Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share This is Part 1 of a 3 part series Between 1972 and 1984, American Steve Williams was probably the greatest sprinter who never went to the Olympics. Injury plagued him in 1972 and 1976, the Boycott prevent athletes going to the 1980 games, and by 1984, he was 31 years old and at the [...]
Share Since today is Black Friday, the day following American Thanksgiving, it officially kicks off the Christmas shopping season. If you are looking for ideas on books to buy, you can go to the Book Review category section. And of course, there is my Rocket Sprint Start book to be released on December 1. Here [...]
Share I want to congratulate Vince Matthews on being inducted to the USATF Hall of fame. I wrote about the Munich incident last February in Black History month because most people remembered Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ demonstration in 1968. If you haven’t read his biography My race be won by Vince Matthews, I highly [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Shon Grosse, a physical therapist, athletic trainer and performance coach at www.shongrosse.com First, let me qualify things a little bit before the arguments start: 1) The 800 meters should be run in lanes – at least for 500 of those meters. 2) It should be run in this [...]
Share The new book The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World will be released on August 30, 2011. This is his FIRST autobiography co-written with Dave Zirin, and not to be confused with CD Jackson’s Why: The Biography of John Carlos With C. D. Jackson, Jr. When you think of the [...]
Share A while back, I posted Peter Snell’s training log leading up to his 1:44.3 800m world record. Many of you know his coach was the legendary Arthur Lydiard (read Was Arthur Lydiard Right All Along?) This National Film Unit classic from New Zealand tells Peter Snell’s story up to just prior to his triumph [...]
Share Below is a special section from the October 2008 edition of The Spartan Daily. This wonderful 10 page colour booklet (PDF file, 10.7 Mb) is a nice anthology of stories all related to Bud Winter and Speed City. It contains 9 short stories, and if you are a Bud Winter, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, [...]
Share When you think of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, you immediately think of the Black Power Salute of the 200 meters, Kip Keino and Jim Ryan in the “rabbited” 1500 meters, the Bob Beamon Long Jump, and Dick Fosbury’s High Jump. These events are etched in Gold. Some people may even remember the Marathon. [...]
Share When people think of a country’s 400 meters success, the USA immediately comes to mind. Why not? The 5th and 6th place sprinters at the USATF Trials who stay home and watch the Games on TV would easily be a member of another country’s 400 meter National team. (actually, the 5th and 6th are [...]
Share Here is another article for my “Feel Good", good sportsmanship, and bad sportsmanship collection. The entire series can be found here under the sportsmanship tag. Maybe I should rename the title of this post to: 77 year old Bill Nieder Restrains Terrorist on Airplane? You never know… Bill Nieder won the Shot Put silver [...]
Share This is Part 4 of a multi-part article. Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2. Click here for Part 3. Along with the award nomination, this this biography was compiled by Urla Hill, M.A., Guest Curator at SJSU. Her website is Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power The accomplishment [...]
Share In almost 4 years of blogging, this site has numerous articles on the training and accomplishments of Bud Winter and Speed City. Athletes profiled include Lee Evans, Tommie Smith and John Carlos. And I know I am leaving out a lot. Now it’s time to take a closer look, and we’re talking beyond Track [...]
Share This is Part 3 of a multi-part article. Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2. Along with the award nomination, this biography was compiled by Urla Hill, M.A., Guest Curator at SJSU. Her website is Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power Distance coach Ron Davis had held coaching positions [...]
Share This is Part 2 of a multi-part article. Click here for Part 1. Along with the award nomination, this biography was compiled by Urla Hill, M.A., Guest Curator at SJSU. Her website is Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power. Winter, a University of California graduate, began his coaching career at Salinas High [...]
Share This is Part 1 of a multi-part article. Along with the award nomination, this this biography was compiled by Urla Hill, M.A., Guest Curator at SJSU. Her website is Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power Lloyd ‘Bud’ Winter, architect of ‘Speed City’ who propelled San José State to the pinnacle of track [...]
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Armin Hary and the Famous 10.0 sec 100m World Record
Share Here is a great article from Läufer des Jahrhunderts – Die atemberaubende Karriere des Armin Hary – 14) 1960 – Hary, strahlende Nummer 1 – GIPFELTÄNZE II. It’s in German, so I translated the article with Google translate (as bad as it may be sometimes) and put the English version side-by-side. You can download [...]