The reason I waited so long to reply to your George Young post is because I haven't stopped laughing for the last 45 minutes.
George Young is not the best runner from New Mexico. And that is a fact Jack!
The 1968 were a fluke Olmypics for George Young. He lucked out that the 3000 steeplechase was a slow tactical race. It was the slowest Olympic Final since the 1948 London Olympics.
Amos Biwott, Benjamin Kogo, Kerry O'Brien, and Victor Kudinsky were all better than George Young going into the 1968 Olympics. It took a tactical race to even give George Young a sniff at the medal stand in Mexico City. The buzz in the Olympic Village before the 3000 steeple Final was that people would pass out because of the altitude if the pace was a fact one. The runners were psyched out, and nobody wanted to run an honest race in the final.
There are plenty of runners in New Mexico that can be nominated as the best runner in the state. But George Young, I am afraid, doesn't even come close to making that list. Sorry Charlie!