How Bikila won an Olympic Marathon barefoot! | Strangest Moments
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What do you do when your shoes wear out and you have an Olympic Games marathon to run? Take Abebe Bikila's advice and go barefoot.
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"I want the world to know that my country Ethiopia always won with determination and heroism."
Abebe Bikila
RIP my Hero
My hero too!
He's amazing and he embodies the Olympic spirit!
This weirdly lighthearted take on Abebe Bikila's achievement skips blithely over the fact that he grew up in an Ethiopia occupied by Mussolini's Italy after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in 1935-9. As a young boy he had to flee with his family to a remote part of the country and spent a chunk of his childhood under Italian imperial rule.
Only a couple of decades later, here he was in the capital of that former invader, running barefoot past the ruins of an older Roman empire. Those torches lighting the Appian Way during the marathon were held by Italian soldiers. Quite what extra frisson it all held for him can only be imagined, and one might guess there was a certain extra satisfaction for Haile Selassie - the Ethiopian emperor exiled during the war and occupation - when he honoured Abebe afterwards.
Strange and sad irony, though, in Bikila being given a VW Beetle by his grateful nation to celebrate his Olympic victory - in 1969 he crashed it, leaving him paralysed and unable ever to walk again, let alone run, and ultimately leading to his early death at only 41. Even in a wheelchair, mind, he competed at the 1970 Stoke Mandeville Games, predecessor of the Paralympics. What an athlete he was.
Somnogenesis 4 👍🏽
You're welcome X-Zap, thank you.
Thank you for telling us his story.
WOW
wow crazy and tragic story, thanks for sharing.
I don't know him before this video, i'm not even ethiopian, but i am so proud of him idk 😂
비킬린아베베 대단한선수입니다
올림픽 두번이나 제패하신선수
56년전에 있었던영상 감동적입니다 감사합니다
@@user-rx6nh6el8y😂😂😂 can you translat an English or Amharic 🙏
Rite No One Know Where Ethopia After He Was Won
Whole Earth Know Ethopia
@@bhskrbr4 Except Italians 😉
IK
Barefoot and scorching cement? The guy's a monster.
"Hot Hot Hot."
maybe the hot cement made him run faster
@@JohnSmith-mo2sv hm logic
@@JohnSmith-mo2sv moron,
@@Mcthindi what
Records were broken at every Olympics. Records are meant to be broken. But running bare footed were not even attempted by any other marathon runners after him not to mention winning the gold medal in doing so. Extremely rare talent.
That, to me, is the most astonishing athletic achievement by any athlete in any sport.
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Would have being even more impressive if he defended his title without wearing shoes too
@@valar_dohaeris7387 I'm sure he could've done that haha. But still
This is the greatest thing ever in the olympics 😂💜
To think Bikila would've immediately dropped down to last if there had been a lego on the course
greatest single comment on youtube.
I'm dead lol
RunFor OurLives have you ever stepped on a lego
thank god Legos weren't there then
@RunFor OurLives have you ever heard of a joke?
ABEBE BIKILA is the finest marathon runner ever. I was a teenager, when he won in Rome Olympic. He repeated this feat in 1964 Tokyo Olympic too. He remains my alltime legendary hero. A big salute to him.
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@@waterproof4403 Thanks. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
❤❤❤🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
@@sekinaabdo1399 Thanks and delighted to get a great response. 😊😊🙏🙏
Mr. Bikila- what a man on the planet! He aptly taught the world that determination is key to success. Two back to back Olympic gold medals, respective of the fact he tried to run a marathon after the age of 24. Just incredible, salute to him.
"I want to world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism" 💕 this phase hit me hard, anythings in this world can be achieved if you are determine
Yes and this phrase has even more to it when you know that ethiopians have won battle against italians in 1889 pushing back colonial move. Then the italians were back in the mid 19 30's and occupied the country for 5 years. Even then they were occupying only the big cities because as soon as they go in the rural, they were facing ethiopian resistance. And here he reminds them that being underdogs and under equipped, determination can reverse probabilities and statistics.
@@roastteaser6070 Just a slight correction, we beat them in 1896 (battle of adwa). For WW2, we managed to hold the Italians off long enough (from colonizing us) for the Brits to come to our aid (largely thanks to emperor haile selassie).
Anything in any world would be achieved with determination!
He is a legend, a true hero! 👣
😰😰 R.I.P ❤️❤️
Lots of love, from Brazil.
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3:51 I dont think he was dancing, he was warming down
Need to do that....
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Same ❤🥰
yes indeed
His mental strength to tolerate pain is just incredible
Excellent..cannot get enough of this channel
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Lucky human
It is a great channel however it still irks me that they don't discuss the '68 Olympics or how they banned Smith, Carlos & Norman from competition sports for simply standing up for human rights.
