The Fastest Men On Earth (1972 - Munich) 17/20

This part features Valeriy Borzov (URS)

[@ivanloar7846]

Look at his form as he runs. Smooth and flawless. No energy wasted. An example of practice makes perfect. And he peaked at just the right time.

[@trinihammer]

he peaked when there were no hopers about and anyone who was good was injured.

[@CaneFu]

Borzov's form was perfect, everything pointed straight ahead when he ran, no wasted side to side motion, and he was so relaxed at the same time. I remember hearing the sports commentators talk about Borzov in 1972, saying that he was one of the first to watch training films of himself that he used to perfect his running form. I haven't seen any sprinter run with such perfect form since him and we probably never will.

[@litgamer6205]

@@trinihammer "no hopers and anyone who was good was injured" 🤣they had two guys there had equalled the world record that year!

[@Ramps-rc9iy]

@@trinihammer What is wrong with morons such as yourself, you can’t give anyone any credit 🤡.

[@rubenhernandez1608]

I and my friends were in high school in 1972 and ran track. We had never seen a sprinter before who ran with such grace and power. To this day no one was more beautiful to watch in the hundred meters.

[@CaneFu]

I agree 100%, no one has ever matched Borzov's sprinting form since.

[@GeoAce777]

Carl Lewis looks smoother

[@gillesgeorges1827]

Russia USSR RDA = 💉🏃🏻💉🏋🏻💉🏊🏻

[@colderbeer]

As a 9 year old boy it killed me to see him win those gold medals. Looking back, I admire his ability and give him all the credit a champion deserves. Seems like a very classy and decent man too....

[@badcoach2000]

In track camp in the US, we studied him in the late 70's, because he had the perfect form.

[@MsSlucyna]

proteusx Shameful but true

[@CaneFu]

Same here, as an American I had fallen for all the Cold War hype back then and hated Borzov. But after watching his races and reading about him, Borzov became my inspiration for my 1973 track season as a high school senior sprinter. Today, Borzov still remains my favorite sprinter of all time.

[@jamezkpal2361]

Watching Borzov at Munich as a 10-year-old American I decided I wanted to try sprinting. I knew I could run faster than all the boys at my school, but I always thought sprinting was what black boys did. Well, I never became much of a sprinter but I did become a championship level collegiate hurdler. Valeriy Borzov was a great inspiration: hardwork and dedication produce results. The two athletes who inspired me to switch to hurdling competed at Montreal in 1976: Guy Drut of France and Edwin Moses of the USA.

[@trinihammer]

@@jamezkpal2361 edwin moses was black. so sprinting wasnt something only black boys did. black boys could hurdle too.

[@jozla]

one of my idols and respected guys

[@tiggywinkle20]

I had a crush on him at the time! I painted his picture but threw away his picture on the front of Radio Times. A great athlete with a lovely family.

[@AndrewStack-lr9fv]

As a little boy Valerie stood out at the Munich olympics.he sticks in my mind as a great athlete

[@vissitorsteve]

Even as a kid growing up in Kansas, Borzov was a hero to me. He seemed invincible. He truly was the Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt of his time...so dominating.

[@shaquilleomeal708]

eddie hart and rey robinson would of smoked him if they didn't forget they had a race lol

[@Almarco82]

Bullshit. The main Americans missed their heats

[@trinihammer]

@@shaquilleomeal708 Crawford would have smoked him if he hadn't pulled up in the middle lane and true to form that is exactly what he did four years later.

[@squidproquo2241]

@@Almarco82 You mean main Africans

[@CaneFu]

@@shaquilleomeal708 NO, Hart and Robinson's hand-timed races of 9.9 translated to 10.14 if it had been electronically timed. Borzov ran an easy 10.07 electronic time in a qualifying round in Munich. If Hart and Robinson had made the final Borzov would have easily beaten them as he actually had the faster time. Borzov's easy victory in the 200 meters against America's best 3 sprinters reinforces that. What people don't realize is that the FIRST sprinter to actually break 10 seconds with electronic timing at low altitude didn't happen until 1983 when Carl Lewis did it for the first time with a 9.97. Electronic timing adds .24 seconds to the 100 meters hand times because of the reaction time required for a person to hit a stop watch button.

