until a hairdresser down in Greece misunderstood my hand gestures so I ended up with a marine style haircut.
Bingtian Su is the first non African to make a Olympic final since 1980.
Allan won life's greatest prize - a top class filly.
Absolute legend, best them all. Imagine what he could have achieved today with dieticians, analysis and modern equipment
CZcams still waits for the humdinger in Koblenz after Moscow. The Americans at the time called Koblenz the real Olympics...would be superb seeing Wells win that 100 again.
No Jimmy Carter, sorry. The real Olympics happened in Moscow 1980.
Being a average runner of the 100
I always wanted to be Alan wells. Great athlete admired him tremendously
Drugs or no drugs, I'm not not sure. Regardless, you still have to put the work in, and Allen did. He was all guts, I'm a fan. Love the old school training methods too.
THEY ALL DO PED AT THE TOP LEVEL .
Drugs !?
Yer arse.
Thats a body built on tha finest Scottish cuisine, ... deep fried haggis, followed by a desert of deep fried mars bars all washed down with Irn Bru ... Ye Dafty !!
Drugs? TF you talking about lol
Too make such a ridiculous comment as that, I have to assume you are anti Scottish. If you're not, go get yer Heid examined.
He is and always was clean.
I totally respect this man. He trained hard and deserves his reward
Wells is about the only clean sprinter to win Olympic gold
Wells and Pietro Mennea were quite a set of characters and talent out of Europe at the time.
One of My favourite sportman all time.
ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES
One of my Heros from back in the day Take care Alan ATB
Brilliant sprinter
If this guy would've gotten out of the cold mud, trained in CA, did some lifting, he would've set world records. Amazing physique.
Leaving the freezing cold torrential rain - puddle strewn track and biting wind would have been emotionally very difficult :)
@Samuelson baker bull shit!
He wouldn't, no white man has set a world record in 100m in nearly 100 yrs.In fact only 1 has ever broken 10 seconds
Lemaitre, Guliyev and Tortu have all broken 10.00 and Boling will obliterate it. I wonder how many people have actually broken it without drugs.
You are assuming that different training would make him better.
There’s no evidence that lifting is necessary to become a faster sprinter, or a world class sprinter.
Wells also trained on tartan tracks.
And: He did things that sprinters don’t do today, like the boxing - that gave him an advantage.
Allen Wells and Linford Christie,the best runners of Europe.
and Mennea and Borzov
@@patricksweeney5308 depends on training age mate
@@patricksweeney5308 are you suggesting it was down to drugs that they suddenly became elite sprinters. Perhaps lewis and borzov were a taking drugs from a young age. Its not as if the Americans and Russians have never used drugs in the Olympics.
8:24 I have found that hiking up a fairly steep, undulating and random surface hiking trail helps to heal calf injuries, which can be very stubborn. These help because they are a natural walking motion that also helps build tone through the entire range of ankle flexion.
Jenkins jealous...the way he says to Wells, you’ve got one gold medal...yeah, one more than you, I thought.
Great documentary..
Alan Wells is a God of sprinting, we need to build a statue of our great Scot whilst he is alive. What a hero!
like seb coe and ste ovett the great english runners
@@paulmcdonough1093 Absolutely I massively supported Over & Coe, I hold Alan Wells on the same pedestal I hold Eric Liddell. As a Scot of course our ain kin are dear to us, I have lived & still live in. a wider world that refers to Britain as England, that is just sadly a fact. That makes our Scots men & women achievers so important to us.I hope you understand where I am coming from, it is not any way intended to be offensive.
Looking at those exercises he’s doing at the start, that’s how I Remember training for the 100 & 200m.
Me, too...
