THIS is every throwers fantasy. Last throw, in your home country, in the world championships, all recorded in high resolution video (for 1983). So much to love here; her intensity, how the spear appears to fly above the stadium, the crowds reaction.
One of the best moments in sporting history. She was Finland's only hope of a gold medal, very beautiful, the expectation of the whole country on her shoulders in her own country. Only in 2nd place, the pressure she was under before that last throw was incredible. To do what she did brought tears to my eyes. You can literally hear the crowd willing that javelin beyond 70m and she finished off with one of the most genuine victory celebrations you will ever see.
"Sacred events in Finland are the distance races and the javelin. But only one athlete had a serious chance of bringing gold to the host country. That was willowy Tiina Lillak, the women's javelin world-record holder. But the javelin is the most delicate, least predictable of events. Britain's Fatima Whitbread threw 226'10" on her first attempt, and the pressure was on. Lillak, employing a swift run that seemed hard to control, reached only 221'4" after five throws. She had one more. This time she stood a moment in the storm of yearning, showing blazing blue eyes and dimples of determination. Then she ran, and threw. The javelin took a worryingly high course, yet somehow it didn't stall, as some of her other throws had done. Instead, it sailed down the wind and pierced the turf at 232' 4". It was the moment of the meet. The crowd's roar was deafening. And moving. "I haven't cried," said NBC-TV's tear-streaked production assistant Bill Norris, "since John F. Kennedy was shot." The stadium's sustained jubilation was such that it seemed to expand beyond the celebration of this beautiful athlete. It was an expression of a small, tough people's unity of purpose and tradition, and of its embrace of everyone capable of mastering the pain and doubt and acid nerves of a genuine World Championships. Decker and Lewis and Coghlan all sensed that. "I feel half-Finnish, they understood me so well," said Decker. So as they cheered themselves hoarse, it was an impossibly magnificent conclusion. And a profoundly reassuring beginning." Sports Illustrated, AUG 22, 1983, "PUTTING IT ALL ON THE LINE", KENNY MOORE
Samana vuonna Tiina haki äitinsä kanssa joulukinkun Konalan T-Marketista missä olin lihatiskillä myyjänä. Olihan se komeaa kun maailmanmestari käy pikkukaupassa :D
Immer wieder erfrischend diese hübsche junge TINA... schlank und leicht...und weit wirft sie ....und wie sie sprinten kann nach solch einem 70 m-Wurf....Wunder- bar!! In Bewunderung für die 'Kollegin'..... Speerwerfer RÜDI-GER/72.62 m (1971) aus MAINZ
On siinä hieman eroa ruumiinrakenteessa nykysuomalaisiin naisheittäjiin. Pitkä nainen ja koko vartalo kuin terästä. Olin paikalla tuolloin, satuimme istumaan Edwin Moseksen valmentajan vieressä. Artsin hopea oli myös huikea suoritus, eikä kulta jäänyt kauaksi.
By far the GREATEST TECHNICIAN IN THE JAVELIN THROW, FATIMA WHITBRED!! WHEN HER ARM IS BACK IN THROWING POSITION JUST 2 STEPS AND THE POWER OF HER THROWS INCREDIBLE!!
Presumably Lillak didn't go down the Steroid route that the vast majority of them took later on in the decade. Hence her relative lack of success thereafter
Not everyone Takes steroids. And there are many diferend Types of throwers, some of them are long and some Not,so they have to take the power from more weights etc...
@@fan.-_ But if you look at the Greek and British women in this competition you can see that those muscles are very likely not natural considering how common steroids were back then
There was a slightly unusual angle to this that most didn’t see. What you don’t see in the coverage following the winning throw is what happened to one of the TV crew. In those days there was a cameraman who would be followed around by a link man wearing a back pack and connected to the camera by a cable. In the Australian coverage, as soon as she started running after her winning throw, they cut to a wide shot which showed the cameraman lying on his back on the ground, having fallen over one of the benches the athletes were sitting on. You needed sharp eyes to pick it up but it was there.
@@juha2031 No, it wasn't in this cut for some reason. I don't think all the broadcasts were the same. For example, we didn't actually see the throw. All we got was a commentator saying "She's really got onto that one." I can't remember what the event was that we were seeing but I think it must have been the women's 400 metres, judging from the other events going on in the background. First they cut to a shot of Lillak running around the stadium, then I think they must have cut to Fatima Whitbread and then finally a wide shot where you could see the cameraman on the ground, over by the javelin runway. I promise I'm not making this up. I have a very clear memory of it.
Mjaa, teinipojan guilty pleasure. Sittemmin nähtiin vuosia myöhemmin livenä jossain videovuokraamossa ja todettiin että toltahan sais varmaan turpaan :D
Any recorded times and distances accomplished prior to the better drug testing of the late 90's, and from before the fall of the Berlin Wall, should be scrubbed from history.
You're comment is insubstantial and full of contradictions. We can speculate about a plethora of athletes but that doesn't justify a complete erasure of their achievements. As for your comment about "better testing", you sound ridiculous.
The playing field is LEVEL in ANY era. They're just as juiced up now as they were back then. Fact is, athletes such as Marita Koch are a once in a lifetime talent REGARDLESS of opposition. Marita set WR's @ 1, 2, 3 and 4 hundred metres in the level playing field that was her era, that takes more than drugs, it takes a god given talent to have the speed of a WR breaking 100 metre runner and the endurance to keep that going up to 400m.
Täma laulu on ollut meidänkin hymni jo 1918. vuoden alusta saakka. Lisäksi: koska Tiina Lillakin isä oli Virossa syntynyt, voi sanoa, että tämä voitto oli myös Vironkin voitto. Se oli unohdamaton hetki kaikille virolaisille, ketkä seurasivat tätä MM-kilpailua televisiosta - näimme Suomessa syntynyt virolaistyttöä voittamassa MM-kultaa ja sen lisaksi kuuntelimme meidän oikean hymnikin - vaikka olimme sen hetkellä neuvostoliitton osavaltio ja kuuntelimme kielletyä laulua. Se oli aivan harvinainen ja historiallinen tapaus: Suomen-Viron tytölle soittettiin samaan aikaan Suomen-Viron hymnia ja kaksi kansaa juhlii samaan aikaan samaa voittoa.
