All while smoking and drinking

@@chrish8229 yes 😀

Even 50 years ago it was fairly typical for athletes to still hold day jobs. Lasse Viren, for example, worked 8h days as a police officer in Finland. He used to go on one run before his job began and on a second run after his job was over. Of course they had stop watches, better shoes, some sort of training program, and good nutrition, but it's still amazing nonetheless.

@@fcdphilly If you could bring those guys back and give them a modern track, and shoes, and some of the modern conditioning, no doubt they could be a lot closer to the current records.

Absolutely true. There's not even a second difference between Usain Bolt and Jesse Owen. Imagine Jesse Owen not being a 40 a day smoker who had access to modern day training facilities and running shoes!! For me Usain Bolt is one of the most overrated athletes ever. Them old school runners remind me of old school boxers. They were supreme athletes that would of easily competed and kicked ass this day and age

You understand the internet far better than my parents and they're in their 60s

U want to race me

If you ar white yeh.

I'm growing mine 💁🏽‍♀️

Now I have to grow a mustache for the Cresent City Classic🤦‍♂️

@@Bustacool ruined it

@@Bustacool someone always gotta bring race into it lol

Ever tried ultra running? That's where the really tough compete.

@@sanderslongdrive who cares lol Ultras don't have money in them or aren't nearly as popular as the world championships or road racing. Or else you'd see it infested with Kenyans

@@waterproof4403 True. Anything over marathon length is worthless pretty much. I think it’s picking up traction though and maybe some day someone will give it financial recognition.

@@gummy5862 I agree!!

@@sanderslongdrive no where near as hard as running 10k at that pace running is all about pace running a mile world record can feel like death or even running a sub 6 min mile for a mere mortal. No the best runners dont do ultra racing

It's 16 seconds.

Nope it was 36.

He was suppose to win the 1964 Tokyo Olympics but fell short from a slower race and didn't expect the final kick from Billy Mills.

UNDER 31 MINUTES LET S Start from Long Distance's History !@@tem3111

How did Billy mills bet em

Yeah. One could only wonder how the spectators/commentators would react. Sports like extreme sports would also be extremely fun to do the same thing to. In FMX (Freestyle Motorcross) the Backflip was considered as "impossible" back in the year 2000l Nowadays the riders are throwing double even triple (!) backflips. Would love to see a rider travel back in time, to do such ridiculous feats. Or watching Bekele or Cheptegei travel back to the 70s, only to run a sub 26:30 10000m. Would be extremely funny/exciting to see all the people's reactions.

You just beat the record by like 5 minutes, lol.

I don't think you'd be able to dominate the records as the scientific improvements in both footwear and track technology have helped times improve drastically

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Wouldn't happen tho because I can't run a 30min 10K

how can you forget BEKELE & EL GUERROUJ

@@anuragverma5949 you forgot Gebresellasie.

@@stephenbarrett8861 oops

You can never forget Keneisa Bekele

@@michaelwatson7293 he's the real king 🤴

🤣🤣

That's about what I do... as a 52 y.o. ;-)

we will never know

Plot twist

@@charliewatkins4571 they might not stop running as they do to get from place to place if really poor or not near the small village/town and have to go into it to get things but competing, yes. almost all African runners outside of South African white people who do run do it for money for some wealthy Arabic countries that pay to get better African athletes with same religion into there country or to get a Scholarship to do sports at a University in a better country.

@@Redrocket120 hey do you like cheeseburgers?..... You're welcome

Isn't there something like this with a random African village where they do high jumps for some kind of ceremony/past time and they are close to elite standard with no training

True as u can see no blacks were in the early championships 😋

EAST=endurance WEST=speed

exactly!!!

@@noname-bt9ky Laughs in Usain Bolt.

Arjun M I noticed that too. Damn, they must didn’t let us run distances till 1972 . But I see why now 😂 besides the other obvious reason.

@@slyfer5321 His ancestors are west African

I know this was about world records, but would have liked to have seen Billy Mills at least mentioned...one of the greatest finishing kicks..... 1st and only American to win.

Why were you sad? Records are meant to be broken.

Not really. Genetics has everything to do with it. If you're 90% of a world champion and you train with a champion you have a chance of becoming one.. still a role of the dice. Many many people can hardly run and I'm not referring just to fatties but real life.. most people cannot possibly train hard enough to be world champion. You start with having the best top 10% genetics.. you realize your body is built for sport or running.. then you start to train and maybe like 1% chance you get anywhere close to world champion. I do understand the sentiment but reality is wayyy off.

Lol exactly

Yeah wow.

I am pretty sure they were allowed. Just look at the history of sprinting.

lol they were allowed🤣 Kenya is a country and it’s the Olympics. I remember black men running during the Olympics in WW2 Berlin Olympics.

