Olympic Legends of the 70s & 80s - Then and Now

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Anyone remember Zola Budd the young lady who ran without trainers?

[@julesb7707]

Yes, I remember her for the Mary Decker trip 👍🏼

[@stephenguppy7882]

@@julesb7707 Yes, I remember the dreadful overacting of Mary Decker Slaney in Los Angeles 1984 when Zola accidentally tripped her up. A REAL champion would have picked herself up but Decker rolled around on the track and played to the cameras.

[@wizardofthenorth8352]

Yes and there was also a reference from Alf Garnett waiting for his tea - knife and fork in hand - muttering "here she comes..." Do you remember?

[@stephenguppy7882]

@@wizardofthenorth8352 Indeed. Else struggling to bring in Alf's dinner and he says "Here she comes, Zola Budd". Cruel but so funny.

[@dawnyWestScotland]

@@wizardofthenorth8352 Ive watched some Alf Garnett but never saw that one, now I find myself searching old comedies, love it! 🤣

[@johnny5805]

How is it possible that all these young kids I watched on TV are now in their 70's !!!! 😵

[@stuviewtv]

Scary isn't it?

[@tytn9978]

on the other hand, I find myself in MY 70th year, still recognizing most of those athletes by name, and also most by their sport, but especially the ones from 1964 on, when we had our first tv set ...a b&w model ... and could watch the Olympics! Those were the days! In another ten or so years, diver Tom Daley will be on a similar list, matching the records of his childhood idol, Greg Luganis.

[@marybradley7791]

I remember Steve Cram and Sharon Davis as well from this era,

[@dawnyWestScotland]

David Wilkie RIP 💙

[@stuviewtv]

Yes indeed. A true great.

[@alanprior7650]

​@stuviewtv His parents were Aberdonian if I remember rightly. My late mum was from Aberdeen.

[@Araceofimbeciles]

Great nostalgia right there. Thankyou😊

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

[@Pomdownuder]

Remember the Coe v Ovett duels on the track absolutely brilliant Ed always Moses appeared to be a true Gentlemen.

[@Dazza5007]

Plus Steve cram it was the 3 Steve’s at it at long distance 💪

[@adrianhowell968]

@@Pomdownuder I never heard him speak,but didn't he do the hurdles with his shoe lace undone?

[@Pomdownuder]

@@adrianhowell968 I do recall some such tale, he came to our school (Kingsdale) to meet the athletics squad, we weren't far from Crystal Palace Athletics stadium where he was in a meet, I didn't meet him, but friends said he was "cool"

[@Pomdownuder]

@@Dazza5007 oh gawd, I forgot Cram, what a time for British athletics

[@xxFORDIExx]

Another excellent video Stu. Loved it. I think maybe Linford Christie was huge when I was growing up. But he won his gold in 1992, so it can't count lol

[@stuviewtv]

Many thanks! Definitely would have included Linford if the 90s were included too. One of the greatest!

[@DrRock2009]

The golden era…🏆

[@alanprior7650]

If anyone deserves the title of a Great Briton it is Daley Thompson!

[@stuviewtv]

Definitely!

[@thomasfoerster808]

Yes

[@Jammy-D321]

Even had a ZX spectrum 48k/Commodore 64 game named after him. Daley Thompson's Decathlon.

[@marguskiis7711]

And Eddie the Eagle too!

[@adrianhowell968]

@@alanprior7650 can I please add to that,the greatest athlete the world has seen,many years ago they asked the nation who was the greatest,Daley won,10 years later they asked again and yes Daley won again.

[@steveader]

Many greats I remember from my youth.

[@fredo1070]

Great video, so many memories.

[@stuviewtv]

Many thanks!

[@helvete983]

I feel Fatima Whitbread deserves a shout out, maybe not a legend in the Olympics. She did place in the Olympics winning a bronze and silver so maybe not legendary status but for me certainly in the 80's she was an iconic figure mentioned in the same breath as all the other British athletes. She was also the first British athlete to set a world record at a throwing event. (Javelin)

[@stuviewtv]

One of our best athletes of the 80s without a doubt.

