A blistering final lap... That was his style...

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Saíd Aouita cometió el fallo de participar en los 800 m. En 5000 o 1500 sería oro

Steve Cram narrowly beat Aouita to the 1st sub 3:30.00.

Deano : you still thinking about Coe 🤦‍♂️ ?

Saïd Aouita the GREAT. One of the LEGENDS folks. He ran 3:46.76 on this mile!

Said ouita the best

800 m to 10 000 m . Phenomenal !

Salid.wita.uno.de.los.grandes.atletas.de.la.historia

What was Aouitas last lap time. They came through the bell at 26:26.67.

0:03 Pablo Squella was a sport minister in Chile's goverment of 2000

Hhhhh owita ta owita ta owita bashta kinya sin owita brotishta erinenga

The commentator sounds almost like Kermit the frog.

探り合いなんだろうけど近年のトラック長距離では見られない積極的なハイペースですね。

waw Aouita in 10 000 m ....TOP

Great video. Aouita was brilliant, a real legend. He was the first athlete to break 13 minutes for 5,000m and the first athlete to break 7:30 for 3,000m. And he broke Steve Cram's 1,500m record. The irony is, the 1,500m record was a tougher record than the mile, yet Aouita never captured the mile record. I think this was the closest he got to it.

Moroccans followed by Algerians than the kenyans and etiopians are the best in the 1500m ,5000m, 10000m ...so guys just stop your useless bullshit

Ovett should have been in the mix here, but he cocked up because he didn't do enough hot-weather training.

the commentator is funny like a ballon.Awita is trashed here.

No amount of drugs / blood doping will make you move up to a first attempt 27m26s 10000 (1986) and then down to 1m43 800m 2 years later (1988). It was that unprecedented & unrepeated by anybody range, that let him run a world beating 12m58s 5000m in between (1987) and a world record 1500m before it all in 1985 - no anount of drugs / red corpuscles will do that and it will be a very long time before it happens again

Haile has far better range unless you only want to compare 800-5000m then I would say Hicham or Daniel Komen. Haile has the 2nd fastest times ever in the indoor 1500,2000,3000, 5000. He has top 10 performances in every outdoor event from 3000 to marathon. I know none of these guys ever ran a fast 800, but I bet they could all go sub 1:45. Hicham sub 1:44. Aouita probably should have stayed away from the 800. His career may have lasted longer and would have had a 1500 and 5000m gold in 1988.

Cepaj Popeeeeeeeeeeeee (Slobodan Popovic, Yugoslavia)...

said aouita had the greatest range of all athletes in history. he run 800m under 1:44, was the first to run 1500m under 3:30 (in the best ever race when just failed to catch cram), 3000m under 7:30, 5000m under 13 min (simultaneously) and could be the first to run 10000m under 27 min. no haile, no hicham, no coe, no bekele, no lagat. aouita was the best ever middle distance runner of all time...

This guys main distance was between 1500m to 5000m. Thats saying something.

The race is won by the first to the line, you don't get style points for leading. If you are indeed the fastest man, run the race to your strengths.

I agree that Castro deserved the silver in Seoul, but i'd hardly say Dieter Baumann (who won the silver) is someone who would not be remembered. He won the Olympics in Barcelona '92!! I will say this, it broke my heart to see Castro in tears after Baumann and Kunze passed him. Im a frontrunner myself who believes the race should be won by the fastest man, not the man who wins off a slow pace. If a runner wins tactically off a fast race I have no problem with that because he is still the fastest.

@maartenvanderpoll the guy who took it to 800 is Englishman Paul Larkins (3.35 1500m runner) who is a well-known journalist.

some m...n wrote about unselfish team work. Maybe Ereng could have won following Cruz, most likely not, kenyans didn't want risk anything. Kiprotich was ordered to sacrifice himself, made it perfectly, destroyed the brazilians. talk about fair play :DDD .

@welshnick300365 I don't think he was a choker, he just wasn't good enough. He managed to utilise all or at least most of his potential, but he was never going to set the world alight like Ovett, Coe or Cram did. He was dependable, very good, but not great!

pardon me,only part of the way. still very odd adding unnecessary distance

why is ngugi (i think its john ngugi) running in lane two the whole way??

