My father filmed this. He worked for a news in Salina, KS and said that it was picked up by other media outlets (KAKE TV did the rerun with the commentary and may have called him down to do this coverage). It was a thrilling memory he had. Lester Allen "Andy" Anderson, Jr. passed this week on 10 September 2018 aged 93. I remember my brothers having autographed photos of Jim Ryun. They grew up participating in track and field as did I - all long distance runners.
I thought the interviewer did a good job. He managed to coax some good commentary out of Jim about how he felt in the race, and didn't ask dumb questions like so many do today.
He spoke of running against the immortal Peter Snell (Gold 800m Rome 1960 and Gold 800M & 1500M Tokyo 1964) very soon and he won in under 3:56....amazing.
Amazing! Sadly, nowadays, they'd DQ him for having a teammate pace him. Or they'd DQ him for unsportsmanlike conduct for not thanking his teammates for pacing him. 😉 Interestingly, the (contradictory) rules say you can NOT have someone pace you or be aided by any electronic devices, but you CAN use a watch with an audible beep (e.g. an electronic device that beeps/vibrates a certain way based on whether you're over or under your ideal pace).
Your descriptions is confusing the facts. Jim broke the 4 minute barrier the the first time in 1964. This is him breaking the 4 minute barrier in all high school competition.
Jim was over-trained by Timmons! There's no reason to be running 100+ MPW in H.S. in the off season. Coe was training 50-60 MPW and he won 2 gold medals in the 1500 M. Nobody was going to beat Kip Keino at altitude in the 68-Olympic games and Ryun had bad luck in the 72 Olympic Games by falling down in one of his trial heats and not qualifying for the finals. He trained way too hard in H.S. and like Salazar he was totally burnt out by the time he was 23 yr. old. They both destroyed their immunity systems and came down with asthma and they were finished!
@@richardmilliken5651 I don't disagree much regarding the over-training, but as far as Ryun is concerned, it is frequently overlooked that he had a serious case of mononucleosis leading up to the 68 Olympics and also suffered a pulled hamstring. I was a HS runner a year younger than him and followed him closely through his carrier. He never fully recovered his endurance after the mono, and certainly lost the edge from his phenomenal speed (144.9 880, 46.9 quarter an hour after running a 3.55 mile) after the hamstring injury, which is notoriously hard to ever fully recover from. I don't mean to discount Keino's fabulous race at that altitude, but I think it would have been a far different race if Ryun had not been ill and injured. Obviously, his Asthma started to have an increasing affect on him over the remainder of his career.
@@glennrobbins4234 At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (altitude), Keino suffered from severe abdominal pains (later attributed to gallbladder problems). Despite warnings from doctors, he competed in six distance races in eight days. I understand that Ryun was definitely not close to being 100% and he was still recovering from mono and a pulled hamstring. And i believe that if the Olympic games were held at sea level that Ryun most likely would've beaten Keino!! The altitude gave Keino and the other distance runners that lived at altitude a huge advantage!! Kip was helped by his teammate Jipcho who set an extremely fast pace at altitude and that also helped Keino. I still felt that considering everything that Ryun ran a good race. Jim was untouchable from 1966-1967 at sea level. I believe that if Ryun had been trained by somebody like Seb Coe's father that Ryun would've had a longer career and that he could've run 3:47 for the mile!
My father filmed this. He worked for a news in Salina, KS and said that it was picked up by other media outlets (KAKE TV did the rerun with the commentary and may have called him down to do this coverage). It was a thrilling memory he had. Lester Allen "Andy" Anderson, Jr. passed this week on 10 September 2018 aged 93. I remember my brothers having autographed photos of Jim Ryun. They grew up participating in track and field as did I - all long distance runners.
Jennifer Leaf God rest his soul
7000-8000 people at a High School track meet in Kansas...amazing.
I thought the interviewer did a good job. He managed to coax some good commentary out of Jim about how he felt in the race, and didn't ask dumb questions like so many do today.
He spoke of running against the immortal Peter Snell (Gold 800m Rome 1960 and Gold 800M & 1500M Tokyo 1964) very soon and he won in under 3:56....amazing.
Great to see him get the award today!
Thank you *so much* for posting this. Wow!
Amazing! Sadly, nowadays, they'd DQ him for having a teammate pace him.
Or they'd DQ him for unsportsmanlike conduct for not thanking his teammates for pacing him. 😉
Interestingly, the (contradictory) rules say you can NOT have someone pace you or be aided by any electronic devices, but you CAN use a watch with an audible beep (e.g. an electronic device that beeps/vibrates a certain way based on whether you're over or under your ideal pace).
Can you pace someone from behind?
Your descriptions is confusing the facts. Jim broke the 4 minute barrier the the first time in 1964. This is him breaking the 4 minute barrier in all high school competition.
Running 100+mpw in base phase in HS.
Jim was over-trained by Timmons! There's no reason to be running 100+ MPW in H.S. in the off season. Coe was training 50-60 MPW and he won 2 gold medals in the 1500 M.
Nobody was going to beat Kip Keino at altitude in the 68-Olympic games and Ryun had bad luck in the 72 Olympic Games by falling down in one of his trial heats and not qualifying for the finals. He trained way too hard in H.S. and like Salazar he was totally burnt out by the time he was 23 yr. old. They both destroyed their immunity systems and came down with asthma and they were finished!
@@richardmilliken5651 I don't disagree much regarding the over-training, but as far as Ryun is concerned, it is frequently overlooked that he had a serious case of mononucleosis leading up to the 68 Olympics and also suffered a pulled hamstring. I was a HS runner a year younger than him and followed him closely through his carrier. He never fully recovered his endurance after the mono, and certainly lost the edge from his phenomenal speed (144.9 880, 46.9 quarter an hour after running a 3.55 mile) after the hamstring injury, which is notoriously hard to ever fully recover from. I don't mean to discount Keino's fabulous race at that altitude, but I think it would have been a far different race if Ryun had not been ill and injured. Obviously, his Asthma started to have an increasing affect on him over the remainder of his career.
@@glennrobbins4234 At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (altitude), Keino suffered from severe abdominal pains (later attributed to gallbladder problems). Despite warnings from doctors, he competed in six distance races in eight days. I understand that Ryun was definitely not close to being 100% and he was still recovering from mono and a pulled hamstring. And i believe that if the Olympic games were held at sea level that Ryun most likely would've beaten Keino!! The altitude gave Keino and the other distance runners that lived at altitude a huge advantage!! Kip was helped by his teammate Jipcho who set an extremely fast pace at altitude and that also helped Keino. I still felt that considering everything that Ryun ran a good race.
Jim was untouchable from 1966-1967 at sea level. I believe that if Ryun had been trained by somebody like Seb Coe's father that Ryun would've had a longer career and that he could've run 3:47 for the mile!
Lindgren though, would rather see
This is slow motion !!!!!!!¡!