In high school in Germany, on a USAF base, I ran a 51.1 quarter mile, and was the slowest of the four runners on our team. We ran a 4x440 at 3:17, which set the Department of Defense Overseas Schools record that stands to this day. This was 1973. Having said that..they convert to meters just a couple of years later!
God it's funny for me to think that Todd Bennett on the GB Team was a former rival of mine at the end of his Athletics career and at the time I never knew he had an Olympic silver medal in the bag and this is the race that he got it in. RIP Todd you were a Gent and thanks for the motivation u gave me once u noticed I was a young keen Athlete. I won a bunch of national titles but in Ireland as I moved over there after my time in Portsmouth England 🇬🇧🏅🏃♀️🇨🇮🙏☘
Great post. Todd was a great athlete. The Great British 4x400m history started in this era, and what some people might not know is that Todd Bennett actually held the 400m indoor world record for a while in the mid 1980's.
@thehalfeatendoughnut1798 funny you should mention his indoor running, I recall an indoor championships, don't remember the distance, but he was in such good form running that he was stumbling because the front runner wasn't quick enough, needless to say off the bend he flew past him, its my abiding memory of him...RIP Todd..
exactly, this is the hardest sprint race to run, this takes everything out of you! Like my track coach use to say... 100m or 200m is fun race to watch but 400m makes you a real sprinter!
@@yourmindisyours1731 yes, Phil Brown, Mr Reliable...but Todd closing that gap gave Phil the platform.....from days when athletics mattered....Todd;s little legs flying....RIP Todd
Nigeria's first leg Sunday Uti gave us tge advantage after closing down Rix but Rotimi Peter the 3rd leg reduced the pace after Moses Ugbusien 2nd leg maintained the momentum .Innocent Egbunike gave a good fight in the final leg thus winning Nigeria's first ever track medal at the Olympics
I was in the Coliseum that day. Worked for a professor at the 84 Olympics...traded some diving tix for some others. I had seen Louganis dive in Mission Viejo... And was willing to trade
I ran the 4 X 400 in division one college. More than once, the team standings relied on the last event: this one. We qualified for Nationals when it came down to a duel and team points. I was the 2nd slowest with a 56 lap but we won. This event is always a game-changer. Thanks for the post!
I met Lt Alonzo Babers while in the AF, after he competed and graduated from the AF Academy. He loved volleyball, hated my serves, but payback with spikes.
Phil Brown running his usual brilliant anchor leg for Great Britain. He was only an average runner as an individual but put a baton in his hand he somehow became a second faster.
Paul Williams it was a great anchor leg but if it was not for Todd Bennet's third leg bringing the Brits back to the Nigerians and Austrailia Brown would not have had a chance.
The announcers neglected to mention the fact that Darren Clark of Australia is the son of Ron Clark, former world record holder in the 5000m and 10000m.
@@westnyacktwins People are so spoiled today. I probably watched this live on an old 12inch model I had in my bedroom and now I'm watching it using the youtube app on a 65inch set
@@darrenshaw767 Really? OMG! It is! USA has had such outstanding 400m runners for decades now and the 4x400 is a premiere relay in high school and college.
If they had 4 Darren Clarks, they may have had a chance at the medal. I felt that the last runner did not give it his all, and left it too late to make a run for bronze or silver.
@@WorldSacred 'The last runner', you mean 1980 silver medallist Rick Mitchell? He never gave anything less than his best. He was coming off a year out with injuries that would have ended most careers. It was down to his pure guts that he got there at all.
@@bootymanagerIt is kind of rude of me to say that he did not give it his all. He had the disadvantage of having to chase another team a good 15 metres ahead of him, whilst the British and the Nigerians had the advantage to draft behind Mitchell and take advantage on the straight to overtake Mitchell. Mitchell did not have the legs to take them on.
The most notable thing about this video is hearing OJ's voice, thinking what his life was like back then and what it's like today. We can only shake our heads at what a complete FAIL that life became!
