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a san jose state track program in the nineteen
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a boycott movement and protests the nineteen
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performance coaches and document areas then
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tommy smith john carlos and leon and the
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story about athletes who dare to take stand
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the mentors who made them fast enough and
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sports activism we see today years
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nineteen sixty eight the summer
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olympic games are in mexico city
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the first time the games are truly
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in the sprint races and demand
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like tommy smith and john carlos
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carlos smith john carlos to
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the greatest sprinters of all times captured
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in one of the most iconic images of
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the twentieth the two , men
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standing on platform each
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with assist in here yesterday
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they stood on the victory platform with
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bowed heads wearing black socks
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and gloves heads wearing black protest
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i remember seeing this photo was a kid growing
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up the nineteen seventies ,
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who was obsessed with sports sports
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even though i was much too young to understand
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anything about the context for it for
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, that was an act of transgress
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open next five episodes i want
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to tell you the story behind that
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transgression how , two
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men ended up on the victory send the
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struggles and triumphs because
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in that moment half that moment ago
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the way we think about sports and social
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protest sifted for however
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in ways that we're still wrestling with today
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to extraordinary figures
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may said iconic moment possible one
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, winter and extensive tactician
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who reinvented what it meant to be a post
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the other sorry edwards fiery
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professors and black power activist
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who dare to challenge that most
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sacred of american institute
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here's the remarkable thing all
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for those men those two runners
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the professor and the couch the
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same place a second
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tier state college that no
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one outside of northern california
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and ever heard of then
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as a state or i
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didn't know that can city
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i'm not i'm grub well this is legacy
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speed story , athletes
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who dare to take stand and visionaries
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who made them fast enough and bread
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alone
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in
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the nineteen sixties silicon valley
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was not yet called silicon valley that
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, wouldn't come until the early nineteen
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seventies seventies among the rolling
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hills and six as grove south of san
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francisco a hundred revolutions
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had already started to bubbles the
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microchip the beginnings the personal
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computer the computer bay
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area was wide open to innovation
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and reinvention and any wonder
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what a crazy idea about how to do things better
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and in the middle of that from and was commuter
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school in downtown san jose and
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jose state then
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as a state was were coach name but
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winter health court and but winter
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is where the story begins but
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was one of most important coaches of
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the twentieth century he invented
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modern sprinting with an unconventional
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approach the has today become
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dogma have you
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ever watched the way the fastest man in history
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the jamaican splinter usain bolt glides
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down the track
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i know hold com i'm
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post you can credit but
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winter for the way boat ramp
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the code the bud winter disciple
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over his career but coached a
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hundred and two all americans thirty
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seven world record holders and
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twenty olympians including
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tommy smith and john carlos the to
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sprinters who raise their loved this
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in mexico city but athletes
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so completely dominated sprinting
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the people stopped calling the centers eighteen
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by it's formal nickname the spartans
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and just godspeed city there
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was scrapper he grew up in poor
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neighborhood in san francisco he
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was right it by the zoo happy
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winter buds daughter
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winter was born lloyd see winter
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in ninety know nine and grew up san
