Comments on: THE UNBEARABLE WAIT OF EXPECTATION http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=199 Articles by Pat Butcher Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: James O'Brien http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=199#comment-705 James O'Brien Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:11:15 +0000 http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=199#comment-705 I've got to agree with Pat on this one; the Seoul 100 created a tension in the Olympic Stadium that can hardly have been equalled. The only other occasions on which I have felt anything close was the same duo - Lewis v Johnson - in Rome in 1987, and Cathy Freeman in Sydney in 2000, the latter for different reasons, of course. If anything comes close to those contests in Berlin, it will be a Championships par excellence. As an aside, I still regret the fact that I was resident in the US in 1980 and was, thus, unable to enjoy watching the Ovett-Coe clash live on TV. US broadcasters, in their unfailing wisdom, determined that, as the US team would not be attending, nobody in the country would be interested in the Games. I'll refrain from further comment. JOB I’ve got to agree with Pat on this one; the Seoul 100 created a tension in the Olympic Stadium that can hardly have been equalled. The only other occasions on which I have felt anything close was the same duo - Lewis v Johnson - in Rome in 1987, and Cathy Freeman in Sydney in 2000, the latter for different reasons, of course. If anything comes close to those contests in Berlin, it will be a Championships par excellence.

As an aside, I still regret the fact that I was resident in the US in 1980 and was, thus, unable to enjoy watching the Ovett-Coe clash live on TV. US broadcasters, in their unfailing wisdom, determined that, as the US team would not be attending, nobody in the country would be interested in the Games. I’ll refrain from further comment.

JOB

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