I have seen videos about "great comebacks" here on KZbin that did not include this race by Virén - epic fail, they had done no research at all! Setting a world record after taking a fall in the race!? It doesn't get much more heroic than that.
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering3 ай бұрын
Or believable .. 😳 👍🏴
@paulclarkson17784 ай бұрын
Viren won the 5,000 metres AND the 10,000 metres in 1972 and then did the same in 1976!
@theclassicrock8644 Жыл бұрын
I watch it again and again.really inspiring.thanks for such an amazing videos.😍👍👊💪🏅.
@kewsiyehboah95143 ай бұрын
When Your Ahead Never Let Up.. When Your Behind Never Give Up..
@JxHАй бұрын
* You're
@jozefserf2024 Жыл бұрын
Unprecended recovery in a final.
@archiethebold20006 ай бұрын
True Hero! he came back in four years and did the same thing.
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
Whilst doping, so not really so admirable at all.
@aspenrebel5 ай бұрын
He fell again, got up, and won?
@covkid524 ай бұрын
@@1unsung971 What he did was legal at the time!He used a loophole .That's how you get ahead!!
@scorpionWhite4 ай бұрын
@@1unsung971 I understand your envy, otherwise you would have showed evidences!
@Zane_Zaminsky3 ай бұрын
@@covkid52You get ahead by using loopholes?? 👎
@rudetoy82644 ай бұрын
Winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics relied on brutal training regimen in Thomson's Falls, Kenya training (and not doping) "emptying exercise", that allow him to win 4 gold medals
@laryjohnson57364 күн бұрын
Yes you were doping.
@robertsherman8715 ай бұрын
Reminds me of that song, “ If he gets back up, you knock him down again! You never let him stay upright!”
@blacsouljahАй бұрын
Wow. Just wow! What an inspiring story.
@ziggy333993 ай бұрын
Phenomenal race, wasn’t it? Loved it. Thank you for sharing this. ❤
@KamilG Жыл бұрын
What record would he have set if he hadn't fallen?😲
@randyevermore9323 Жыл бұрын
Timewise, he probably lost only about 3 seconds. But he expended quite a bit of extra energy pulling himself off the ground and accelerating again to reach pace. So I'd guess he probably could have run at least 5 seconds faster, or around 27:33.
@NinjaGangSigns Жыл бұрын
it could have been, but would it have been? maybe not
@J_a_s_o_n Жыл бұрын
He wouldn't have been that motivated 😎
@randyevermore9323 Жыл бұрын
@@J_a_s_o_n Of course. He was trying to win a gold medal, not set a WR. And he still had to run the heats and final of the 5,000, so he no doubt wanted to conserve his energy. But I have little doubt that he was capable of running at least that fast. The 13:16 5,000 WR that he ran just days after these Olympics is the equivalent of around 27:32 for 10,000.
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
He doped so it would have been deleted
@emmettorafferty10064 ай бұрын
Legend in the 5000 he won 🥇🎉
@someoneintheworld-h4h-o4g3 ай бұрын
i have seen him many times irl cuz i live very near to him, he once came to our school for questions and everything
@PaulVinonaama3 ай бұрын
Asutko Myrskylässä?
@someoneintheworld-h4h-o4g3 ай бұрын
@@PaulVinonaama juh
@suescourfield79025 ай бұрын
The 1972 olympics had some wonderful sporting moments - but it was still overshadowed by the terrorist attack - and it’s what people, who were around at that time, remember. 😢
@colleenross87523 ай бұрын
RIP to the 11 souls lost, too soon 🇮🇱
@PaulCarew-j9j5 ай бұрын
Why is everyone saying 'Cheater', that's an animal that runs quickly. The word id 'Cheat' and there is no proof, Carl Lewis was also supposed to be one.
@bayadere83084 ай бұрын
Well, if you do want to split hairs: to cheat is the infinitive of the verb 'cheat'. Cheater is a noun. (A cheetah is an African feline.) English is obviously not your first language so you are forgiven.