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francisco
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his mom was
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a spitfire irishwoman
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and his father was a of darfur
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and very quiet introvert
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and he's lived on the poor side
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so think it's way had such compassion
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and compassion hard for people that didn't have money
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it ended up u c berkeley the
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studied psychology after
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college coach football at
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a high school and then junior college was
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man of obsessions they didn't
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just golf
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he invented golf clubs that he swore
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hit the ball further because you're
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exposed to radiation the
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didn't just fish he went fishing
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around the world was unkempt
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the human you want mismatch
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patterns his clothes are often wrinkles
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and he traveled stuffed suits
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into duffel bag the only
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thing they have so
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or something down his shirt as
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his but but when you pointed it out
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he downstairs you know who cares it
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just wasn't his priority
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in nineteen forty one but took job
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coaching track and freshman football
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at san jose state
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we see my job was i'm
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somewhat absent and don't
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see that with negativity a my heart
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or anything but a his whole
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life was about track and field
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and and the guys we'd be sitting
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there at the table dinner and all a
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sudden my dad would get up and he would go over to
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the side been start to practice like
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the shot put okay now he wants to
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tell them to turn has had this way and
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and here we were in middle of tried to tell them a
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story about what we did what school coach
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that was teacher not screamer
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The thing that impressed me about but
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he never raised his voice. This
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is Ray Norton when it bites athletes
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and never. Did I ever hear
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him use profanity? That's pretty
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unusual for Coach by School
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coaches all they did. of good
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causes it was used
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i didn't look like a traditional coach he
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didn't sound like a traditional codes and
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that was all part of charm
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note in remembers the first time he met but
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he was still in high school he and some
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of his friends who also ran went to attract
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me the university of california berkeley the
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annual showdown between the big ten
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and the conference that would become the pac twelve
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first of we snuck into place and we
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sit quietly hoping nobody
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notices you know norton
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and his friends all ran track for their high
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school teams school teams of them are pretty
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fast but none them expected
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to be recruited by the college's at disney
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it's nineteen fifty five not
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too many the big track schools were
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interested in black sprinters
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we watch that the big boys
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the collegiate guys and then when
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they left we can have eased
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down and track and the
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start mark they started
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to raise
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also be there obviously and there were several
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coaches in stands financing
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all , them less except one one
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one was but was and
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bud walk from
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the bleachers there were the starting blocks
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oh and we say oh god we've been bus
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that they're going to throw us outta here in
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you want real slow and
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then and then front me and he
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said do you know you could be the world's fastest
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human
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know where o k our
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the me when the fast die young star
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bucks where he was sentenced to
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, to the high school does the beep beep beep
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that god what suits must
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build suffered
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at the time note and had no idea
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what buds saw him it wasn't
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until he went san jose state that
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he understood that bud had turned the science
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of sprinting on it's head
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was six three sprint is like by
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be five nine five zero what
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he saw his that had a natural
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relaxation moon i did
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swinging when read the
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other given the could teach