[@LEIJONALEIJONA-vc7oo]

ONE OF MY IDOLS IS VALERI BORZOV

[@bougaevaleksandr1450]

+LEIJONA441542 LEIJONA441542 My too.

[@gillesgeorges1827]

Russia USSR RDA = 💉🏃🏻💉🏋🏻💉🏊🏻

[@couch.patati-patata]

Borzov was so handsome.

[@ajohnny6023]

Borzov was amazing....

[@trinihammer]

he was lucky.

[@johnex3303]

Borzov married the beautiful Ludmilla Turischiva

[@deetsepnopoulos3122]

Borzov retired after the 1972 Olympics. He came out of retirement in 1974 to win the European championship in the 100 meters in a relatively slow time. In 1975 he won several smaller races and showed some of his previous form. While training for the 1976 Olympics Borzov sustained an injury and missed considerable training time. The Valery Borzov that competed in the 1976 Olympics was a pale imitation of the version that dominated the 100 and 200 meter events in 1972. He struggled in the heats and showed no menace. He was fortunate to make the finals and even more surprisingly win a bronze medal. He never bothered to run in the 200 meters. His gold medal winning time in the 200 meters in 1972 would have been good enough to finish second to Usain Bolt in the 2016 Olympics.

[@binkyxz3]

He ran the same 100 time in '76 that he ran in '72 -- 10.14.

[@deetsepnopoulos3122]

@@binkyxz3 There is a video of his semi-final in 1972. He ran 10.07 with the same effortless form. His winning time in the 200 meter final of 20.00 in1972, would have got him a silver medal behind Usain Bolt in 2016. The track in Munich, although not particularly slow, doesn't compare to modern surfaces which are specifically engineered to produce faster times. Interesting point , Borzov was entered in the 200 meters as an afterthought, because he and his coach thought he really nailed his conditioning. I didn't know weather to believe that statement was true, but I can't find any result or video for Borzov for any 200 meter race other than the 1972 Olympics.

[@binkyxz3]

@@deetsepnopoulos3122 I noticed on Wikipedia he ran 20.31 to win the European Championship in '71. I vividly remember his Olympic 200 win because he finished so impressively. This particular video does not do justice to either race, IMHO. Interesting to note in '72 he ran what I think was a technically perfect 100 race. He stayed down in the drive phase out of the blocks longer than the other athletes and transitioned well to the full running portion. I was impressed by how steady his head stayed, a real indication of economy of motion. I only mentioned his identical Olympic 100 times to show how fickle that distance can be when it comes to effort and result.

[@deetsepnopoulos3122]

@@binkyxz3 I was looking for video and found nothing. Thanks. You can see the videos for his heats, and semi final in 1976. He didn't look nearly as good. In 1972 his performances were amazing. I agree with you regarding his form. He ran so smoothly, he made it look effortless. Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson's 9.9 performances were hand timed. They would have translated into something slower with electronic timing. Judging from the reservoir of speed that Borzov showed in the 200 final, he would have taken care of Hart and Robinson if they were in the 100 final.

[@OMENAHILLO-kr5hn]

ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES

[@OMENAHILLOKFGHT]

ONE OF MY IDOLS

[@drewcurran106]

Love to watch him run beautiful form my twin brother and always said he was great sprinter.

