You meant June 24, 1970.
You meant June 24, 1970.
I think the only way a 5000m or 10000m American runner could make the cover is by doing something extraordinary...
sweeping 3 golds in 5000m, 10000m and marathon in the Olympics while running barefoot
setting a WR in the 5000m and becoming the first person to ever run it at sub-4 mile pace, all done before the Olympics while being the odds-on favorite to sweep gold in 5000m, 10000m, and marathon at the Olympics (and it would have to be a slow sports week after the NBA and NHL playoffs were over)
it doesn't matter what old rags have on the cover. the rags and papers are dead. it's the internet now, baby ! if you are paying for a rag or newspaper give it up, it's a waste of trees. get an iphone, a blackberry, a mac, a pc. get ubuntu.
It'll never happen. Runner's World sporadically features a track and field star on their cover!!! Track aficionados are known cheapskates and will not drive newsstand sales.
Yowza wrote:
Suzy Favor on an athlete swimsuit issue.
No offense man, but this is 2007.
Do you really think guys would want to see a 50 year old woman in a swimsuit issue?
I know she is still an attractive woman, but for Pete's sake man, there are other good-looking women runners in the world.
Sometimes I feel like LetsRunners think she was the only attractive woman in the sport.
If the distance runner kidnapped Michael Vick and his 3 co-conspirators, put them in a ring naked with dog collars around their necks, had them fight to the death til only one was standing, then took the winner and forced him to breed with a female pit bull, I think there is a chance the distance runner could get on the cover of "Dog Fancier" magazine. SI? Forget it, unless Vick won, then Vick would be on the cover, with possibly a mention in the article of the distance runner that made it all possible.
I think Mary Slaney in 1983. I updated the homepage with the info:
Win at least 3 Gold Medals in completely different events.
100m, High Jump, and 5000m.
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Wejo -- An illustration of Keino appeared in 1987, but with several other humanitarian athletes awarded Sportsmen of the Year. Slaney and Budd were on in 1985. Here are the links, along with all the other 800 and up athletes I could find since 1975:
12/21/87 - Kip Keino
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1987/1221.html
7/29/85 - Mary Decker Slaney & Zola Budd
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1985/0729.html
12/26/83 - Mary Decker
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1983/1226.html
7/26/82 - Mary Decker Tabb
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1982/0726.html
11/3/80 - Alberto Salazar
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1980/1103.html
8/11/80 - Seb Coe
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1980/0811.html
7/7/80 - Steve Scott
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1980/0707.html
2/18/80 - Mary Decker
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1980/0218.html
10/29/79 - Bill Rogers
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1979/1029.html
7/30/79 - Seb Coe
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1979/0730.html
7/9/79 - Eammon Coghlan
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1979/0709.html
2/26/79 - Eammon Coghlan
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1979/0226.html
2/6/78 - Dick Buerkle and Filbert Bayi
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1978/0206.html
10/30/78 - Bill Rogers
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1978/1030.html
9/12/77 - Alberto Juantorena and Mike Boit
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1977/0912.html
7/19/76 - Frank Shorter
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1976/0719.html
7/5/76 - Frank Shorter
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1976/0705.html
5/26/75 - Filbert Bayi et al
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1975/0526.html
Agreed. I'd imagine that a big Olympic win would have a very slight chance to make it to the cover. But that would depend on other events and winners that week / month. (I dunno if SI is monthly or weekly. Who knows?)
Amongst Olympic-philes, the marathon might be regarded as *the* event of the summer games, but in terms of SI covers, I imagine that if SI's editors were to rank the Olympians that they want to put on their cover(s), they'd be ranked something like this:
1. Women's beach volleyball, if they win gold
2. Women's beach volleyball, if they win silver
3. Women's beach volleyball, if they win bronze
4. Women's beach vollyball, if they simply show up
5. Women's gymnasts
5. Swimmers
6. Divers
7. Sprinters
8. Men's volleyball
9. Rowers
10. Wrestlers
11. BMX bikers
12. Ping Pongers
13. Tae Kwan Do pointfighting hacks
14. Boxers
15. Distance Runners
16. Polo players
17. Equestriennes
The target demographic of SI has no interest in or knowledge of running. Does SI even regularly cover running?
Other than USA Today and Versus, are there any major US media outlets that regularly profile distance running?
"Running" in one form or another is hugely popular in the US, but it doesn't really have the media attention or capture the popular imagination that it might have in earlier decades. It's popular, but not "Popular." Somebody like Hall could have the makings of this era's Frank Shorter, he's young, likeable, and talented, but is there a huge media machine behind him or his sport? I suspect that right now in the world of sports, one has to have that sort of PR machinery to shop one's story. Somebody from Nike's stable might have more of a chance to eventually get wider recognition, maybe. Who knows?
I don't know how running can be popular, but receive zippy coverage. No point in looking for one, either. It's just part of a cosmic unconsciousness.
Prefontaine on the cover.
http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1970/0615.html
do you mean emmaus, pa for your humorous post?
Erasmus PA wrote:
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That's kind of funny that that July 19, 1976 issue was entitled "Special Olympic Issue". Bad combination of words.
Wow, it's been over 20 years since a runner was on the cover of SI. Really sad. But then again, considering the SI cover jinx, you might not want to be on there.
Maybe something dramatic like a married couple winning medals in the Olympics... the Halls, the Culpeppers, etc.
Related question:
Has a distance runner ever appeared on a box of Wheaties?
I love Wheaties.
What about Lance?
[JOKING!!!]
Hojo wrote:
Related question:
Has a distance runner ever appeared on a box of Wheaties?
I love Wheaties.
Hunter Kemper is on there right now.
IF Hall won the last London Marathon he would have appeared in the SI. I have no doubt about that.
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