06-16-2015, 11:49 PM
One of my favourite sports people when I was younger.
Lots of records but never quite cracked the big one.
Still a champion.
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news...7401660446
(He did have some dark family secrets...his father and brother played for Essendon.
Brother Jack was a premiership captain and coached against us in 1968. We won!)
Lots of records but never quite cracked the big one.
Still a champion.
Quote:Emil Zatopek had great admiration for Ron Clarke. In 1968 he invited the Australian to Czechoslovakia, and as a parting gift he gave him his 1952 Olympic 10,000 m gold medal with the following words: “Not out of friendship but because you deserve it.
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news...7401660446
(He did have some dark family secrets...his father and brother played for Essendon.
Brother Jack was a premiership captain and coached against us in 1968. We won!)