@C Y? Bro, did you win the Heisman? Did you rush for 2,003 yards in a 14 game season in the NFL? No! So now it's time for you to SHUT UP! Hahaha happy Valentine's Day Baby!
pamela neely Yes I did! It was very common for people to jump like that back up until the 60/70s so I was surprised when he was using the old technique to jump! 🔥
actually it was still around alot then, the way they jump now was first seen on international scene at the 68 olympics and stunned everybody so this wasnt that much after that! Especially somewhere like china which was a bit behind with those things then
Only innocent egbunike for Nigeria team had a decent baton exchange. How can an incoming runner gives you a baton and still passes you before you takes off running in a relay. Moses ugbusien and rotimi Peters killed the effort of innocent and Sunday uti’s effort with their poor baton exchange. Although Moses maintained the lead. JMO
How enlightening the athletes get to the starting blocks and they only mention one other athlete outside of the US team. Australia and Nigeria get mentions during the race but all except one is actually named and the British seem to get a reluctant honourable mention for coming second. Such patriotism and no wonder Americans have no idea about the rest of the world. POOR. POOR POOR.
0:35 Back then they measured high jump in feet and inches in US (TV)? 7' 5 1/4" (=2,267 m). Even that is incorrect. I guess the bar was lying at 2,27 m. Oh man! lol! The USA and its strange measurement system.
Great run by US but awful commentary they hardly new their own athletes and only mentioned the other teams by their nationality. I recommend the BBC commentary team they do their research.
Couldn't stand the black commentator. Always talking about how the athletes wouldn't care because they'd be in the lead by the next handoff. It was like no one else was in the race but the Americans to him, even though Nigeria and Australia gave them a run for their money.
Once again, American commentators are terrible. Great Britain wasn't mentioned until the home straight when they came in to win the silver medal. Apart from the USA, Nigeria and Australia and GB I'm pretty sure there were 4 other teams but not a mention of any of them. Such poor commentary.
Babers really made the difference. What a beautiful stride he has. So fluid.
In high school in Germany, on a USAF base, I ran a 51.1 quarter mile, and was the slowest of the four runners on our team. We ran a 4x440 at 3:17, which set the Department of Defense Overseas Schools record that stands to this day. This was 1973. Having said that..they convert to meters just a couple of years later!
God it's funny for me to think that Todd Bennett on the GB Team was a former rival of mine at the end of his Athletics career and at the time I never knew he had an Olympic silver medal in the bag and this is the race that he got it in. RIP Todd you were a Gent and thanks for the motivation u gave me once u noticed I was a young keen Athlete. I won a bunch of national titles but in Ireland as I moved over there after my time in Portsmouth England 🇬🇧🏅🏃♀️🇨🇮🙏☘
Great post. Todd was a great athlete. The Great British 4x400m history started in this era, and what some people might not know is that Todd Bennett actually held the 400m indoor world record for a while in the mid 1980's.
Go away
Rest in Eternal Peace Todd ,gone but not forgotten 🙏🙏
@thehalfeatendoughnut1798 funny you should mention his indoor running, I recall an indoor championships, don't remember the distance, but he was in such good form running that he was stumbling because the front runner wasn't quick enough, needless to say off the bend he flew past him, its my abiding memory of him...RIP Todd..
I love Juice's voice. Good commentary.
A track man giving commentary on track. Good job.
Phil Brown, fantastic on last leg, always.
Yep, kept a cool head and picked the right moment to kick.
This is in my opinion the most enjoyable race to watch in track. Maybe that's why it's normally the last event...
exactly, this is the hardest sprint race to run, this takes everything out of you! Like my track coach use to say... 100m or 200m is fun race to watch but 400m makes you a real sprinter!
AGREED
I love this race, couldn't agree more. In College and high school usually came down to this final race for standings, always exciting
The most enjoyable and the toughest. The 400m is a full sprint for 4 football fields! Even if you win the race, It breaks you.
