I know, I know, it was a shot Williams and all that, but that performance was mind boggling. The speed and athleticism was simply something to behold.
Kinda like when Bob Hayes ran that 8.7 on the back leg of a Olympic 400 yard relay to catch the Soviet from behind in the Finals. Just doesn't happen ever day.
Hey Longhorn, I have long loved Bob Hayes. I read figures from 8.4 to 8.8 for that leg. Any info & links on the exact time, & comparig it to other great relay legs, would be much appreciated. It was on a compressed conder track, so slower than modern tracks.
Sports Illustrated back in 1964 had an article on the run....and I think several photos breaking out the run and times. But that was back when I was in college...now I am just an old frapper.
That is OK man. I looked it up, is this what you mean to say? frapper - Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frapper From Middle French frapper, from Old French fraper, frapper (“to deliver a blow to someone, hit, strike”), from Frankish *hrapōn (“to snatch, scuffle”), from ... Cognate with Old High German hraffōn (“to take over, seize”) (whence German raffen (“to gather up, heap”)), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”), Old Norse hrappa ...
