1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 2 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:04,004 ** 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 4 00:00:55,123 --> 00:00:57,791 Yeah, I remember running back here in.. 5 00:00:59,127 --> 00:01:01,595 ...late 1960s. 6 00:01:01,629 --> 00:01:03,864 I could do a full loop 7 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:06,167 6 miles around Central Park 8 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,603 and...I might see.. 9 00:01:09,637 --> 00:01:12,140 ...4, 5 other runners back then. 10 00:01:12,173 --> 00:01:13,141 That was it. 11 00:01:13,174 --> 00:01:16,677 In the course of a... an hour run. 12 00:01:17,378 --> 00:01:19,547 And.. 13 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:22,450 I would say I -- I knew every one of them back then. 14 00:01:22,483 --> 00:01:24,218 And if I didn't know them by name 15 00:01:24,252 --> 00:01:26,987 I -- I certainly recognized them. 16 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:28,756 Said hello to them. 17 00:01:28,789 --> 00:01:30,991 There weren't many of us and, uh.. 18 00:01:32,726 --> 00:01:35,663 We were considered pretty odd, yeah. 19 00:01:35,696 --> 00:01:38,098 Kind of, kind of weirdos 20 00:01:38,132 --> 00:01:40,368 I would say, at that time. 21 00:01:41,369 --> 00:01:43,704 Sure changed now. 22 00:01:47,841 --> 00:01:50,778 [instrumental music] 23 00:01:53,046 --> 00:01:56,317 -Runners used to be an eccentric minority. 24 00:01:56,350 --> 00:01:58,719 You know, no -- nobody really took us seriously. 25 00:02:03,324 --> 00:02:05,859 - I used to go out at night because 26 00:02:05,893 --> 00:02:08,061 I was embarrassed 27 00:02:08,095 --> 00:02:10,464 ab -- about being seen in public, running. 28 00:02:10,498 --> 00:02:13,434 [speaking in foreign language] 29 00:02:17,638 --> 00:02:20,574 [music continues] 30 00:02:31,018 --> 00:02:33,354 [dog barking] 31 00:02:33,387 --> 00:02:35,389 -I think we were looked as odd balls. 32 00:02:35,423 --> 00:02:37,391 We were strangers to, to people. 33 00:02:37,425 --> 00:02:40,394 Seeing people running down the block 34 00:02:40,428 --> 00:02:42,430 in their underwear, I guess, you know 35 00:02:42,463 --> 00:02:43,731 and white shorts. 36 00:02:45,299 --> 00:02:47,968 - I once got stopped by the police 37 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:51,104 while I was out running without a shirt in a park 38 00:02:51,138 --> 00:02:52,573 because they thought I was 39 00:02:52,606 --> 00:02:55,243 a, a -- a pervert of some kind that.. 40 00:02:59,613 --> 00:03:01,815 - What's so attractive about running? 41 00:03:01,849 --> 00:03:03,284 -It's so earthy, you know. 42 00:03:03,317 --> 00:03:06,019 [laughing] 43 00:03:06,053 --> 00:03:07,888 That's a little exaggerated. 44 00:03:07,921 --> 00:03:11,525 But, uh, it's -- it's something you -- you do all on your own. 45 00:03:11,559 --> 00:03:13,227 You -- you create your run. 46 00:03:13,261 --> 00:03:16,129 Nobody helps you and nobody hinders you. 47 00:03:16,163 --> 00:03:18,098 Uh, and you're just out there in the environment 48 00:03:18,131 --> 00:03:19,233 wherever you may be. 49 00:03:19,267 --> 00:03:21,669 And -- and it's just you, you and the world. 50 00:03:22,470 --> 00:03:25,406 [instrumental music] 51 00:03:27,174 --> 00:03:28,909 - When you run, you get this pattern 52 00:03:28,942 --> 00:03:30,944 of beautiful forms and colors 53 00:03:30,978 --> 00:03:33,447 the leaves in the forest and the blue sky 54 00:03:33,481 --> 00:03:34,815 and you're breathing the air 55 00:03:34,848 --> 00:03:37,951 and you just, you feel alive on this Earth. 56 00:03:37,985 --> 00:03:41,154 And to me, it was always a miracle. 57 00:03:41,188 --> 00:03:43,357 * Today 58 00:03:43,391 --> 00:03:46,927 * Was a pretty day 59 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,964 * No disappointments 60 00:03:50,998 --> 00:03:55,102 * No expectations on your whereabouts * 61 00:03:55,135 --> 00:03:58,138 * And oh * 62 00:03:58,171 --> 00:04:01,174 - In the spring when you, when it's, when you're in the park 63 00:04:01,208 --> 00:04:04,144 and you can smell the grass growing 64 00:04:04,177 --> 00:04:07,047 and, an -- and then the buzz and then 65 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,483 in the summer, I mean, there's nothing 66 00:04:09,517 --> 00:04:11,251 like, uh, running and sweating 67 00:04:11,285 --> 00:04:13,487 and then having a beer after it, you know. 68 00:04:13,521 --> 00:04:15,456 [music continues] 69 00:04:17,458 --> 00:04:20,394 [speaking in foreign language] 70 00:04:45,519 --> 00:04:48,456 [instrumental music] 71 00:04:56,564 --> 00:04:59,232 - Running was a way of self-expression. 72 00:04:59,266 --> 00:05:00,534 It was very simple. 73 00:05:00,568 --> 00:05:02,736 You'd almost, you need no equipment. 74 00:05:02,770 --> 00:05:05,506 We ran, not naked, but close to it. 75 00:05:05,539 --> 00:05:07,908 And so, it was our equivalent of going to Woodstock 76 00:05:07,941 --> 00:05:11,512 and listening to music and doing something quite natural. 77 00:05:11,545 --> 00:05:14,014 Um, so -- some people 78 00:05:14,047 --> 00:05:15,816 express themselves through music 79 00:05:15,849 --> 00:05:18,686 and some people express themselves through drugs. 80 00:05:18,719 --> 00:05:21,054 I expressed myself through running! 81 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:29,262 [instrumental music] 82 00:05:37,471 --> 00:05:39,139 - One Sunday, a friend of mine said 83 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:40,974 "You know, did you ever run a marathon?" 84 00:05:41,008 --> 00:05:43,577 I had never run more than a mile or two miles. 85 00:05:43,611 --> 00:05:45,446 And, uh, he said, uh 86 00:05:45,479 --> 00:05:48,181 "Let's go down to Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx. 87 00:05:48,215 --> 00:05:50,484 "And they have a marathon called 88 00:05:50,518 --> 00:05:53,053 the Cherry Tree Marathon and we'll run it." 89 00:05:55,022 --> 00:05:58,258 - In the mid 1960s, anyone who went running outside 90 00:05:58,291 --> 00:06:00,293 the stadium was frowned upon. 91 00:06:00,327 --> 00:06:03,130 Unless they were a well known athlete. 