Just met Gail Devers at the US Olympic marathon trials in Atlanta 2 months ago. She was running a half/marathon and spoke at a pre race meeting. Wonderful person, full of happiness.
Always thought Merlene Ottey was the most beautiful woman in sports. And she continued sprinting at a world-class level into her 50s. Just unbelievable.
Randy Evermore she was spectacular. But she wasn’t “world-class level” in her 50s. I think she was breaking age-group records. But not among the elite anymore.
And she wasn’t favourite for this race but thankfully she won because of her hurdles race which she fell in I was heart broken at the time loved Gail ❤️❤️❤️☘️🇺🇸
5 women under 10.90, and with a negative -1.0 wind! Only other time it happened was in 2012. Amazing fact that Gail Devers won 2 olympic golds in the 100m, but 0 in her favorite event, not even a bronze!
@@henrylister5530 I think it is referring to the fact that 5 runners were within a stride, that’s why is said the closest 100m final because over half the race was within a stride
Please show one of the most exciting women's football matches ever played in the Olympics between USA and Canada in the 2012 London Olympics semi-final match. Several of the matches of women's soccer from 2012 are already posted on the Olympic channel, but this match has not been posted. It was an intense, back-and-forth nail biter, truly a classic match in women's football history. Thank you.
@@Hever73 I don't think Jamaica have had a more complete sprinter over the two shorter sprints. If you know what I mean? Basically she was world class over both sprints & was always capable of medalling in both. Which she did in Barcelona 1992 Olympics with two silvers.
She really only peaked for a short period of time, in 1992. Was usually injured. After her injury at these Olympics in the relay, she was never really the same.
That had to be one of the closest 100 m races in history with the middle 5 women all coming within a half stride of each other while crossing the finish line.
If you freeze it at 5:40 Ottey looks so much farther behind Torrence than Torrence looks behind Privalova, but both differences in time are .02. I consider this the best womens 100m race of all time in an Olympic or World Championship final based on the blazing times and the razor-thin margins between the top 5 ladies (all well under 11:00).
Merlene Ottey is one of my all time favorite runners, but her performances were sometimes rather strange. At the major events when you think she would win, she would provide a subpar performance.
A great bunch of 1990's talent right there! Many of those same finalists would go on to contest the next Olympic final four years later in Atlanta, which Devers would win very narrowly again at the expense of the great Merlene Ottey, arguably the greatest female sprinter never to have won an Olympic Gold. After Atlanta, Irina Privalova, realizing that she'd never be able to beat Devers in the 100m, went on to retrain for the 400m, for which she won gold at the Sydney 2000 OIympics!
A few errors: Privalova moved to the 400mh not the open 400m. She didn't switch because she realized she'd never be able to beat Devers in the 100m. By then, Devers was long gone, Privalova ran 10.83 as late as 1998, but she suffered from a lot of injuries training for sprints and thus moved up. Plus there was Marion Jones.
Liliana Allen Doll ❤ ... una gran inspiración para muchos atletas juveniles en México, te respeto & con mucho cariño te recordamos en el Estadio Olímpico de Tabasco... DTB amiga
These were the golden years of women track and field. The rivalry among Ottey, Devers, Torrence, and Privalova were legendary. There was no love lost among them because winning was the gold. And despite what they may have said about each other, they definitely respected one another. These days don’t seem as exciting to me, perhaps because I am now a dinosaur! These women were amazing!
I have so much respect for Marilyn Otty. She was a very fine sprinter but her luck did not work in Big events like the Olympics. The opposite is Shally-ann, no matter the pace she lost in the normal season but in Big events, her luck makes her achieve peak form. Despite being Jeter in the top form from 2009 - 2012, Shally made all shocked in London 2012.
If Gail Deaver came in first I guess the white gal and 4 others came in first and three quarters. What a amazing race. I wish I could run even a little bit. It don't have to be far, I'll settle for twenty yards, I mean twenty feet.
diamonddog13 I love Gail Devers. Do you know if there was any suspicion about her taking any PED’s? I remember Gwen Torrence getting some flak for insinuating such after she lost in the 100m in Barcelona (but somewhat redeemed herself when she won the 200m).
Anybody, go to Wikipedia and notice how the site refers to Gail Devers as "he." Then they change to "her." I thought it was a [honest] mistake. But when I read further, they go back to make reference as "he." And this back and forth "he"-"she" continues all the way to the end. Anybody, what's your take on this?
Please to remember that Gail Devers passed her all her test while competing whereas Marlene Ottey had both her A and B samples show up positive for banned steroids.