@May-ve6sr4 ай бұрын
Blood doping, which is illegal now but not in 1972.
@mattiahtiainen8459 Жыл бұрын
You call it Finnish SISU!
@brankojovanovic47644 ай бұрын
cheater
@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n3 ай бұрын
finland , sweden need to take sports seriously again
@jblizzard9623 ай бұрын
Sifan Hassan fel on the qualification for the 1500 meter final and won that qualification.
@gastondeveaux37835 ай бұрын
What about the guy who's dead in the grass with a huge shitstain in front of him? Nobody's talking about that?
@rudetoy82644 ай бұрын
If you spend time talking about losers, you wouldn’t have a chance talking about the winners, would you?
@andyelliott80273 ай бұрын
He gave up.
@PaulVinonaama3 ай бұрын
He recovered to win the silver (behind Viren) in the 5000m. (He's Mohammed Gammoudi, who had already got three medals before these Olympics.)
@CaribbeanMischief2 ай бұрын
@@PaulVinonaama how does someone "recover" from falling onto a rubber track? Gammoudi was as strong as an ox when he fell that day
@PaulVinonaama2 ай бұрын
@@CaribbeanMischief Well, the first commentator said he's dead, so you need some recovering for getting from death to olympic medal, don't you?
@canadamoose Жыл бұрын
This is amazing. This is life
@steveblack6104 ай бұрын
Better reaction than the other one in white who stayed down like one of today’s premier league players.
@renaissanceman1654 ай бұрын
Oh, you noticed that, huh? He must have been really hurt. He didn't move at all, totally caught off guard , apparently. Hopefully, it was nothing too serious. Check it Out! Ciao!!!
@renaissanceman1654 ай бұрын
Great comeback a d finish! Praise the Lord! Check it Out! Ciao!!!
@PaulVinonaama3 ай бұрын
@@renaissanceman165 He (Mohammed Gammoudi) did get up, but too late; it was hopeless. He recovered to get the silver (behind Viren) in the 5000m, though.
@johnpike7570 Жыл бұрын
Awesome
@ralphjenkins3708 ай бұрын
He was physically gifted with incredibly long legs to torso ratio. Prefontaine couldn't beat him
@suminshizzles69515 ай бұрын
I have long femurs and am a cyclist. People shout at me when they drive by me about my seat height as i do not "look" the part with the trend of barely bringing your thigs up at all. My thighs are nearly parallel with the ground. A light downward slope at the top of the stroke. My legs at the bottom of the stroke are nearly fully extended as they should be. Some like to see a fully locked out leg at the 5 o clock position with the heel on the pedal. No me. I am fine with my position and had it for nerly 40 years now. The same position. No knee pain. And i can ride all day and do huge tours all over europe on my bike with no isses. People do not want to see that some people are shaped differently. Phelps and Mark Spitz were both odd shaped and they wont medals. Just work with what you have and stop tryign to look like others or ride the way they do.
@DavidGarcia-h5l5 ай бұрын
And fierce competor/warrior..the complete class act of a human athlete..with no American EGO to hold him down a big difference at the end of the work day. Power to you FINLAND HONOR..
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
Anmd he doped, of course, so that helped a lot
@DavidGarcia-h5l5 ай бұрын
@@ralphjenkins370 UNICORN.. just like El Guerrerj..they can fly with that physic..
@ROFusion5 ай бұрын
@ralphjenkins370, Pre did in fact beat him in a race. Just not at the Olympics: The 1973 Sunkist Invitational and the 1973 World Games.
@colleenross87522 ай бұрын
Paavo Nurmi would be so proud of Lasse
@prestok4 ай бұрын
I prefer the stories when they help the people who fell because of them
@-ey8vb4 ай бұрын
Congratulations ✌👍 To be successful, Three D to be followed : Discipline, Dedication, Determination 🤞
@georgegorgeous91734 ай бұрын
In this case probably a 4. D: Doping...