92 00:06:03,163 --> 00:06:05,799 A city as big as New York could only bring together 93 00:06:05,833 --> 00:06:08,969 a small group of running freaks, who met up every Sunday 94 00:06:09,002 --> 00:06:11,772 to run a marathon through the streets of the Bronx. 95 00:06:11,805 --> 00:06:14,642 The city's roughest area. 96 00:06:14,675 --> 00:06:17,244 - I started around Yankee Stadium, around and around 97 00:06:17,277 --> 00:06:18,846 and I said, "Oh, this is easy. 98 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:21,081 "This is a jog, this is easy. 99 00:06:21,114 --> 00:06:22,750 You know, anybody can do this." 100 00:06:22,783 --> 00:06:24,418 So, I kept going around and it was cold. 101 00:06:24,452 --> 00:06:28,155 I was freezing cold and, uh, so I'm running around and around 102 00:06:28,188 --> 00:06:30,791 for -- for 5 miles, 10 miles, I got up 103 00:06:30,824 --> 00:06:33,561 about 15 miles and boom! 104 00:06:33,594 --> 00:06:35,228 I just couldn't take another step. 105 00:06:35,262 --> 00:06:38,832 And I stopped in front of a church u -- up in the Bronx 106 00:06:38,866 --> 00:06:40,934 and all the people were coming out of the church 107 00:06:40,968 --> 00:06:44,672 and, uh, one fellow saw me, I swear this is true, he saw me 108 00:06:44,705 --> 00:06:47,541 I was, I was so, I was just frozen up and I was blue 109 00:06:47,575 --> 00:06:49,376 because it was, you know, in the middle of, uh 110 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:50,611 in the middle of the winter time. 111 00:06:50,644 --> 00:06:53,113 He took off his coat, then he took off his shirt 112 00:06:53,146 --> 00:06:55,415 and he gave me, he wrapped his shirt around me 113 00:06:55,449 --> 00:06:58,051 and he said, "You can do it, keep going! Keep going!" 114 00:06:58,085 --> 00:07:00,588 So I took and I kept going. 115 00:07:00,621 --> 00:07:02,055 Well, I -- I went another mile. 116 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:04,592 I just, oh, well, I couldn't walk for a week! 117 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:08,862 -It's a lot of fun to run. 118 00:07:08,896 --> 00:07:11,599 But if you're going to hasten your death 119 00:07:11,632 --> 00:07:12,766 that's no fun. 120 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,102 Running is the worst thing in the world you can do 121 00:07:15,135 --> 00:07:16,369 because you're taking the chance 122 00:07:16,403 --> 00:07:19,239 to shorten your life by 20 to 40 years. 123 00:07:21,975 --> 00:07:24,912 [panting] 124 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,281 - So in those days, you were seen as 125 00:07:28,315 --> 00:07:31,719 some kind of masochistic weirdo if you went road running. 126 00:07:31,752 --> 00:07:34,321 The situation was even worse for women. 127 00:07:34,354 --> 00:07:36,123 They were not even allowed to take part 128 00:07:36,156 --> 00:07:38,526 in distance races of over 800 meters. 129 00:07:38,559 --> 00:07:42,095 And things had been that way for a long time. 130 00:07:42,129 --> 00:07:45,032 [instrumental music] 131 00:07:47,367 --> 00:07:50,738 - That 1928 women's 800 meters was amazing 132 00:07:50,771 --> 00:07:52,039 from many points of view. 133 00:07:52,072 --> 00:07:55,809 One was that the women, in reality, ran so well. 134 00:07:55,843 --> 00:07:59,513 The other aspect of it is that it was misreported 135 00:07:59,547 --> 00:08:02,683 probably with a de -- degree of deliberate manipulation 136 00:08:02,716 --> 00:08:06,219 by the Olympic Association that they all collapsed. 137 00:08:06,253 --> 00:08:09,957 -And it told...at the time 138 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:12,726 uh, there were 11 women in the race. 139 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:14,427 5 didn't finish 140 00:08:14,461 --> 00:08:16,830 5 collapsed at the finish. 141 00:08:16,864 --> 00:08:19,132 - What actually happened was that 1 woman 142 00:08:19,166 --> 00:08:21,101 as she crossed the finish line 143 00:08:21,134 --> 00:08:23,136 leant forward and fell over. 144 00:08:23,170 --> 00:08:25,372 Just as runners very often do 145 00:08:25,405 --> 00:08:27,407 at the -- at the finish of races. 146 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,977 The film footage focuses on that 147 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:32,580 and makes it look as if there is devastation. 148 00:08:34,281 --> 00:08:35,716 That was taken as the truth. 149 00:08:35,749 --> 00:08:37,117 Doctors all around the world said 150 00:08:37,150 --> 00:08:38,518 "Women will harm themselves. 151 00:08:38,552 --> 00:08:39,620 "They shouldn't be doing this. 152 00:08:39,653 --> 00:08:41,054 "They -- they carry too much fat. 153 00:08:41,088 --> 00:08:42,923 They're -- they're too emotional." 154 00:08:42,956 --> 00:08:44,592 And the 800 meters 155 00:08:44,625 --> 00:08:46,393 was cut from the Olympic Games 156 00:08:46,426 --> 00:08:49,362 until 1960. 157 00:08:49,396 --> 00:08:51,732 So from 1928 to 1960, women had nothing 158 00:08:51,765 --> 00:08:55,035 in the Olympic Games longer for a while than the 100 meters. 159 00:08:55,068 --> 00:08:57,771 * When my baby goes out 160 00:08:57,805 --> 00:09:00,473 * I don't chase her about 161 00:09:00,507 --> 00:09:03,310 * My baby comes home to me.. * 162 00:09:03,343 --> 00:09:05,545 - It was a whole mindset 163 00:09:05,579 --> 00:09:07,347 of the '50s and '60s 164 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:09,116 that I grew up and they said 165 00:09:09,149 --> 00:09:11,418 "Women weren't capable of doing it. 166 00:09:11,451 --> 00:09:14,054 "They weren't capable of going to medical school. 167 00:09:14,087 --> 00:09:17,157 They couldn't have a credit card in their own name." 168 00:09:17,190 --> 00:09:19,092 - People whispered about 169 00:09:19,126 --> 00:09:21,962 you know, "If you, if you ran you're gonna get big legs. 170 00:09:21,995 --> 00:09:23,597 "And you're gonna grow hair on your chest. 171 00:09:23,631 --> 00:09:24,865 "You're gonna turn into a man. 172 00:09:24,898 --> 00:09:27,067 "You're gonna turn into... maybe something else. 173 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:29,302 You're never gonna get married, never have children." 174 00:09:29,336 --> 00:09:31,271 -I was a nurse. 