NAIMAH FULLER is an award winning producer/writer/director, of the groundbreaking documentary film project HOME - THE GREAT MIGRATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY.
Featuring Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, President Obama, Terence Blanchard. The documentary tells the stories of hope and courage and of the mass migration of African Americans seeking a better life by relocating to the southern region of the U.S.
Four years in the making, Fuller's vision for the project is a 2012 release with a follow-up TV-series GOIN' HOME, featuring Urban Professionals, African American Families, and the who's who from the sports and entertainment world who now call the South HOME.
The great Edwin Moses, one of my sport heroes and the greatest 400 meter hurdler in my book. This race at the 1976 Olympics stands as one of the greatest Olympic moments in history in my opinion.
I think Mike Shine was just as happy for Edwin as he was. Look at the sportsmanship that they have for each other. It's almost unheard of in this day and time. They both ran a very good race. 🙂😉🤩
Es Moses was phenomenal. I remember the US boycott in Moscow 1980, and he faced the "Champion" in his absence Beck from East Germany later on in 1980 I think, and he left him for dead winning by 10 metres or more!
Mike Shine was our sprint/jump/hurdle coach at my high school coach. I was a distance runner but he helped me improve so much. Love watching this video.
Mike Shine alternated lead leg over each hurdle - the only Olympian do so and win a medal. He grew up in a small town of only a couple thousand people.
A lot of 400mh runners do that now, both men and women. Sydney Maclaughlin does it, watch some of her races. I believe Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin both do it, too.
I was 13 years old in 1976. Our parents took our family to Montreal from Wisconsin and we enjoyed 4 days of track, 3 of those days in SRO around the final turn. We were there for this race and it was beyond thrilling. Keith Jackson and OJ on the call is interesting, since they were accomplished football announcers by trade. OJ was a track star at USC in his younger years.
Best video I've seen of any Olympic footage. I really enjoyed the medal ceremony. It showed all 3 medalists receiving their medals, not cut short. Two thumbs up for this coverage!👍👍
In my opinion there are 4 Olympic events where the whole landscape of a sport changed: 1. DIck Fosbury 1968, whose "flop" made all other jumping styles obsolete. 2. Olga Korbut 1972, whose backflip touched off a huge interest in gymnastics. 3. 15 year old Katie Ledecky 2012 when she blew away the field in the 800 meters and went on to dominate all distance events since then. 4. This race right here, which signaled Edwin's decade + of dominance of the 400m hurdles.
One of the greatest athletes in history. He would set a new world mark a year later and would go on to that incredible streak of his, which included winning the gold in 1984. The win streak would end in 1987 when he was beaten by Danny Harris and in 1988 Andre Phillips defeated Moses at the Olympics in Seoul.
At those '88 Olympics, where Moses was third, I understand he was kind of in a daze at having lost and out of habit, took the top spot on the medal stand before someone called his attention to it.
The other announcer was a violent THUG who abused his wife throughout their marriage.....very often the police were called to the house....this POS eventually killed his ex-wife and her friend in a jealous rage.
Wasn't Mike Shine an alternate who got promoted to regular after one of his team members got injured? Whatever, what a fine moment for him as he was a totally unexpected medalist. Moses on the other hand was one of the all time greats.
Don't think so because he finished 3rd at the trials in June although Jim Bolding who was ahead of him and Wheeler at the 10th hurdle went from 2nd to 4th after stumbling off it.
