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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 8, 2024 18:32:37 GMT
Unless I overlooked, interestingly, a pair of celebrated American distance runners and their respective biopics have yet to be posted:   Now it’s up to you to post the movies…….. |
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Post by NoShear on Aug 8, 2024 18:40:39 GMT
Unless I overlooked, interestingly, a pair of celebrated American distance runners and their respective biopics have yet to be posted: Now it’s up to you to post the movies…….. Robby Benson as Billy Mills in:  Jared Leto as Steve Prefontaine in:  |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 8, 2024 18:46:50 GMT
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 8, 2024 18:48:46 GMT
Now it’s up to you to post the movies…….. Robby Benson as Billy Mills in: Jared Leto as Steve Prefontaine in: Thanks for including those! |
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Post by kims on Aug 8, 2024 21:48:32 GMT
There were two runners who were a shoo-in for the Olympic team. Sorry, I can't remember which Olympics. One of them shocked us that he did not make the cut. A commercial came out (maybe for running shoes?). The one who made the team was practicing on the track. The one who didn't relaxed nearby on a lawn chair as he drank an ice cold drink. Sadly I no longer remember their names, but loved that the one who did not make the cut had a sense of humor.
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Post by NoShear on Aug 8, 2024 23:15:30 GMT
There were two runners who were a shoo-in for the Olympic team. Sorry, I can't remember which Olympics. One of them shocked us that he did not make the cut. A commercial came out (maybe for running shoes?). The one who made the team was practicing on the track. The one who didn't relaxed nearby on a lawn chair as he drank an ice cold drink. Sadly I no longer remember their names, but loved that the one who did not make the cut had a sense of humor. kims, I 'm guessing you're thinking of Dan and Dave, a pair of decathletes... |
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Post by NoShear on Aug 8, 2024 23:18:58 GMT
^ Here's a commercial, though not the one you're referring to, which has the pair - Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson, kims:
I will keep looking for the one I'm guessing you're talking about...
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Post by NoShear on Aug 8, 2024 23:33:22 GMT
^ Couldn't find it, kims, but here's a humorous one for you:
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Post by BunnyWhit on Aug 9, 2024 2:32:37 GMT
After taking up the sport only a couple of years previously, Geena Davis competed in the Olympic trials in archery for the 2000 games in Sydney.
She was 41.
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 9, 2024 7:14:11 GMT
Another great day for Team USA on the track, including Sydney McLaughlin-Levron repeating gold in the 400m hurdles and breaking her own world record:
Can't let the Olympics go by without mentioning track legend Jesse Owens who won 4 Gold Medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, as seen in Leni Riefenstahl's documentary OLYMPIA:
But there are also a couple movies about him: THE JESSE OWENS STORY and more recent movie called RACE
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 9, 2024 7:25:41 GMT
Watching 4x100 relay heats today made me think of Disney's BLACKBEARD'S GHOST in which Captain Blackbeard (the great Peter Ustinov) helps Dean Jones' track team win by substituting the other teams' batons with food, flags, etc, then picks up Dean Jones' runners to race them to the finish. He also throws the javelin and shot put further and other hijinks.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Aug 9, 2024 14:44:16 GMT
Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli) was the first Italian to swim the 100m freestyle in less than a minute. He was an Olympic swimmer at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the 1956 games in Melbourne, reaching the semi-finals both times. He was also a world-class water polo player.
He began acting in 1967, and it was then that he was asked to change his too-Italian-sounding name: he chose Bud Spencer in homage to Spencer Tracy and Budweiser beer. Spencer is perhaps best known for his roles in the "Trinity" westerns with Terence Hill (another Italian actor who changed his name). He was active as an actor from 1950 until 2010.
Incidentally, Spencer also wrote for some of his films, held a law degree, was an airplane and helicopter pilot, studied chemistry at university, spoke fluent Portuguese, owns several patents, and dabbled in politics late in his life.
 
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Post by NoShear on Aug 9, 2024 17:12:16 GMT
Bud Spencer was almost as Renaissance-sque as you, BunnyWhit. Water polo, too, BunnyWhit?! Damn, Girl... "I thought I was the Bally table king, but I just handed my pinball crown to..." her, to her, to her!! Expect more posts to follow, lonesomepolecat and BunnyWhit: I need to reclaim some self-respect... |
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Post by NoShear on Aug 9, 2024 17:27:14 GMT
Watching 4x100 relay heats today made me think of Disney's BLACKBEARD'S GHOST in which Captain Blackbeard (the great Peter Ustinov) helps Dean Jones' track team win by substituting the other teams' batons with food, flags, etc, then picks up Dean Jones' runners to race them to the finish. He also throws the javelin and shot put further and other hijinks.
Dean Jones played something of a college pole vaulter in under the yum-yum tree if I correctly recall, but you don't actually see any vaulting that I can recall. Disney stud Jan-Michael Vincent is:  |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 9, 2024 18:51:02 GMT
I hope everyone caught Team USA‘s incredible basketball game yesterday against Serbia. We came from behind to beat them by a small margin to make it to the gold medal game tomorrow. It was a great game for LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and Steph Curry. What a team! The gold medal game tomorrow is against France, so you know that crowd is going to be on fire!  Some of their plays yesterday were as good as the 1992 Dream Team:  Michael Jordan, the Basketball GOAT, is actually a two time gold medalist— he also won a gold medal on the 1984 Olympic Basketball Team  Members of the 1992 Dream Team and other Basketball Gold Medalists can be seen in SPACE JAM including Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Shaquille O’Neal   |
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Muhammed Ali won gold at the 1960 Olympics under his former name Cassius Clay
