James Dunaway wrote:
> Actually, Kip Keino was very proud of his ability to compete
> at the world level over a wide range of distances. He ran
> a casual 1:46.4 in an Olympic "warm-up" meet in Munich two or
> three days before the start of the 1972 Games
I was at that meet. I was very impressed by Keino and thought that he would
repeat as 1500 champ based on what I saw in that race. Perhaps he would have
had he adopted the same tactic that he did in '68 against Ryun. If he had gone
hard early maybe he wouldn't have been outkicked by Vasalla (sp?).
This meet also had an unpleasant side for me. Dick Bruggeman, the athlete I was
coaching in the 400 hurdles, aggravated a shin splints problem in a 4X400 race
and was unable to run at anything like the level he did at the trials.
> -- the same meet
> in which John Smith suffered the hamstring pull in a 200m
> race which eventually (in my opinion) cost him two gold medals.
As I recall, didn't Smith injure himself at another meet in Kempton a few days
before this warm-up meet in the Olympic Stadium?
>
> I put "warm-up" in quotes because it was a quite cold early
> September evening, not at all conducive to running fast, yet
> Kip PR'd in impressive fashion.
>
> jim dunaway
>
>
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