Tag Search Results: athletics

Olympic Greats - Lasse Viren
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Although the title comes up with the American distance runner Prefontaine - this race shows the great Lasse Viren winning his second gold medal at the Games

Olympic Greats - Jesse Owens 1936 Olympics - Berlin
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Excellent quality footage of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics hosted of course by Adolf Hitler. He refused to recognise the talents of this man and the fact that he had beaten the Germans. I'm not

Olympic Greats - Carl Lewis
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Olympic Greats - Alberto Juanterena - Cuba 800m
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Olympic Greats - Steve Ovett
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Biography 800m Olympic champion in Moscow 1980, beating his great rival Sebastian Coe into silver medal position.His semaphored messages to his wife to be Rachel became a familiar feature in his races