@-ey8vb4 ай бұрын
@@georgegorgeous9173 Incidents of doping happen in sports 👎 But here it was not. Rather the runner despite falling, won the race setting World record. An example of unyielding tenacity ✌👍
@stevenmeyer967423 күн бұрын
@@-ey8vb Although it was legal at the time, his blood doping was a major reason for his success
@celestinelocsin4 ай бұрын
what a awesome story!
@MikeAG3333 ай бұрын
Viren will always have the suspicion of blood doping (taking blood, then re-injecting it a few days later after your body has replaced the loss) hanging over him, as he could never win a race between Olympics, but was unbeatable in them. Brendon Foster has always thought he was beaten illegitimately. If he had dominated middle distance running over the period of those two Olympics then there would have been fewer questions asked, but he didn't at all.
@PaulVinonaama3 ай бұрын
Where has Foster stated something like that? Viren was injuried for much of 1974 and 1975. In 1972 and 1976 he was in excellent condition for the entire season and not just the Olympics. Can blood doping explain that?
@stevedupree5255 ай бұрын
He had some rather unusual “ Training Methods.”
@jussihamalainen76924 ай бұрын
It's something of a public secret that Finnish runners at the time used blood transfusions to boost their red cell counts. It wasn't banned yet but not very sporting as it was done in secret.
@brankojovanovic47644 ай бұрын
@@jussihamalainen7692 it's banned after Viren "won"
@Mario-zv2lo Жыл бұрын
Quante volte lo sentivo da Paolo Rosi e credevo fosse un aggettivo "lasse" l'asso...
@donerickson73054 ай бұрын
Acceleration...that was the key
@KNOWHOPE725 ай бұрын
NEVER GIVE UP!
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
And bank your own blood
@ianmorrill61134 ай бұрын
Anyone know what song this is?
@chrisozzy5617 күн бұрын
The Flying Finn . Remember him well .
@aleksandrglebov39972 ай бұрын
это легендарный спортсмен!
@jamesaaronmanarang Жыл бұрын
Love it!!
@Cwilliam1999Ай бұрын
Never Give Up
@jaimecorvus63732 ай бұрын
Viren juiced to the gills (blood transfusion), Lopes should've won , best runner for the coming 10 years.
@ibrokemachone2 ай бұрын
No proof
@stevenmeyer967423 күн бұрын
@@ibrokemachone It was common knowledge. No secret at all.
@individualistds16463 ай бұрын
There was an American woman in London 2012, I think it was 1500M, who fell in the 1500 and instead of doing this she sat on the track and cried
@jamesewanchook22762 ай бұрын
mary decker?
@individualistds16462 ай бұрын
@@jamesewanchook2276 Morgan uceny
@ledtargaouschi58314 ай бұрын
Gammoudi didn't deserve to be dropped like that he should have been a medalist if that didn't happen
@andrewhanson59425 ай бұрын
In a 10000 meter event, you've time to make up a few seconds from an early fall.
@mattpcuk4 ай бұрын
What happened to the other guy that got knocked over?
@jimmyjohnson67043 ай бұрын
He quit before he hit the ground🤣
@alainfauville73114 ай бұрын
Never give up? Check Dave Wotle 800m final in 1972!
@thomasburke25845 ай бұрын
Nice job
@Erickchicas Жыл бұрын
EPIC!
@jaimepaixaodossantospaixao99014 ай бұрын
Sensacional
@Real_Michael_Jordan5 ай бұрын
Then went on the most famous race of his life in the 5k vs Prefontaine.
@AlMan424 ай бұрын
You mean the 5k vs Gammoudi....Prefontaine was a sideshow in that race
@Lunaholic94 Жыл бұрын
He never got caught for doping. It's just a rumor. When they asked about it he didn't even know what it is
@woodskier5 ай бұрын
Doping might have helped in in a long bike race, but in the 10k he needed speed , especially the last 800 meters. Increase in blood volume would have slowed him too much. He did believe in altitude training.
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
You have not done your research have you? You are as lazy as Viren
@davidhenry7925 ай бұрын
Jakob checks his blood everyday....nobody says a thing?