[@Rose-jz6ix]

I remember Fatima she did as much off the field. A great lady.

[@helvete983]

@@Rose-jz6ix absolutley

[@silverfox8801]

She could have completed with the men too? Considering the amount of testosterone she was taking! 💪🏼💪🏼

[@martindunstan8043]

That was a brilliant tribute to real life super heroes when we were kids. I remember as a kid being glued to the TV cheering for not just team GB but also the record breakers. Thanks buddy,loved it👍

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks as always Martin!

[@robsmith6281]

Mark Spitz was a human dolphin. Daley Thompson was the goat.

[@stuviewtv]

Absolutely, agree with both of those statements.

[@marguskiis7711]

Eddie is the Eagle

[@adrianhowell968]

@@robsmith6281 umm I'm knocking on a bit,but what does goat mean?

[@robsmith6281]

@@adrianhowell968 lol it's of the opinion that someone is the best at what they do.

[@LittleMissGrosser]

I absolutely adored Daley Thompson and Tessa Sanderson. Even though I was never an athlete, they inspired me to try and better myself at school back in the day.

[@stuviewtv]

Great role models.

[@thornbird6768]

Everyone loved Daley

[@carolebarker2195]

Great to see this, Stu. Especially after the current shenanigans in Paris. I thought you might mention David Hemery and Dave Bedford but while they ran at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, they didn't get any medals. Mark Spitz was amazing, he was like "The Man from Atlantis" !! I saw Daley Thompson once, he turned on the Christmas lights in Oxford Street in London when I was there on a college trip in November 1982 ! What a star he was.

[@EleanorPeterson]

He's still with us and still shining, but I know what you mean... 😁

[@carolebarker2195]

@@EleanorPeterson Yes, he's still around, isn't he, but not on tv as much. He was on everything at one time, A Question of Sport, Superstars...he even won Sports Personality of the Year Award in 1982 !!

[@stuviewtv]

What a legend Daley Thompson is. The greatest British athlete of all time.

[@Pierre61]

Great content and excellent ent presentation. One of your best.

[@stuviewtv]

That's great to hear! Many thanks.

[@muckasunshine]

Brilliant video again Stu..thank you. I didn't know David Wilkie had passed away recently, so sad R.I.P

[@wizardofthenorth8352]

Well done Stu. Great commentary - brings back a lot of memories. Cheers

[@stuviewtv]

Many thanks as always!

[@kellyscourfield77]

❤ Daley Thompson, watched a documentary about him a few weeks ago, never realised at the time (probably too young) how attractive he was and obviously an amazing athlete too 🏅

[@stuviewtv]

I haven't had the chance to watch that documentary yet but do want to see it. Will probably catch up with it on iPlayer.

[@adrianhowell968]

@@kellyscourfield77 I think in male terms we call it handsome,attractive is usually used for ladies,mind you in this day and age,what the heck.

[@kellyscourfield77]

@@adrianhowell968 handsome also works 🤩

[@darrencrane8127]

After all these months of being a subscriber and watching I've always thought you sounded local, it's only when you mentioned Tessa Sanderson you revealed yourself to be a fellow Wulfrunian. Love the content, as an 80s child it's lovely to reminisce while watching.

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoy the content, fellow Wulfrunian! Many thanks.

[@Julie-sm7sp]

Being a bit of a runner at school and the same age as her i used to love watching Zola Budd, some great sportsmen and women there Stu, sad that some are no longer with us.

[@stuviewtv]

I was initially going to include Zola and Mary Decker in the video, mainly for the big incident between the two in 1984!

[@Julie-sm7sp]

​@stuviewtv So many sporting greats, no doubt hard to decide who to include in the video, enjoyed it as always Stu.

[@Rose07013]

They are all legends 😃💪love sports thanks for sharing this video

[@danieladams9950]

Outstanding work Stu, to display such expertise on a non-entertainment subject.

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks Dan. Much appreciated!