[@celtick4985]

many memories of the 1972 Olympics 🏃 🏃

[@zockerbit1030]

Look at Borzovs and you see a normal built body comparingly to most runners today looking like body-builders

[@azzking9305]

Steroids

[@themoors4563]

what if Jim Hines Tommy Smith Eddie Hart John Carlos had had the government support to train for 10 years with all the nutrition they needed all the finances and resources they needed .? I know you sure that the Russian athletes weren't on steroids they are the ones that got kicked out of the 2016 Olympics.... all those German athletes on steroids those women crazy

[@TranelHawkins]

So you saying steroids weren’t a thing? That’s right plyometric 🤔

[@agnostic47]

Borzov or the body builders? Borzov didn't look like he was pumped up. @@azzking9305

[@GeoAce777]

Similarly, I like how Jeremy Wariner was pretty lean compared to other 400 guys 😏

[@Jackapoo1]

I used to watch him as a kid. I was the sprinter myself Wayback in the day and I thought I was hot stuff with my 10.9 in the 100 yard dash in 9 th grade. That’s considered sloooow now🤪

[@OMENAKAKKU-pw1tj]

ONE OF MY IDOL IS VALERI BORZOV

[@randalldenison4628]

Great talent fastest man in the world 1972.

[@trinihammer]

he got lucky.

[@trinihammer]

@Randall Denison , borzov was lucky my man from Trinidad was carrying an injury however borzov's luck ran out in 1976.when my man Crawford from Trinidad lleft your boy borzov for dead.

[@jabhookjabcross4231]

Too right. Fantastic performance. Don't know why we get all these haters on here trying to undermine an Olympic sprint champion just because they are jealous of his burgeoning talent. The world seems to be full of pathetic idiots willing to express idiotic views at the drop of a hat claiming that they had some sort of Crystal ball to hand that said someone else other than the person who did win, (note it's usually a white athlete that is the victim) would have won the race. I suppose I should return the favour and just point out that Crawford was no fool and he had a plan of action for the final. Knowing how hot Borzov was he came to the final well prepared with a ready made excuse in the form of a bandaged leg so that he coukd give up and save face when he realised he had no chance of beating Borzov who was immediately up on his rival and showing total dominance from start to finish.

[@trinihammer]

@@jabhookjabcross4231 hey jack ass Crawford didn't need to do an idiotic plan like that to beat borzov. he just ran faster than him in 1976 and beat borzov proper. Crawford had an injury to his hamstring and being a mans man he tried to continue by turning up for the final but it wasn't to be he pulled up, but he made sure he got that sucker in 1976.

[@jabhookjabcross4231]

@Randall Denison I know your right. They are just a bunch of pathetic racist assholes. If they had enough intellectual capacity to actually have a job where someone would employ them then perhaps they could spend their time doing something more useful than trying to undermine ppl far better than themselves.

[@normplatt965]

I was in the middle of my high school track career in the Toronto area. I used to train at the South Industries building at the CNE during the winter months. Back then , every February, the local paper , the Toronto Star, held an indoor games at Maple Leaf Gardens. In winter of 1973, one year after the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Borzov training with the rest of us. He was little taller than I imagined from watching the games on tv. Borzov won the 100 and 200 metres in Munich, thanks to two Americans getting their starting times wrong. Oh well.

[@azazell061]

Борзов на 200 метров в Мюнхене спокойно помахал ручкой всем этим американцам,которые "😂опаздывали"

[@prowelsh56]

a legend..

[@dnromeoalphayankee13]

The Federer of sprinting

[@Rafabenitez01]

As an English schoolboy sprinter at the time Valeriy was a hero as he was the one I could identify with . I knew nothing of politics . Today I would probably be labelled negatively for this ?

[@vanhalen407]

Даже не верится 🙏🏼😊🥂

[@socksumi]

I met this guy as part of a Ukraine delegation attending a wellness and sport event at a local school where I live. He would have been about 62. Really nice, congenial fellow with a smiling, friendly face.

[@OMENASOSE-jd3nk]

NICE TO WATCH THIS

[@bear1568]

I styled my starts after him.

[@randalldenison4628]

100 and 200 champion very rare talent.

[@GH-jb6bq]

Very fortunate to have the best two sprinters scratched from the events. Very convenient

[@trinihammer]

its no talent he got lucky due to other athletes being injured.

[@kidmack1121]

@@GH-jb6bq It wasn't "convenient" it was the avowed racist Brundage, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee setting up the U.S. sprint team in retaliation for the Black power salute in '68 Mexico City. I loved Valery Borzov and I am glad he won, and my step father was close friends with Eddie Hart's family and Reynaldo Brown's too, who are Hart's in laws. R.Brown was a world class High Jumper.