@@HEAVYCHEVY409 *What is that? all of the runners must run 400 M each?*
Todd Bennett’s third leg for GB was absolutely astounding.
The anchor leg was better.
@@yourmindisyours1731 yes, Phil Brown, Mr Reliable...but Todd closing that gap gave Phil the platform.....from days when athletics mattered....Todd;s little legs flying....RIP Todd
@@paulwhite2533 Yeah, Phil did the rest but Todd got him into a strong position for the anchor when it looked like he might fade. RIP Todd.
that was a wonderful race. I remember watching it from Sydney on one of my many late nights. I really liked OGs then. Much simpler, fewer team sports
Nigeria's first leg Sunday Uti gave us tge advantage after closing down Rix but Rotimi Peter the 3rd leg reduced the pace after Moses Ugbusien 2nd leg maintained the momentum .Innocent Egbunike gave a good fight in the final leg thus winning Nigeria's first ever track medal at the Olympics
So
Yep, good showing by the Nigerians they hang in there
Good take.
When US gets ahead in relays, Only God can help you catch them. They are phenomenal!
or Kriss Akabusi.
And 2017 4x100 😂😂
The USA has more gold medals in this race than any other country.
@@philipgates988 I know, that’s why it’s funny when they lose😂😂
Not anymore
I was in the Coliseum that day. Worked for a professor at the 84 Olympics...traded some diving tix for some others. I had seen Louganis dive in Mission Viejo... And was willing to trade
It's so weird to see someone do a high jump technique that's not the Fosbury Flop nowadays.
Thanks for uploading.
Oh how wonderful the stadium is!
I ran the 4 X 400 in division one college. More than once, the team standings relied on the last event: this one. We qualified for Nationals when it came down to a duel and team points. I was the 2nd slowest with a 56 lap but we won. This event is always a game-changer. Thanks for the post!
Damn wtf that’s slow as shit
you was D1 with that time? you must was coming off an injury
No D1 runner runs a 56 in the 4x. That won't make a high school team.
That third leg! Amazing
Alonzo Babers became a pilot in the military and now flies a 777.
Good Ole America with dreams always there for the taking.
All you have to do is want it bad enough to go get it.
Wow,that's cool.
I met Lt Alonzo Babers while in the AF, after he competed and graduated from the AF Academy. He loved volleyball, hated my serves, but payback with spikes.
Phil Brown running his usual brilliant anchor leg for Great Britain. He was only an average runner as an individual but put a baton in his hand he somehow became a second faster.
Paul Williams it was a great anchor leg but if it was not for Todd Bennet's third leg bringing the Brits back to the Nigerians and Austrailia Brown would not have had a chance.
Paul Williams aw Rd
Almost forgotten what The Butcher of Brentwood sounded like
Really enjoyed the race. I was 2yrs old when it was live.🤣
phil brown, legend, todd bennett, rip
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/23341948
kriss akabusi
@@hotscratch2842 a later generation
The announcers neglected to mention the fact that Darren Clark of Australia is the son of Ron Clark, former world record holder in the 5000m and 10000m.
Woow didn't know my country Uganda had ever put out a relay team in an Olympic final!!! Am proud
. . . and probably the Nigeria's medal winning side was the first African squad to win an Olympic medal in track relay races
Nigéria did great ❤
O.J. really killed it as an announcer.
Best double entendre TH-cam comment of all time. #1.
The Juice had it all.
@@lawgill7594 He murdered it!
*Babers could be possibly have the most beautiful stride i have ever seen only person close is Felix!*
Strong and smooth
jarvis thomas check out David Rudisha in the men’s 800m London Olympics
Nigeria 🇳🇬 🤩
US owns the 4x4
This was Exciting times in USA 🇺🇲
Thank God the American commentators mentioned America
Amazing fastest man in the world
The juice really killed that commentary
I tried to have an image of Alonzo Babers in my head when I ran the relay. Of course I was never as fast, but it helped me be quicker
Chicago Babers
Just like in. Helsinki
Ready. Rau leg
Voice of O. J. Simpson, a former great athlete himself.