175 00:09:31,304 --> 00:09:33,440 And -- and the tradition was 176 00:09:33,473 --> 00:09:37,010 uh, the saying was "If -- if you ran too much 177 00:09:37,044 --> 00:09:38,646 your uterus would fall out!" 178 00:09:40,213 --> 00:09:43,150 [speaking in foreign language] 179 00:09:52,092 --> 00:09:55,028 [speaking in foreign language] 180 00:09:57,965 --> 00:10:00,901 [speaking in foreign language] 181 00:10:07,675 --> 00:10:10,177 - I didn't understand that at all, um 182 00:10:10,210 --> 00:10:13,981 because I felt fabulous whenever I was running. 183 00:10:14,014 --> 00:10:16,416 So I refused to believe these myths. 184 00:10:16,449 --> 00:10:19,452 And I decided to play sports, be feminine 185 00:10:19,486 --> 00:10:21,154 and be anything I wanted to be. 186 00:10:25,693 --> 00:10:28,628 [instrumental music] 187 00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:33,433 - Back then, Kathrine Switzer had no idea 188 00:10:33,466 --> 00:10:36,336 running would play such a big part in her life. 189 00:10:36,369 --> 00:10:38,739 She was just a typical American teenager 190 00:10:38,772 --> 00:10:40,573 when her father first suggested to her 191 00:10:40,607 --> 00:10:42,843 that running would help her get into shape 192 00:10:42,876 --> 00:10:44,678 and boost her chances of getting on to 193 00:10:44,712 --> 00:10:46,847 the school's field hockey team. 194 00:10:50,417 --> 00:10:51,885 -He said, "All you have to do is 195 00:10:51,919 --> 00:10:54,554 "go and run a mile a day and you'd be 196 00:10:54,587 --> 00:10:56,323 the best player on that team." 197 00:10:56,356 --> 00:10:58,191 And I said, "What, a mile a day, dad? 198 00:10:58,225 --> 00:11:00,660 You know, it's like climbing up Kilimanjaro?" 199 00:11:02,963 --> 00:11:05,365 I began running this mile every single day 200 00:11:05,398 --> 00:11:08,201 and the most amazing thing happened. 201 00:11:08,235 --> 00:11:09,970 Every day I ran 202 00:11:10,003 --> 00:11:12,339 I felt so empowered. 203 00:11:12,372 --> 00:11:14,207 I felt like, I -- fearless. 204 00:11:14,241 --> 00:11:15,608 Like I could do anything. 205 00:11:15,642 --> 00:11:16,977 I could conquer the world. 206 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:19,947 [music continues] 207 00:11:22,916 --> 00:11:24,584 - When Switzer went to college 208 00:11:24,617 --> 00:11:26,954 a few years later in 1965 209 00:11:26,987 --> 00:11:29,522 she soon realized that there was no provision 210 00:11:29,556 --> 00:11:31,691 for women who wanted to run. 211 00:11:31,725 --> 00:11:34,194 Nonetheless, she hunted down the track coach 212 00:11:34,227 --> 00:11:36,864 and asked to join the men's team. 213 00:11:38,098 --> 00:11:40,433 - It was really funny to see his face 214 00:11:40,467 --> 00:11:42,069 because he kind of went like this 215 00:11:42,102 --> 00:11:45,272 and he said, "Uh, well, um 216 00:11:45,305 --> 00:11:46,974 "I've been the coach here for 30 years 217 00:11:47,007 --> 00:11:49,609 "and we've never had a girl before. 218 00:11:49,642 --> 00:11:51,144 "But I have to tell you it is 219 00:11:51,178 --> 00:11:52,813 "against NCAA rules 220 00:11:52,846 --> 00:11:55,015 to let you run on the men's team." 221 00:11:57,717 --> 00:11:59,987 - The NCAA was the federation that ruled 222 00:12:00,020 --> 00:12:03,857 over college athletics in the USA with an iron fist. 223 00:12:03,891 --> 00:12:05,658 But Switzer didn't care about that. 224 00:12:05,692 --> 00:12:08,862 Through sheer persistence, she managed to get accepted 225 00:12:08,896 --> 00:12:10,730 onto the college track team 226 00:12:10,764 --> 00:12:12,365 but they asked her to train alone 227 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:15,202 with an elderly coach, Arnie Briggs. 228 00:12:17,004 --> 00:12:19,206 - Arnie Briggs, he was a mailman. 229 00:12:19,239 --> 00:12:22,242 And he delivered the mail in Syracuse, New York 230 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:24,577 and then he worked out every afternoon. 231 00:12:24,611 --> 00:12:26,713 And he did this for one day in his life 232 00:12:26,746 --> 00:12:28,715 that was extremely special to him. 233 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:32,219 And that was a day in April that he ran the Boston Marathon. 234 00:12:32,252 --> 00:12:35,422 And he had run the Boston Marathon 15 times. 235 00:12:35,455 --> 00:12:37,958 And he would tell me a story. 236 00:12:37,991 --> 00:12:39,259 Everyday it would be another 237 00:12:39,292 --> 00:12:41,728 story about the Boston Marathon. 238 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:44,497 [instrumental music] 239 00:12:44,531 --> 00:12:46,900 - The 53rd annual Boston Marathon 240 00:12:46,934 --> 00:12:48,601 will take place tomorrow. 241 00:12:48,635 --> 00:12:52,105 Over 200 people will run the 26.2 miles 242 00:12:52,139 --> 00:12:54,074 of this unique marathon. 243 00:13:03,516 --> 00:13:07,120 - Kathrine Switzer had heard so much about the Boston Marathon 244 00:13:07,154 --> 00:13:10,290 that she ended up asking her coach if she could run it. 245 00:13:10,323 --> 00:13:12,159 Briggs flatly refused. 246 00:13:12,192 --> 00:13:14,494 - And I said, "Arnie, look 247 00:13:14,527 --> 00:13:17,064 "regardless of what you believe or you don't believe 248 00:13:17,097 --> 00:13:18,866 "I'm not running with you any more 249 00:13:18,899 --> 00:13:21,401 "until you believe that a woman 250 00:13:21,434 --> 00:13:23,904 some woman, can run the marathon distance." 251 00:13:23,937 --> 00:13:26,139 And he says, like this, he says 252 00:13:26,173 --> 00:13:28,608 "If any woman can do it, I believe you can do it. 253 00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:31,044 "But you would have to prove it to me. 254 00:13:31,078 --> 00:13:33,881 "In fact, if you showed me in practice 255 00:13:33,914 --> 00:13:36,283 I'd be the first person to take you to Boston." 256 00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:39,252 [instrumental music] 257 00:13:41,188 --> 00:13:44,291 - So Kathrine started training daily. 258 00:13:44,324 --> 00:13:46,559 Gradually increasing her training time 259 00:13:46,593 --> 00:13:48,628 and distance until she could run 260 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:50,630 the full 26.4 miles 261 00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:52,665 of a marathon without a break. 