[@OMENA-nq8ou]

i wishd im finnish borzov one of my idols and heroes

[@sedelnikovairina2630]

BRAVO!

[@Vip-mi1qd]

Борзов ,просто человек разумный.

[@marcdunord]

and why do you hide he won the 200m in 20.oo vs. the complete field?! :O

[@mrshickelgruber1775]

At the time, Borzovs winning time for the 200m was the 3rd fastest in history,and the 2 fastest times had been run at altitude (1968 Mexico Olympics).I think at his peak Borzov would have run 19.75 easily at altitude.

[@patricksweeney5308]

His time came up as 19.99 and was rounded to 20.00. Mexico City's altitude gives an advantage of more than 0.2 seconds over 200m, so your estimate of 19.75 is about right. Remember also that the 200m final in Mexico had a following wind close to the limit, I think. Most event s in Mexico oddly seem to have a wind reading of +1.9m/w (women's 200, Beamon's LJ, …). But I need to check.

[@themoors4563]

If is a big word any of American athletes that have a family and you might’ve seen Tommy Smith Gym Ray Hines John Carlos Lee Evans lee Evans For another Olympics because there’s no way at 22 years old he could run competitively against these guys and all the Russians and the east Germans were all on drugs that’s why they have disappear today.....He ran track with the best coaching and financial support for over 10 years at the highest levels and at every prime event and he did not Do it with all this science all this technology and all those chemicals

[@degreeO]

The coaches who failed to get Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson to the starting line should probably have lived the rest of their lives in exile. Borzov may have won anyway, but Hart and Robinson should have had their chance.

[@trinihammer]

he wouldnt have won if Crawford hadnt pulled up with an injury in the middle lane however everything is perfect four years later and Crawford smokes borzov good and proper. I said it once and I will say it again borzov was lucky.

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@trinihammer Borzov wasn't as strong in 76 also in the 200m. And Crawford as well had no chance in 1980 when he even didn't reach the final. In the years 1970 to 1974 borzov was thd best. No doubt about that.

[@paulwilliams8389]

@@trinihammer He would have won anyway. They were drawn together in both the quarter-final and semi-final heats and Borzov won both comfortably. By '76 Crawford was at his peak and Borzov was well past his.

[@nebulabob]

Borzov and Florence Griffith-Joyner were both a joy to watch run, they were so smooth and relaxed.

[@trinihammer]

Griffith joyner yes however borzov no.

[@blaze1148]

@@trinihammer When I watch Joyner run all I see is chemicals.

[@trinihammer]

@@blaze1148 yeah, just like borzov.

[@blaze1148]

@@trinihammer....has Borzov got a world record that has stood for 35 years....

[@trinihammer]

@@blaze1148 borzov has no world record.

[@sandyacombs]

He had a beautiful stride.

[@dietpepsivanilla3095]

A great champion, but I still can't help but think that if Eddie Hart wasn't told the wrong time by his coach it would have been a lot closer finish. Not saying Borzov would have lost or Hart would have won, but it would have been great.

[@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy]

That was one fast Commie....always liked to watch him run. So "comfortable" in his strides.

[@VADELMAHILLO-or9dq]

one of my idols and heroes is valeri borzov

[@dpw181]

Before the 1972 Games, ABC Sports did a feature on Borzov, using the phrase "scientifically trained to beat the Americans." They showed Borzov anchoring a 4x100 in a dual meet against West Germany. He got the stick down by a good 5-7 meters and ran down WG to lose on a lean. That is the fastest I have ever seen Borzov run. Even more impressive than those Bob Hayes anchors. Borzov was fluid. He did not run as fast in any of his Olympic races as he did on the anchor. His Munich wins were commanding and he could have run faster if pushed.

[@bbatjargal1549]

The perfect Soviet product!

[@trinihammer]

yes, perfect cheat.

