God it's funny for me to think that Todd Bennett on the GB Team was a former rival of mine at the end of his Athletics career and at the time I never knew he had an Olympic silver medal in the bag and this is the race that he got it in. RIP Todd you were a Gent and thanks for the motivation u gave me once u noticed I was a young keen Athlete. I won a bunch of national titles but in Ireland as I moved over there after my time in Portsmouth England 🇬🇧🏅🏃♀️🇨🇮🙏☘
Great post. Todd was a great athlete. The Great British 4x400m history started in this era, and what some people might not know is that Todd Bennett actually held the 400m indoor world record for a while in the mid 1980's.
@thehalfeatendoughnut1798 funny you should mention his indoor running, I recall an indoor championships, don't remember the distance, but he was in such good form running that he was stumbling because the front runner wasn't quick enough, needless to say off the bend he flew past him, its my abiding memory of him...RIP Todd..
In high school in Germany, on a USAF base, I ran a 51.1 quarter mile, and was the slowest of the four runners on our team. We ran a 4x440 at 3:17, which set the Department of Defense Overseas Schools record that stands to this day. This was 1973. Having said that..they convert to meters just a couple of years later!
exactly, this is the hardest sprint race to run, this takes everything out of you! Like my track coach use to say... 100m or 200m is fun race to watch but 400m makes you a real sprinter!
Nigeria's first leg Sunday Uti gave us tge advantage after closing down Rix but Rotimi Peter the 3rd leg reduced the pace after Moses Ugbusien 2nd leg maintained the momentum .Innocent Egbunike gave a good fight in the final leg thus winning Nigeria's first ever track medal at the Olympics
@@yourmindisyours1731 yes, Phil Brown, Mr Reliable...but Todd closing that gap gave Phil the platform.....from days when athletics mattered....Todd;s little legs flying....RIP Todd
Memories of watching Todd Bennett on 3rd leg, followed by Phil Brown on anchor are ones i'll always cherish. Olympics, Euros, AAA - whichever. Probably my first ever heroes as a kid.
I ran the 4 X 400 in division one college. More than once, the team standings relied on the last event: this one. We qualified for Nationals when it came down to a duel and team points. I was the 2nd slowest with a 56 lap but we won. This event is always a game-changer. Thanks for the post!
I met Lt Alonzo Babers while in the AF, after he competed and graduated from the AF Academy. He loved volleyball, hated my serves, but payback with spikes.
Phil Brown running his usual brilliant anchor leg for Great Britain. He was only an average runner as an individual but put a baton in his hand he somehow became a second faster.
Paul Williams it was a great anchor leg but if it was not for Todd Bennet's third leg bringing the Brits back to the Nigerians and Austrailia Brown would not have had a chance.
I was in the Coliseum that day. Worked for a professor at the 84 Olympics...traded some diving tix for some others. I had seen Louganis dive in Mission Viejo... And was willing to trade
The announcers neglected to mention the fact that Darren Clark of Australia is the son of Ron Clark, former world record holder in the 5000m and 10000m.
@@darrenshaw767 Really? OMG! It is! USA has had such outstanding 400m runners for decades now and the 4x400 is a premiere relay in high school and college.
If they had 4 Darren Clarks, they may have had a chance at the medal. I felt that the last runner did not give it his all, and left it too late to make a run for bronze or silver.
@@WorldSacred 'The last runner', you mean 1980 silver medallist Rick Mitchell? He never gave anything less than his best. He was coming off a year out with injuries that would have ended most careers. It was down to his pure guts that he got there at all.
@@bootymanagerIt is kind of rude of me to say that he did not give it his all. He had the disadvantage of having to chase another team a good 15 metres ahead of him, whilst the British and the Nigerians had the advantage to draft behind Mitchell and take advantage on the straight to overtake Mitchell. Mitchell did not have the legs to take them on.
@@westnyacktwins People are so spoiled today. I probably watched this live on an old 12inch model I had in my bedroom and now I'm watching it using the youtube app on a 65inch set
How enlightening the athletes get to the starting blocks and they only mention one other athlete outside of the US team. Australia and Nigeria get mentions during the race but all except one is actually named and the British seem to get a reluctant honourable mention for coming second. Such patriotism and no wonder Americans have no idea about the rest of the world. POOR. POOR POOR.
The most notable thing about this video is hearing OJ's voice, thinking what his life was like back then and what it's like today. We can only shake our heads at what a complete FAIL that life became!
@C Y? Bro, did you win the Heisman? Did you rush for 2,003 yards in a 14 game season in the NFL? No! So now it's time for you to SHUT UP! Hahaha happy Valentine's Day Baby!
pamela neely Yes I did! It was very common for people to jump like that back up until the 60/70s so I was surprised when he was using the old technique to jump! 🔥
actually it was still around alot then, the way they jump now was first seen on international scene at the 68 olympics and stunned everybody so this wasnt that much after that! Especially somewhere like china which was a bit behind with those things then
Only innocent egbunike for Nigeria team had a decent baton exchange. How can an incoming runner gives you a baton and still passes you before you takes off running in a relay. Moses ugbusien and rotimi Peters killed the effort of innocent and Sunday uti’s effort with their poor baton exchange. Although Moses maintained the lead. JMO
0:35 Back then they measured high jump in feet and inches in US (TV)? 7' 5 1/4" (=2,267 m). Even that is incorrect. I guess the bar was lying at 2,27 m. Oh man! lol! The USA and its strange measurement system.
Great run by US but awful commentary they hardly new their own athletes and only mentioned the other teams by their nationality. I recommend the BBC commentary team they do their research.
Couldn't stand the black commentator. Always talking about how the athletes wouldn't care because they'd be in the lead by the next handoff. It was like no one else was in the race but the Americans to him, even though Nigeria and Australia gave them a run for their money.
Once again, American commentators are terrible. Great Britain wasn't mentioned until the home straight when they came in to win the silver medal. Apart from the USA, Nigeria and Australia and GB I'm pretty sure there were 4 other teams but not a mention of any of them. Such poor commentary.
