The Race that Shocked the World, BBC Documentary

[martijn]

Obviously on this forum no need to tell which race this is about.
Has some nice archival footage, even a few seconds of Charlie running at the Munich Olympics, and interviews with all 8 finalists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ORx1HNlL6c

[tb2010]

do you happen to have the time that charlie's race is run at? I'm curious to see that

[Chris6878]

Excellent video. It's damn near like watching speed trap!

[T-Slow]

I thoroughly enjoyed the thinly-veiled hatchet job this documentary does on "King Carl", that made my day. I hope I'm not overstepping bounds.

[NickP]

Have you guys read the book by Richard Moore?
On the front cover, there's a quote by journalist Simon Barnes: "at last the race of races has a book that lives up to it"
I wonder where he was when we were drinking up Speed Trap back in the spring of '91.

[T-Slow]

I never heard of it. Did you read it? What did you think?

[X-Man]

a brilliant documentary...i just wish they were all made like this

[John]

I thoroughly enjoyed the thinly-veiled hatchet job this documentary does on "King Carl", that made my day. I hope I'm not overstepping bounds.

I didn't quite see it like that, Joe Douglas was almost creepy.

Angela was class.

It is hard to get across to anyone who wasn't alive at the time just how big a story this was. It was HUGE! The biggest sports news of the 20th Century? Certainly right up there.

[a-j]

The bbc have had some excellent documentaries lately, shame soon as Olympics are gone so will the decent programmes

This added to the bolt ones excellently IMO

[Janic]

Thanks for linking this.