[@stewartfooter3580]

Thankyou stu,this was fantastic! Keep bringing home the medals team GB 🎉

[@stuviewtv]

Absolutely, keep it up GB! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks as always!

[@KeefsCattys]

Daley Thompson is a legend and a great man

[@robertbills4290]

Loved this thank you for sharing

[@stuviewtv]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. Many thanks.

[@DavidNettleton-l3r]

All legends 😊😊😊😊

[@helvete983]

If you can, hands up anyone who had repetitive stress injuries playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon / Super Test as a kid. Pretty sure that game finished off at least one Quickshot joystick.

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, I'd put my hand up straight away if it weren't for the injuries caused by Daley Thompson's Decathlon! 😉

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Never suffered from RSI, but my Kempston joysticks just weren't up to such punishment and had to regularly be replaced !!!!

[@helvete983]

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 lol it just hit me I wonder what my mum thought i was doing.

[@helvete983]

@@stuviewtv It prepared us for our teens

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@helvete983 Hahahahaaha..... If i'd have treated my "joystick" like I treated those Kempston joysticks, I'd have ripped it OFF !!!!

[@mariobertora]

Carlos Lopez, John Treacy, Carl Spedding, Alberto Salazar, Stive Moneghetti, Rosa Mota, Abebe Bikila, Great Waitz ,Rod Dixon, Joan Benoit, Girlando Bordin,

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Some GREAT memories there Stu. You've made me remember a LONG forgotten small schoolboy's first "crush" I had on Nadia Comaneci in 1976 and 80.... and to see Mary Peters STILL with her beautiful smile makes you forget all the badness in the world, and of course sad condolences for David Wilkie who passed away recently. As another aside, I remember going on hoilday to Rhodes in the late 1980s, and on my first day on the beach with my then girlfriend, who else but Sharon Davies, unrolls her towel about 15 feet away from us and starts smoothing the suntan oil on herself TOPLESS... absolute God's honest truth. This young lad then spent the following half hour in his "budgie smugglers" laying on his front topping up the tan on his back, if you catcha ma drift... A-hem !!! PS That "top guy" Daley Thompson made me replace TWO joysticks in the mid 1980s after I destroyed them playing "Daley Thompson's Decathlon" on the ZX Spectrum !!! Excellent topical work Stu, all the best !!!

[@stuviewtv]

Hope your back didn't get too sunburnt! 😉 As far as Daley Thompson's Decathlon game goes, I think I'm still suffering from the repetitive strain injury now!

[@glenjones6980]

Anyone else remember earning certificates for athletics at school through the Amateur Athletic Association in the 1970's? I was the smallest in my class but won and remember getting a 5 star certificate for that one and a clutch of 3-5 stars for other events.

[@stuviewtv]

Yes, I remember those! I used to have some myself, mainly for the 400 metres. Don't think I could run 40 metres now without having a rest!

[@joanne26]

I’ve still got my certificates from the AAA ❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊😊

[@joanne26]

@@glenjones6980 I still have a certificate for swimming as well It’s in the loft so not easy to get to but I think it was from the swimming authorities at the time I must have been around 8 I also think it was swimming a length 😊😊😊😍😍👍 👍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@fitter4gym]

'Shirl the Pearl'.. Shirley Strong sprint hurdler, think she got silver in LA Olympics 1984, Seem to remember she loved a cig and a pint but boy did she look good on it!.. Great video

[@stuviewtv]

Yes indeed, a silver medal in LA. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks!

[@grahamheffernan-wi7nt]

1or 2 Australians wouldn't go astray. Great video

[@thomascook578]

I always remember the advert with David Wilkie..."and its a new world record for David Wilkie", wad it for promoting to learning to swim?

[@julieford148]

I loved gymnastics and took it up after watching Nadia I wanted to be able to do what she did. Of course when boys came along I ditched gymnastics I wish Idve kept up to it.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

Zola Budd and Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards stand out, in a way!

[@mrwan7010]

Hang on. You forgot Eddie the Eagle.

