Sorely miss this show. Henry Kelly was a superb presenter i loved his Irish accent. I loved the format with contestants from all over Europe came to compete fpr the title. I watched it from 1991 until it ended in 1996
The fastest to compete international track events. There is no fastest human! The fastest is a Bushman on the Saringetti attempting to outrun a leopard.
WOW ........What a Great Athlete .......Great Hands and Feet With World Class Speed .........My Heroe ......Thanks For The Memories Bob Bullet Hayes A Job Well Done .❤ That Man
I in going am biased for favour , it’s about travel a score plus one gives three to savour 21/3=7 lucky 7 slot machines Sand paper is the clue, the golden mile. It’s a Holiday to Blackpool 🎉 Knowing 321 the solution is much more convoluted.
Steve Williams is probably the greatest US Sprinter to never win an Olympic Medal!!! Steve went to the US Olympic Trials with an injured hamstring tried to compete and tore his hamstring at the trials. The US contingent was as noted Harvey Glance, Steve Riddick who didn’t make the finals and Johnny Jones who would go on to play in the NFL with the New York Jets. I remember watching Hasely win here in San Diego. After he won I looked up Trinidad/ 🇹🇹 Tobago on the Globe. I knew it was in the Caribbean but then I knew exactly where it was.
Eric Liddell finished third in the 200 Meters at Paris. Something they didn’t show in the film. Douglas Lowe who won gold at 800 Meters wanted no part of the film and said he would sue if the producers put him in Chariots of Fire. Harold met his wife Sybil after the Olympics. Eric Liddell knew months in advance about the preliminary heats for the 100 being on Sunday so he ran in the 200 and 400 ..Jackson Scholtz who won silver appeared in a American Express ad 60 years later during the 1984 games with Ben Cross who played Abrahams in the film. How incredibly beautiful that the filmmaker s were able to find Arthur Porritt so many years later!!! Aubrey Montague did indeed fall after the last hurdle in the steeplechase and finished I think 5 th or 6 th. Both Montague and Eric Liddell s sister Jenny were used as consultants on Chariots of Fire.
For some reason I always remembered Wells’ time in the finals as10.25. But I had forgotten that he ran a 10.11 in the semifinals which is flying!!! Switching from long jump to sprinting at age 24 is rather incredible. How did great Britain do in the 4x100 relay in 1980. How did Alan do in 1984 in Los Angeles when he was 32??? Can’t google with this ☎️. I don’t think he made the finals. But beating Ben Johnson at age 34 at Gateshead incredible b
Allan Wells made the semi final in 1984. To win a medal he would have to break 10.1 seconds which would have been beyond him given his fastest time was a very slow British record of 10.11.
Kudos to Jim Hines! Both he and Jesse Owens were two of the greatest sprinters of all time. It's such a shame that the doors of opportunity were not open to Hines, following his track-and-field and NFL careers.
Seeing a picture of Andy Ripley made me smile. We met on a holiday many years back and got on well. We latterly went through the experience of prostate cancer together and shared a few e-mails at the time. What a great bloke.
He was an academic racer. Totally strategic in what’s the most challenging sprint race of all. Pure style and effortless class. Unmatched for years. And… he looked so cool. Coulda been a great musician. Who knows?!
A friend of my father's named Joe Mena from Mexico stayed stride for stride with Paddock for 75 yards at the Coliseum in Los Angles. Mena was barely edged out in the final 25 yards. Mena was consistently one of the fastest runners in the world of the 1920's.
@timcobos8954 We had a kid from my high school, Glendale High School in California, who ran the fastest time at the US Olympic Qualifying Meet in Los Angeles in 1928 as a high schooler. His name was Frank Wykoff. He beat everyone including Charlie Paddock that day. He went on to win 3 gold medals in '28, '32, & '36 Olympics in the 4x100 relay. Pretty good for a hs kid. 🙂
@@bartbutkis I'm sure he competed against Joe Mena of Gardena high. My cousin and his wife went to Glendale class of 77. Mark Zavala and his wife Vicky. His older brother Danny ,too.
321 was the most confusing show ever. I thought the host was creepy as hell and about as funny as a rectal prolapse. The acts were usually ok but the clues were so difficult I don’t think anyone worked them out, people who didn’t win the booby prize only won out of dumb luck because I think the clues were created by a coke-snorting donkey. I loved and still love Michael, he was definitely the outstanding star of Rent a Ghost, it would have been a flop I think without him… and he sang the intro too! Super talented man, taken far too soon - as were millions of others of course 😢
LOVE the sound the bassist is getting, sort of a hybrid sound between a fretless electric and a double bass! Great player too. Extremely originally unmistakable style.
Thank you for the above video. I can't believe the report about Harold Abrahams being controversial at times with the British public. My understanding is that he was a respected athlete and loving family man. It's interesting that he came from a family of athletes. One truly gifted athlete, broadcaster, husband, and father.
He was controversial for hiring a professional coach and there was some anti-Semitism he had to fight. After all, pretty much every other head of the AAA got knighted, but he never did.
THIS WAS PLAYED IN 2 EPISODES OF THE SWEENEY CALLED GOLDEN FLEECE WHEN COLIN PUSHED OLD JUG EARS FROM ARE YOU BEEN SERVED INTO THE SWIMMING POOL AND IT WAS PLAYED IN THE EPISODE TROJAN BUS
So interesting. Chariots Of Fire was my favorite movie as a kid. Really amazing that we are now 100 years from 1924 and so appropriate the Olympics are once again in Paris