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me though he likes sumo and
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can handle the relaxation
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mode
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shorthand for the complex set
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ideas at the heart of buds philosophy
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coaches for generations had stressed
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the visible application of effort
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intensity the grimacing tightly
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coiled runner passing and snorting
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down tracks like a runaway plow horse
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work harder push push push what
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was what if i was entirely
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backwards splinter
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should be gliding
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norton joined by the team in nineteen fifty
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six on scholarship the would
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winter her his leg of moment when
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he first arrived at san jose state he
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sat in sat class taught by dorothy
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hazeltine yates it was
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about the psychology of fighter pilots
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and enormously important subject at the start
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of over two pilots , suffering
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from nervous exhaustion burnout breakdowns
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were making fatal errors in combat
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because of the enormous stress they were under
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in the class but learned about new approach
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to tackling the problem teaching
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pilots relaxation techniques
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i'd watched as the techniques replied to boxes
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at san jose state this is
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what but wrote in his nineteen eighty one
13:57
book relax and when the
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results proved not only gratifying
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in some cases they were amazing to
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us green inexperienced
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novices very soon so the cool
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confident poise of champions they
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know they boxers one every
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thought that season some spectacular
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the start of second world war but
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enlisted in the navy and
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got a chance to build them what he'd learned with yates
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his class at san jose it
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was put in charge of a research study at flight
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school in california looking at
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relaxation training for cadets
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it was the beginning of what would be a radical transformation
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in the way we think about preparing people for
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stressful jobs called
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up doctor police have ravaged to get
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a little one on one on relaxation techniques
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the any pants muscle you have on
14:51
your body if is using oxygen
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then you need other muscles to
14:57
been sort of prepped and alert
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and ready to go
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ran into the clinical psychologist who works
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with lots of people in high stress jobs law
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enforcement firefighters navy
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seals pilots though
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if your entire body is tense
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you are going to be used of calories
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and you're going to be using of oxygen for
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instance chest masters burn
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a tremendous amount of calories
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playing chess and it's
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because your brain uses so much
15:25
oxygen so if you are
15:27
thinking and hansen if your body is tense
15:29
you're tapping into your tank of energy
15:32
imagine how quickly you might drain that
15:34
tank of energy and dog site and
15:36
if you returned safely how would you managed
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to get some sleep so could fight again
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tomorrow the solution to
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learn how to relax the
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contain and control your stress
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inhale kill we
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breathing in stretch
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a little bit more the hi
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on the exhale then
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you ready to go so
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you're breathing controls your heart rate
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your heart rate is your main indicator of
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stress so when you get
16:14
stressed out your heart rate goes
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up and once it goes past a
16:18
certain point it a sex your
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motor skills you're fine motor skills
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your memory and your ability
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to perform
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so whether you are
16:29
war in corporate setting or you're
16:31
an athlete you'd like your heart
16:33
rate to be in place where
16:35
you or harm but
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alert
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the flight school winter study involved
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two hundred cadets for six
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weeks they attended classes played
16:44
sports and took psychological tests
16:47
the cadets was split into two groups
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one was control group the other group
16:52
learned relaxation techniques but
16:55
read about the outcome his book the
16:58
relaxation group made more significant
17:01
and even spectacular progress
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the greatest improvement by the relaxation
17:06
group was demonstrated in courses
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that involved the most pressure
17:13
when the war was over the went back
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to san jose state that's when
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he realized the relaxation
17:19
techniques could help pilots really
17:22
they could also helps printers dr
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believe of ranch again
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if you are able
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to
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get yourself to breed well mechanically
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meaning die from adequate and now you
17:34
