DeCastella in the marathon would have been a good 'where are they now' too. Although here on the west coast, the marathon 'just started', so I may see DeCastella yet! (yeh, sure...) RT On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:14:24 -0700, R.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:49:34 EDT, you wrote: > >In a message dated 10/1/00 8:47:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>Herb Elliott, the one Australian you never saw or heard of >>in Sydney > >An excellent point! With all the UC&P stuff NBC did, how come they couldn't >come up w/ a piece on Elliot & Cerutty? > >Jim Gerweck >Running Times Or John Landy or Ron Clarke. Australia has a very rich heritage. The race between Landy and Roger Bannister to be the first to break the 4-minute mile (and their subsequent Empire Games duke-it-out) would have been a nice one. Whadda ya wanta bet they had it ready "in the can" but decided not to use it because they couldn't tie it to any current sob story? RT
