Ron Pickering's amazing commentary in the 200m 'the roar for Rosendahl' and 'come on Mary, you need the run of your life' as well as Mary's wonderful achievement in Munich and all the good she has done in her career after athletics. For me, I also remember missing the great Lillian Board.
I was nine but remember it well. Indeed, it still brings tear to my eyes as well. Made even more memorable by the wonderful commentary of Ron Pickering and David Coleman.
40 years before Jessica Ennis, there was Mary Peters, the first British woman to win a combined-event Olympic gold, reaching one step higher than Mary Rand's silver medal in the inaugural 1964 pentathlon competition.
Great respect shown between the competitors too, with Rosendahl offering congratulations. What a competition that was, and a golden moment for Mary Peters.
Always smiling. Living her dream. No silly posturing or breaking down in tears of joy like today. Ron Pickering's commentary adding to the tension and drama of her triumph.
There's a debate on this page about Dame Mary's heritage. She may not have been born in Belfast, but she was there when the Troubles began, battling through the tension-filled streets to get to training locations. When she won that Gold Medal, the people of Northern Ireland, for a spell, at least, were united. They forgot about whether they were Catholic or Protestant. They forgot about the legacy of Bloody Sunday, which - up until then - had been so fresh in peoples' minds. All they knew was they had watched their Olympic heroine take on the world and conquer it....
I clearly remember watching the 200 metres particularly in the television room at Corton Caravan and Chalet holiday camp as a 9 year old. Exciting to watch even today. Mary is an inspiration.
I was there on that day when she won the gold medal. I was a thirteen year old. On a school trip from cwrt sart school in south wales. It was a great experience.
I was only ten when she did this and I don't think I appreciated what an athlete she was and how much this was just her and a coach working in isolation to win a gold against the Soviet and East German machines.
Let's take a moment to recognise the sportsmanship of Heide Rosendahl (3:32). That can't have been easy for her with all the pressure she must have been under at a home Games.
I think had I been a few years older in 1972 I would have remembered this. What a lovely lady Mary Peters was/is. My first Olympic memories are from the 1976 Winter Olympics.
What an athlete, what a lady. You did us all proud Mary. The achievement is all the more remarkable knowing what we know now about the amount of steroids pumped into the eastern block athletes.
What a great competition with exciting athletes 13.3s for the sprint hurdles, over 16m shot put, 1.82cm high jump, 6m in long jump, then a 24 sec (?) 200m. Mary Peters results are still competitive for multi events
I remember seeing Mary complete with gold medal as she was visiting a relative it in quarry street in Woolton Liverpool , I was about 9 never forgot her lovely smile 💖
I remember my parents loved Mary Peters. They were jumping up and down by the telling yelling for Mary. My parents loved sports the Olympics etc. They were local athletes themselves.
@@pauldunneska Trust me. I've been acquainted with Mary Peters for the best part of thirty-five years since she ran her health club in Railway Street in Lisburn in the early 1980s. You would be a very brave man indeed to suggest to her she isn't Northern Irish through and through.
Coleman introduces the 200m and then describes the aftermath, but it's Ron Pickering telling Mary to come on. A goose pimples moment still after 48 years.
I was 12 when I watched this on television when the 1972 Olympics were on .. Ron Pickering's fabulous commentating " Come on Mary, come on " has stayed in my mind to this day !! :)
Exactly fifty years on from that day I've been taking a look at a Live Blog, written as if it were happening now, at the 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' site on West Germany's 'Goldener Sonntag' of three Golds for the host nation in Athletics, this being the only downer for them, denying them a fourth by a very narrow margin. They were calling Mary an 'Engländerin', but don't worry, I corrected them in my best German!
Nick Moger Well she is really british as she was born in Halewood,Lancashire and is not Irish in anyway,because she was not born on the island of Ireland.
You dont have to be born in that location to gain citizenship for that nation. She represented Northern Ireland at the commonwealth games. She is British
@@davidstewart1910 Everybody is on drugs; some more than others, but if they're lining up for the final in the Olympics, they're on drugs. There is always the problem of evidence, since in the first place the evidence is always hidden as well as can be (the more effectively if you 've got the State security apparatus on your side). Back in the 1990s, say, if one pointed a finger at the East Germans or the Russians, someone else could always shoot back with "Where's the evidence?" What kind of evidence are we talking about? Look at trends in performance over time, for one thing. Then one sees a corresponding drop-off once testing capabilities increased. There are quite a few world records, especially on the women's side, left over from the 1980s. But as it turns out, there is evidence, at least for the East Germans and the Russians: even the IOC was forced to acknowledge it, and they gave the Russians sanctions (East Germany no longer existing). Furthermore the Olympics have become big business, and part of the hype swirls around records, so it's to the financial advantage to those reaping the profits to not look too closely at the situation. And that reluctance filters out through the media reporting as well. Heide was from Leverkusen. What else is thereabouts? Bayer -- which was a corporate sponsor for the local athletics club (Bayer Leverkusen); I seem to remember seeing a picture of Kurt Bendlin once wearing a Bayer Leverkusen singlet; not that geographic proximity is all that important as they could certainly ship their stuff anywhere. All these people are great champions, but let's face it, everybody is on drugs (even now): as much as they can get away with, because the influence on performance is just too great.