262 00:13:54,968 --> 00:13:57,037 One year earlier, another girl 263 00:13:57,070 --> 00:13:59,172 living thousands of kilometers away 264 00:13:59,206 --> 00:14:01,608 had exactly the same idea. 265 00:14:03,410 --> 00:14:06,313 - And I wrote for my application blank 266 00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:09,216 and I got a letter back from Will Cloney 267 00:14:09,249 --> 00:14:11,618 who was the race director and it said 268 00:14:11,651 --> 00:14:13,453 "Women are not physiologically 269 00:14:13,486 --> 00:14:15,989 "able to run 26 miles 270 00:14:16,023 --> 00:14:17,524 "and furthermore, under the rules 271 00:14:17,557 --> 00:14:20,227 "of the Amateur Athletic Union 272 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:22,329 "they're not allowed to run 273 00:14:22,362 --> 00:14:24,932 more than a mile and a half competitively." 274 00:14:26,733 --> 00:14:29,536 But I convinced my mother to drive me to the start. 275 00:14:29,569 --> 00:14:31,738 At first, she thought I was nuts 276 00:14:31,771 --> 00:14:34,041 so I said, "Mom, it's not just for me 277 00:14:34,074 --> 00:14:35,943 "it's for all women, don't you see? 278 00:14:35,976 --> 00:14:37,544 "You know, this is a little chink in the armor. 279 00:14:37,577 --> 00:14:41,214 This is an opportunity to change things." 280 00:14:42,615 --> 00:14:44,817 - Running without an official race number 281 00:14:44,851 --> 00:14:47,754 Bobbi Gibb chose to blend in discreetly 282 00:14:47,787 --> 00:14:49,122 with the pack 283 00:14:49,156 --> 00:14:52,092 and she kept a low profile. 284 00:14:52,125 --> 00:14:54,327 The following year in 1967 285 00:14:54,361 --> 00:14:57,931 the situation was very different for Kathrine Switzer. 286 00:14:57,965 --> 00:15:00,033 -You know, I signed my name KV Switzer. 287 00:15:00,067 --> 00:15:01,334 That's something I started doing 288 00:15:01,368 --> 00:15:02,535 when I was in high school 289 00:15:02,569 --> 00:15:04,404 and because my name was misspelled 290 00:15:04,437 --> 00:15:06,739 and on my birth certificate and when the entry went in 291 00:15:06,773 --> 00:15:09,109 with Arnie's and -- and other team members 292 00:15:09,142 --> 00:15:11,678 um, they thought it was from a guy. 293 00:15:14,281 --> 00:15:17,217 [instrumental music] 294 00:15:20,853 --> 00:15:24,557 When we got to Boston, it was snowing 295 00:15:24,591 --> 00:15:27,494 and sleeting all the way into Boston the night before. 296 00:15:27,527 --> 00:15:30,964 And the morning of the race it was really coming down. 297 00:15:30,998 --> 00:15:33,933 So, as we all moved to the start line together 298 00:15:33,967 --> 00:15:36,703 you know, there I was in a baggy grey sweat suit 299 00:15:36,736 --> 00:15:38,838 looking like hundreds of other people. 300 00:15:39,839 --> 00:15:42,342 [gunshot] 301 00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:44,077 - Wearing her official race bib 302 00:15:44,111 --> 00:15:46,479 Kathrine Switzer ran between Arnie 303 00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:49,582 her coach and her boyfriend Tom. 304 00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:53,586 - Then we got to about the 2 mile mark 305 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:57,424 in the race and a ve -- very strange thing happened. 306 00:15:57,457 --> 00:16:00,493 The press truck came by us. 307 00:16:00,527 --> 00:16:03,896 - There happened to be 3 runners running alongside. 308 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:06,299 1, 111. 309 00:16:06,333 --> 00:16:08,401 And the middle of the 3 runners 310 00:16:08,435 --> 00:16:11,738 the middle one took the hood off.. 311 00:16:11,771 --> 00:16:14,574 ...off her head, off the head 312 00:16:14,607 --> 00:16:18,111 and we.. And I said, it was a woman! 313 00:16:18,145 --> 00:16:21,681 - On this bus were the two race directors. 314 00:16:21,714 --> 00:16:23,516 A guy by the name of Will Cloney 315 00:16:23,550 --> 00:16:25,418 and a guy by the name of Jock Semple. 316 00:16:25,452 --> 00:16:26,453 -Now, one of the writers said 317 00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:29,656 "Jock, there's a woman in your race!" 318 00:16:29,689 --> 00:16:31,958 Jock looked.. "Stop the bus, stop the bus!" 319 00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:35,762 - I heard behind me shoes, leather shoes 320 00:16:35,795 --> 00:16:38,431 sounded, you know, scraping and they were going fast. 321 00:16:38,465 --> 00:16:40,633 And all of a sudden I turned, like you'd turn 322 00:16:40,667 --> 00:16:42,969 like, when you hear a dog chasing you. 323 00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:43,970 At the last minute 324 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,439 and Jock Semple grabbed me like this. 325 00:16:47,407 --> 00:16:50,343 [instrumental music] 326 00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:53,480 He grabbed me by the shirt 327 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:56,649 and threw me back and he screamed 328 00:16:56,683 --> 00:16:59,319 "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!" 329 00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:01,221 and went to try to pull off my bib number. 330 00:17:01,254 --> 00:17:03,356 And I pulled back like that. 331 00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:08,761 All of a sudden, Tom, he threw a shoulder block 332 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:11,498 into Jock Semple 333 00:17:11,531 --> 00:17:14,367 and I thought...that I saw 334 00:17:14,401 --> 00:17:15,335 Jock go through the air. 335 00:17:28,481 --> 00:17:29,816 For a split second I thought 336 00:17:29,849 --> 00:17:32,819 "Should I, should I step off the course?" 337 00:17:32,852 --> 00:17:35,422 And the journalists were asking these very aggressive questions 338 00:17:35,455 --> 00:17:37,224 like "What are you trying to prove?" 339 00:17:37,257 --> 00:17:39,692 You know, "Are -- are you a suffragette? 340 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:40,827 Are you a crusader?" 