train those muscles separate
17:36
from your sport is actually
17:39
affects your times it delays
17:41
fatigue the
17:43
problem at the heart of sprinters task
17:45
was pressure they weren't running
17:48
marathon where they had two hours to settle
17:50
in and adjust and make up for
17:52
mistakes and misjudgments hundred
17:54
to spread is ten seconds you
17:57
did meters is twenty seconds
17:59
the must react instantly
18:01
to the guns run a flawless race
18:04
extract every ounce of speed from their
18:06
bodies over and impossibly
18:08
compress timeframe splinter
18:11
settling into the blocks before race was
18:13
under an extraordinary potentially
18:15
debilitating amount pressure
18:17
and the bodies untrained response to that
18:19
pressure makes the runner slower
18:22
that faster i
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realized he needed to fix
18:26
that problem that idea seems
18:29
common sense to our years today the
18:31
came from but
18:33
he was really visionary and understanding
18:35
how importance relax station
18:37
was to performance quick
18:39
about it in the forties fifties or sixties
18:41
what you are hearing was buckle up
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right maybe a little bit later was no
18:46
pain no gain was pull
18:48
yourself up by your bootstraps so
18:50
that he was saying max to perform
18:53
better was and
18:55
stick because it work
18:58
re note and and other athletes on track team
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remember bud and his phrases
19:03
how you explain to
19:05
a sprinter running
19:07
full speed relax
19:10
well you teach
19:12
them to relax
19:15
by using certain term
19:17
analysis monsters really they
19:19
were designed keep parts of your body relaxed
19:22
if you ran for bud a couple of them
19:25
were burned into your brain
19:29
those
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hands you never clinics your face
19:31
when you're running loose jill was
19:34
a you have to open your mouth but
19:36
just relax to demonstrate the
19:38
power of loose hands discharged
19:41
heard would have is at least when it tried
19:43
straining with every time
19:52
and it hadn't been relaxed through
19:55
hands on flinched their faces
19:57
sagging with what's that called
20:08
i
20:15
a pack with tommy smith kind of greatest
20:18
of all birds athletes with
20:21
it difficult to master some of the things he
20:23
was talking about todo with lot of things
20:25
as he put into a
20:27
process that the we
20:30
had to understand i knew
20:32
was so very difficult
20:34
time for semester
20:36
the usage of the muscles to the
20:38
maximum without tensing
20:40
up without overdoing
20:43
it to the process of too much
20:45
is not doing too little is
20:47
just as bad
20:49
just like the navy to deaths but
20:51
athletes also had do visualization
20:53
exercises this has been talker
20:55
a distance runner before
20:57
each competition the
21:00
would always call us in friday
21:02
night
21:04
the night before the event and
21:07
then then have
21:09
us sit in room
21:13
turn the lights up and
21:15
then we would just sit there and there would
21:17
just talk just through
21:21
the first lap this
21:24
is the second lap
21:26
and so
21:29
he has not
21:31
, strategize
21:33
but he has seen ourselves
21:36
this the night before
21:42
the are we gonna a nuisance but as
21:45
much as of us got
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into i see it got
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into i hear
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that also ran his athletes methodically
21:58
through drills he created the
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hi ni exercise the runner
22:02
marches up and down the tracks driving
22:04
one day after the other high into the
22:06
air in an exaggerated slow
22:09
motion version of running that's
22:11
real basic of how sprinters wrong dr
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peter way and studies the bio mechanics of
22:15
sprinting at the locomotor performance
22:18
laboratory a southern methodist
22:20
university it's directly
22:22
connected to how forcefully
22:24
the sprinters hit the ground so if you watch a marathon
22:26
iran did they don't run that way to
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have kind of a shuffling gates the
22:30
sprinters punch to frack with their limb
22:33
to the high new lifted lauzon the space to get the
22:35
high velocity and then then stop it's like
22:37
delivering a punch to ground the
22:39
more force sprinter can deliver with that leg
22:41
punch the faster they get
22:43
off the ground which leads to a longer
22:46
more efficient tried all
22:48
of the difference in how fast they can run
22:50
all of the force difference it's happens during
22:52
that initial impact period so
22:54
it's essential that they get the jaime list and
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they execute the high velocity and quick
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stop that's the entire secrets right
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there the innovations
23:02
the tinkering the rethinking the search
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for the slightest edge never
23:10
realize as and this is the first
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genes or emits a she's mine was
23:14
busy of how to make us run
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another bugs greatest sprinters
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the spikes out your shoes we took us by sending
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them as he would sit on like
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pyramid so that the
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report the didn't have more push
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that the heart of the bud winter revolution
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is that saw his role as cultivating
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the talent of his athletes he took
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rock clay and molded that
25:14
is not how coaches saw their role in those
25:16
years the traditional coach exploited
25:19
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and exploitation is crucial
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coaches of that era were motivators
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recruiters tacticians coaches
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took what they were given and put to
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use fide was
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one of first modern coaches who understood
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that a coach's job was to manufacture
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elite performance systematically
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and methodically that's separate
25:44
it into existence the
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most successful of the coaches of the contemporary
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age the about check and football
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phil jackson and pat summitt and basketball
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or in many ways buds disciples
25:57
coach wins again and again in
25:59
different places and with different athletes
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it means they've crossed the line from
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exploitation to cultivation right
26:07
the profit of that movement
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the held coaching clinics nonstop
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he wrote a how to manual so you want
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to be sprinter that became must read
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for coaches and athletes alike in
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it to cartoon sprinters help
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demonstrate the right way and runway
26:25
to execute buds techniques the
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names were jack kemp and juncture
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the coach is a bud like singer named
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eager beaver at
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, computer he
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eventually made eventually fifteen minute instructional film
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that he shot at san jose state coach
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winter believes that the sprinters should undergo a
26:44
special drilled with members of buds