Phil always ran 2 sec faster in the relay anchour man of gold.
Those shorts were REALLY short
???????????????
Those shorts rock
the video quality is about to give me a glaucoma.
Bruck I’m afraid they hadn’t yet invented the HiDef camera on 1984. This 35 year old video looks pretty much as good as it did on TV back then.
@@westnyacktwins People are so spoiled today. I probably watched this live on an old 12inch model I had in my bedroom and now I'm watching it using the youtube app on a 65inch set
Queen Carl
Great last leg by Phil Brown for Britain.
is it Phil Brown or Kriss Akabusi(also of Nigerian descent)?
@@hotscratch2842 phil brown
I was a kid during these Olympics. Man they look faster than now for some reason???
i was a student at USC at the time and a bit pissed off that they turned a large portion of the college campus into part of the Olympic Village.
Was there any other runners than the americans, the brits didnt get a mention till the last 20 metres 😂
Aussies put on a good show.
THESM1THS it's still to this day the Aussie record.
im pretty sure that the second leg was darren clarke. he blew them away. not gary minihan.
Tim Newman it was Darren Clarke. There was nothing Minihan could do against Babers on that 3rd leg
@@timn4481 Darren - that's why they were first coming out of the 3rd bend
@@darrenshaw767 Really? OMG! It is! USA has had such outstanding 400m runners for decades now and the 4x400 is a premiere relay in high school and college.
I believe if the Aussies had Darren Clark anchor the relay, the Australians may have snatched a medal.
If they had 4 Darren Clarks, they may have had a chance at the medal. I felt that the last runner did not give it his all, and left it too late to make a run for bronze or silver.
@@WorldSacred 'The last runner', you mean 1980 silver medallist Rick Mitchell? He never gave anything less than his best. He was coming off a year out with injuries that would have ended most careers. It was down to his pure guts that he got there at all.
@@bootymanagerIt is kind of rude of me to say that he did not give it his all. He had the disadvantage of having to chase another team a good 15 metres ahead of him, whilst the British and the Nigerians had the advantage to draft behind Mitchell and take advantage on the straight to overtake Mitchell. Mitchell did not have the legs to take them on.
I would have switched the first and last runners.
Australian run slow people first would have allowed draft benefits but instead they provided draft
Wow, that Babers had a stride like a gazelle or deer or something else long and fast, great job the whole team
exactly he's a beast
Amazing runners.of USA...so long legs
Why is metre spelt incorrectly? 🤔🤔🤔
Those big mustache’s too heavy for the Aussie’s to carry.
So USA have been competing in relays for so long
"The straightaway" ... has the USA always called it that? Seems like an odd construction
It's North American for a straight section of a road or racetrack.
The most notable thing about this video is hearing OJ's voice, thinking what his life was like back then and what it's like today. We can only shake our heads at what a complete FAIL that life became!
C Y? Women ruin our lives... all that over a woman smh lol
Just kidding
It's not a fail in everybody's eyes. Time and chance happens to all men. Seasons change but what u learned from your last season is what matters.
@C Y? Bro, did you win the Heisman? Did you rush for 2,003 yards in a 14 game season in the NFL? No! So now it's time for you to SHUT UP! Hahaha happy Valentine's Day Baby!
it was Jason
@@BreuckelensFinest .... Don't have to do all that to know o.j. is a total idiot
The Americans
The Australians were solid.
4th in the world when 54 countries have larger populations.
That run is still the Australian record today
Babers won this race.
Yes, he gave them the lead
OJ....... wow
American s good in short races
Well done Nigeria
Did anyone notice how the athlete from China jumped?
pamela neely Yes I did! It was very common for people to jump like that back up until the 60/70s so I was surprised when he was using the old technique to jump! 🔥
actually it was still around alot then, the way they jump now was first seen on international scene at the 68 olympics and stunned everybody so this wasnt that much after that! Especially somewhere like china which was a bit behind with those things then
I wonder if OJ (Announcing) was wearing his "lucky stabbin' hat"
OJ was a fairly decent announcer, but once the Olympics were over he got back to doing what he does best: killing people.
