One of the most courageous things you will ever see on a running track ! Steve Jones 10,000m 

I was a long distance race in my past life

same ^^

Yeah a long distance race to mc donald's ha

@@run6run751 😂

When there's Rocky music & a white guy hears it, forget about it.....

Let me understand, because that sprint was just so unbelievable : did he slow on purpose to have the second to think he had it already, and then pushed again? Because any other hypotesis is really beyond my concept of human. 👀👀👀👀

​@@mantralibre1367 that means you're id*ot.

I’m a middle distance runner and have watched loads of track and field races, but admittedly didn’t come across this particular race before. Basically with the last 200 m to go in a 10km race, you are emptying the tank and giving everything you got. Steve Jones was running a terrific pace as it was and was overtaken near the finish. This is terribly demoralising and almost always results in defeat because you are already giving everything you got. Add to that, Steve jones was not known to have a great ‘kick’ - an ability to really run really fast near the end of a long race. I’ve never seen anyone come back from that kind of situation the way Steve did - where he found that extra gear and to fight the psychological blow and dig very deep to pull that off- there is a reason why this doesn’t really happen in middle/long distance running. You get passed near the end - you’ve lost……that is why it’s unbelievable to see…..

the great David Coleman on the mic

How did it go?

Did you lose?

@@davideats9255 No

‘Going The Distance’ from the Rocky soundtrack makes even more inspirational.

Your someone who sprinkles sugar on her cotton candy -- right (?)

Hahahahaha, dear, we could do so well with so much more humor. Oh dear, I sprinkle sugar every way I can! I am grateful for you to bring me back here :) I see that some nice comments were reported as spam. No sense. I wasn't able to restore them though :c

+Andrew Morrell Where and when was this race?

+Mark Savoie I cannot be sure but it was a long time ago so could have been mid 80s or early 90s. If you googled the athletes you might be able to gauge the rough year from their approximate ages and possibly determine the race meeting from that. From that you would be able to find the results online somewhere I imagine. If you find out, please reply as I'd like to know. It's an amazing race and even now I show this to people and they are amazed.

+Andrew Morrell I believe it's in Belgium, around 1983. I'm more sure about the Year then I am the location though as I also watched this when it happened

You do realize he couldn't actually hear the announcers while he was running right?

he probably heard it since previous races or practices, or they wouldn't know to say it~ probably every time he turned around. Things like that are no secret for long...

“Jones looking for trouble and the trouble is there!” Almost like he put you right there on the track.

I had my name called out approaching the finish line of the NYC Marathon 2001. What a great feeling that was.

“But Jones coming back!!!”

In this case, it is the courage to keep going, despite the enormous amount of pain. Pain that scares almost all other humans. Courage is the right word.

can i teach u english?

+John Redhead Not as hard as road cycling.

400m is harder

@@pkdonkey789 Having run both the 400M and long distance....long distance at a fast pace is harder.

No. he was wearing bib #2.

Thinking the same thing lol.

Hahaha.

Nice use of the Rocky 1 soundtrack

Rocky didn't win, that's part of what made it work as a story.

snotjello "ain't gonna be no rematch". If the Champ said that to me, I'd take that as a win, though.

And they never will. Hundreds of millions of people have no clue what it is like to even run a single mile.

Kevin Heikkila That's what courage is.

You need.courge to push truh Paine!

u dont knw anything about running ..so dnt comment

just for you information hero, i run at medium 80 stadium laps, the first 30 laps are with the military mask on,so gues i know a little about pushing thru paine, but if you have another opinion, what else can i sey appart then good luck in your life player

Kevin Heikkila YESSSSSSSS MANNNNNNN!!😏I AGREE WITH THIS COMMENT 👌✌👏👍👊💯 PERCENT.!

He set that record in Chicago.

IDIOT??!! NOOO What a Human being You are. More men has lost sensitivity for the beautiful things and have become like Robots without feelings.

Running in the front is only a really big disadvantage if there is a significant wind that you're eating for the guys behind you. Otherwise it's purely a matter of comfort where different runners like to place themselves in the field.