[@marguskiis7711]

exactly

[@adrianhowell968]

@@mrwan7010 sort of wrong Olympics but I know what you mean,I saw him in my local about 10 years ago,very short but huge hands,maybe he should have landed on them instead.

[@andybrowne2117]

VERY GOOD !!!!

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks!

[@davidhollingdale5408]

Thanks a ĺot for this one,Stuart.I was hoping you would do a sports themed video; glad you mentioned Nikolai Andrianov For other contenders,,what about Muhammad Ali,Bjorn Borg,Geoffrey Boycott,Lester Piggott,Sawao Kato,Nelli Kim and Ludmilla tourischeva? To name but 7. Or James Hunt and Barry Sheene? But we could go on endlessly swapping names,couldn't we? A superhero list as it is. 👍👏⚽️

[@stuviewtv]

Lots of true sporting heroes mentioned there.

[@carolebarker2195]

@@stuviewtv I think Donna Hartley was at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. She was married to the actor, Bobby Knutt. She won a bronze medal in the relay.

[@marybradley7791]

Phatama Whitbread, Geoff Capes, John Curry, Robin Cousins, Torvill and Dean.

[@clarea-s6779]

Fatima Whitbread and Geoff Capes never won Olympic Gold. Agree with the rest

[@EleanorPeterson]

What a fine and fair selection. Thanks for the memories! 🙂 Meanwhile, considering the amount of effort and expense that goes into creating them, it's curious that the obligatory Olympic 'mascots' are invariably instantly forgettable.

[@stuviewtv]

Never really thought about that before regarding the mascots but you are absolutely right. I can't really remember any of them!

[@Wellygigs]

I remember the whole family cheering Olga Corbett routines

[@kittykatz4001]

Yep! 👍 I was a little kid, fell in love with Olga Korbut and gymnastics 🤸 and for yrs, watch gymnastics (Olympics and other competitions) and rooted to the soviets and e bloc counties bec it was we here Olga was from! 😂

[@mikehoffman3131]

Nadia Comaneci was my first celebrity crush.

[@ModelsExInferis]

I'd have definitely included Linford Christie as he's a legend for sure! Also Colin Jackson, but that's probably more of a "me" thing as he's Welsh and I love a Welshman! 🤭 So you're from Wolverhampton then? I've got a friend there. Really should have twigged to the accent!

[@jaysmith2858]

Colin Jackson was one of my favourite athletes. I think he was underated/not given enough credit by the media, something I told him when he was doing some shopping where I worked

[@marybradley7791]

I think you should do another one incorporating the ones that are not on this video

[@MrTonyHeath]

And they still look good.

[@marguskiis7711]

er...no

[@MrWizzleTeets]

Eric the Eel and Eddie the Eagle!

[@iandawe948]

Never a big fan of the olympics. Yet thought lasse virren was above most, simply for the distances he ran in such a short space of time.

[@jaysmith2858]

Daley Thompson is my favourite sports person of all time. I wish GB had a top quality decathlete. Not had one since Dean Macey. A string of quality heptathletes, but no male equivalents.

[@kittykatz4001]

Daley Thompson looked like a model and still looks like an older model!

[@TheWacoKid1963]

From the era when sportsmen and women were well known, Off the top of my head, I can't name a present sportsman or woman, even though I did watch some of the olympics

[@aprilfox1057]

Cathy Smallwood, UK sprinter 1980’s?

[@joanne26]

I remember her as Cathy Cook Great runner and represented GB&Ni back in the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️❤️😊😊

[@jeanlongsden1696]

did anyone save up their Olympic Games promoted packets of Walkers Crisps in 1980. If I remember correctly, you sent 10 empty packets and 20p and receive a plastic Gold Medal on a ribbon.

