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John Walker- "Sub 4 at 40?"
This guy was truly "old school". Working on the far and in the quarries...did I mention he was one of the baddest
runners in the 70's?
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Emil Zatopek- "A Bridge to Long Ago".
"I became a sports spy," Emil says. "I could read all of the languages, so my job was to read foreign sports
periodicals to see what the coaches in other countries were doing."
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Steve Prefontaine- " A Final Drive to the Finish."
Hours after winning yet another race with a surging kick, distance runner Steve Prefontaine was killed in a car crash- Kenny
Moore (track's best writer).
"Where are the best runners?" he said, coldly. "Does the AAU have any of them on their wonderful televised
schedule? Hell, no. For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids."
The U.S. System: "Where Have All Our Milers Gone?"
"We used to laugh about it," says 1964 Olympic 800- and 1,500-meter champion Snell, who is now a research instructor
in physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas . "When we came over for races, here were these
talented college runners having to double or triple and take a leg on the medley relay. I knew guys who entered college as
promising 4:12 milers and who graduated as 4:12 milers."
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