Brilliant run for Ereng. Look his position after first 300 m. Where are all the World-Record-Breaking Britons nowadays ? Haven't seen them for years...

closed in 52.94!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think Cram would have medalled in the 800m due to the intensity of the rounds, and had he got close or won perhaps a bronze in the 800, I think it would have weakened his chance in the 1500. I still think had he pulled out of the 800 and focussed on the 15, he'd have found enough strength to edge past Elliott, Herold & Rono in the straight.

Had Cram not got injured in Rieti, he should have won the 1500 comfortably against those that were there. However, this is hypothetical. Had Coe, Aouita & Bile all arrived in Seoul injury and illness free also then it would have been much more difficult to even medal.

Especially while at the same time knowing Coe was at home having beaten Ereng (the 800 Champ in Seoul) twice that season and having run faster than he did in 86 when he was world ranked 1 and beat Cram at the Europeans. If the games had been 5 weeks earlier Cram may well have won the 1500m, but then again, the rest of the world's top middle distance guys wouldn't have been at a peak 5 weeks before the Olympics! Why would they want to be? It's all about timing.

@Daz555Daz I respect your opinion & you may be right about running into shape. My take on it is that Cram got injured 4 weeks before the Olympics & missed a couple of weeks training. He had run enough races during the season & the issue was really to catch up with 2 weeks missed training. He desperately wanted to win the 1500 & that should have been his focus. To use the 800 for sharpening knowing that he didn't have a chance of winning was pretty selfish.

@Daz555Daz I disagree. Cram got injured in Rieti c.4 weeks before Seoul & was still affected by it a week before. Those weeks in between had no races on the circuit, they were for fine tuning/acclimatizing. Cram should have given himself time to recover fully and focus on the 1500, rather than be greedy & attempt to double up. He didn't get beyond the rounds of the 800! You can't expect to double & win 2 medals when not 100%. The UK had the WR holder & Euro Champ sitting at home doing nothing!

great running ! anybody knows who the pacemakers are, they did some pretty good work too...

Tremendous versatility: Said Aouita of Morocco is the only man in history (to date) to run the 800m under 1:44 and the 1500m under 3:30 and the 3000m under 7:30 and the 5000m under 13:00.

This race has to make ppl laugh. So Barbosa and Kiprotich talking the night before the race, these others are tough, we should take it to them hard... they do! And to themselves, so much for the plan! Then, the battle for the silver between Cruz, Elliott and Aouita down the homestretch is classic...look at their faces. Cram's calf injury in the Rieti 1k a couple weeks before this was very unlucky because he was closing in on the WR (1:46.09 @ the 800 in that kilo attempt before his DNF).

pavelkostov @mamowolde: what proof u have that they cheated and whats with except for the Ethiopians and Kenyans. they are clean, they don't need to cheat.WTS with this so u mean all other athletics they cheated the greatest hicham el gueerouj . your someone whos not good at anything the only thing ur good at is talk shit about about ppl .

Elliott was never good enough to win this, even at his absolute best. Cram would need to be in his 85 or 86 form to medal here, let alone win a gold. You have to remember it wasn't a one off circuit run but the 3rd (or maybe 4th, I can't remember!) race in that many days. The 1500m was a different matter. Cram & Elliott could have won that at their best. It wasn't so much injury that caused them not to win the 15, but rather the fact they tried doubling up; not realising quite how hard it was.

Ovett was hit by a car in 1993 while on the bike training for a Duathlon. He was going to attempt a Tri, but he found that he wasn't very adept in the water.

What accident?

Ereng (and Rono for that matter) got lucky at this Olympics. Both Elliott and Cram were injured. Both guys were capable of winning both races (8 &15).

Paul Ereng was such a talent. He started training for the 800 only 6 months(!) before this gold medal.

with any speed of pace Aouita was the only one who was going to win any way..in that season he run below 13mn, never someone did that..

It's unfortunate that Steve Ovett was treated the way he was by the British press... He had such a pure love of athletics and he couldn't hide his joy when he was in the home straight of a winning race. He ran road races, xc and all kinds of distances on the track. "The important thing is- to run" he said. Poor O can't even do what he loves anymore thanks to the accident. Coe had the better career, but IMO he was a running robot with little relatable emotion & infinitely less likeable.

As a big fan of Coe and Ovett myself,times for Ovett winning races should never be counted as he would tend to sit with the pace then out kick them at the end. Both fantastic runners and i don't think we will see their likes again in the U.K. The golden age of middle distance running.