@saintsone78774 ай бұрын
It was not doping as in using drugs etc to enhance his performances. He apparently did training at high altitudes which refines the cells in the blood. They took a pint of his blood regularly and stored it. Just before the Olympics began he had a complete blood transfusion where they pumped his body full of the enhanced blood giving him a boost other athletes did not have. Although not officially cheating it was not in the spirit of the Olympics. His times during Olympics were substantially better than his times in lead up races demonstrating the huge advantage this blood cleansing gave him.
@whahappened83984 ай бұрын
@@saintsone7877 How do you even know if this is true ? Can you cite a source ?
@djwertzy Жыл бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@Mojova15 ай бұрын
This is what SISU is.
@stevenmeyer967423 күн бұрын
he opened the door to blood doping.
@cryptoth4n0s774 ай бұрын
That was before Ethiopia and Kenya started releasing their hunters.
@avilevy5475 ай бұрын
Did anyone else come here because of Schalk Bezuidenhout?
@davidmanzi44915 ай бұрын
Greatest blood doper ever.
@DrMichaelWidlanski5 ай бұрын
If you have proof, I'd like to see it.
@davidhenry7925 ай бұрын
Jakob Ingrebrigtsen might differ with you.They check their blood everyday....?
@crosslink14935 ай бұрын
Not unprecedented to see someone fall and get back up in a long race like that (10km/6.2 miles). IIRC he fell closer to the start of the race than the mid-point so not a problem to get up and work his way back up to the main pack at the front. There was an African gal in a world class 3K steeplechase race in Europe that did it not too long ago (last season?).
@MikeSchlesinger5 ай бұрын
"Not a problem?" What's your definition of a problem?
@edchapman58014 ай бұрын
How many world records were set after a runner fell in any race?
@deleted-something Жыл бұрын
Wow
@nightsketcher5 ай бұрын
Well, the inspiration is rather diminished by the knowledge that he accidentally took someone else down with him who couldn't get up. Life is complex.
@Gauravmann4 ай бұрын
keywords being accidentally and the other choose to stay down as if dead
@petesmart1983 Жыл бұрын
Viren was a doper and even ran with plaster after his blood transfusions but then again it was the doping era which his teammate openly admitted to it. Blood doping was fully legal in those days
@lizelleswanepoel116 Жыл бұрын
Why get a transfusion and traumatise the body, if he could have just taken iron for more effective oxygen uptake? The mind boggles.
@s22t Жыл бұрын
By definition doping is the use of prohibited substances and methods. So it's an oxymoron to say that "blood doping was fully legal"
@chloefitton30239 ай бұрын
I agree
@chloefitton30239 ай бұрын
I never stood a chance.only 14.11 for 5k
@mattitarkkanen4278 ай бұрын
Not any evidence for that, just assumptions and jealous accusations. That is the destiny of winners.
@NickGeorge-kf2tl4 ай бұрын
I can't believe you can put this up as a great sporting moment when he was taking blood transfusions to boost his performance! It's sad there are so many Olympics stories tarnished like this.....Gatlin, Vinokourov. It's no longer a sporting spectacle ☹️
@aspenrebel5 ай бұрын
Huh? I don't know that I ever even knew that that happened.
@mikebarker91874 ай бұрын
lose the background music and phony sound effects please
@Bd-ox4mi4 ай бұрын
The other one that fell like he was shot ..pathetic excuse of a competitor
@artosaari44014 ай бұрын
That,s what we call finnish SISU
@김수진-g9k4t Жыл бұрын
다정한벗즐거운만남희망의케이비씨
@ronaldriis10235 ай бұрын
The rumors about Viren’s blood doping won’t go away. And if he had been disqualified from the 1972 5,000 meter race, then the very deserving Emiel Puttemans of Belgium would have been awarded gold and Steve Prefontaine would have gotten bronze.
@stephenbird54725 ай бұрын
This was all the talk in Oregon at the time. Viren came to Oregon to run a year later and everybody beat him. My freshman teammate at Oregon State beat him. We all figured the victories were due to blood doping.
