Nike Commercial - Quincy Watt Blows a Shoe
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- Men's 400m Final from the 1993 IAAF Athletics World Championship. Michael Johnson wins the race over world record holder Butch Reynolds and Olympic champion Quincy Watts (4th). The race featured 3 Americans and 3 Kenyans in the final and was made memorable by Quincy Watts' shoe falling apart on the final turn into the homestretch. At that point, he was struggling to maintain contact with Reynolds and Samson Kitur (KEN), but his shoes did him no favors. This probably could have happened to any shoe company, but was not Nike's best day. Enjoy either way!! www.tandfunlimited.com/1993.html
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You reckon Johnson would have beaten Watts in Barcelona 1992? Johnson PB at this point was slower than Watts' winning time in the final. Would he have raised his game? What a shame we will never know. Watts was awesome in 92
richardjw87 I believe Johnson would have beat him but not by much
it had certainly started coming apart by the 200m mark. I have live footage with the slow mo going around the turn and it had already started coming apart by then. I had a training shike do the same to me once and it was the most uncomfortable feeling. I cant imagine how Watts still ran 45 flat with the shoe like that. Crazy!!
That would make sense. I always figured it was a piece of shoe, but never thought about his hip number. You are right in that it would be more likely to flutter through the air. Watching the shoe in the homestretch is quite interesting. Although, he would have had a hard time challenging for the medals even with perfect shoes it was rather unfortunate. He always seemed like a very good person and someone that you could really root for.
It was his shoe, the bottom of the shoe came apart. It wasn't his hip number.
I think his shoe was rigged to fail Nike favored Johnson over Watts
turn 4? there is only 2 turns on a track
@AlanTheAthleticsFan 3:15 you can see he's got one shoe off
he's on the upper left hand corner of the screen
I think Watts' shoe came apart within the first 100 meters of the race because it seems like he couldn't really accelerate down the backstretch!
Pitter patter?
Interesting to see only black people competing. They definitely have some genetic advantage that makes them better runners!