How did you do that? I just put it up and hadn't posted the link yet!?
How did you do that? I just put it up and hadn't posted the link yet!?
no idea what happened but anyway thanks. it's there, brought back memories. It was a magnificent run. Can't see much of his mechanics in this grainy film, but they were real nice.Originally Posted by Juggler
To show what a difference 4 yrs makes (or even 2 for that matter)
1986 comm games final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHzDCFM-UQY
Clark had a different coach then, different strategy, different training, different pretty much everything. How the f... he could even end up in the outside lane in a final is beyond me...he had too much talent to find his way into that situation. But that race sewed the seeds of change which would bear fruit two years later... with his 44.38 in Seoul followed by the Com Games correction - gold in a meet record 44.60. The 86 Games were won in around 45.5! (but conditions were very cold)
gutsy call to change Coaches, many would have been satisfied with a Comm Games silver and thought if I keep doing what I'm doing I will progress and ........
Kinda like when Faldo amazed the golfing world by reinventing his swing as he knew what he was doing although better than most simply wasn't going to take him to where he wanted to go.
Gotta be impressed by people that do that and make it happen.
Not so gutsy in Clark's case. Especially after the Italian cops were called into the athletes' village at the '87 Rome world championships after he smashed a chair during an fierce argument with his coach who blamed him for every failure and expected the plaudits for every success. When Clark left that arrangement (following his last place finish in the 400m semis in Roma), that same coach said Clark "would never be heard of again". WRONG.
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