Number of years undefeated is only relevant to how slow your competition is. He would have had a tougher time against the men running today. The doping standards are higher now too.
I graduated from college in 1977. I ran track. That year the NCAA Division 3 championships were held at my college track. Edwin was running for Morehouse College. I got to watch him rim about 6 times over the weekend. TV pictures can't do justice to the power, speed and beauty of his running. It was an act of worship just to watch him run. I've always been thankful I lived to see it.
I was 11 years old in 1984 when I watched this race, I thought that Ed Moses was an athletic old man with a beard. Now I watch it in 2020 and I can see he was an athletic young man with a beard
Best hurdler of All Time. I meet him in 1983 Colorado Springs track meet along with Evelyn Ashford, and Calvin Smith (who broke the world record that day). All classy individuals
best of that era and up until that era. Great as he was, the sport moves on. The present group of top tier 400 hurdlers have gone to another level still
The man whose vintage library of 10,000 videos we are currently in process of posting....who just happens to be the original Sportsphile....saw this race live at the 1984 Olympics....and he agrees with you.....as Moses was 'SIMPLY BRILLIANT"!!!
I was competing in D3 track and Edwin raced for a small school in college. I watched him tear thru a stunning 400m anchor leg for their relay to win. It was so beautiful. And what a brilliant man and competitor.
We at ImaSportsphile web page responsible for posting this and 2300 additional vintage videos on our site.....agree 100% with your comment....as NOBODY compares to the Great Moses!!!
I saw the title and the name Edwin Moses just came out before I read it. Greatest 400 meter hurdler of all time. He was so smooth it always looked like he was just gliding around the track like poetry in motion.
I recall a Sports Illustrated article about Edwin Moses where sport scientists measured just about everything about him. This was rather early in the whole concept of advanced testing for athletes, and what was absolutely astonishing was Edwin's near balanced strength on both the left and right side of his body. His legs, his arms, everything... perfectly in-synch. I don't recall the specific numbers, but they were within a few hundredths of each other, right and left. That was part of his excellence and one of the reasons why he switched legs over the hurdles; most hurdlers use the same leg to stride over the hurdle, but not Edwin. He re-wrote the book on how to run the 400M Hurdle event. I suppose it was the exacting scientist mind of his. After all, he has a degree in physics. :)
martino amello, thanks for your comment....for we at ImaSportsphile responsible for posting this video along with the 2000 others like it on our webpage....are of the opinion that many of the hundreds of 400m hurdlers that faced him during his streak of 122 undefeated races also felt like "he didn't seem to be human".
Carter boycotted the Olympics in Moscow. I will always oppose boycotting sporting events and using our athletes as political pawns. For many of those athletes in 1980, that would be their one and only chance of their lifetime. It's just wrong.
Edwin Moses was a hell of an athlete. Saw him at some Invitational Race at Villanova around 1982. All the giants were there...Sydnee Maree, Eamonn Coghlan, and Edwin Moses. He was cool as a cucumber. Relaxing before the race then utterly destroying the competition.
Moses was like the Moses of the Bible. Simply incredible. I like the anxious reactions of his wife. Nice to see her worries before the race turn to Joy after the race thanks to Edwin Moses the legend.
I always thought of a cheetah when seeing him run a race - long, powerful strides generating incredible speed even with 'obstacles' (ten hurdles) in the way. Pure perfection.
Patrick Murphy, thanks for your comment....cuz in this lil ole chiweenie Sportsphile's opinion....there has never been anyone greater at the 400m hurdles than Edwin Moses.....and my Bone Daddy was at the L A Colliseum on the very day that this event took place...as he saw Edwin run....so, you need to click at www.imasportsphile.com where I have posted 1500 vintage sports, comedy and music videos.....and visit my Olympics section....where I have tons of Olympics footage.
"One of" the greatest? "for US"? Come on, there has never been anyone at his level of greatness anywhere in the world in this discipline. Not even close.
Imasportsphile III the love of a wife towards her husband really shiws and vice versa i am sure. didn't kniw much about moses,because he is american and before my time but i love him dearly. what a great looking couple. he was phenomenal and very gracious
One of the newspapers here in the UK described him as "so laid back he's horizontal" during the Los Angeles Olympics. First time I heard that description applied to anyone.
And that is why we at www.imasportsphile.com responsible for posting this video of Moses....along with quite a few of THE KING OF THE 400m HURDLES videos in our Olympics and track & field section....agree with you completely.
This beats anything since. Todays Olympics are UNWATCHABLE. 1984 best olympics ever. Almost every event also outside of gymnastics had an inctedible duell going on! Soviet boycott didnt make an impact these were and still are the best athletes ever to gobto olympics. Michael Jordan went to these olympics as did Michael Gross, Ian Fergusson, Carl Lewis, Sebastian Coe, Thom Daley, Edwin Moses, peter michael kolbe, Mar T Maghear, kopainnen etc etc etc etc etc the list just goes on and on and on unbelievable!!! 1980s forever!
Not too many know this: had a secret technique that was born out of his educational background in physics. He was able to deduce that riding the inside line of his own lane as close as possible could save him several meters of distance around the 400m track. He facilitated this by going over the hurdles with his left leg. He also was able to calibrate his 13 steps to achieve a very consistent streamlined hurdle step every over every hurdle. He did this for his early success in the 70s. Eventually everyone else started to notice and adopt those techniques… which is testament to how he was able to stay head of the competition into the 1980s. Best hurdler of all time and probably one of the most cerebral athletes
When camera cut to Edwin's wife for the umpteenth time, I was thinking about the hysterical Mom on The Airplane movie. My weapon of choice is my bare hands
David Weaver, thanks for your comment....and great observation on something that we at ImaSportsphile never picked-up on until now....so, thanks....and we hope you enjoyed this video...cuz if you did....we have the most in depth collection of vintage Olympics videos already posted on our website that we are sure you will enjoy.
Yeah... I forgot about his wife and how high strung she was... LOL I was in the U.S. Air Force during this time. Ran the 440yd in High School and it was painful. Can't imagine 400m over hurdles!
@@teeare1261 Did he cheat on her while he was there or something? She was so damn emotional watching the race and cried when he finally won. She divorced him that quickly after that? Damn
@John Doe Edwin Moses was my hero after Montreal. I converted to hurdling and ran the 330yd IMH and made it to state. I would imagine I was Edwin Moses and that actually helped.
So today d😂uring the Olympic coverage of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, they said twice that no one had ever won two gold medals in the 400 m hurdles...." Let alone 2 in a row" . Well that is just very deceiving... Edwin won 2 in a row that he could participate in, and clearly his record indicates that he would have won three in a row. Without a doubt. 122 consecutive victories before and after the futile and failed lamebrained unprincipled boycott of the 1980 Olympics....