341 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:42,662 Oh, and, you know, I'm thinking 342 00:17:42,695 --> 00:17:44,063 "I -- I just wanna run here. 343 00:17:44,097 --> 00:17:46,366 What's -- what is this all about?" 344 00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:51,171 - Despite everything, Kathrine Switzer managed 345 00:17:51,204 --> 00:17:53,640 to complete the 26.4 miles 346 00:17:53,673 --> 00:17:55,074 and finish the race. 347 00:17:55,108 --> 00:17:57,944 But a few days later, she received a letter from 348 00:17:57,977 --> 00:18:00,046 the organizers of the Boston Marathon 349 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,649 telling her that she had been disqualified 350 00:18:02,682 --> 00:18:05,118 and banned for life from the AAU. 351 00:18:05,152 --> 00:18:07,320 The American Athletics Federation. 352 00:18:10,257 --> 00:18:11,724 - That was my first big brush 353 00:18:11,758 --> 00:18:13,660 with discrimination. 354 00:18:13,693 --> 00:18:15,795 And it opened my eyes a lot. 355 00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:18,631 And I thought, you know 356 00:18:18,665 --> 00:18:21,501 you've always been taught to be responsible 357 00:18:21,534 --> 00:18:23,336 to finish what you start. 358 00:18:23,370 --> 00:18:26,105 And it's gonna be my responsibility now 359 00:18:26,139 --> 00:18:29,209 to try to give other women this opportunity. 360 00:18:29,242 --> 00:18:32,279 To tell them how wonderful this running can be. 361 00:18:32,312 --> 00:18:33,746 And I didn't know how I was going to do it 362 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:35,582 but when I crossed the finish line 363 00:18:35,615 --> 00:18:37,884 I knew that that was a life plan. 364 00:18:39,786 --> 00:18:42,722 [instrumental music] 365 00:18:43,756 --> 00:18:46,092 [indistinct shouting] 366 00:18:48,328 --> 00:18:50,363 -You can be somebody's wife, you can be somebody's mother 367 00:18:50,397 --> 00:18:51,831 you can be somebody's lover. 368 00:18:51,864 --> 00:18:53,900 You can be somebody's anything but you can't be somebody! 369 00:18:53,933 --> 00:18:56,068 * Yesterday 370 00:18:57,337 --> 00:19:00,573 * Any way you made it was just fine * 371 00:19:00,607 --> 00:19:03,176 - Women, black people, Puerto Ricans 372 00:19:03,210 --> 00:19:05,412 Mexicans and all the minorities 373 00:19:05,445 --> 00:19:07,780 all of us must stand up together 374 00:19:07,814 --> 00:19:09,882 and say, "No more." 375 00:19:09,916 --> 00:19:13,085 * Didn't you know 376 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,887 * You can't make it 377 00:19:14,921 --> 00:19:20,893 * Without ever even trying 378 00:19:20,927 --> 00:19:25,832 * And something's on your mind isn't it? * 379 00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:31,371 * Let these times 380 00:19:31,404 --> 00:19:36,276 * Show you that you're breaking up the lines * 381 00:19:38,778 --> 00:19:42,915 * Leaving all your dreams too far.. ** 382 00:19:42,949 --> 00:19:46,353 -We're gonna talk now about the exquisite, exquisite agony 383 00:19:46,386 --> 00:19:47,987 of the marathon runner. 384 00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:50,223 Uh, Kathy Switzer is here. 385 00:19:50,257 --> 00:19:52,292 Kathy was just -- just to set the stage 386 00:19:52,325 --> 00:19:55,194 she was the first woman ever to run in the Boston marathon. 387 00:19:55,228 --> 00:19:57,264 She did it illegally at the start. 388 00:19:57,297 --> 00:19:59,499 - In the years following her participation 389 00:19:59,532 --> 00:20:01,568 in the Boston Marathon, Switzer became 390 00:20:01,601 --> 00:20:03,303 the toast of the US media. 391 00:20:03,336 --> 00:20:05,472 Her story went around the world 392 00:20:05,505 --> 00:20:07,607 eventually reaching Switzerland 393 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,010 and the ears of a certain Noel Tamini. 394 00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:13,980 [speaking in foreign language] 395 00:20:37,504 --> 00:20:40,273 - In Switzerland, as elsewhere, women were banned 396 00:20:40,307 --> 00:20:41,941 from taking part in road races 397 00:20:41,974 --> 00:20:43,710 by the athletics federation. 398 00:20:43,743 --> 00:20:46,546 But Tamini managed to persuade Kathrine Switzer 399 00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:49,882 to come and take part in the Morat-Fribourg race. 400 00:20:49,916 --> 00:20:52,519 A European version of the Boston Marathon. 401 00:20:52,552 --> 00:20:54,687 Only even more inflexible. 402 00:20:56,055 --> 00:20:58,991 [speaking in foreign language] 403 00:21:03,062 --> 00:21:05,998 [speaking in foreign language] 404 00:21:10,937 --> 00:21:13,873 [speaking in foreign language] 405 00:21:20,847 --> 00:21:22,114 [men shouting] 406 00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:26,252 [gunshot] 407 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,361 - I knew the situation in Switzerland 408 00:21:34,394 --> 00:21:36,363 for women wasn't terrific 409 00:21:36,396 --> 00:21:39,599 because I mean, I believe women couldn't even vote.. 410 00:21:41,033 --> 00:21:42,435 ...in Switzerland at the time. 411 00:21:42,469 --> 00:21:44,937 It was something that really appalled me. 412 00:21:45,972 --> 00:21:47,740 [instrumental music] 413 00:21:49,175 --> 00:21:52,178 - This time, Kathrine completed the race unhindered 414 00:21:52,211 --> 00:21:54,381 but wearing a fake race number. 415 00:21:54,414 --> 00:21:57,850 So once again running incognito. 416 00:21:57,884 --> 00:21:59,452 From Switzerland, she dashed off 417 00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:02,389 a postcard to a girl friend. 418 00:22:02,422 --> 00:22:04,357 "Dear Suzy, here in Europe 419 00:22:04,391 --> 00:22:06,393 "everything's going wonderfully. 420 00:22:06,426 --> 00:22:09,161 "Though, I'm sorry to say that here too 421 00:22:09,195 --> 00:22:11,598 I'm the only woman runner." 