Al Oerter's Quadruple Discus Gold
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2024
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From Melbourne 1956 to Mexico City to 1968, Al Oerter won the men's Olympic Discus competition. Only two athletes since (Michael Phelps and Carl Lewis) have successfully won the same event four times.
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The key here is, that in each Olympics he threw a new personal best. You can't fault him if others didn't measure up. He was there, her performed, he won
You are partially correct, sir. Oerter set new Olympic bests in each successive Games. However, not all were personal bests. He had throw farther prior to the 1964 Olympics on several occasions.
He was only the favorite in 64
As a kid, global television was just becoming popular. :Live via Satellite on the black and white TV. 1964. I remember it because it was so different. Thank you Dad for having an interest in sports and things and setting some examples for me as a kid growing up. I was 7
He had his personal best in 1980 at age 43 and just missed making the U.S. team that year. That throw exceeded his first gold medal throw by over 40 feet.
He threw that year at Gateshead. He had hoped to go to Moscow. He was stronger than ever. 6ft 4ins and 280lbs. Although retired , He later admitted on a TV prog that he had played around with steroids before 1980 as a medical experimentation exercise and threw at home in his massive garden. He threw near 75m in a documentary showed on UK TV in the 1980s. He was Bench pressing 500lbs plus. Amazing athlete. He concluded that hard training was better than taking drugs and after retirement he was stronger than ever as he continued training.
So Babka helped out. Now that is magnificent. Hats off to Babka. A great thing to do
When I was kid in Poland-before1964, we all admired few athletes: Al Oerter, Valeri Brummell, Cassius Clay, Eusbio, Pele and tall tales about Puskas.
Forgot the Black Panther, greatest goal keeper of all time, Yashin.
Throwers often help one another even in competition
PR 55.25 ( unattached first season after college )
true yeah its one of the things i liked about doing the throws the camaraderie was amazing
Field events are about doing your personal best. Winning can be a consolation prize though.
I remember this from when I was a kid and watched some of those documentaries done by Bud I think. When you get to the big show, you come through. Focus, adrenaline, whatever.
Bud Greenspan. Per Wikipedia: "Greenspan won his first Emmy for 1976's The Olympiad, 22 hour-long documentary specials on the Olympics (including Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin). The series was broadcast in 80 countries."
one of the true greats :)
Define "clutch"
Yep. Do your best and hit your best each time. If the others pass you, so be it. If not, you tried and did a personal best each time
yep. You look that up in the dictionary and you see a picture of Mr Oerter.
I go to his Highschool, Sewanhaka in floral park
It's too bad that Al can't see what has happened to Alex Jones.He would have thrown Discus through Facebook's window.
True Stud!
He died of a weak heart. Seems odd, as he showed more heart in Olympic competition than anyone else I can think of.
Magnificent
The cheesy animation is unfortunate.
Athelete supreme
Do I want beat the best or by them losing by default.
Who is the narrator? She sounds Australian.
His best throw from 40 years ago would put him on THIS YEARS team.
Well he won a lot, but it's a long time ago, way less competition, I mean winning olympics with 56m
santeenl One of the greatest Olympic athletes in history. Four consecutive Gold Medals: four Olympic records.
jmspls7 Yes I agree for that time it was awesome, but put it in perspective, at that time the sports weren't developed very far yet, I mean he entered the competition with a 47m PB in discus and threw a 9m (!?) PB, what is that for weird major improvement, was it his first season or? Nowadays there are so many athletes from so many more countries than in the past, simply 100x more people with talent and guidance. Not saying he's an incredible athlete, I just think it's hard to put in perspective since the general level of sports was pretty low..
Ok but he threw 230 + in practice more than a few times when he was in his 40s and working to get back in competition, he looked to be stronger than ever. Then hurt his back.
I competed in 70s and it was still a different world. A lot of men threw pretty f..... far without the intense weight training and time learned regimens throwers take for granted now. 'Amatuer' status still mattered and most athletes did not have the resources/facilities available to train as most can today so you worked fulltime like everybody else, and became an Olympian too. Always were there exceptions yes.
It's a beautiful event. You step into the ring and it's just you and few seconds. The power it takes to get 200' + is underappreciated. And some are lucky sperm and just have a gift for making it happen. Like most athletics I suppose.
His best throw from 40 years ago would put him on THIS YEARS Olympic team.
theres always one, the event was developing the fact he did a pb when the most pressure was on flew by you faster than an olympic discus
first dislike woohoo