My dad was 23 year's Asia No 1 long distance runner.still No 1 in India...and in world 11 it is great achievement from him . love you dad .🎉🎉🎉🎉

Waldermar Cierpinski won cheating on steroids..he was part of the program of east germany did on most of his atletes ..

동독은 약물!!!

Frank was a high altitude trainer.

КакаЯ красота. Ни одного негра. А сейчас бегут одни негры

I was so inspired by Frank Shorter in this race as a 14-year-old. Yale lawyer, Olympic medalist. I wanted me some of that kind of overachievement. I started distance running and joined the track team that year. 7 years later I got into Dartmouth Medical School. Thanks Frank for the inspiration :)

so nice...a little of every-1,,now days its no longer a race...ONLY_E< AFRICANS!!!...DISGUSTING!!!

the creep from GDR was a druggie and was later BUSTED!!

This is what steroids look like.

From all those 67 runners, 12 have already passed away

Jerome Drayton of Canada. 6th in the world. No medal, but a gutsy performance.

Waldemar !!!! He humiliated everyone, Waldemar is the strongest marathoner of all time, he is a DDR brand!!!!

Doper.

David Coleman thank you for all the mentions of me in the interview between dad and you both in the interview and also at the marathon its self.

I only wish my sister had been born and could have been there in Hythe with me watching the olympics on tv with Nana and Grandad.

We love you Dad and we are very proud of you and mum we are very proud of you for going along to the olympics and supporting Dad and being alone there in the stands.

I was in Hythe Kent England aged four at the time but i am sure I was watching. I cherish the interview with David Coleman and the marathon coverage, still love watching both when I get the chance the interview with David Coleman and the marathon commentry, means everything.

We are a very proud family, very proud of dad and what he has achieved in his life.

My Dad remains very proud of his olympic clothes.

it is lovely to get mentions in the marathon commentry along with my mum who was in the stadium.

Barry Watson my Dad of whom I am so proud. Nice to get mentions in the interview with David Coleman.

David Coleman

Thanks to the Métro, my dad and I watched the race just outside the stadium at the start, at two spots out on the course, and made it back for the finish.

The 'winner' Cierpinski was a doped up cheat. Frank Shorter was the true Olympic champion of those Games. And Cierpinski knows it too.

今日エリウドキプチョゲがマラソン連覇してアベベ、チェルピンスキー、エリウドキプチョゲの3人が連覇したことになった

I was living 20 minutes from the stadium back then and I remember the blue lines painted on the streets for the marathon. They lasted for years and years after the Olympics. I don't know what type of paint they used but it probably was freakin good.

Frank Shorter was the legit Gold Medalist here.A great role model who won in 1972.Honest competitor. All time Great.

Not a single black runners back then. Some on shorter distances though !!

all East Germans were on Steroids

Winner from DDR. surely clean...

Not all East Germans were on drugs. Yes, there was systematic doping in the GDR. But that also happened in the USA, Russia or the BRD. But you can't judge everyone. Because there were also athletes who were clean. Waldemar Cierpinski is a German runner of the century. Which one has to show respect!

懐かしい映像ありがとうございます。誰もがフランクショウターの優勝を信じていた。そこへチエルピンスキーという歩兵がスッと現れた。ショウターがはじめて負けた瞬間だった。

Also watched it live early morning in the Philippines

Waldemar Cierpinski war der beste Marathonläufer! Hat der den Shorter abgekockt....der hat wohl zu wenig Doping genommen....die Amis haben doch viel mehr gedopt!