422 00:22:12,832 --> 00:22:15,768 [music continues] 423 00:22:19,572 --> 00:22:22,509 [speaking in foreign language] 424 00:22:44,531 --> 00:22:47,467 [speaking in foreign language] 425 00:23:16,195 --> 00:23:19,131 [speaking in foreign language] 426 00:23:24,837 --> 00:23:27,774 [crowd cheering] 427 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:42,188 [speaking in foreign language] 428 00:23:51,831 --> 00:23:54,567 - "Spiridon" is the name Noel Tamini chose 429 00:23:54,601 --> 00:23:56,335 for the international running magazine 430 00:23:56,368 --> 00:23:59,371 he started in Switzerland around the same time. 431 00:23:59,405 --> 00:24:01,474 The magazine was produced on a shoestring 432 00:24:01,508 --> 00:24:03,710 and from the very beginning campaigned 433 00:24:03,743 --> 00:24:05,377 for the rights of all runners 434 00:24:05,411 --> 00:24:08,247 and foremost the rights of women runners. 435 00:24:10,683 --> 00:24:13,620 [speaking in foreign language] 436 00:24:36,843 --> 00:24:39,779 [speaking in foreign language] 437 00:24:42,549 --> 00:24:45,217 As well as campaigning, "Spiridon" conveyed 438 00:24:45,251 --> 00:24:47,954 a whole new philosophy of running. 439 00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:49,756 An ascetic, mystical 440 00:24:49,789 --> 00:24:53,125 "Back to nature" ethos of sports. 441 00:24:53,159 --> 00:24:56,095 [music continues] 442 00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:25,792 [speaking in foreign language] 443 00:25:33,666 --> 00:25:36,603 [speaking in foreign language] 444 00:25:56,022 --> 00:25:58,157 - Noel had a, had a particular 445 00:25:58,190 --> 00:25:59,959 in a way genius. 446 00:25:59,992 --> 00:26:02,194 His pictures were terrific, you know 447 00:26:02,228 --> 00:26:04,030 I, uh, I -- I haven't seen 448 00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:06,766 those kinds of pictures since then, you know. 449 00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:12,504 [speaking in foreign language] 450 00:26:35,828 --> 00:26:38,765 [speaking in foreign language] 451 00:27:04,056 --> 00:27:06,993 [helicopter whirring] 452 00:27:09,061 --> 00:27:10,863 - Meanwhile, in New York 453 00:27:10,897 --> 00:27:14,834 the lives of the Bronx marathon freaks changed when one day 454 00:27:14,867 --> 00:27:15,935 a funny little guy 455 00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:18,705 no one had even seen before showed up. 456 00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:21,908 He went by the name of Fred Lebow. 457 00:27:21,941 --> 00:27:24,844 And he wasn't much of a runner. 458 00:27:24,877 --> 00:27:27,814 [instrumental music] 459 00:27:32,418 --> 00:27:35,621 - He was totally, uh, new to us. 460 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:38,324 He wasn't the fastest guy. 461 00:27:38,357 --> 00:27:40,827 He -- he had a sort of a shuffle. 462 00:27:42,261 --> 00:27:43,696 - Everybody who ran was serious. 463 00:27:43,730 --> 00:27:45,832 Nobody jogged and, uh 464 00:27:45,865 --> 00:27:47,399 people were suspicious of him at first. 465 00:27:47,433 --> 00:27:49,235 They'd say, "Who is he? Who's this person? 466 00:27:49,268 --> 00:27:50,469 "We -- we don't even know who he is. 467 00:27:50,502 --> 00:27:51,871 "He's not one of the 468 00:27:51,904 --> 00:27:53,439 the die-hard runners, you know." 469 00:27:53,472 --> 00:27:56,475 -I -- I don't know, he was a strange sort of guy. 470 00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:59,011 Uh, I -- I think he liked my wife. 471 00:27:59,045 --> 00:28:01,047 Uh, I know he liked my wife! 472 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,382 He'd run after every girl in town! 473 00:28:06,052 --> 00:28:08,454 - Fred came from a different background. 474 00:28:08,487 --> 00:28:10,456 He came from 475 00:28:10,489 --> 00:28:11,523 the fashion industry 476 00:28:11,557 --> 00:28:12,558 in New York City. 477 00:28:12,591 --> 00:28:14,226 Which is very fancy 478 00:28:14,260 --> 00:28:16,495 and slick and, uh, business like. 479 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:19,832 And he had come to New York from, uh, Romania 480 00:28:19,866 --> 00:28:21,801 and then he spent time in Dublin, Ireland 481 00:28:21,834 --> 00:28:23,169 and then he came here. 482 00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:25,337 Uh, and he was very successful. 483 00:28:26,572 --> 00:28:29,776 -Fred at heart was a promoter. 484 00:28:31,277 --> 00:28:34,713 - He said, "Listen, the sport is not going to be popular. 485 00:28:34,747 --> 00:28:36,515 If we stay here in the Bronx." 486 00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:39,351 -I don't know why, but he wanted to make it grow. 487 00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:42,521 - "I'm going to s -- suggest that we go down to Manhattan 488 00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:43,923 and we have it in Central Park." 489 00:28:43,956 --> 00:28:45,724 Well, people said, "Oh, that's ridiculous! 490 00:28:45,758 --> 00:28:47,459 "You know, Central Park! 491 00:28:47,493 --> 00:28:49,328 "You know, wait, how can you run in Central Park? 492 00:28:49,361 --> 00:28:50,696 Nobody ever ran in Central Park." 493 00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:53,933 -We were happy running just, uh 494 00:28:53,966 --> 00:28:55,667 every Sunday, meeting with people 495 00:28:55,701 --> 00:28:58,370 and running races and, uh 496 00:28:58,404 --> 00:28:59,839 making it bigger, huh! 497 00:28:59,872 --> 00:29:02,674 That didn't, uh, that wasn't my concern. 498 00:29:02,708 --> 00:29:04,643 [instrumental music] 499 00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,915 - Lebow nagged them until he succeeded in getting 500 00:29:08,948 --> 00:29:12,051 the marathon moved from the Bronx to Central Park 501 00:29:12,084 --> 00:29:13,719 in the heart of Manhattan. 502 00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:17,790 A massive change, but perhaps less so than it seemed. 503 00:29:17,824 --> 00:29:20,492 - It was basically a nothing race. 504 00:29:20,526 --> 00:29:24,430 Not many runners, not very well organized 505 00:29:24,463 --> 00:29:29,101 in, in terms of water and other things. 506 00:29:29,135 --> 00:29:31,103 Uh.. 507 00:29:31,137 --> 00:29:33,405 ...old fashioned running. 508 00:29:33,439 --> 00:29:36,008 - I mean, it was just on the schedule and 509 00:29:36,042 --> 00:29:39,846 I had worked the night before and we had 3 children 510 00:29:39,879 --> 00:29:43,749 and, um, I think my wife just wanted to get out of the house. 