KENENISA is still the record holder for the 5000m and 10000m. Go look at his records from 2004-2005 and Haile Gebrselassie previous record 12:39 those are infinitely more impressive. Real world records ran by heart and not with the help of light pacing system. Cheptegei has fancy wavelights on the track guiding him. Just like kipchoge had laser pacing system in his INEOS marathon. Its sad when you have to be told what pace you need to run by a computer...For Cheptegei’s 10,000-meter record (26:11.00), except for his final 1,000-meter stretch, every other 1,000-meter split was within a second of 2:37, a metronomic mark that would be difficult to replicate with just a watch. Cheptegei and Gidey will never come close to the legacy of Haile and Kenensia, tirunesh dibaba and meseret defar

@@waterproof4403 Never use the word never as if you know for sure. Kenenisa , when he run the record was given the tools to aid him at that time to win that record. You need to understand progressively we have moved on and after Cheptegei someone else will come to who will beat the record. You can’t denny Cheptegei is the best runner of this time. He was aided just like Kenenisa at that time.

@@patrickokoroit2282 go look at kenenisas performance in 2005 and look at Cheptegeis... Kenenisa literally set his own pace for the most part of the race. I guess Kenenisas records stood for too long that Nike(NN) made sure to break them with all the help they can to Cheptegei. Its for business. The sport is losing its spark sadly.

IF Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa had the wavelights pacing system back then, they would have put the world records out of sight. The records they set would have been way beyond the cosmic horizon

yea, he was apparently the one that started interval training and used to run 10-20 1mile repeats at 80-90% to build his VO2 uptake capacity. He also gave one of his olympic gold medals to Ron Clarke, who never won one, "because he deserved it.."

Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa had the wavelights pacing system back then, they would have put the world records out of sight. The records they set would have been way beyond the cosmic horizon

this is a running channel

@@TheVinni99 exactly so he should do it. Track and Field

@@TheVinni99 He has done videos on long jump, javelin etc. Ir's a channel about athletics

I have always felt a bit sorry for Mamede, fantastically talented and could run brilliant times but mentally very fragile in major championships.

@@johnstirling6597 He deserved more fame!

@@seanmacguire2128 One of Mamede's best races (IMO) is his heat of the 1500 from 1976, qualifying in a sprint from 300 out, matching Ovett and Wessinghage. It is a shame he could not get his head right in finals as his talent deserved a lot better.

@@johnstirling6597 It sure is a shame

You can console yourself by comparing your country with Russia or East Germany (now part of Germany). They are in a much worse position.

Up to - 45, you mean😊

Yes that is really amazing to me! This winter I'm really struggling to increase my mileage because of the snow. It's more tiring to run on (also because I have to use heavier trail shoes for grip) and last week I even hurt my knee when descending. I have no Idea how they could get so good in these suboptimal conditions. Maybe they ran on surfaces cleared of the snow or they had spikey shoes?

The r is rolled in Finnish?

@@benanastasoff8980 Yes it does and consistently so across all Finnish dialects and words. There's no other way to say R in Finnish that's viewed as "correct". Some languages, such as Swedish or Danish that also roll their R's as a rule may have dialect or vocabulary variations on the way R is said and some of them may end up sounding closer to the German or even English R, but Finnish does not. It's always the same rolled R. Here's a video about it that will probably be very boring: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z51nYNCAl6mwpp8.html

@@Stabu interesting, I never knew. There’s not really much exposure to a lot of the European languages here, so we mostly just hear the pronunciations of Spanish and French due to Mexico to the South and Canada to the North. I think it’s good to learn at least a little about other languages though

@@benanastasoff8980 I lived in the US (New Hampshire) for 15 years so I'm well aware of the situation :). Interestingly, New Hampshire is the only state in the US where the second most spoken language is not Spanish, but French.

If Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa had the wavelights pacing system back then, they would have put the world records out of sight. The records they set would have been way beyond the cosmic horizon

BRUH I THOUGHT THAT TOO

its Viren not Veren, veren means ''to blood'' as blood owns it, in finnish

The other guy who fell (and did not recover quick enough to chase down the pack like Viren) is Mohammed Gammoudi, the 1968 olympic gold medalist who won the silver in the 5000m a few days later.

It’s incredible!

He is the greatest Cheptegei will never come close to his legacy

Comparing any extreme skill to the “average person” is moot point because obviously you should be far better than average or else you’re trash. It’s like when people criticize singers and their stans say “WeLl tHeyRe bEtTeR tHaN yOu.” Maybe, but they’re still shit compared to other singers.

I want to see them race! They should, at least at the Olympics!

👌

The wavelights are cheating methods

IF Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa had the wavelights pacing system back then, they would have put the world records out of sight. The records they set would have been way beyond the cosmic horizon

Kenenisa could have done so much more even without the wavelights but he got injured