El Guerrouj - what an outstanding talent and to think that his mile and 1500 world records are still standing since the 1990s. Exceptional.

The announcers enthusiasm and excitement when Billy Mills won is awesome.

Almost have this video memorized I've watched it so many times....When my friends and I go on our daily 10 miler we often find ourselves repeating lines from this video. Truly Inspirational!

i've been watching this video off and on for a year and it still sends goose bumps down my neck. I makes me want to excite people like that!

Billy Mills' comeback owns them all. That finish was crazy

im a freshman in high school nad i am truly inspired by these people. I broke five minutes today in my first track meet of the year and I'm very happy =)

This is the GREATEST video I have EVER Seen!!! And that's an understatement!!!

That was Pre's first olympics and he did very well. Imagine how much he would have improved for the next one.

i saw billy mills at a track clinic i went to and he spoke to us about that race. it was amazing to here the first hand perspective of his finish and what was going through his mind. Greatest finish of all time.

Fantastic video, many thanks for posting it! I've been distance running for 28 years and can only dream of running like these guys, but it's still inspiring.

This video gives me the chills. Just got home from doing some track work, wish I'd have watched this before today's workout..

What an amazing compilation! Thank you

This video and song gets me so fired up to go and race. I will run for Slippery Rock University starting this fall. I can't wait to put that home green jersey on for the first time. GO ROCK!

El Guerrouj, Bekele and gabressalasie are the current kings of distance running. Long live the kings

I got chills at the end of this video.

Thnaks so much for this video. Watching my hero, Prefontaine, had my heart racing! Running Rules!

El G. A living legend. The best. VivA morocco. The Moroccan legend.

Imagine an Olympic final 5000m race. Imagine that the three greatest distance runners of all time were in that one race. The greatest 1500m runner, at the very peak of his career. The greatest 5k and 10k runner ever, who is poised for his breakout. And the greatest marathoner of all time, an almost unknown who will one day run the first sub 2 hour marathon. Imagine all three sprinting for Olympic medals over the last 250 meters. Now go to 3:06 and watch it.

have actually seen this like a million times and im still amazed. When I run i use this video to help hold on or push just that extra step.

Now there's sport -- individual physiology against individual physiology. Thanks for the compilation, and I agree with others here in that this is just full of chills and tears of seeing such physical accomplishment.

amazing compilation! i love running. the prefontaine video you show at the beginning is one of my favorites. prefontaine is my favorite runner of all time, truly an american inspiration.

I get chills every time I watch this !

That last finish is fantastic

this is one of those videos that non-runners think is nothing special, but any real runner will be either crying or running (or possibly both) at the end of this video, nicely done.

That was the greatest thing ive ever seen on youtube. GO PRE!!!!

The end gives me chills every single time I watch this.

Great video! Very inspirational! I watch it before my runs when I want to get motivated. These guys were SOLID, and had guts!!! Here's one for ya... "Far better it is to dare mighty things than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt

2004 1500 final, one of my favorite races of all time. Two of my favorite runners throwing down a great race. I still wish Lagat had won though. I think he deserves a gold medal.

Great video, really well done. Thanks.

LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS! (chills every single time)

This video gives me goosebumps! I love it! Good work!

Awesome video. Hairs are standing up on the back of my neck after it. Can't wait to go out and do a session later

The Song used was from the movie "Rudy". It's about a football player that's short (like Pre) and has his determination to get him to his goal. Great movie

thankes for this great video man!

nice video, and I never realized how great the Rudy soundtrack really is

LOOK AT MILLS, LOOK AT MILLS! best video ever.

Wow... amazing video... the part with mill's always gets me

I had a heart attack at 5'40" and I yelled out with tears rolling down my cheeks! What a race !

I love DISTANCE running!!!

beautiful!!!

the last guy is UNBELIEVABLE! how the hell he saved so much strenght :O

"Look at Mills! Look at Mills!" - last clip (5:49) - greatest distance running commentary ever?

Watching this made my heart-beat as a first time long distance runner. Wow..

it's really great!!

RIP pre, you were a legend

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" - Pre

Great stuff!

Epically inspireing.

Look at Mills! Look at Mills! Classic

I got chills watching this haha

amen, bro! long live distance running!

gotta love this vid

great video.

Tears. Actual tears.

wow. I know this feeling and I love to feel it awesome vid

5k 15:24 2mile 9:34 1mile 4:26 800m 2:00 Amjed Aboukhadijeh

oh...my...god. that was amazing

Tears in my eyes.

Gorgeous vedeo greetings from morocco 🇲🇦✌

i respect them as a great runner and a great champion .

yeah my brother was always pretty short. yet my dad told him to take a season off in his sophomore year and by his junior year he grew tremendously.

awesome inspiring video. makes me wanna race.

great video

Brilliant stuff

vebjørn rodahl, atlanta 800m gold. Best runner ever

Pre was the best there ever was at leading from the start and winning. His attitude was hey you wanna win a gotta catch and beat me from behind.

@Carguello615 Mills is amazing. Seriously, maybe the most inspirational thing in American sports history. That whole sequence is awesome.

Is it just me when the announcer says "Look at Mills! Look at Mills" that the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Whenever I watch this video, I am always upset and depressed when I see Pre miss out on the Bronze. But when I see Billy Mills with the greatest kick ever, I ALWAYS seem to be inspired and happy:)

Freaken awesome

Mills brought a tear to my eye

Billy Mills ran one of the greatest races in long distance history.

Yeah! Great. I saw Endurance with Haile Gebraselassie. He is amazing!

Omfg mills at the end things like that make me want to go run forever.

great video, bu I cant believe you dont have Dave Wottle on here!!

This sentence begins and ends with this.

Very true.

Look at Mills!! Look at Mills!!!

Awesome Awesome Awesome

that is amazingly true

Que buenos, estos tios son la leche. Recomendable al 100%.

solid video

Epic.

A good video! Billy Mills was a hell of a runner including all the runners, but the best finish has to go to him...

I was in a tough battle for 2nd place at a local 10k (winner was about 3 mins ahead and I had long forgotten him). The finish was on a track. With 300 to go I could hear this video in my head and I started to imagine el-g chasing Bekele.... All the fatigue vanished... Sprinting at the end of 10000! And Steve pulls away to win! (2nd).

Isn't that the most beautiful kick ever?

Ahh. really sucks having a stress fracture and not being able to do what I love most. Least I got it from running :)

@rmante06 , The song is from the Movie Rudy so it's called "Rudy's Theme" Composed b y Jerry Goldsmith IT's an awesome movie about a small guy (LIKE PRE!) that has determination to go play for Notre Dames football team. Yo will not regret watching it.)

Look at Mills! Look at Mills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That last straight away...

bekele is the king of medium distance running

i love running, the most ive ever ran at one time is 15 miles at an average of 10 minite miles

Awesome

lol sounds like you've improved really fast; I just ran my first outdoor meet and got a 5:18 :\

A real sport....Training mind and body!

that bill mills race at the end always gives me goose bumps to see him out kick those guys..that was a really strong kick by the way

hey dude ur a beast

@reainers thanks for the advice Im going to do cross country and work out at a fitness center.

"Look at Mills, Look at Mills!!" Second only to "Do You Believe In Miracles."

My frosh pr was 5:03 and my junior year I ran a 4:44. You can do it for sure. Just work hard.