The greatest upset in distance running history, was first imagined, planned, and believed...From a Sioux reservation, mother passed when he was nine, received the highest award a citizen can earn from his country..
Billy Mills came and spoke at my high school in Anchorage, AK and related speaking with his family the night before the race. He shared with them that he thought he could win. He said his family believed in him and told him that they thought he could win as well and that was what caused him to have more confidence and belief. Truly a remarkable and inspirational man and I am glad to have met him. One of the greatest performances of all time. Thank you Billy Mills!
.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XDUxEPvR06U.html When you have time, this is my second fav race of all time. Thanks for you comment, it keeps history alive when such stories are shared! Right On S/F!
I was 10 when I saw the race. The Best 10k I've ever watched. I cry ever time I see a video of the race. He was like Bob Hayes in the last 100 meters. I love a d respect Mr. Billy Mills. I ran sub 35 and would still be chasing him. Power to the Native Americans. Love and Peace.
Watching Billy Mills sprint to the finish line gives me chills. I was so happy for him. He displayed not just physical toughness, but mental toughness. You need both to be a champion and that is why Billy Mills continues to inspire 57 years later.
Agree. The mental toughness to sprint like that at the very end can only happen with dedicated training before hand to make it happen. An American hero who is also a Native American as well. He is an inspiration to so many people.
Mills ran the 10K 45 seconds faster than he ever had before in this race. He said that when he was knocked out of the first lane at the beginning of the last lap, it helped him because the track there wasn't eaten up like it was on the inside. He was also so unknown before the race that no reporters even said hello to him.
I got a chance to meet him back in the late 1990s, at a running event I won. He’s always been a runner I greatly admired. I still have the picture we took together and his signature on my winning tee shirt I wore that day. 😊🤗
Billy was in Mitchell, SD last month. Had we known, we would have driven there to hear him speak. A day’s drive would have been worth to meet this great man.
Greatest, most inspirational moment in all of sports history!!!!! Billy Mills overcame so much adversity to become the most respected and admired athlete the world has ever known and its greatest role model. bob eilek temecula, ca.
Indeed..a magical performance of a human with a god like moment like the his angels surrounded him guided and pushed him to victory and putting the rest of the field on split!!. Just a very strange moment to say the least.. strange burst to victory
I, too have seen and heard that call a hundred times! Billy Mills won that race long before he actually won it. He is and will always be one of my greatest heroes.
The irony of that call is the announcer got in trouble for that by the brass at NBC. In those days even sporting announcers weren't supposed to show that kind of emotion on air. Really sad. That was awesome!
The announcer calling "Look at Mills, look at Mills" was one of the more iconic calls in sports history. loved it. He was very quickly unceremoniously fired and sent home by the network
This is the best footage of this race that I have seen yet. The other footage looks like it's from 1645 and the announcer's call is wayyyy off. This was AWESOME!!
Thank TM means alot..I ran back then and these races were unreal inspiration, I wanted to do them justice so I dug and dug so we could dig it whenever we wanted...You might dig this one with Dave Wottle.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IJLtg8QO3FE.html
Im looking at my comments from years ago. I STILL come back often for this awesome video. Makes me smile every time. Well done, my friend. Never gets old.
These commentators did everything wrong and broke all the rules and as a result produced the most famous and priceless distance running call in history! Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it!
Sir, you are a true inspiration, warrior, athlete, philosopher, and competitor. Such an inspiring story. It seems it was the mental focus that made the difference.
Reminds me of the comment they made about Secretariat in the Belmont- " He is a moving like a tremendous machine". Greatest kick in the history of track.
In my mind Billy Mills is the greatest American distance runner of all time. Love the movie running brave, I can't count how many times I have seen that movie. I ran CC & Track in high school and Billy Mills was my idol. I wanted to be just like him.
Jim Ryan, Billy Mills, Dave Wottle, and Steve Prefontaine. my Mt Runmore. I ran sprints, hurdles, High Jumped, (the most fun) and Cross Country in the off season to stay in shape..Funny thing was I finished 9th in State Finals, shocked me and coach, lol.
@@santiagocontreras7968 Ok, but remember, we only get four candidates for Mt. Runmore, who do we bump? Aye there's the rub! He might be on the bench dunno...
This is a special moment in History, I keep watching it , There he goes , They pushed him away , He go back on track, he is watching close, suddenly see the opportunity , he hits the turbo , make way , Im coming through , Zoom , who was him,? Billy Mills?? Yess, He is U.S.A best, , He sure is, Gold for him, Cheers , The euphoria shakes the stadium , It is in History, Moments like that have many rejoicing still in this days. Salute, God bless Billy Mills, Hold on, I forgot, I have a Son and his name is Billy H.Serrano, Graduates from Air force to become 2nd Lieutenant . I'll have to tell him about this event, Brand name Billy 🌪👍🙏
My Hero, I had the great honor of meeting him at a 10 k race for charity. I will never forget it. He was so warm and humble to those of us who knew who he was and wanted so badly to meet him.