What a beast of a man and a great sprinter . He wrote a really informative book , "The Allen Wells book of sprinting " in the 80s with his wife\coach Margot Wells , herself a very good sprinter . He breaks everything down from training , technique , to diet , with excellent photos . The English sprinter Creg Pickering reminds me of Mr. Wells technique wise . There is also a documentary on another Scotch legend in sprinting from the 70s , George McNeill who could only compete on the professional circuit because he was a professional soccer player initially , and athletics were a lot more " amateur' back then . Check out the " Powderhall New Years sprints " in Edinburgh. This stadium was built in 1870 along with Lillie Bridge stadium in west London specifically for foot races . If you haven' t seen " profession sprinting , its a treat ! Each athlete starts on different marks , depending on their handicap , and they run 110m !
I bought that book - and still have it. I did some of the training and it was really tough. You're right about Craig Pickering - I always thought the same
I’ve got that book lying around somewhere I’ll never throw it away too many memories 😄
When I think I can't go any further, I think of Allan Wells...and then I can.
What more can you say about his training - mud sweat and tears.
Thanks for sharing
Hard training. Dedication. Focus. NO illegal drugs.
sara kingdom Sara, I hope your right b/c the "Catch Me If You Can" Documentary by BBC journalist Mark Daly. doesn't put Allan Wells in a good light, which is a shame as I consider him one of the finest sprinters, ambassadors and gentlemen in athletics, as well as a great role model of how hard work and dedication pays off
Cris Maracana Wells is fighting all the accusations, so it's up to powers to be to put up or shut up.
sara kingdom I really do wish he was natural but the truth hurts. HE ON DRUGS.
LukeBoys2 If he was on drugs then thats disappointing, would've expected a sprinter of his calibre to have gone under 10/20 secs in the sprints. Never mind.
David Cam I just so wish he was natural, cos it would give me hope, as a natural sprinter myself. But the truth hurts, it really does.
One of the best English athletes.
😅
Considering the world record at the time was 9.95 wells was running 10.03 only 00.08 off the WR if you ask me that’s fast 👍👍👍👍👍👍
He never ran that fast
Just seen the 100 79 Anno Listo on the net, Wells got a victory at Gateshead over Houston Mcteer, didn’t know that.
Ace man. Splendid - totally supportive - wife.
Legend 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Superb technical and ushering in a new professionalism in the sport and In dedication to power running .definitely the starting point for the Profesional standard along with Mennea ,Woronin you see now
10,2'' in those times ...just with the sprint shoes of today and the starting blocks (he didn't use them) he probably would be a 9,90'' / 9,85'' sprinter
Not a chance,he only won in Moscow due to yanks not being there.Blacks have been running sub 10 since the 60s,hardly any white boys have ever broke that while 100s of blacks have.The whole lot of them,wells also were on steroids then.
@@scarred10 racist
@@baslongstaff1819 are they not black then I'm white they're black
@@scarred10 You are a racist though, I don’t know why your so upset, it was over 40 years ago.
10.11 is his PB.
He was setting British records all the way down from 10.3 to 10.11, which is still a Scottish record, apparently.
If he was challenging for the British record today he would be in the 9.8's.
Doubtful.
The Whiteman WR is in the 9.9's,, I think with modern technology, equipment, diets, nutrition, rest n recovery protocols, easier lifestyle, better sponsorship, more professional set ups that Wells would be shaving that down to the 9.8's.
A Scottish Legend 😇
British.
Always interesting that you are using an image of Lynn Davies on the holding page, and not Allan. Great film and thanks for uploading it, but you may want to change the main image
..on going Inspiration for all
Just awesome
Legend
Allan Wells; the accidental hero of the Moscow Olympic Games. 🥇🥈
I think he would have also made a good triathlete since he'd been a long jumper and obviously did a lot of strength training.
What has long jumping got to do with swimming or cycling?
@@redrum4100 Don't remember where I was going with this. lol
@@77alydar Haha, been there many times myself lol
Change the title. His name is Allan. Get it right.
Allan Wells was a great athlete, but who produced this video? They could not spell his name properly, and the person shown on the thumbnail was not the man himself.
Real hero
Speedball training was considered highly beneficial for athletes in those days. Wonder why it is not used in more training programs now
Because it is not beneficial, that's why.What evidence is there that a movement completely unrelated to running using none of the same muscles would help?