[@MARMELADIOFTPY]

one of my idols

[@bstephens1515]

Didn't know he married Lyudmilla

[@ThomasBridges-k2k]

WOW here I am watching this in 2023 no dropping runners fast dudes

[@willbee6785]

George McNeil from Tranent, Scotland, as everybody in sprinting knows, was the fastest man in the world at that time. He broke the world professional 120 yard record in 11.14 seconds in 1970. It still stands to this day, 2023.

[@shpala]

And where was George in 1972?

[@willbee6785]

@@shpala He was a professional sprinter, not an amateur.

[@shpala]

@@willbee6785 They all were professionals. Sprinting was Borzov's job. And 11.14 seconds in 120 yards (never even knew that was a real distance) translates to 10.13 seconds in 100 meters -- not terribly impressive for the all time best. He probably wouldn't have even made it to the finals in Munich.

[@zvbx]

It stands because the event and distance is retired.

[@SITRUUNAKAKKU-sc3dj]

NICE TO WATCH IT

[@BANAANIKAKKU-rx2hr]

ONE OF MY IDOLS IS BORZOV

[@VADELMAHILLO-or9dq]

one of my idols is valeri borzov

[@vaniljahillo]

one of my idols is borzov

[@omenahillo-dn2ku]

one of my idols and heroes

[@РоманМихайлов-л5г]

Здравствуй МИР! Здравствуй друг! Здравствуй песен щедрый круг! Здравствуй миг! Здравствуй век! Здравствуй! Добрый!Человек!

[@OMENAHILLOAFTH]

ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES. I WISHD IM FINNISH BORZOV

[@666zerowolf]

a good family man!

[@PBosco]

It wasn't Eddie Hart of Rey Lewis' fault. They were sleeping in bed - their coach screwed up big time. They were devastated.

[@GH-jb6bq]

Their coaches were given the '68 Mexico City preliminary heats schedules. Of its own, maybe it'd been on them. But seeing the rip-off of the basketball championship, the farce of the diving judges, the gymnastic judges, and in the winter, the figure skating judges from eastern europe. No, this was done to keep the two guys that were unversally known to be better than Borzov off the track.

[@deetsepnopoulos3122]

@@GH-jb6bq Just checked the bio on Eddie Hart. He was two years younger than Borzov. There would have been many opportunities for him to race against Borzov. At that time, Borzov was not in any witness protection program. If Eddie Hart was interested, Borzov was always available.

[@jonjenkins]

The Munich Olympics athletics schedule was based on the 24 hr clock not am & pm - From memory the USA sprint coach, ? Wright took 1500 hrs to be 5o’clock & not 3 o’clock, for the running of the 100m semi - finals for which I was a spectator, on that day & in fact for every session of the 10 day T & F program

[@gjy5150]

He was super fast, but he didn’t race against the best of the best that day.

[@gratefuldead3750]

He raced after olympics against the best and won too

[@ThomasBridges-k2k]

Ahh yup I recall this

[@dundukas7899]

one of the best

[@benjamingardner3314]

Guarantee that track schedule mix up was intentional. It would have been an amazing race to witness with them in it.

[@paulwilliams8389]

It wasn't intentional - Borzov was also given the wrong start time and almost missed his quarter-final heat, having to lift an official out of the way to get to the track.

[@banaani-ec3nv]

one of my idols is borzov i wishd im borzov

[@SITRUUNAKAKKU-kl3sf]

my idol i wishd im sopme day finnish borzov

[@vladzolotarev2027]

Величайший спортсмен и умнейший человек

[@ГрафСвинХрюкин]

Умнейший?! Откуда такие сведения?

[@myexcelsior2153]

@@ГрафСвинХрюкин А Что ?? Тебе Жалко ???

[@ГрафСвинХрюкин]

@@myexcelsior2153 Нет не жалко, но это должно подкрепляться хоть чем-то. Может у него есть научные работы мирового масштаба и он может не только бегать от инфаркта, но и показать всему миру свои знания и открытия в различных областях деятельности человека. Я не спорю, просто не знаю, может он и правда мировой светило, но я его знаю только как одного из сильнейших спринтеров мира первой половины 70-ых годов.