@@kjersey6781 😯
Nicole was a broke crackhead, OJ didnt murder her.
interesting
Roos got koalaed
Weird to hear O.J. Simpson as a commentator on this race.
1984? Really?
He n Jesy Oven
USA, USA, USA!!!!!!!!!
I feel for the athletes that had their medals taken from them by the drug cheats including many US, East German and Soviet athletes.
Excellent advert for PEDs
Gotta love that o.j Simpson was working this...
Obviously...Hilarious!
good to see OJ taking a stab at Olympic commentary
Marc stop it!
@@mskipper19 perfect... lmao
He was taking notes on how to run away from a bunch of people chasing you.
Only innocent egbunike for Nigeria team had a decent baton exchange. How can an incoming runner gives you a baton and still passes you before you takes off running in a relay. Moses ugbusien and rotimi Peters killed the effort of innocent and Sunday uti’s effort with their poor baton exchange. Although Moses maintained the lead. JMO
yes, Nigerians lost time in baton-exchange
@@hotscratch2842
The exchanges were so elementary.
미국대표팀 1,2번 주자는 대체 어떻게 대표팀 된거냐?3번주자가 따라잡지 않고 4번앵커의 실력아니었음 금메달아니다 두선수 덕이니 감사해야한다 잘뽑아라 대표팀!축하해요
Super weird to listen to O.J.'s commentary.
Why does everything have to be "Super" these days?
@@BreuckelensFinest supercilous, Superman, Superfreak... where does it end?
It was USC and he was the most famous
How enlightening the athletes get to the starting blocks and they only mention one other athlete outside of the US team. Australia and Nigeria get mentions during the race but all except one is actually named and the British seem to get a reluctant honourable mention for coming second. Such patriotism and no wonder Americans have no idea about the rest of the world. POOR. POOR POOR.
What amazes me is some American are arrongantly confident in their ignorance
You right about that. Their Commentary is so one sided they makes watching the Olympics bland
OJ
0:35 Back then they measured high jump in feet and inches in US (TV)? 7' 5 1/4" (=2,267 m). Even that is incorrect. I guess the bar was lying at 2,27 m. Oh man! lol! The USA and its strange measurement system.
OJ commentating
Who care about that murder
Is that the killer OJ talking?
I was thinking the same.lol
OJ Simpson....the GOAT
yeah he murdered the coverage of this event...
@Scott Johnston The Juice is a Deuce
Was murdered by the public
Brilliant blacks
Brilliant athletes
Then came the Jamaicans 😲🤪🤪⛷💨💨💨🏇💨💨
OJ commentating LOL.
If the glove don't fit, acquit!
IN THAT TIME, ALL ATHLETES RAN DOPED
Sorry I can't listen to the Butcher of Brentwood.
C.L. didn’t thank the steroids😂
Ahhh, back when we let our men cheat...
Great run by US but awful commentary they hardly new their own athletes and only mentioned the other teams by their nationality. I recommend the BBC commentary team they do their research.
Probably drugs involved
Poor quality film .
George Kiru Dude, it looks pretty much the way it looked on my TV 36 years ago. Do you have a better copy?
Useless commentary
Foul Doping
Couldn't stand the black commentator. Always talking about how the athletes wouldn't care because they'd be in the lead by the next handoff. It was like no one else was in the race but the Americans to him, even though Nigeria and Australia gave them a run for their money.
What a drug fest that was? Those were the days.
Once again, American commentators are terrible. Great Britain wasn't mentioned until the home straight when they came in to win the silver medal. Apart from the USA, Nigeria and Australia and GB I'm pretty sure there were 4 other teams but not a mention of any of them. Such poor commentary.