Pisses me off that Jenner monster is more recognized. Watched this in school as a youngster in Arizona over a rainy week in place for recess. I was sick as a dog on Friday but toughed it out to see the ending.
But Jenner’s feat was quite spectacular as well. The Decathlon is one of the greatest tests of all-around athleticism. Just because you disagree with him on how he wants to run his own life doesn’t make him a monster. He has done nothing to you personally or has hurt anyone. Mills is a great speaker though and that race was just pure awesome.
@@grl9917Mills is wholesome and while his feat was spectacular , Jenner is a degenerate and living life as a degenerate does hurt others whether you acknowledge or not. By your own logic, anyone who disagrees with me doesn't not make me a bigot
@@grl9917Jenner is famous for being a tabloid celebrity is all I meant, and recognized worldwide. Billy probably goes unrecognized for months on end. Did NOT mean to say Jenner wasn't an awesome runner.
NBC fired him for that. How pathetic of NBC. That would have been like ABC firing Al Michaels for exclaiming "Do you believe in miracles?!!" After the US upset the Soviets in the 1980 Winter Games in ice hockey.
About 20 years ago, when my son was in middle school and enjoying running more than soccer, I told him the story of Billy Mills at the Olympics. Years later he was at college on the east coast and he called to tell me that Billy Mills had given a speech at that college and my son attended it. He was so thrilled as a young man to have met and heard the story of Bill Mills, once again, but from Billy Mills himself. As his Dad it was a thrilling "closure" to his childhood and my attempt to put the story of a running hero into his heart. I learned to tell other young runners not to set limits on oneself and of course the Billy Mills story was THE prime example of why. God Bless Billy Mills for doing what heroes do - rise to the occasion and fulfill a dream.
Little unknown FYI. A couple days later he ran in the Olympic Marathon. Came in 14th place with a 2:22 and something seconds time. Outstanding representation of our country in those games.
Greatest upset in the history of the Summer Games. He was so unknown he didn't even get the new pair of shoes that the known athletes got. My running hero!!
AWESOME.. AWESOME.. FUCKING AWESOME! . something appreciate and be thankful..to your dying last breath..a gift from sub conscious mind convincing the brain ..to ignore it pain and JUST CROSSING The line first. Nothing more nothing less the time is now.. congratulations.. billy America RARE GOLD METAL.. close to impossible if you will
There was no way he would lose he programmed conditioned his mind and body to do just it's called entering the pain threshold where things goes silent and numbness the pain does not exist your mind is now in flotation mode ALL that comes to mind is crossing the tape first.. Americans cannot beat the European in the long distances. As a general rule..he shocked the world with that burst of energy.. pretty. Crazy..I mean take a look at prefontaine..he talked up American cocky "SMACK ". He did not get the European dominance..I personally knew they would spank him .and did not medal..sad to say. I honestly believe the defeat was too much to handle.. what drove his car into the mountains..was my observation of the story...on the other hand Billy had another agenda burning 🥵 from with in..
@@Tiburon876 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IJLtg8QO3FE.html Almost equal D/G. and Pre... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XDUxEPvR06U.html I ran 67-74.
I remember this race- I probably heard on BBC radio - and when Billy won, I was convinced that there must have been a mix up with his laps and that he was in fact a lap behind leaders.
I submit for your review a possible rival, I saw both live on TV and I still get a lump in my throat. Thanks for watching Fred. 1972 800 meters ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IJLtg8QO3FE.html
@@grl9917 that was not a cheap shot....nothing wrong with being aggressive in a race without overdoing it....clarke was boxed in and had nowhere to go but straight ahead...mills was just a bit in the way...i liked gammoudis move as well....its part of the game if your being held back...
Dude, It's 'Chariots of Fire' google it, Won an Academy Award for best song. The film was about the first Olympics. There is no more iconic song about running.
Your overlooking something Mr bayles.....lindgren sprained his ankle the day before the race and despite that still ran 29 minutes.....lindgren had a chance to place otherwise...as a high Schooler...that might have been a bigger deal than mills upset..
People misunderstood Clarke....he in fact was no more experienced than mills or lindgren...he happened to run 28:15 before the Olympics on an unusually good day but he was in fact still new to making a comeback from being a miler several years before upping to the distances...as usual the slopping reporting of his improvement was way overrated..
