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Track and Field
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Jim Ryun won the Kansas State Championship meet in 1965. He was the first person to ever break four minutes for the mile with a time of 3:58. He ran 3:55:3 as a senior. Ryun started running track because, "I couldn't do anything else. When you’re cut from the church baseball team, the junior high basketball team, and you can’t make the junior high track and field team…I’d go to bed at night and I’d say, 'Dear God, if you’ve got a plan for my life, I’d appreciate it if you’d show up sooner or later, because it’s not really going very well.'"
Later on he set over five world records in the 880, mile, and 1500 races and then became a congressman for Kansas.
You can watch him win a world record below:
Later on he set over five world records in the 880, mile, and 1500 races and then became a congressman for Kansas.
You can watch him win a world record below:
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You can WIN everything, but your attitude can effect the score! Carl Lewis didn't win a state championship. He just won four gold medals at the Olympics, but he did NOT win hardly any endorsements or opportunities to advertise for anyone. Why? See what Wikipedia has to say about it: "Lack of endorsements and public perception. Lewis had achieved what he had set out to do. He had matched Jesse Owens’ legendary feat of winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, and he had done so with relative ease. However, Lewis had also expected to win lucrative endorsement deals, but few if any were forthcoming in America. The long jump controversy was one reason. And, Lewis’ self-congratulatory conduct did not impress several other track stars. "He rubs it in too much," said Edwin Moses, twice Olympic gold medalist in the 400 m hurdles. "A little humility is in order. That's what Carl lacks."Further, Lewis’ agent Joe Douglas compared him to pop star Michael Michael Jackson, a comparison which did not go over well. Douglas said he was inaccurately quoted, but the impression that Lewis was aloof and egotistical was firmly planted in the public’s perception by the end of the 1984 Olympic Games."
Remember. As you win, stay humble!
Remember. As you win, stay humble!
James Edward McAlister won the CA high school long jump state championship in 1969. Then he played football at UCLA and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in '74. But not before setting the world record in the long jump, 27'1/2".
Below see the greatest world record ever achieved in the Olympic Games?? Why?
He BELIEVED.
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