[@francescovalente1963]

He was a highly talented athlet

[@PAARYNAKAKKU-xd2fv]

one of my idols i wishd im some day finnish borzov 91.23.57

[@wobblertv8083]

He was like the Steve Austin of the Soviet union, we can build a sprinter to do the olympic sprint double .

[@grekmetal1]

Борзов Великий Советский Украинский спортсмен

[@РоманЗахаров-т1р]

Советский, достали уже со своей политикой

[@trinihammer]

talk English asshole.

[@kileystrickland8324]

God and men are not supposed to be separate but together

[@omenahillo-er7ry]

i wishd im some day finnish valeri borzov

[@keithcampbell6806]

No mention was made that Quarry was absent through injury but good presentation otherwise.

[@mikenealon4042]

what is borzov's best 100

[@MadMax-ii8nm]

On soupçonnait les russes de dopage à l'époque... Que doit-on penser des athlètes à partir des années 80 jusqu'à aujourd'hui? Les athlètes de l'époque avaient l'air de gens presque ordinaires... et j'avoue que je préfère!

[@haatpraat530]

Great sprinter in his day. Today at any major Championship, Borzov would not even get out of the heats, despite modern nutrition and training. Caribbean sprinters will dominate the 100m for decades to come.

[@veridicusmaximus6010]

If he were running today he would be faster but not as fast as the Caribbean sprinters. Of course most of the top ten have PED violations.

[@jabhookjabcross4231]

Oh so u have a Crystal ball do you that means you know how good he would be today if he was a competitor? Doesn't hold water. If he was the best then, he could be the best now. Running 10dead then would be well sub 10 now. That's gonna make him capable of beating anyone, fact.

[@trinihammer]

@@jabhookjabcross4231 here we go the russkie with his communist jargon about being a super race. BORZOV WAS AN OVERRATED HAS BEEN .

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@trinihammer then Carl lewis was overrated too. He wouldn't have been allowed to compete in 84 if the American track and fields authorities wouldn't have hidden his positive doping test.

[@trinihammer]

@@gratefuldead3750 i dont rate carl lewis. he was overrated but he was no drug cheat.

[@cirosuperiore]

At 8:36 the wife says her happiest day in her life was when she won gold and the second was the birth of her daughter: I guess that lives VB out in the cold...

[@GH-jb6bq]

Probably an arranged marriage for breeding

[@ЛараВлади]

@C B S Вначале Людмила Турищева завоевала золотые медали в спорте , а потом родила дочь . С мужем с 1978 года и по сей день .

[@djxcel23]

A 9 month old schedule come on now that seems like sabotage

[@patricksweeney5308]

The two missing Americans' best times, 9.9s, were timed using a stopwatch. Typically, stopwatch times were around a quarter second faster than the real time. So, they probably ran 10.15-10.20, not 9.9. One also has to take wind speed and other conditions into account. Borzov ran 10.07 - the American timers would probably have recorded a 9.8) in his semi and 10.14 in the final and won easily. Borzov's 200m win (by well over 2 metres when all three Americans took part) of 20.00 seconds (19.99 showed on the screen) would probably have been recorded as a 19.7 with a stopwatch by most standards at that time.

[@garrison6863]

Man did he close in the 200 or what?

[@arabionknight3524]

they were deliberately given the incorrect times. as pay back for smith and Carlos 4 years earlier in 68...

[@veridicusmaximus6010]

Shut up! It was the schedule that all had got 9 months previous. Schedules change. They should have been informed by their coaches and US representatives or they should of made sure the day prior.

[@paulwilliams8389]

They weren't deliberately given incorrect times - Borzov was also given an incorrect time and almost missed his quarter-final heat.

[@kevinanderson522]

After two American sprinters were given wrong times, that was a bad Olympics if you remember. Don’t think they drug tested back then either.