What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know in the comments below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!
Sir please upload rio boxing all fainal fight plz🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
When Hima Das won
Matthias Steiner winning after the tragic death of his wife and holding her picture in the ceremony
Maurice Greene winning the 100m dash at the 2000 Olympics and Allen Johnson winning the 110 hurdles at the 1996 Olympics.
SFP winning the 2008 100m dash at the 2008 Olympics.
I guess UA-cam will be my 2020 Olympics.
I told my friend the same thing.
hope u enjoyed tokyo 2021!
Just met Gail Devers at the US Olympic marathon trials in Atlanta 2 months ago. She was running a half/marathon and spoke at a pre race meeting. Wonderful person, full of happiness.
Too bad there won’t be an Olympics this year.
Good for her.
Always thought Merlene Ottey was the most beautiful woman in sports. And she continued sprinting at a world-class level into her 50s. Just unbelievable.
She will remain the Queen of the sprint.. it is sad at the end she was not running for Jaica the terrific Island.
Randy Evermore she was spectacular. But she wasn’t “world-class level” in her 50s. I think she was breaking age-group records. But not among the elite anymore.
I agree entirely. What a spunk !!!
Just spectacular. I met her back in 1982.
She’s a goddess. An amazing career. But always looked not mentally strong enough.
She overcame so much for this victory ❤️💯🏃🏾♀️💨 Gail will always be one of my favorite runners!
She is mines as well and as a Jamaican I often get in trouble. Lol
@@prestonmatthews725 mines?
And she wasn’t favourite for this race but thankfully she won because of her hurdles race which she fell in I was heart broken at the time loved Gail ❤️❤️❤️☘️🇺🇸
@@prestonmatthews725 elaine or shelly?
I played in Gail Devers stadium. National City in San Diego California. She’s a hometown legend gold medalist!!!
5 women under 10.90, and with a negative -1.0 wind! Only other time it happened was in 2012. Amazing fact that Gail Devers won 2 olympic golds in the 100m, but 0 in her favorite event, not even a bronze!
It’s strange but won in the world championships 3 times
Loving the throwbacks.
Love the old school track suits!
This must be one of the closest 100 meter races ever.
Hear Hear. I remember that race like it was yesterday.
Phenomenal Stuff.
The women’s 100m the next Olympics was closer I think
@@henrylister5530 literally look at the title lol, unless it’s wrong so idk
@@sir_sack it is wrong, it was factually close in 1996
@@henrylister5530 I think it is referring to the fact that 5 runners were within a stride, that’s why is said the closest 100m final because over half the race was within a stride
Ottey, what a legend in athletics, nobody stayed on top as long as her
Top of what?She always lost.
You just played yourself boo boo and that person's response shut you down
Can you lot read?? Ottey ran professionaly from 1978 to 2012 as a professional athlete.
@@marshallcampbell6498 We can read but obviously you cant count!
The most decorated Jamaican Olympian of all time
This was a stacked field. Any one of the top 5 ladies could've won this race. They are all gold medalists in the Olympics or the World Championships.
Been to the Olympic stadium 🏟 in the last couple of years when visiting Barcelona. Well worth a visit, along with the museum
What a finish .5 in same line
Wow 82 83 84 86 88 !
what a close race with 5 under 89!
As a kid merlene ottey was my childhood crush 😻
Nice to see Liliana Allen from Cuba in the 100 final.
Aliuska López and Odalys Adams ran the 100 m/hurdless final.
Gail Devers won the gold medal on that day...congratulations, but Merlene Ottey...😘💓😘💓
Wow! You have got to be standing to watch this! Great memory❤️
2023 and still one of my all time favourite 100m races to watch
Please show one of the most exciting women's football matches ever played in the Olympics between USA and Canada in the 2012 London Olympics semi-final match. Several of the matches of women's soccer from 2012 are already posted on the Olympic channel, but this match has not been posted. It was an intense, back-and-forth nail biter, truly a classic match in women's football history. Thank you.
For all those who want to skip the first few parts, the race starts at 3:13
Merlene😍😍🇯🇲
I second that 😘💓
Yes, Merlene was the favorite at these games, loved her camera time from 07:31 - 07:37
Gosh these ladies have super figures!
My all time Olympics moment is London 2012.... I will cherish those moments for the rest of my life,esp the men 4×1relay finals
5 women are under 10.90! Great run ever.
