Hard to have a greatest season ever in a non-Olympic year. Fast times, I sleep. WCs frankly don’t rate that highly for me. In the end, the Olympics are the be-all end-all.
Grant Fisher's 2022 season will be the greatest in American Men's History
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Brazier 2019
Indoor 600 best / indoor 800 AR / DL champ / outdoor AR / world champion
no way that Fisher can outdo Brazier this year.
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600yd/600m man wrote:
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If Owens had jumped his PB result in last years Olympics he would have placed 6th, and unlike running, you can compare competition results between eras because there are no "tactical long jump competitions".
You do not know what you are typing. You are 100% incorrect. The shoes Jesse Owens wore were extremely heavy, 1936.
Adolf “Adi” Dassler founded the iconic sports company Adidas in 1924. In 1936 he wanted to use the Summer Olympics to advertise his sports company, and wanted to provide athletes from all over the world with his equipment.
Dassler and his friend ,Jo Waitzer, the coach of the German team, decided that they would offer their specially designed running footwear to as many contestants as possible, including Jesse Owens.
Dassler and Waitzer were aware of the danger of an African American contestant wearing German shoes. African Americans were targets of Hitler’s vile ideology, and Adidas would easily become a target of severe repercussions from the Nazi government. Still, Dassler and Waitzer disregarded the possible dangers concerning the promotion of their product, and they approached Owens at the Olympic village and offered him the special shoes that were designed and crafted by Dassler himself.
Owens was amazed by the shoes, which had long hand-forged spikes and were made of resilient leather. He said that he would either wear these shoes or no shoes while competing. He wore the shoes when he won his medals and officially became one of the greatest athletes in history.00 -
So far I haven't seen anyone mention a recent year that would top Owens in Berlin. The medal count, the variety of events he participated in, no one else is close.
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In 1972 Frank Shorter set the American record in the 10,000 at Munich then a week later won the Olympic marathon by over 2 minutes, then three months later he won the second of his four straight Fukuoka Marathons.
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