[@toulakladi4016]

Τα σώματα των αθλητών έχουν αλλάξει πολύ μεγάλη διαφορά με τους σημερινους

[@michaelhayden725]

The last white man to win the Olympic 100 metres dash.

[@RandallDenison]

Wrong.

[@brankobelfranin8815]

Allan Wipper Wells 1980 olympics

[@michaelhayden725]

@@brankobelfranin8815 thanks, I had not known about the results in Moscow. I just assumed that a “coloured” runner had prevailed.

[@grandmapants]

Was there a doping test back then?

[@dpw181]

Not that anyone heard about. I was 14 at the time and assumed they were cheating in ways Americans didn't understand although who is the first American sprinter who used PEDs without us knowing? Jim Hines equaled the national record for 100 yards in winning CIF State and Bob Hayes was similar so they were always legit. Rey Robinson ran 9.2w as a high school senior. Eddie Hart routinely got his clocked cleaned by Mel Gray -- who also equaled the 9.4 HSR in winning CIF State -- and Dave Masters in high school and didn't make a CIF State final yet outclassed both in college. This guy ran 100 meters about as fast as he ran 100 yards in high school.

[@kileystrickland8324]

Eric Liddell

[@54321-p]

I do wonder what their daughter ended up doing? What a gene pool!!

[@lease2coach170]

Borzov: better bodies through chemistry! (Which is not to say that his _opponents_ were "unjuiced.")

[@kingfish4242]

If you research PED's, you'd find they had their beginnings in the weightlifting community in the late 60's. They then spread to Track and Field,and eventually to the NFL. The Soviets and other Iron Curtain nations were at the forefront of this new medical technology. They were always one step ahead of the USA. Steroids became common place in the U.S. by the late 70's. The NFL Pittsburgh Steelers were the first team where recorded steroid use was prevalent. If I were judge and jury, I'd throw out all track and field and weightlifting records set after the 1964 Tokyo games. They were the last true drug free games in many experts opinions. It's the reason I still consider Bob Hayes to be the greatest sprinter who ever lived.

[@veridicusmaximus6010]

@@kingfish4242 Even though at this time steroids were in use, although not to heavily, I don't think Borzov was juiced. He just did not look like it nor was his progression abnormal. And DBOL started to be made in the US in 1958 so no the soviets were not ahead of the US.

[@454Casul]

I believed then as I do now, that he was juiced. It was the Soviet Union, they forced him to do it, if he didn't do it on his own.

[@TIIKERI-uz2vw]

I WISHD IM FINNISH BORZOV

[@jodyevans8366]

One thing. Steroids.

[@PaulVinonaama]

Yeah, they were common everywhere in the 1970.

[@perlman7376]

@@PaulVinonaama and still to this day

[@DeadnWoon]

Well, he was Ukrainian, Soviet Ukrainian - not Russian.

[@DeadnWoon]

Mike Rodriguez And how do you know that he was Russian? Because the video tells so?

[@DeadnWoon]

Mike Rodriguez Man, I'm sorry but you confuse terms a bit. Hammer and sickle is not Russian but Soviet symbol. USSR consisted of 15 Republics, Russia was the biggest among them and in fact ruled over the rest, but not quite directly. Ukraine was also one of the Soviet republics, second by importance within the USSR. I can to an extent agree with you that Ukraine is actually a part of Russia (though there can be some discussion), but let me repeat that this guy was a Soviet Ukrainian sportsman.

[@DeadnWoon]

Mike Rodriguez To me as the one born in the USSR your words sound a bit original:). Soviet Union were more than 150 ethnicities and at least 15 different nations including Georgians, Armenians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians. Each had own language. Quite like in the USA they had one unofficially official tongue - Russian. But they had own national languages and within republics people used their national languages alongside Russian. The culture was Soviet, the people were all one Soviet people. The food was very much typically the same for all the Soviet Union, though there were some national peculiarities. I understand your love to Russia and can share it with you. But if we want objectivity, the USSR was not equal to Russia.