The people that made this video called this incredible history of a legend" strange thing" he cleared the way for every black athletes. It's a crime how underrated he is.🖤🖤Much love and respect💚💛❤
This is what legends are made of!
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To this day there is no one who could make push ups after running 42 km! Abebe Bikila is an amazing person with too much energy!
Someone should make a movie out of that..
I wholeheartedly agree.
They did
@@natesilvers2166
What is the movie name?
@@natesilvers2166 what’s it called
@@ohh28 i guess it’s called “The Athlete”
As a marathon runner myself I've really taken note of how running shoes have altered our running gait in a really negative way. It totally makes us do heel Strikes which is not efficient and not good for our bodies either. Running Barefoot makes you strike the top of your foot first rather than coming down on your heel. A lot of the Ethiopian runners have got a natural gate where they strike with the top of their foot first. This is why Minimalist Shoes have come out recently to keep people from striking with her heels
this is for real because I started running barefoot 4 months ago and my strides and feet are actually more comfortable ironically.
Bikila House was one of the competition 'houses' in the junior college I taught in. I'd often ask students assigned to that House if they knew who Bikila was. None I asked knew, and I had to point them to the library to find out (those were pre-internet days).
Which country is Bikila House in? Because in Ethiopia everybody know him.
This is an amazing story and worthy of a ninety minute documentary. I find it hilarious that he ran barefoot simply because he found all shoes offered to him uncomfortable. I can't help but wonder if it was simply down to his secret sponsorship deal with Puma which persuaded him into shoes at the next Olympics?
Puma hadn't hear about him until that day and running barefoot for an Ethiooian shepperd is not a big deal there.
Watching this now, 2021, never knew about Bikila, much respect to him.
growing as a kid I remember the olympics black and white coverage "live via satellite". I remember this guy winning two in a row, once barefoot. It just seemed incredible. If you look at his times, he was running like 2:15 marathons.
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He truelly is my hero. Running bare foot and winning ...he is amazing. So proud to be an Ethiopian. Love and respect for him.
NOT strange but rather brave1 The video undermines the achievement of his excellency!!!
It is well known that rome Olympic allowed Abebe Bikila to made a stamp of authority of Ethiopians on the marathon domination
Africans r very talented, wow very inspiring
God bless you and Ethiopia, such a humble athlete with brilliant talent 👌💕💖🙏
Nessuno come lui si certo oggi hanno record migliori ma per me l'emblema del piu grande maratoneta e' lui Abebe Bikila !
No words. What Abebe bekele had done should be taught. That's what we call a real hero. Proud of what had done. Much love.
To think that he dominated in Italy, the same country that attempted to dominate Ethiopia a few decades earlier
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Abebe Bikila is indeed an inspiration of the generations of African athlets.
All times Ethiopian, African hero Abebe Bikila. No one can run marathon like him. We Love you and remember you Abebe!
He just became my inspiration
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" Joe Namath
Amazing story of determination and heroism in the face of a grave impediment.
🤴 king legend BIKILA watching in nov/2020🇯🇵🇧🇷🇺🇸
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**Steps on a tiny rock**
Athlete: my feet!
Would barely feel it with his callouses. This is a guy that did most of his training barefoot for years on dirt roads with tons of rocks
You step on small rocks all the time when running / hiking barefoot.
@@stayontrack lol for years can you hear what she said he wasn’t even the first pick and he didn’t train for years. that’s what’s impressive about him.
@@kiyakassa1726 He did train for years. Guy lived an active lifestyle all throghout his childhood running around barefoot. Which built up the strength and calluses. If you don't count that as real training, he started to do real training to run fast and to compete in the olympic in 1956. This video is him running in the Rome olympics in 1960 and winning, so yes he had trained for years.
Shoe: you better wear me, you need me.
Abebe : No
Thanks for keeping the correct aspect ratio !!
‘Off to Rome,and the shoes were left in Addis Ababa!’..🤣🤣🤣
1964 Tokyo: well, i know i can win barefoot... let us see if i can win with shoes on
lol
Take a bow, the bare foot legend 🙏
His determination was really wonderful. Excellent.
He is a LEGEND!!!
Barefoosh
Commentary sounds like an Irish woman trying to do an American accent
As an Irish person I can say that her accent is 100% Irish.
Bikila it is an inspiration for many athletes around the world
Not just athletes.
@@sweetsamia6257 everyone
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This is incredible footage from the 60s!
That's crazy!! And definitely wouldn't occur these days😬🤘🏼but wow
Thank you!!!
Good on him.... what a champion.
