You did a good job in providing a comprehensive overview of this great track rivalry. At 7:00, you mention that Alain Mimoun had managed to qualify well in advance for the marathon for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Mimoun did not go to the 1956 Summer Olympics with the intention of running the marathon. He wasn’t registered in advance for it. Rather Mimoun ran in the 10,000 meters and finished 12th in the finals of that event. The sports writers wrote in their reports of the event that the poor result demonstrated that Mimoun was “too old” to keep competing. Upon reading this, Alain Mimoun went to the French Olympic committee and demanded an opportunity to take place in the final race of the Olympics - the marathon. His request granted, Mimoun had to ask around the Olympic village in broken English to get some road shoes to run it, for he only had brought track spikes. A bilingual American athlete in the Olympic village helped him find the shoes he needed.
Merci beaucoup Momo Ben ! N'hésite pas à t'abonner et à regarder les autres vidéos de la chaîne qui pourraient t'intéresser. N'hésite pas à ma dire si tu veux que je parle d'un autre sportif !
Zatopek is the Father of interval training. To paraphrase he said "I already know how to run slow, I need to train to run fast." Legend has it that Zatopek once ran 100, 400 meter intervals.
Normally for a marathon you would train your stamina not Zatopek. For him an explosive workout of 100's and multiple races were okay. As said by Ad-excelsum in the 1952 Helsinki marathon Zatopek has no idea of what a pace actually could be possible for his first time on this type of race
@@maxlaambert Zatopek did sets of 200m intervals to start and finish with 400m in the middle with a 200m jog recovery. He was doing a total of 32-40km in speed work, but a lot of his speedwork was closer to race pace.
You did a good job in providing a comprehensive overview of this great track rivalry.
At 7:00, you mention that Alain Mimoun had managed to qualify well in advance for the marathon for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
Mimoun did not go to the 1956 Summer Olympics with the intention of running the marathon. He wasn’t registered in advance for it. Rather Mimoun ran in the 10,000 meters and finished 12th in the finals of that event.
The sports writers wrote in their reports of the event that the poor result demonstrated that Mimoun was “too old” to keep competing.
Upon reading this, Alain Mimoun went to the French Olympic committee and demanded an opportunity to take place in the final race of the Olympics - the marathon.
His request granted, Mimoun had to ask around the Olympic village in broken English to get some road shoes to run it, for he only had brought track spikes. A bilingual American athlete in the Olympic village helped him find the shoes he needed.
That's a great bit of information I didn't know about, thanks a lot, I'll pin your comment!
Very, very well done!
Thanks a lot Kenneth! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Bravo super reportage, respect au champion
Merci beaucoup Momo Ben ! N'hésite pas à t'abonner et à regarder les autres vidéos de la chaîne qui pourraient t'intéresser. N'hésite pas à ma dire si tu veux que je parle d'un autre sportif !
Beautiful and lovingly made. Great job
Thanks a lot for your comment Alex! It means a lot to me :D
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Thank you so much for your comment! Glad you enjoyed it!
This is great. Thanks for the hard work.👍
Thank you so much! I happen to read this comment after finishing a race so your comment hits twice!
Zatopek is the Father of interval training. To paraphrase he said "I already know how to run slow, I need to train to run fast." Legend has it that Zatopek once ran 100, 400 meter intervals.
I thought it came from Norway. Thanks for your comment!
At 3:47 you are wrong! Hannes Kohlemainen won both the 5000 and the 10 000 meter in 1912.
My bad, thanks for the correction mate. Hope you enjoyed the video!
@@Ad-excelsum Yes, it was very nice!
@@pumagutten Thanks a lot!
What ist workout of zatopek
No idea! Do you have any information?
Normally for a marathon you would train your stamina not Zatopek. For him an explosive workout of 100's and multiple races were okay.
As said by Ad-excelsum in the 1952 Helsinki marathon Zatopek has no idea of what a pace actually could be possible for his first time on this type of race
Thanks a lot for the additional information @pierreboucher1174
@@maxlaambert Zatopek did sets of 200m intervals to start and finish with 400m in the middle with a 200m jog recovery. He was doing a total of 32-40km in speed work, but a lot of his speedwork was closer to race pace.