[@DeadnWoon]

Mike Rodriguez I understand your feelings and agree with your great grandma's view, but what I said was that we have to admit the fact: formally the USSR consisted of 15 republics, the one from Ukraine was Ukrainian. Those people that were born in Ukraine when it was the part of the Russian Empire (before 1917. that is) surely tended to call themselves Russian. But the people born in the USSR usually feel offended when they all are called Russian.

[@DeadnWoon]

Mike Rodriguez Many have told you they are proud, but many will tell you they are not. Putin is bringing back Russian pride, but not everybody in the post-Soviet territories share this pride.

[@GeoAce777]

paper tubes 😬😗

[@Maxbiggy]

juiced to the gills

[@creekyknee]

Of course he was. As most of them were and for years after this.

[@jamezkpal2361]

Eddie Hart would've won going away.

[@zlue26]

You can tell early in the video he has a smooth easy way of running nobody could touch him in his day, but it would have been great to see Eddie Hart try. Would have been a great race.

[@depaola63]

+zlue26 ..EDDIE HART would have kicked his ass! They fucked Mr. Hart! SCAM in 72' games! The killings! The basketball game fiasco USA VS USSR! All bullshit!

[@xxthatpookieeditsxx]

Eddie Harth was shooting up his stereoids in the washroom when he should have ran.

[@trinihammer]

you must be on crack. watch lane 3 hasely crawford pulled up with an injury, 4 years later in montreal Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago would blow borzov away. like I said borzov got lucky.

[@jabhookjabcross4231]

@@trinihammer sounds like a broken record playing the same crap track over and over again. Boring, pointless, meaningless crap. Borzov won, Crawford nowhere, get over it!

[@trinihammer]

@@jabhookjabcross4231 you dumbass what cant you deduce and understand. your boy got lucky if Crawford hadn't pull up with an injury he would have blown your borzov away.Crawford was younger and full of running and would prove this 4 years later.

[@kileystrickland8324]

Some free counties too

[@jjayyoung7335]

Can you say P.E.D.'s or more bluntly to the point steroids

[@Kungs.]

Who wasn’t taking them? Team USA have certainly made use of PED’s in the past and no doubt were at that time as well.

[@lovinglifewithdogmanscout200]

I remember this clearly and feeling good about a white athlete winning in a black dominated event.

[@gratefuldead3750]

Not in those days. In 48 a black american Harisson Dollard won, followed by an Italian American in 1952, an angloamerian in 56 and a german in 60. Then again two afroamericans in 64 and 68. In those days there was no dominance.

[@lovinglifewithdogmanscout200]

@@gratefuldead3750 I was 16 when the Russian won and yes blacks dominated the 100 meters then also. I remember all to well. Look who won the 4x100 meter relay that same Olympics

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@lovinglifewithdogmanscout200 african americans dominated

[@ΔιονύσηςΞένος-ο6ω]

Like για το παλιό Καραϊσκάκη.

[@arabionknight3524]

he took gold in both the 100&200. eddie hart and rey Robinson, didn't have the wrong schedule in the first few rounds..plus they qualified for the finals after the semi finals. this tells me industrial sabotage was taken place. someone wanted to punches the black sprinters for smith and carlos black power solute in 68. black fear cause black people to run for the hills. they were black listed in America, but it didn't really matter because America hated us then, and they hate us now..

[@snivelinj7612]

Total nonsense !!

[@sonnydelight5737]

Ever considered taking a class in spelling and grammar? You won't get punches for trying.

[@MsSlucyna]

What an absurd

[@davidkyle2073]

Back when Ukrainians and Russians respected and helped each other…😢

[@brankobelfranin8815]

I beg to differ, at that time the Ukraine was under communist boot, they were not free.

[@elainekerslake6865]

The two favourites for 72 100m were two US men. Because the US coach misread the timetable....he thought 14.00 hrs was FOUR o.clock. So the US lads turned up late. An old timetable was blamed conveniently.

[@pedrolane8058]

Steroid abuse is rife amongst sports men and women.

[@arabionknight3524]

and yes, the eastern block runners were wired on drugs even before we new about it..

[@PaulVinonaama]

So were those in the west.