1984 Olympic Games Women's 4x400 Meter Relay

[@jwim3969]

I was fortunate to see this in person!

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

I was there for the preliminaries of the 4x100s and 4x400s. You must be old too. :)

[@jwim3969]

Yep brother I’m pretty old 🤣

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

@@jwim3969 I was 13. We drove out from Canada, near Toronto. Walking into the Colisseum for the first time ever, with the lit torch and all the athletes from around the world was something I will never forget. And being such a massive track fan, I just tried to take it all in. Incredible!!

[@jwim3969]

I was living there at the time. The woman’s marathon ran through neighborhood in Venice we made a party out of it.

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

@@jwim3969 Joan Benoit

[@jmysterio100]

OJ...ten years before he.... Briscoe hooks returns from 3 years off and wins three golds. Her coach? Bob The Chemist Kersee.

[@taurusgirlxoxo4541]

Valerie Brisco-Hooks dominated the 1984 Olympics. she got 3 golds that time and the only athlete who won gold both 200m and 400m in single olympic. wow!

[@danmichaelquindipan4787]

TauRusgirL xoxo perec of France also did in 1996 Atlanta but no medals in relay.

[@jensolepoulsen4377]

Those gold medals would have more value if the East-bloc had participated. One can only wonder if she had won any gold medals at all, if that were the case.

[@waynehentley4332]

@@jensolepoulsen4377 She wouldn't have won any gold.

[@mcdonoghrahloh459]

WHERES Jamaica; The Eastern Bloc were busy getting their rears kicked in Afghanistan!

[@garfieldwillis4254]

She's not the only one to have done it

[@muddlepond]

What poor commentary. You'd think there was only the USA and Canada competing. Apart from one mention of Great Britain, I'd not a clue who else was running. They didn't even tell us who came second and third.

[@rerrpr]

That is typical from USA networks, It is like no one else exists.

[@rosaworksrosaworks9410]

@@rerrpr It's true, bbc is much better.

[@andresuston7692]

There were other countries covering, so you got different perspectives from each one. The USA was JUST one.

[@davebesag]

@@andresuston7692 The USA coverage has been notorious hsitorically for being like this.

[@ambujarajan]

🇮🇳 india too

[@vigneshwarr874]

How many of you know the interesting story of Puerto Rico relay team 😝😝. They were disqualified and not allowed to run in the finals. That's why only 7 teams were running in this event.

[@waynehentley4332]

The PR twins pulled a switch!🤪🤪

[@elderhardaway5674]

1984 Olympic Games Women 4×400 Meters Relay Team: Lillie Leatherwood** Sherri Howard** V. Brisco-Hooks** C. Cheeseborough** "Outstanding" "Record-Breaking" Run,** By "Outstanding" "Record-Breaking" Women!!!!!"**

[@taurusgirlxoxo4541]

wow both two golds for Cheeseborough and Hooks!!

[@robertstaffod2424]

Cheeseborough - straight outta DUUVAAALLL!

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

Brisco Hooks won 3 golds: 200, 400, 4x4.

[@andresuston7692]

@@thomasmckenzie4584 👍

[@stevebbuk]

@@thomasmckenzie4584 When she got divorced she slung her hook..

[@waynehentley4332]

@@stevebbuk 😀😀😀😀

[@teccec]

Puerto Rico scratched because one of their runners cheated after getting injured on a long jump and had her twin sister run in the relay in her place.

[@virvisquevir3320]

teccec - Why is that cheating? Four Puerto Rican girls. No problem.

[@carlamarie72able]

Vir Quisque Vir she ran under her twin sister name and she herself probably wasn’t on the relay list to run

[@dennisjacks7923]

Ridiculous, there were only 10 teams contesting this event, Puerto Rico's time was nearly 4 seconds slower than the 7th place team in qualify, which was the Indian team's 3:33.85. It wouldn't have matter much whether they ran or not, they were going to finish last.

[@waynehentley4332]

@@virvisquevir3320 You're funny!!😜🤪

[@waynehentley4332]

@@carlamarie72able Cheating big time!😳😳

[@ranhill62]

5:46 "get it! get it! get it!"

[@couch.patati-patata]

India made it to the finals. Came last, but still. Valsamma, Mercy Kuttan, maybe Shiny and Hamida Banu.

[@BinuBalan]

I guess PT Usha gave Anchor leg here⚓

[@MrRags1984]

wth! this is the legendary Indian quartet - PT Usha, Shiny Abraham, Vandana Rao and MD Valsamma

[@couch.patati-patata]

Yes.