511 00:29:45,517 --> 00:29:49,288 But, uh, yeah, it was a very lucky, lucky day for me. 512 00:29:49,321 --> 00:29:51,290 You know, no matter what happens 513 00:29:51,323 --> 00:29:53,860 I won the 1st New York City Marathon. 514 00:29:57,964 --> 00:30:00,466 - For several years, the New York Marathon was held 515 00:30:00,499 --> 00:30:04,370 in Central Park, in these very amateurish conditions. 516 00:30:04,403 --> 00:30:06,805 Then came 1972. 517 00:30:12,611 --> 00:30:15,214 - Frank Shorter appears to be running to victory 518 00:30:15,247 --> 00:30:18,885 winning an unexpected gold medal for the USA. 519 00:30:20,352 --> 00:30:22,021 It's incredible. 520 00:30:22,054 --> 00:30:24,723 He seems to be just jogging in the streets. 521 00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:34,600 -That was, uh, definitely a, a game changer 522 00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:36,535 for, for marathon running in this country 523 00:30:36,568 --> 00:30:39,105 or long distance running in general. 524 00:30:39,138 --> 00:30:43,575 - I think Shorter really appealed to the American public 525 00:30:43,609 --> 00:30:46,745 because he made it look so beautiful. 526 00:30:46,778 --> 00:30:49,982 I won't say easy, but, uh, but he made it look 527 00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:53,185 he made it look like poetry and this was a sport 528 00:30:53,219 --> 00:30:57,489 that, until then, its image had been suffering 529 00:30:57,523 --> 00:31:00,960 grimacing, exhaustion, collapse 530 00:31:00,993 --> 00:31:02,361 something that was dangerous. 531 00:31:10,669 --> 00:31:15,207 That really ignited both the running movement as a whole 532 00:31:15,241 --> 00:31:18,144 but most specifically, the marathon. 533 00:31:18,177 --> 00:31:21,613 Suddenly Americans wanted to run the marathon. 534 00:31:25,284 --> 00:31:27,886 - For the bicentennial of the United States of America 535 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,656 the annual marathon race organized by the New York 536 00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:33,926 Road Runners Club with its usual setting in Central Park 537 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,963 and take to the streets of the city's 5 boroughs. 538 00:31:36,996 --> 00:31:40,666 -We all loved Boston so much because it was in the streets. 539 00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:43,202 And Fred said "We could do that in New York" 540 00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:45,271 and everybody thought it would be impossible. 541 00:31:45,304 --> 00:31:47,673 -"Say what? Say when, how?" 542 00:31:47,706 --> 00:31:50,409 Well, and -- and I think there was a tremendous amount 543 00:31:50,442 --> 00:31:53,980 of kind of skepticism that you could actually run a race 544 00:31:54,013 --> 00:31:57,683 through 5 boroughs and have runners go from start to finish 545 00:31:57,716 --> 00:32:00,186 without some kind of catastrophic event happening. 546 00:32:00,219 --> 00:32:01,954 [intense music] 547 00:32:03,455 --> 00:32:07,326 - At that time the city was in decline because financially 548 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:10,496 in crime, and it wasn't, wasn't a good time for the city. 549 00:32:16,202 --> 00:32:18,870 - New York City, for months, it teeters 550 00:32:18,904 --> 00:32:21,473 on the brink of bankruptcy. 551 00:32:21,507 --> 00:32:24,977 -We are facing up to the financial crisis 552 00:32:25,011 --> 00:32:28,214 confronting this city and the state. 553 00:32:28,247 --> 00:32:31,217 -That was the payroll, we don't get the -- the check for the day 554 00:32:31,250 --> 00:32:33,785 we don't get nothing. 555 00:32:33,819 --> 00:32:36,222 Don't ask me about the people with -- with children and 556 00:32:36,255 --> 00:32:38,390 the thing is.. I -- I don't even know what.. 557 00:32:38,424 --> 00:32:40,659 - People had, were in despair, you know. 558 00:32:40,692 --> 00:32:42,494 Their -- their moral was low 559 00:32:42,528 --> 00:32:44,630 and, uh, he said, "Oh, listen! 560 00:32:44,663 --> 00:32:47,099 "We'll run through the streets. We'll lift the whole world up. 561 00:32:47,133 --> 00:32:49,635 We'll lift up New York City." 562 00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:52,504 But Fred Lebow knew that merely running through the streets 563 00:32:52,538 --> 00:32:56,208 of New York wouldn't be enough to put his marathon on the map. 564 00:32:56,242 --> 00:32:58,810 Despite the limited means at his disposals 565 00:32:58,844 --> 00:33:02,448 he somehow managed to get the 2 stars of US running 566 00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:04,816 the Olympic gold medalist, Frank Shorter 567 00:33:04,850 --> 00:33:07,153 and the US record holder Bill Rodgers 568 00:33:07,186 --> 00:33:10,189 to take part and provide the necessary glitter. 569 00:33:11,457 --> 00:33:14,760 -He knew that.. 570 00:33:14,793 --> 00:33:16,695 ...he needed to get Frank Shorter. 571 00:33:16,728 --> 00:33:20,332 Frank Shorter was the 1 runner that everybody knew 572 00:33:20,366 --> 00:33:22,334 he was beyond the sport. 573 00:33:22,368 --> 00:33:25,737 -I've always maintained one of the reasons I told Fred Lebow 574 00:33:25,771 --> 00:33:27,773 that I would come run in the race was 575 00:33:27,806 --> 00:33:29,308 I had to see for myself that they could 576 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:30,909 close down streets in 5 boroughs 577 00:33:30,942 --> 00:33:33,612 in New York City...uh, on a Sunday. 578 00:33:34,746 --> 00:33:37,683 [instrumental music] 579 00:33:44,756 --> 00:33:47,693 [crowd cheering] 580 00:33:49,828 --> 00:33:52,831 - It was like a dream unfolding to see 581 00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:55,967 runners come off the bridge and go through Brooklyn. 