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Sportsmanship - John Landy stops to help fallen Ron Clarke

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

In a famous event at the Australian National Championships of 1956, John Landy, the mile world record holder at the time,stops mid race to see if a fallen Ron Clarke (future multi world record breaker) is okay. On finding out he's fine, Landy takes off and wins the race! If the sayng that "actions speak louder than words" to determine a persons character is true, then Landy is both a true sportsman and one helluva good guy! Respect.

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Not only did he stop to see if his team mate was ok, he even managed to finish first. Wow!

Running has produced a lot of really good people over the decades. I wish that were more celebrated rather than how hard or vicious someone can destroy their opponent.

People such as Derartu Tulu who twice tried to help Paula Radcliffe (3 time NY Marathon Winner) who was falling behind the leader pack. Eventually Paula told the older Tulu to go on without her, so she caught up with the head pack and won the New York Marathon herself and met Paula at the finish.

Or Emil Zatopek who gave one of his Gold Medals to Ron Clarke (the guy in the video) who was known as a choke artist for never winning gold in the commonwealth games and getting beaten by runners not as good as he was. Emil gave him a package when Ron visited him in Prague and told him "You've deserve it" and when Ron got home he found it was one of Emil's Gold Medals.

There are tons of these super cool stories of runner sportsmanship because running brings people together...go for a run.

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