[@NetworkGulf]

@@MrRags1984 correct

[@NetworkGulf]

The dream team M.D.Valsamma,Vandana Rao, Shiny Abraham,P.T.Usha

[@ceebee2055]

Is that OJ as a commentator?

[@leanajo754]

Yes. When he was still admired and a football hero. Way before the tragic murders.

[@peters6119]

Boycotted by all the Eastern Bloc women's teams so there was no GDR or USSR who would have been the other two medallists. But we know those teams were all on drugs so this is probably the true medallists with U.S. and Canada. Marita Payne who ran anchor for Canada is the mother of NBA player Andrew Wiggins. For Canada this race is still the national record 37 years later.

[@garfieldwillis4254]

And you think the US was clean

[@tanyadolgovsky4234]

Sorry to disillusion you, but there were no clean athletes on the USA or any western team.

[@manualteirac9817]

That's what i will say. USA = not clear att all in lot of sports. @@garfieldwillis4254

[@harleydude-xo8pu]

What happened to Hadji

[@TheRedprasad]

Great run by USA team.

[@Buttagreyz78]

Anyone have their splits

[@mugambialan2406]

American women very powerful and strong.Great giants.

[@64fairlane305]

yeah they`ve always had the best dope

[@chapeltibet4551]

Hail to the USA chicks, baby!

[@MirjanaLfan]

GDR would have won this

[@teller1290]

💉💉💉

[@andrewpaul7363]

the East Germans would have won so easily! and i guess the soviets would have come 2nd.

[@Fatima502]

I think Czechoslovakia would have been in the mix

[@dajosco115]

where were they? did they boycott that year?

[@sultrys2291]

If the Eastern Block is present, the gold will be with GDR but the silver and bronze will be a tight fight between US and USSR. TCH may finish fourth with Kratochvilova and Kocembova but they don't have the depth.

[@dennisjacks7923]

LOL yeah okay then....

[@dennisjacks7923]

@@sultrys2291 This is 1984, the Soviets didn't have any depth either, they had Pinigina and Bryzgina who both were lower ranked than the Czech girls and Birsco-Hooks and Cheeseborough.

[@fatbelly27]

Makes you realise how good the BBC commentators are in comparison to these clowns.

[@JorKal4]

Clowns? That's Hall-of-Fame Broadcaster Al Michaels and double-murderer OJ Simpson on the call!

[@turndownforwatt8295]

The other teams were so far behind that they weren't worth mentioning.

[@fatbelly27]

OJ should have stuck to what he did best

[@bbatjargal1549]

1984 LA Olympics was a joke! Without the Soviet Union, East Germany and other Eastern block countries, the Olympics performance was mediocre! Americans were whipped badly in Seoul 1988.

[@jsobawse]

And without the steroids the Eastern block wouldnt be relevant during that time! Haha

[@Fatima502]

3:18.29 is not 'mediocre’ by any standards, B Batjargal. Not then and not now.

[@TheCopper05]

Our Women in 1984 was not mediocre. They broke the Olympic Record thanks to Brisco Hooks and Cheeseborough. They were also not whipped easily in 1988. Yes, they won the Silver, but thanks again to Brisco and FloJo they not only broke the American Record, but they were also 2nd fastest ever only to the USSR women. If the USSR would not have run, then our Women would have been the World and American Record Holders.

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

American were whipped badly in Seoul? Really? The women won the 100, 200, 4x1, and took silver in the 400 and 4x4 (a 3:15.51 time that is still the second fastest time to date). The men won the 100, 200, 400, 400 hurdles, 110 hurdles and 4x4. The 4x1 was DQ'd otherwise they would've swept the sprints. Kenya won gold in the 800, 1500, steeple, 5,000 and 10,000. The Eastern block countries weren't whipping anyone badly in Seoul.

[@TheCopper05]

@@thomasmckenzie4584 With all of the accomplishments in 1988, American Louise Ritter also won the Gold Medal in the High Jump. Ritter was known not to do so well in the Big Meets, like the 1984 Summer Olympic Games and the 1987 World Track and Field Championships in Rome, Italy, but in Seoul in 1988, Ritter beat her big Rival from Bulgaria, Stefka Kostinadova in a dramatic jump off. Ritter won the jump off, and won on her final jump. Both had I am thinking 3 failed attempts. The Lady from Bulgaria took the 4th jump and missed again. Ritter jumped the 4th time and won. Seoul would be her last Olympics, but it was her most Golden Olympic Games!!!!