While we all see in the Gruelling Marathon in 2 hours in Rio , I cannot but remember the great Shivnath Sahab. (Best wishes to the 3 Indians in the fray today, hope they can better Sahab’s Record !) The fastest barefoot marathon in the world is by Shivnath Singh, faster than Abebe Bikila’s marathon, on cobbled streets of Rome in 1960. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Shivnath-Singh-was-a-brave-runner-with-a-heart-of-gold/articleshow/11983.cms Sahab, ran a scorching pace and was with leading top 3 till 30 km kzbin.info/www/bejne/gl6aZpx_pNibl80 (see him behind Viren, in blue vest) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5i5aWqcm7-hZ5Y He started as 5,000m and 10,000 m runner, however was denied golds at Asian level, and Hari Chand was defeating him too, as Hari Chand had a punishing kick. So, he moved to running marathons and qualified for Olympics with a time of 2:12 in Jullundar trials. Born in Buxar from Bihar Regiment, when he ran, there was poetry with his feet. If you observed him from the side, he was epitome of efficiency of motion, feet would glide and arms were moving very minimally. Trained by the famous Mohd Ilyas Babbar, he could work really hard, and set a scorching pace for others to follow. (Babbar Sahab, would tell his trainees to go for time trials, set by AFI for Indian Athletes to go for Asian/World levels, so they were good front runners, all of them.). Once, Shivnath Sahab was describing that, he decided to change tactics with 2 Japanese runners, and was running in wind tunnel. The Japs got confused and said to him - Go, Go. He replied in Bhojpuri - “ Arrey Saala, hum kahe Go, you (Unmentionable) Go!” (He was describing this to us after the XL/Tisco Execs X-country run in 1988..and Chats,Pratik etc could appreciate this earthy Great.) 2 days Before the Montreal Olympics, he was warming up in a golf course, barefoot, and twisted his foot to have funny pain in shin. The local doctor applied some balm and which would have effect for 90 min (but the race is for 130 min..). He was leading the race till 30 km, and asked for bucket of water (to throw over his head, like runners do in India). He was given Ice cold water, due to lack of communication, and his body shrivelled up, and also the shin had started paining. His time was the best in Asia for almost 25 years, and no Indian can possibly reach his levels. He must be 45 our so in 1988, and after our XLRI - Tisco Execs race , he complimented me with statements like ‘Bhaiji ki Body dekh kar hum to darr gaye they’ - Of course in 3 km race, he beat me by almost 400 m. He was humble, and he was an entertainer, and a Running Legend. We need runners like him to be brand ambassadors, not Farhan Akhtars (who are actors of runners), and definitely not the Bipasha Basu types for Airtel Marathon, and other local sporting events..

Pity that nothing is written about the Indian athlete shivnath singh he still holds the national record of 2:12 made in 1978 and remains unbroken till this date

All the participants including Germany, USA, Puerto Rico, UK, and many other countries, this marathon it's before the famous Kenyan domination on this olympic marathon, good to make a huge comparison about olympic marathon history

Cheating commie won big deal

An East German...obviously not on drugs?

Im amazed to see David Coleman running so fast for so long and able to hold a conversation....

Just remembered, African countries boycotted this Games. However, they have come a long way and now dominate this event in particular.

Strange, an Olympic marathon with white folks only...

Nothing like being juiced up to help you "win." Too bad Cierpinski never got busted.

"In 1998 Dr. Werner Fricke, a German scientist, gained access to Stasi archives in the eastern German city of Leipzig. From these documents he unearthed State Plan 14:25. This plan for state sponsored drug use by athletes turned out to be on an almost unfathomable scope and scale. It named over 10,000 East German athletes who had been given banned substances. On page 105 of State Plan 14:25 was the name of Waldemar Cierpinski who had been given drugs in order to boost his performance. "

"Everybody was doing it ... " The cry of the cheaters trying to justify their cheating!

It would be incredible if a Finnish runner became fifth in Olympic marathon. Lasse Viren did it but he had won already two golds before it.

Well, he was just 'following orders' right?

I watched it live from Ramey AFB Puerto Rico a few years before my running life began.Still run at 57.Was 15 at the time.Shorter was screwed.He should have gone down in history as having won back to back Olympic marathons.Cierpinski knows that the world knows that he knows that we know.Its almost as if he is in the German equivalent of a witness protection program. He has lived pretty much a guarded in the closet life all these years.Its just as well-no one wants to hear his obvious lies.

It is amazing the number of dishonest Krauts on here trying to justify Cierpinski's doping!

If the UK selectors had picked Ian Thompson, he would probably have won it.