Cuthbert was so underrated. She's hardly remembered
She was a very fine sprinter Jamaica has ever produced just before Marlene Ottey, and the others
@@Hever73 I don't think Jamaica have had a more complete sprinter over the two shorter sprints. If you know what I mean? Basically she was world class over both sprints & was always capable of medalling in both. Which she did in Barcelona 1992 Olympics with two silvers.
She really only peaked for a short period of time, in 1992. Was usually injured. After her injury at these Olympics in the relay, she was never really the same.
GD was the best dipper that won her most of her races.
The closest top 5 ever. Congrats Gail Devers of USA!!!👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Privalova 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 love her. In 2000 this iron women won the girl in 400 hurdles. What a carrier
Olympics should post the same events but from different olympic years each day
Jamaicans are not only fast, they are pretty too.
Something Americans have been “FOREVER”🤷🏽
Please upload women badminton final, I really want to see my first gold medal for Indonesia and I want to see susi susanti emotional tears
Merlene ottey had good top speed. But she needed to work on her start.
FREAKING SO SLOW! NO REACTION! THAT'S WHEN SHE REALLY NEEDED TO WIN!
She was able to run her fastest when it matters most
Plus in those days, nobody spoke about drive phase or execution!
@@neilnelmar8007nothing matters more than the olympic. Gail won both years 92 & 96 🤷🏼
@@neilnelmar8007 no she wasn't, no Olympic gold!
That had to be one of the closest 100 m races in history with the middle 5 women all coming within a half stride of each other while crossing the finish line.
Brings back so many memories, and I saw Patrick Ewing and Magic Johnson in the stands.
If you freeze it at 5:40 Ottey looks so much farther behind Torrence than Torrence looks behind Privalova, but both differences in time are .02. I consider this the best womens 100m race of all time in an Olympic or World Championship final based on the blazing times and the razor-thin margins between the top 5 ladies (all well under 11:00).
This is my favorite Olympic moment of all time.
Always love to see Olympic Games
Merlene Ottey is one of my all time favorite runners, but her performances were sometimes rather strange. At the major events when you think she would win, she would provide a subpar performance.
@JK Rai I guess. Asafa Powell is another one.
@@ajrocks12x took the word out my mouth. Lol
Couldn't compete with the major doping
@@sublimeandcoke Are you aware that Merlene was suspended for PED at least once?
T2:23 I like the spirit of this Nigerian runner...All power.
A great bunch of 1990's talent right there! Many of those same finalists would go on to contest the next Olympic final four years later in Atlanta, which Devers would win very narrowly again at the expense of the great Merlene Ottey, arguably the greatest female sprinter never to have won an Olympic Gold. After Atlanta, Irina Privalova, realizing that she'd never be able to beat Devers in the 100m, went on to retrain for the 400m, for which she won gold at the Sydney 2000 OIympics!
A few errors: Privalova moved to the 400mh not the open 400m. She didn't switch because she realized she'd never be able to beat Devers in the 100m. By then, Devers was long gone, Privalova ran 10.83 as late as 1998, but she suffered from a lot of injuries training for sprints and thus moved up. Plus there was Marion Jones.
@@RKRKRK78 Thanks for your input!
I thought Cathy Freeman won the Sydney 400m?
@@markdrinkwater1508 Freeman won the 400M flats, but they're talking about the 400M hurdles here. Do keep up!
@@KuluWarrior The original post to which I replied was clearly talking about the sprint flats 100 to 400 - with no mention of hurdles.
So shoo
6 hundredths from the gold, yet arrived 5th ..... Marlene Ottey was always unlucky in the big events
I will never forget that race, Cuthbert was the contender but Gail did it, she had to go to her mx achieving her pb in the process awesome❤❤
Great race! Devers was a magnificent!
Liliana Allen Doll ❤ ... una gran inspiración para muchos atletas juveniles en México, te respeto & con mucho cariño te recordamos en el Estadio Olímpico de Tabasco... DTB amiga
John Walker of New Zealand winning the 1500 m...fantastic moment for us. Favourite moment.😊
Mama OTTEY I MISS YOUUUU ❤❤❤❤ Sending you loads of love ❤️❤❤
My favorite moment was the 2008 women's 4x400 final!
These were the golden years of women track and field. The rivalry among Ottey, Devers, Torrence, and Privalova were legendary. There was no love lost among them because winning was the gold. And despite what they may have said about each other, they definitely respected one another. These days don’t seem as exciting to me, perhaps because I am now a dinosaur! These women were amazing!