@garysmith39135 ай бұрын
@@stephenbird5472 You figured wrong.
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
Rumours= facts.
@AlMan424 ай бұрын
Gammoudi finished second in that race but doesn't matter because Viren was clean. The sideshow Prefontaine was the most suspect doper.
@saintsone78774 ай бұрын
@@stephenbird5472 It was not doping but blood enhancement. He trained in high altitude and when his blood filled with extra oxygen as a result they took a pint of blood. This was done regularly until they had enough enhanced blood and just before the Olympics they gave him a full blood transfusion filling his body with this enhanced blood. Although no outside substances were added and therefore legal it was not in the spirit of the Olympics as back then all competitors were strictly amateurs.
@DitaKedir-bl7hk Жыл бұрын
Omg new 2023😶😐
@dudermcdude9245 Жыл бұрын
They disapproved all doping allegation. A doctor even testified as to not seeing any visible punctures etc.
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
Not true
@aeortiz20045 ай бұрын
Cuando no hay fundamentos tecnicos por su desempeño siempre se recurre al desprestigio.
@SudhangshuChowdhury-q1fАй бұрын
😊😊😊😊
@janne-pekkahuuhtanen46915 ай бұрын
Voi jumalauta mikä suoritus!!!
@janne-pekkahuuhtanen46914 ай бұрын
Melkein uskomatonta; mutta totta.
@SwetaKumari-pq7kt4 ай бұрын
0:03 you can see the person behind pulling him down. Pathetic
@saintsone78774 ай бұрын
Get your eyes examined as the runner behind him barely touched him and not before Lasse was already falling. It was Lasse contacting the feet of the runner in front of him that caused Lasse to fall. The runner behind him simply lifted his hand up to try to prevent himself having Lasse fall on him. In fact if you watch closely you will see Lasse touch the back of the runner in front of him just as he was falling well before the runner behind Lasse contacted Lasse. It was a simple accident that often occurs in bunched up middle distance events.
@duffrageous3 ай бұрын
@@saintsone7877this was long distance, 10000m.
@mauiztic4 ай бұрын
You haven't apologized for that disgusting opening ceremony mocking the last supper.
@CXK135 ай бұрын
Doper? Prove it!
@janne-pekkahuuhtanen46915 ай бұрын
Itse olen totaalipaska juoksija, mutta mutta...
@juha20318 ай бұрын
Viren was not a middle distance runner .
@sl74305 ай бұрын
What was he?
@vimalapavankumaryelugula88804 ай бұрын
😂❤❤😂
@summerbay8298 Жыл бұрын
Doped or not I would be really surprised if he would be the only one who got that advance on that race that's why most finns dont see him as doper and I dont think most of his race fellows either. Because they know that everypody on the top were eating that same porridge. Maybe I see things throught bluewhite glasses but the achievment to win 4 gold medals in the olympics is still the greatest goal that finnish track athlete has ever done besides the rumours about doping.
@thelocalyoutuber217 Жыл бұрын
First
@brockroberts42585 ай бұрын
Why are you celebrating a known cheater? Nice.
@ВенераОрмонбекова-д7э Жыл бұрын
А то что он отпинал и убежал не помогав - это нормально? Мне кажется он специально упали и отпинал🤨
@dzidzabidza789 Жыл бұрын
Fuuujjjj russian
@Pyhantaakka Жыл бұрын
Kappas, ryssä.
@dplouro4 ай бұрын
Lasse Viren was a cheater…a lousy cheater
@yogibear63635 ай бұрын
Viren was a doper. You should not idolize cheaters.
@rodjohnson26325 ай бұрын
Although I don't approve of the practice of blood doping, it was legal at the time. So you really can't call him a cheater.
@PaulVinonaama5 ай бұрын
@@rodjohnson2632 And there is no evidence of that.
@PaulVinonaama5 ай бұрын
You should not call someone cheater with no evidence.