26:46
team appeared in the film which was called sprinting
26:49
with but winter mom action is powerful
26:52
but it was also relaxed run
26:55
thinks of driving his elbows the
26:57
hands are loose re norton
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was his first major recruit in
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nineteen fifty eight note and tied
27:04
the world record for the hundred yard dash with
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time of nine point three seconds
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the only other americans had held that record
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were from big schools like us see and
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co that
27:15
same year but added another start
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to his team this one was shorter and
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stock your a more traditional looking
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sprinter the pointer with
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high school state champion from pasadena
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who had his heart set on usa he
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went to junior college trying to study
27:31
his way onto the u s c track team meanwhile
27:34
but kept sending a bladders that
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kind of real main effect of some attitude
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destitute there's started pay
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attention to san jose state to
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you crowd some you know barrier
27:47
all around two birds with promote have
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asthma attack me and
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we got an invitation to go to the penn relays
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why do you know what our they
27:56
never get back is a my life
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the penn relays
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the philadelphia or the oldest track and field
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events in the united states massive
28:04
international carnival track and field
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to realize where
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we want all the stuff
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baggies and people back there
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they had heard sounds a they these the pronounces
28:17
and josie the girl
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says using they get it was a blackout
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because we're go uniforms and most
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of kids were african americans that
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would idea that have
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stayed on man
28:31
that was doing all of this with a miniscule budget
28:34
at say cause that when he arrived didn't
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even have dormitories the
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low beating care staff
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know anybody who's be
28:46
because he failed to like poor people
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going up against the rich people and
28:50
, norton he was beating almost everyone
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fifty nine was my biggest year
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at that time i yelled the world record for
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the hundred yards two hundred
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and twenty yards around occurs the
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hundred meters and the
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, hundred meters have all those records
29:08
one time and i also
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went undefeated and other moves
29:13
period for two years i
29:15
beat them all everybody
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was no nineteen sixty norton
29:20
have been going strong for almost two years
29:22
everyone thought he would win big at the room
29:24
olympics that year but then just
29:27
before the games then suffered freak
29:29
injury he
29:31
made the high jumper john thomas
29:33
played prank into a snake
29:35
at that
29:37
was a real they do the little ones but
29:39
it was you know done new i do do snakes
29:41
still though i jumped out
29:43
of bed hurdles position and snap
29:46
my back though part of my bet
29:48
it's received the nerve this is three
29:50
weeks before the olympic games no
29:53
feeling in my legs good
29:56
luck didn't run in any
29:58
to that meets i couldn't i
30:00
didn't run anymore until
30:03
the olympic games the died
30:05
probably lost ninety percent of my conditioning
30:08
i couldn't sleep good
30:11
e l assume paths but
30:13
northern didn't want give up his chance at the olympics
30:16
i just decided that i still
30:18
to win and nobody can be me even
30:20
though couldn't walk three weeks before that
30:23
note made it to the finals of hundred meters
30:26
and a two hundred meters at the olympics but
30:28
he finished dead last any box
30:30
to baton pass in a for by one hundred me to
30:32
relate leading to a disqualification
30:35
the meltdown dinesh
30:38
the us hadn't lost the men's hundred meters
30:40
since nineteen twenty eight the
30:43
even though i ran the be honest with you
30:49
only few people knew about his injury one
30:52
of them was bad and
30:54
said he begged his coach not to reveal
30:56
the truth
30:57
i'm in wonder about that door my doors
30:59
ovaries bird to see because he ever in
31:02
he knows it okay so
31:04
i say but as a you know
31:06
i've drafted i'm going play football
31:08
after the olympics this
31:11
is i know chair be going to and
31:13
as it out warm know i'm her
31:15
norton says bud didn't want to lie the
31:18
up you're not that's
31:20
my nerves my back is killing
31:22
me all you got saved my nerves
31:25
do that go been so low as as
31:27
he didn't do it but our these the with
31:29
a big budget damaged goods to them
31:31
playing football soon as i did back
31:33
out of the olympics
31:35
while bud would say after norton's loss
31:38
was that re norton was trying too hard
31:40
and that's the worst thing or hundred can do which
31:43
was the truth as far as bad winter
31:45
was concerned speed city
31:47
have been stopped short in it's first grade
31:50
international test
31:52
remember games to me whereas at
31:54
one say inspiring
31:58
exciting
32:00
everything horrible experience
32:03
has been in nineteen sixty sweets
32:05
giving the opening remarks at sports symposium
32:08
hosted by san jose state there
32:10
is fine because once again i point out
32:12
that we must do in united states if we're going
32:14
maintain our sport supremacy
32:18
the water will regret it pointed out that maybe
32:20
on the field for the one common ground upon
32:22
which nations the world can get together and
32:25
, harmful because what happened rain autonomous
32:27
are losing the sprint supremacy supremacy
32:30
season changing zoos the necessary
32:33
to the scenes zones chinese
32:36
have and done freak
32:38
injury from a think ten wrong
32:41
the yeah
32:45
that
32:46
he and his runners would get another
32:48
chance in this every
32:50
not again says it's heroes both
32:53
athletes and coaches and
32:55
perhaps only this time speed
32:57
city would get swept up in another digger
32:59
revolution across america the
33:01
, sixties would bring rise protests
33:03
violence political assassinations
33:06
and organized marches of civil rights movement
33:09
and here was here young black men who
33:11
had already been liberated from one orthodoxy
33:14
have been taught com and
33:16
self possession and preparation
33:19
could unleash extraordinary performance
33:22
the sprinter the speed city would become famous
33:25
and a question would be asked of them that had never
33:27
really been asked athletes before what
33:30
will you make your position you
33:32
will stand on a plastic what
33:35
will you do once you there know
33:39
next episode the athletes of speed
33:41
city when acclaim and breaks world
33:43
records that off
33:45
the track a struggle to make ends
33:48
meet
33:50
after discuss thrower objects
33:52
to the treatment of like athletes on campus
33:54
is hearts the movement that will become one
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of most important moments of activism
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i
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