I finally won in chess..And I only took one pawn from my hubbie and got ck mate with my knight and my oh the slide diagonal thing.oh yes it was great.

shayna gober The bishop

Moises Castillo thank you sir

Congratulations on winning chess you didn't give in and got your own gold.

I had almost the same experience. I used to jog round the cross country course and finish third from last but one day for absolutely no good reason I decided to really give it a go. After 6 and a half gruelling minutes I won a sprint finish with a guy who usually lapped me. I just made over the line to finish about 7th or 8th. Never been so exhausted before or since but there was kind of a good feeling as well. Still got lapped by the winner though, so don't think I missed out on a potential career.

its courage, if you did sports you would understand why.

wow thats a rather deep and depressing comment hahaha..

WOW!

Wonderful hey Jodi?

Gaz Jones Yes I watched it with my daughter,she is 6 & both of us were cheering on the edge of our seats so thx 4 sharing!

You're both very welcome

comment not commentat

MythsLies AndStereotypes Dumbass! www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commentate

If you listen to his commentating on this video he manages to speak, completely unscripted without saying one 'um' or 'ah' for the entire video.

Caucasian? LOL Jones is a welsh name it has nothing to do with the caucasus's.

***** Train hard..... then, train harder. repeat....

you must have turned it off just before the end, he won!!!

Lol

I loved it, I showed to my son to teach him the value of bravery and courage. Thank you for down loading it.

I'm a little late but I'll try and give my thoughts. In a race it is mentally exhausting to lead as you have to worry about pacing and what not. I have seen numerous races where the leader has been overtaken on the last turn and just accepted not getting first. In this case not only losing the lead, but being told he wasn't good enough glorifies how courageous he is for winning and taking that chance. As for the honor part, he is representing his country and he proved everyone wrong.

I still don't see how it's honorable :/ thanks for trying though!

I guess it's just a runner's thing

hon·or ˈänər/ noun noun: honour; noun: honor 1. high respect; esteem. In this case, he felt honored when they praised him for winning. To him, it was a trial, not just a race.

Racing, especially leading from the front is the most difficult to win, and usually athletes of this level are incredibly nervous coming down to race day. The courage comes from the ability to know that a tremendous amount of pain is inevitable, win or not, and the fear of failure is also omnipresent. The honor is simply nationalistic pride that an athlete gets when he earns a medal for his nation.

spoken like a true fat person

ozups I'm not, but nice prejudice.

vincentpol I don't think it's particularly courageous, but indeed it is remarkable and interesting how the commentators seemed to write him off. Physical achievement takes thousands of hours of practice and determination and should be glorified up there with the great minds of our time.

ozups No, I'm sorry, but saying that athletes shouldn't be glorified is not being 'closed-minded', but I agree that your statement was.

Yeah rot in hell

you're probably not much of an athlete either though

Maybe you have never been a runner, or perhaps not even involved in athletics. I don't know what your background is. It is courageous in the sense that I can pretty much guarantee you that his legs were burning and his lungs were on fire. Vince Lombardi once said "Fatigue makes cowards out of us all". This is a true statement. It does take a degree of courage to be able to ignore the fact that your legs and lungs are SCREAMING for you to stop, and rationalizing with you in every way possible to just give up and every part of your body wants to stop, to quit,to slow down, but despite all of this you find it somewhere within you to keep going. Muhammad Ali had it. Joe Frazier had it. Michael Jordan had it. Rocky Marciano had it, Just to name a few.

I agree with you confessions. I ran long distance races in High School and I love this video and I am very impressed by the winner But, determination is the word I would use to describe his effort.

But not every "normal" person has the ability to reach down and do what he did. That takes courage in and of itself. Not exactly an "ordinary" performance.

***** yes

So you are saying that god was not at the side of the other competitor?

Its encouraging because he did what everyone told him he cant do.

I don't really get the courage thing here either. It is an amazing race, but courage?

Lazy Jason..want lazers and explosions to see amazing. Put yourself into the race..

ZiadEverything So, in fact it was perseverance and not courageous.

You have clearly never ran distance before. You have no idea what your body goes through in those races, especially a 10000m

Two time Chicago Marathon Champ.