Your storytelling during this video was… PEAK!! Great video as always you are in my top 3 favourite track youtubers right now and you aren’t 2 or 3🥇🥇🥇🥇
Thanks Jumpman, more like this please. As an Australian I remember this race well. It was edge of the seat stuff for the final 200m and a surprise Gold for Australia because no-one expected him to beat the Olympic champ. Honestly we need more runners like Ngugi flying by the seat of his pants, he made races exciting.
Appreciate the comment! I thought of Jakob Ingebrigtsen a lot while making this video. He runs with a similar aggression, but everyone's so willing to go fast now, we just don't get those Ngugi leads
Thanks for continuing to add some more middle distance and distance coverage! This is great stuff. To be fair to Bekele, he did win by some ridiculous margins on the track, including in some championship races.
Great video - though one comment: there are no adverts on the BBC in the UK, so I'm guessing the race with the advert was broadcast by ITV. And it was truly terrible timing - and for a cigar ad! Very different days...
I was in the finish straight stands at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, I lost my voice that night, cheering for Andrew Lloyd, what an amzing race!
10:16 - Jack Buckner wasn’t even the only English runner with a global medal in this race: Mark Rowland won bronze in the steeplechase at the 1988 Olympics.
i had a feeling this would be 'Lloyd-ie!! Lloyd-ie!!!..i watched it live..and AL did show glimpses of real talent, all throughout his career. just almost never did it when it mattered.
Meh. Falling within two minutes with 4300 or more meteres and time to catch up?? So what? We had a guy trip on his own feet ten feet from the mile finish line in HS and finished 5th. There went his scholarship to University. He had run a four minute FLAT mile in 1969. THAT you can't catch up.
"Ngugi's strategy was just to be better than everyone else" is so metal. I love it.
“Just run faster” “Just win”
Ngugi: “Okay.” :)
Your storytelling during this video was… PEAK!! Great video as always you are in my top 3 favourite track youtubers right now and you aren’t 2 or 3🥇🥇🥇🥇
Thank you for the glaze brother, always love seeing ya round the track and field space.
I'm astounded at the quality of your aths history videos Jumpman.
8:25 advertising smoking during an olympic distance run is wild 😭
And check out who's sponsoring World XC at 13:36 😂
The older generation were just better than us truly.
Thanks Jumpman, more like this please. As an Australian I remember this race well. It was edge of the seat stuff for the final 200m and a surprise Gold for Australia because no-one expected him to beat the Olympic champ. Honestly we need more runners like Ngugi flying by the seat of his pants, he made races exciting.
Appreciate the comment! I thought of Jakob Ingebrigtsen a lot while making this video. He runs with a similar aggression, but everyone's so willing to go fast now, we just don't get those Ngugi leads
@JumpmanTF I feel like Jakob has more of a race plan than Ngugi had 😂
Thanks for continuing to add some more middle distance and distance coverage! This is great stuff.
To be fair to Bekele, he did win by some ridiculous margins on the track, including in some championship races.
I often forget to comment, but your videos are amazing, thank you for your work.
Appreciate it, thanks for the comment :)
0:40 can we talk about that false start
He was still touching the line to I think it wasn’t a false start
Ngugi isn’t racing badly or anything, he’s just letting his competitors think they have a chance of winning, duh!
BBC never carried ads.
Must have been ITV Sport.
I heard rumors of nbc
@ NBC is US. That cigar ad was definitely UK.
@@mrinalkundu1521That's the NBC logo coming out of the break. Maybe a British cigar company paid them for commercial time.
Great storytelling bro! You gained a subscriber today
Ngugi was summoning that running salt
Ngugi is my hero: I've always dreamed to bo so stupid to do the unthinkable 🥰
You're genuinely one of the best sports youtubers around man, it's criminal that you don't get more views on everything. Keep it up!
Awesome video. Great context for younger fans to get to learn about the giants and lore of the past
Love these videos! I follow track and field with half an eye, but I'm unfamiliar with these great stories of the past...
Glad you've enjoyed. So many to tell!
great vid, throughly enjoyed
🙏
love the more history focused vids, keep doing them please
There will always be a mix. Track seasons coming soon!
Great video!
damn this is the first video of yours ive watched and ive got to say your story telling is peak
Thanks for the love brother
Great video - though one comment: there are no adverts on the BBC in the UK, so I'm guessing the race with the advert was broadcast by ITV. And it was truly terrible timing - and for a cigar ad! Very different days...
Saw this 1min after upload
Pretty cool tbh
Bro did Steve Prefontaine better than Steve Prefontaine himself.
I was in the finish straight stands at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, I lost my voice that night, cheering for Andrew Lloyd, what an amzing race!
thats bloody awesome to see something so iconic in person!
3:48 “he would literally have to fall over to lose”.
I like jumpman he’s cool
OK
DOMINGOS CASTRO THE GOAT WAS MENTIONEDDD LETS GOOOO
was that not a false start in the 1986 CC champs??
yes I saw that too, went out a second early then hesitated
Man, they were doing whatever they wanted back then lol
Where do you find the broadcasts of the races?
RUclips first, Google if I really struggle. Scrapped videos because I haven't found footage before.
10:16 - Jack Buckner wasn’t even the only English runner with a global medal in this race: Mark Rowland won bronze in the steeplechase at the 1988 Olympics.
You right, overlooked the steeplechase medal my bad!
i had a feeling this would be 'Lloyd-ie!! Lloyd-ie!!!..i watched it live..and AL did show glimpses of real talent, all throughout his career. just almost never did it when it mattered.
Kangaroo logo checks out haha. It sounds like he was a fiend domestically.
What a finish from the Aussie.
aussies know how to capitalize when their competition falls
Bradbury takes gold.
NBC not BBC - no ads on BBC, but thanks for the interesting video
Ahhhh my bad!
The golden days of epo.
does kiptum at 1:45 have anything to do with the world record holder in the marathon
A lot of kenyans share the same surname. So the lazy answer is maybe?
Did they really run a 35 to win 10k??? That’s actually wild to me looking at the times people run now
World XC was run over 12K back then.
what are the distances for those 34, 35, 36 finish times
Between 12-12.5ish km. Cross country courses change slightly year to year.
This feels like a Forest Gump story
HAHAHA, i had the same thought while making it.
Meh. Falling within two minutes with 4300 or more meteres and time to catch up?? So what? We had a guy trip on his own feet ten feet from the mile finish line in HS and finished 5th. There went his scholarship to University. He had run a four minute FLAT mile in 1969. THAT you can't catch up.
comparing high school races to a global championship final, that's where the problem lies.
5:44 😂😂😂
Day 1 of asking for a su video
It's a big task, he's had an extensive career
@JumpmanTF I could help you with some of the research
@@JumpmanTFi could help you with the video
How I race
My og athletics
Its 6m not 7.5m extra for lane 2
It changes dependant on track, but I'm pretty sure the average is actually 7.67.
@@JumpmanTF on the wikipedia page it's 7.037
@DanielKendall2010 bloody hell, misinformation everywhere haha
Wottleheads unite!
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