#17 👣 THE LEGEND 👣🇪🇹🇪🇹
Abebe is a Legend 🇪🇹⚔️🇪🇹
"Every runner determined to finish a marathon deserves a medal, but there are only three medals", a journalist during Tokyo 1964. Finishing bare foot with new record is unheard of in Olympics history except Roma. The story of Abebe Bikila deserves a full documentary!
How inspiring the story is!!!
So many amazing records and facts here:
1st black African to win a gold medal
His 1st Olympic appearance
Last minute stand in who wasn't supposed to run
Won in bare feet against runners with shoes
Former body guard of the Ethiopian emperor
First considered running in the Olympics only 4 years before he won the Gold
Extra trivia: The previous Olympic record Bikila beat was by Zapotek, who made a last minute decision to run the marathon race in the 1952 Olympics after having won gold in both the 5K and 10K. It was his first ever marathon.
Growing up in Ethiopia, I saw some runners in the early morning (around 6 am) endurance running, and a few tended to do it without any shoes. It's not a big deal for us
Not on cobblestone though bro for 42km and win and break the WR!
dam they straight up roasted the roman empire in the first 20 seconds
No one can do what Abebe Bekila do what a legend
I enjoyed this 😊
I only run for sports meet and I usually run barefoot on a gravel running track ( we didn't have a proper running track or sports equipment in school back then). I never felt uncomfortable, because I only wear shoes when I go outdoors so my soles are rough not as thin as the westerns soles.
He looked so determined on his last 500 meters
Salute Sir
Amazing ♥️
wow............true hero
He didn't get a shoe that size him to run the race,but that doesn't stop from achieving his dream. The lesson I learnt from ABEBE BIKILA is that don't wait for the perfect time,he that wait for the perfect time waits forever.
RIP our Ethiopian African hero
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Love this!
Onni Niskanen is a Finnish name and he was born in Helsinki the capital of Finland, of course later he moved to Sweden but even then he was not considered swedish but swedish-finnish...
i don hv words to this man he is the proud for ethiopia
맨발로 달리는 것도 놀라운데
우승을 했다니 대단하다고 느껴지네요
waw Weltrekord .....super gemacht🏆💃👣 Abebe Bikile hat es Verdient ❤💪👍👍👍💋👑🌞
The cobblestones were indeed not a problem for his "feesh".
@mr arican Nope.
mr arican “Anything else you would like you criticise?” “Kid” smh dumbass
1:55 barefoosh
@@dad_bot_3924 imagine your feesh on the ground in thash heash!
Grounge*
I run cross country I am in 7th grade and I it’s only 100 girls run and I got 1st before and my least place was 9th and I wasn’t run for living I love it forever and track is starting trmoww so wish me luck
4:04 indeed! WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!
Who else is binge watching these?
Amazing
Ran barefoot. Won the Gold. Broke a record. First black African to win a Gold.......and still had a lot to spare to do a dance after finishing the race.
How can you not love this guy. 🤣
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And who was the first white African to do so?
💯 hero! 😍
He broke Emil’s record and I came here from Emil’s video
Legend
Does anyone know what's the music from 02:01 to 03:25 ?
He did the impossible for the upgrading of the media and the country 🇪🇹
not to mention that roads are really rough and could cause foot injuries
♥️❣️🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽..,!!
😰R I P, my hero😰😢🙏🏽
I can't even walk to get my mail without shoes.
What's the music here I NEED it
Wow !!
A Clear Ethiopian determination and resilience!
♥️♥️God bless
The best
Insane..
He is a hero
This story is worthy for a movie
from one great to another, talk about passing the torch, Zatopek - Bikila
I thought running 5km barefoot for my schools cross country was tough, can’t image 42km and winning it!!
The bottom of his feet would be a lot tougher
Bikila was my running hero but I found out not too long ago that he was not the first man to run barefoot in an Olympic marathon. 2 men from Africa did it in the 1904 Games check out the story behind that race
Did they won ? 😂😂😂 that's the whole point 😂
@@rediettadesse2828 No but one of them got chased by a dog then made it back on track to finish
@@timrobinson7373 Len Taunyane. My question is, how come he got chased by aggressive dogs in that race ? He finished 9th and they said he could've finished in a better position if not for the chase. Was it intentional ? Did they see him doing so well and then sabotage him ?
I also seen another runner from another of Africa country(I didn't know which country) run bare footed and finished during the 1960 Tokyo games. I had seen this from the Tokyo marathon video.
Nike, Adidas, Asics, Brooks, New Balance all dislike the video.
kkkkkkk ya man
LoL 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine finish behind him
Magnifique
Its all about not giving up🙂