[@thesunreport]

No, but in the 80's I did put stickers on my bedroom door that came from cereals. They were about 5 x 3 inches and I think I had Daley Thompson, Steve Davis, and Eric Bristow. This was alongside football stickers (Man U only), stickers from Weetabix featuring the Neat Weet Beat characters, Garbage Pail Kids, E.T., Action Man transfers, and many others, including some 'horror' ones which glowed in the dark after light exposure, and these were still working 30 years later. My family sold the house last year and I bet they were still going then. 🤗

[@stephenpalmer9375]

were Walkers a national brand in 1980? Coming from the South of England, I am fairly sure we only really had Smiths and Golden Wonder as the main brands at the time. Obviously if you are in the midlands your mileage will vary :)

[@jeanlongsden1696]

@@stephenpalmer9375 I live in Jersey (C.I) and we didn't get Golden Wonder back then. just Smith's and Walkers.

[@stephenpalmer9375]

@@jeanlongsden1696 that makes sense. There’s a lot of stuff from my childhood that I worry about my nostalgia tinted memory haha. Of course Cheese and Onion should be Blue!! (One for those who know)

[@rosemariecleeve3340]

Where was Suzanne Dando?

[@stuviewtv]

While she is fondly recalled from her time as a gymnast, she never won an olympic medal so I couldn't really include her here.

[@Joolz777]

😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍

[@robertbills4290]

Dunken Gudhue dated a girl back in the day that used to work in our office

[@ChristianoWhite]

B. Foster came to Superstars first.

[@timneil9418]

Valeriy Borzov ♥️ 🙏🥋

[@jonnybegood1544]

Of course))

[@billmccarthy9689]

Dick Fosbury changed high jumping forever.

[@Fcutdlady]

Irish boxer katie taylor. I think she was the first woman gold medalist in the sport when it was introduced to the olympics.

[@kittykatz4001]

RIP 🪦 Women’s Olympic Boxing. 🥊

[@kittykatz4001]

3:17 Looks like 🇺🇸 Actor Martin Sheen (at some point over his life, when younger than his actual age now).

[@henguspod3899]

i would have liked to have seen sergei bubka on the list

[@s4squatch1]

How come it was okay for Zola Budd to run without trainers on.....but when I run without shorts on....the police get involved ? 2 tier policing at its finest 😒

[@stuviewtv]

It's just not fair is it?

[@georgepapa3385]

What about Shane Gould

[@arsenal4274]

What about the Great Ukraine Sprinter of 1972 Valeriy Borzov

[@stuviewtv]

Great choice.

[@marguskiis7711]

>Eddie The Eagle Edwards, the great britoin of winter olympics is absent, sadly.

[@debbieanne7962]

By looking at the footage of the middle distance races there doesn’t seem to be any Africans competing like today where countries like Ethiopia and Kenya. With respect to the Scottish runner there were no Americans to vie with in the 1980 olympics. Australia didn’t fare to well back then in 1976 we didn’t win any gold medals. Nowadays our nations media are obsessed with winning medals and the medal tally. It’s great that one can compete for their country no matter where they finish in the discipline they are striving at

[@SheenaMaclean-b9g]

The Scottish runner Alan Wells went on to beat the missing American runners the following year in Rome IAAF World Cup 100 metres

[@ericjohn6470]

Women today are swimming as fast as Mark Spitz back in the 70’s

[@PillemannOtze-n9c]

Olga Skorbut

[@isaachunt5799]

Ben Johnson? 🤐

[@KTVH12]

Whatever happened to Bruce Jenner?🤔

[@theOlLineRebel]

Was gonna say, how can you claim “legend” and not have BRUCE Jenner?

[@selvinwilliams9248]

Where is Jamaica great Donald quarrie

[@maxshiraz3447]

Bruce Jenner would be an interesting one

[@kimkelly5512]

Nadia married Bart Conner.

[@khushvindersidhu3616]

I think grifith joyner,s record was broken in paris 🤔🤔

[@stuviewtv]

Still standing at the moment.

[@suem7515]

Another swimmer would be Shane Gould. She won three gold medals in world record time in individual events in Munich 1972. She also won a silver and bronze in another two individual events in the same games, and so is the only swimmer to win medals in 5 individual events in a single games. She was 15 years old.

[@stuviewtv]

What a magnificent achievement.