2008 Olympic Trials and More New Videos

Better late than never, to get you excited about the Olympics here are the three best races from the Olympic Trials, in pretty good quality: 400m - 800m - 1500m. If you are dying for the other races, let me know (e-mail or comments), and I'll try and provide those as well. I do have limited disc space for this website, so I only got the ones that I thought were the best.


And an old/new video from last 2007 season: Remember when Alan Webb out kicked Bernard Lagat and Craig Mottram in the final 100m of the mile and left both of them looking absolutely silly? Yeah, I know... I'm not even making this up. It's a pretty exciting race of one of Alan Webb's better days. Download here


Also this is worth watching: grainy, old, no audio footage of Jim Ryun running 3:58 against high school only competition. It's ridiculous to see just how much he beats the rest of the field (use your imagination. 3:58 versus high schoolers!). According to Wikipedia: "His 3:58.3 to win the mile at the 1965 Kansas High School State Meet is still the record for the fastest time ever in a race that includes only high school competitors." Download here


...And I finally found an excellent quality video of quite possibly one of the greatest Olympic races: 2004 Athens Olympics 1500m. Really if you have never watched this video, well let's just say that it is easily my most favorite track race of all-time. And you should watch it! Download here