@rodjohnson26325 ай бұрын
@@PaulVinonaama Yes, I forgot to finish my comment by saying it was never proved that Viren blood doped. There were plenty of rumors and accusations over the years, and it was even once reported that Finnish teammates admitted they did blood doping. Add to this the somewhat suspicious fact that other Finnish runners had standout Olympic performances, and never before or after replicated them, it just fuels the belief that Viren blood doped. I'd like to think he was clean and was just a great runner who knew how to peak perfectly for the big races.
@PaulVinonaama5 ай бұрын
@@rodjohnson2632 Kaarlo Maaninka did admit to what is called blood doping in Moscow 1980, and his achievements were indeed exceptional for him there (silver in 10000m, bronze in 5000m). But Viren was in excellent condition for most of the 1972 season, making world records before (2 miles) and after (5000m). He did not emerge from nowhere and disappear.
@sschwen80505 ай бұрын
Glorifying a known blood doper. Nice.
@martinf213 Жыл бұрын
Blood doper
@martinf213 Жыл бұрын
@@larrymant1484it is Well known today
@mattiforss6331 Жыл бұрын
yenkees are blood doper or steroidimans like Marion Jones,Maurice Green .......
@Mojova15 ай бұрын
Nope.
@latebloomerabroad Жыл бұрын
Viren practiced blood doping, and the Olympics Channel is celebrating him? Even if they hadn't outlawed it yet, everyone knew it gave you an unfair advantage because your body would be much quicker to recover than people who weren't doping.
@latebloomerabroad Жыл бұрын
@@shivahuggins1276 Everybody was NOT doing it. I remember the furor when it was found out, and the other athletes had not been doing it. And why do you talk about disallowing football matches? You're "nonsense"; I ever said anything about disallowing it, just that it seems strange to celebrate something that absolutely DID give him an advantage.
@djangorheinhardt Жыл бұрын
Where does " giving yourself a bit of an advantage " end ,and downright cheating begin ?Because blood doping was not then outlawed I still think it was cheating ! !
@aeortiz20045 ай бұрын
Prove it...a none sense post.
@lizelleswanepoel116 Жыл бұрын
Come on! Virén blood doped! Also, watch closely: he first shoved the runner in front of him. Then the nr 1410 behind him shoved Viren, probably to say: “Hey, don’t shove the runners, dear doper.”
@brankojovanovic4764 Жыл бұрын
it was then allowed for athletes to change their blood between races. After Viren "won" rules are changed and new "Viren" didnt happen anymore
@mattiforss6331 Жыл бұрын
Viren best of all.He don`´t need blood doped.He is winner,
@saintsone78774 ай бұрын
@@brankojovanovic4764 Not so much allowed but simply not illegal as none had officially done it before Viren. Everyone thought he was a doper as his performance improved so much during Olympics compared to his times when not competing in Major events.
@1unsung9715 ай бұрын
He was stripped of his medals for blood doping. He's tainted, not sainted.
@DerEchteBold4 ай бұрын
No he wasn't stripped of any medals, why do you say that? As far as I understand, even if the blood doping accusation is true, which he denies, it wasn't against any rules.
@laryjohnson57364 күн бұрын
lasse was doping.
@Muncheefr Жыл бұрын
Olympian by day, racist cop by night. I don’t care what he did. No respect.
@iwastubed96 Жыл бұрын
Were there news that he was racist while working as a police officer?
@djangorheinhardt Жыл бұрын
As far as I knew he rarely did his day job of being a Policeman after the 1976 Olympics so where is your information of him being a "racist cop " come from .I resent Viren's 4 gold medals as they were dishonestly won but by the sound of you I prefer to respect Viren and his miles of training than somebody like yourself who seems to have had an attack of verbal and literary incontinence. Get the chip of jealousy of your shoulder mate before it consumes you
@Aksa1bw0w Жыл бұрын
You think he can be a racist cop in a small village of Myrskylä, Finland with less than 2000 population in 1970? Not a single immigrant in sight.
@dudermcdude9245 Жыл бұрын
Haaaaaaa all those black criminals walking around small villages in Finland