Try running without moving your arms and tell us how you go
@@chrispegg6547 that's a total misunderstanding of arm function in sprinting.The way the arms move in speedball is absolutely nothing in common with sprinting. You might as well be peddling a bike with your arms as both are useless.
@@scarred10 actually it’s the shoulder back and torso but your theory beats my experience of 10 yrs of speedball training for sprinting.
@@scarred10
Scotland's two greatest sprinters George McNeil and Alan Wells both used the speedball in training which may tell you something!
Irn bru is not a drug
There’s no way that Allan Wells was 14 stone (196lbs) in Moscow, remember reading back in the day he was 6,0 in height, 12 stone (168lbs), so the accusation on that is a lie.
I was astonished he won at Moscow. I thought it would be Leonard.
his training had a strong emphasis on endurance, great for 400m but not the 100m.
Pity you can't spell his name - it's Allan Wells!
'there's no shortcut home!' ;-)
Allen wells od one of my distant relatives
🔥
Like Ben Johnson.
That funny looking walk a the beginning reminds me of what Monty python would do
@De bee kness That funny looking walk is called bounding, why don't you try it and see how easy it is.
He was training with ankle weights and we heard it's so bad for you.
Anyone know the song at 9:28? Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me.
Anyone know the song that plays for the first minute?
Ayla(dj taucher remix)
Still looking for this
Allan
So few white men commit to athletics due to perceived racism, goes to show what can be achieved. Congrats on a great career
What perceived racism is that?
For a man of so called greatness, his times were dreadful and embarrassing
I believe Wells could have been a great boxer
Allan not Allen
How come any Brit who sits on a bike or picks up an oar at the Olympics gets a knighthood but all time great athletes like Wells and Steve Ovett do not
"AllEn Wells Story"? AllAn.
ALLAN. FFS. with an 'A' not an 'E'.
British Sprinting has come on so far in the last few decades, but at the time , I saw this guy as a Colossus
Just eatched the semis of the Men's 100m at the 2023 UK champs , and his best time of 10.11 , would have comfortably qualified him for the final
He had denied taking drugs allegedly.
My gawd, what a physique...
And prob never lifted a weight in his life.
Brexit means Brexit #winning
My athletic coach used to say it was well known that Alan rattled when he ran down the track because he had so many pills inside him.
He would always train away from the other athletes with his wife Margot because they knew everyone knew ....Sad but he was rattling away ...
That's a total lie! I used to train with Allan Wells with a group of other athletes. I'm convinced his success was down to a combination of talent and unparalleled hard work, single-mindedness and dedication. Get your facts straight!!
petercompletefitness You clearly didn’t know the man
@@indiakhetri You clearly didn't.
@@jaxcoss5790 And what does this mean ?
@@petercompletefitness Absolute rubbish …everyone knew it
According to a BBC documentary he used drugs!
Fake news!
According to the BBC, Jimmy Savile was the the best thing ever for kids
Their really even handed the BBC. Always fair and straight
BBC broadcasting bullshit constantly
Irn Bru is NOT illegal !
Well the Americans boycotted the 1980 olympics... I think Carl Lewis would have won gold that year. Allen Wells was the last white man to win gold in a 100m event at the olympics... i wonder if anybody of european decent can ever take gold again?
DiscGolfer93 Lewis wouldn’t of beaten Wells in 80...even the rankings and results prove this at that time.
Lewis was a junior runner in 80 and not yet ready, Wells was the right man for the right time. He was the World no1 in 1980.
Paul Wiley Correct, I have no idea why there is such little respect for this guy.
If you delay professional soccer in europe it would be easily
The gold isn't important, their PB is.
If they cant run a PB on the big occasion all you can ask of them is a seasons best, it doesn't matter what race they are.
When did he start taking drugs?
Was his wife a bloke?
She definetly looked like a bloke.Boyd Mason
Some morbid funeral music gone wrong there.