The is the equivalent to the 2024 Paris men’s 100m final
Congrats gail ❤️
1996 was actually closer 😂
Mary Onyali ...African queen of the tracks and local hero fro1988 to 1998...bless her
Best running of women's. Last fighting between USA and ussr
Help! What part of the body must cross the finish line first?
torso
Torso/chest
@JK Rai Why are they allowing Runners to win if they Dive across the line?i
@@Happy-dq9iu their torso crossed first
@@saminates2002 Thanks
Me acuerdo de aquella final y me gustaría que hubiera ganado Ottey o Cuberth, entonces eran mis favoritas.
Yo tambien
vert nice :))
At the start when they were calling out the names the cameraman was always at the next lady
The 100m Men Atlanta 1996
I'm not for participation trophies but they should've given out 5 medals for this race
Julitet cuthbert almost catch her
Ottey was fifth. So sad.
Nah she was third bronz
She was 5th.
Gail Devers, Juliette Cuthbert, Privalova, Torrence, Ottey.
It was so close.
Nice running.
Too! The line!
How about the 1988 Women's 4x100 Meter Relay in Seoul
400 MTR 2016
Gail Devers the best of the best
This is how you win with grace. The new generation could learn from this. No yelling, cursing or show boating.
I heard some yelling…
@@Rosannasfriendbeat it
Voula patoulidou wining Barcelona’92
Imagine if Flo Jo wouldn’t have retired.
Then she would ve been busted for PED in 1989
Privalova and Torrence seemed closer vs. Devers and Cuthbert on the overhead cam
That's the closest race I ever seen in the 100metres
I have so much respect for Marilyn Otty. She was a very fine sprinter but her luck did not work in Big events like the Olympics. The opposite is Shally-ann, no matter the pace she lost in the normal season but in Big events, her luck makes her achieve peak form. Despite being Jeter in the top form from 2009 - 2012, Shally made all shocked in London 2012.
Evidently not enough respect to even get her first name right. Jeez.
I see you Mary Onyali
If Gail Deaver came in first I guess the white gal and 4 others came in first and three quarters. What a amazing race. I wish I could run even a little bit. It don't have to be far, I'll settle for twenty yards, I mean twenty feet.
How Did Gail divers won this one this one was it by the head foot or torso?
Ottey, beauty black queen.....
That's our girl!!!!!!!
Just when you thought this race couldn’t be any closer, 1996 in Atlanta was even closer, and it was between the same 2 women and the same outcome.
Devers won 2 gold medals by less than 1/100th combined.
diamonddog13 I love Gail Devers. Do you know if there was any suspicion about her taking any PED’s? I remember Gwen Torrence getting some flak for insinuating such after she lost in the 100m in Barcelona (but somewhat redeemed herself when she won the 200m).
And after the playing field was leveled, there were no more close races😀
What do you mean by that?
Los mejores 100 mts de la historia
GAIL WAS NOT PLAYING AROUND) SHE RAN HER RACE) AND TOO IT WITH THE HEALTH ISSUES) SOME PEOPLE SAID SHE WAS JUICED UP) THAT WHAT I HEARD) PEACE)
Irina Privalova would’ve won if she had a proper dip.
Wow😍
How this is so cool
Anybody, go to Wikipedia and notice how the site refers to Gail Devers as "he." Then they change to "her." I thought it was a [honest] mistake. But when I read further, they go back to make reference as "he." And this back and forth "he"-"she" continues all the way to the end. Anybody, what's your take on this?
what are you implying
How is this the closest, when Ottey and Devers were so inseparable, they given the same time 4 years later? This is one of or the second closest.
They are talking about how 5 women were within a stride of each other
@@sir_sack Touche, as opposed to the first 4 in 1996.
The outfits have changed over the years. These are bikinis
Merlene never could catch Devers in the Olympics
No coronavirus 🤔🤔🤔🤔 the world was so much better than 🤸🤸🤸
Why is that man from Bulgaria racing with the woman ? Lol
Noway she won that race
6 KATrin KRABbe 10 89
She was on drug... stole most of Marlene ottey medal
Please to remember that Gail Devers passed her all her test while competing whereas Marlene Ottey had both her A and B samples show up positive for banned steroids.
All through the 80s. US, East Germany and Russia. Couldn't beat the doping
Gail Devers never took PED.
Stop it… 🇺🇸
😔😪😪😪Irina Privalova
Simone Biles looks like the girl who won........
Uh you mean Simone looks like her. That “girl “ is 53 years old.
All doped up to the gills
hi
juiced to the gills