582 00:34:02,274 --> 00:34:06,245 - The Hasidic Jew population came out of the synagogues 583 00:34:06,278 --> 00:34:09,781 standing on the sidewalk, and they were just.. 584 00:34:09,815 --> 00:34:11,617 Y -- you know.. 585 00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:13,985 And that's when I realized it was going to work. 586 00:34:14,019 --> 00:34:15,187 I did. 587 00:34:16,021 --> 00:34:18,957 [music continues] 588 00:34:27,233 --> 00:34:29,268 - Everybody saw this. 589 00:34:29,301 --> 00:34:31,470 When it was just a marathon 590 00:34:31,503 --> 00:34:36,175 in Central Park not too many people watched and they could 591 00:34:36,208 --> 00:34:39,445 just say to themselves "Crazy runners taking up the park!" 592 00:34:39,478 --> 00:34:42,648 Now it was out on the streets and you see it. 593 00:34:42,681 --> 00:34:45,517 It's just so inspiring to see a marathon 594 00:34:45,551 --> 00:34:49,721 to see that first runner coming in, looking so small 595 00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:51,990 and then he passes you and you realize 596 00:34:52,023 --> 00:34:53,792 how fast he's running. 597 00:34:53,825 --> 00:34:56,895 It's a tremendous statement about human spirit. 598 00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,666 And it makes you want to do it too. Lebow knew this. 599 00:35:03,135 --> 00:35:05,871 -385 yards. No one was mugged. 600 00:35:05,904 --> 00:35:07,606 No one was hit by a taxi. 601 00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:09,775 And city of New York and Bill Rodgers 602 00:35:09,808 --> 00:35:12,511 the marathon was a resounding success. 603 00:35:12,544 --> 00:35:15,314 Dick Schaap, NBC NEWS, in Central Park. 604 00:35:16,915 --> 00:35:19,318 - And it lifted the city, it united the city 605 00:35:19,351 --> 00:35:21,920 you know, because each borough, you know 606 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:23,189 and it gave people hope. 607 00:35:23,222 --> 00:35:25,191 And, uh, before you know it.. 608 00:35:25,224 --> 00:35:28,927 ...everything started to get better, you know and financially 609 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,897 it wasn't the only reason, but it was part of it. 610 00:35:31,930 --> 00:35:35,634 - I did have that perspective of seeing this detached 611 00:35:35,667 --> 00:35:37,203 in a way that I'm.. 612 00:35:37,236 --> 00:35:41,139 ...I'm watching... a -- a miracle happen. 613 00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:44,109 [music continues] 614 00:36:14,540 --> 00:36:16,174 -Oh, yeah. 615 00:36:27,553 --> 00:36:31,223 The Central Park, uh, in many ways is a legend 616 00:36:31,257 --> 00:36:33,592 you know, to the, to the sport. 617 00:36:37,296 --> 00:36:39,731 This park here around the reservoir 618 00:36:39,765 --> 00:36:42,701 was not used for running before that, hardly at all. 619 00:36:42,734 --> 00:36:46,505 In the 1970s there was crime, it was, it was dangerous 620 00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:48,574 you wouldn't walk in the park, you wouldn't walk in here. 621 00:36:48,607 --> 00:36:50,509 - I'm not a track coach but I just figured out 622 00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:53,111 how she can break, Kathrine can break 3 hours. 623 00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:54,413 -How? 624 00:36:54,446 --> 00:36:56,582 -You run alone in Central Park at night! 625 00:36:56,615 --> 00:36:59,184 [laughing] 626 00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:01,887 -And then as the runners came, the, the crime 627 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,055 and all, all the other problems disappeared. 628 00:37:04,089 --> 00:37:06,292 And then the politicians and people said 629 00:37:06,325 --> 00:37:08,527 "Well, let's, let's re -- rejuvenate the park. 630 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,129 Let's put some money into it. Let -- let's make it better." 631 00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:13,899 [instrumental music] 632 00:37:13,932 --> 00:37:17,369 - On most days when you ran, it was so crowded. 633 00:37:17,403 --> 00:37:19,838 Sometimes you could hardly move. 634 00:37:19,871 --> 00:37:22,308 And on the reservoir or on the street 635 00:37:22,341 --> 00:37:24,510 you would routinely pass 636 00:37:24,543 --> 00:37:27,646 Jackie Onassis, Robert Redford 637 00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:31,583 Dustin Hoffman, uh, famous people running 638 00:37:31,617 --> 00:37:34,386 in the same grubby shorts and T-shirt. 639 00:37:34,420 --> 00:37:37,323 - Why are 10-15, 20 million Americans out 640 00:37:37,356 --> 00:37:38,657 jogging and running these days? 641 00:37:38,690 --> 00:37:41,627 -Well, I think they're getting smart finally. 642 00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:43,662 -Well, it used to be, people used to run 643 00:37:43,695 --> 00:37:46,365 only for competition, or because they had to, in gym classes 644 00:37:46,398 --> 00:37:48,700 or whatever, and now people are understanding that 645 00:37:48,734 --> 00:37:51,703 not only is running for fitness, running can be fun. 646 00:37:51,737 --> 00:37:55,807 -Um...I just want to get the body back into shape. 647 00:37:55,841 --> 00:37:58,009 - How does it feel? -It just feels terrific. 648 00:37:58,043 --> 00:38:00,846 It doesn't feel so good when I am going around.. 649 00:38:00,879 --> 00:38:02,681 ...but it feels great when I'm finished. 650 00:38:02,714 --> 00:38:05,384 -Take a person like me.. 651 00:38:05,417 --> 00:38:08,153 When I was 35 years old 652 00:38:08,186 --> 00:38:11,957 I weighed 15 or 16 stones. 653 00:38:11,990 --> 00:38:15,226 I smoked 40 or 50 cigarettes a day. 654 00:38:15,260 --> 00:38:17,663 I drank too much. 655 00:38:17,696 --> 00:38:22,033 I started running and it was as if I were operating 656 00:38:22,067 --> 00:38:26,104 a time machine in reverse, suddenly I felt better 657 00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:29,675 than I had felt probably in 20 years 658 00:38:29,708 --> 00:38:33,545 and now, at the age of 46 I'm sure I feel as good as 659 00:38:33,579 --> 00:38:36,014 I felt when I was 15 or 16 years old. 660 00:38:36,047 --> 00:38:38,984 [speaking in foreign language] 661 00:38:42,554 --> 00:38:45,491 [instrumental music] 662 00:39:10,582 --> 00:39:13,351 [music continues] 663 00:39:14,586 --> 00:39:18,189 - Some are grandparents, some are grandchildren. 664 00:39:18,223 --> 00:39:20,459 Some are fast, some are not so fast. 665 00:39:20,492 --> 00:39:23,194 Nevertheless they all share 1 goal 666 00:39:23,228 --> 00:39:26,097 to get to the finish line in Central Park 667 00:39:26,131 --> 00:39:29,000 and to make that journey as painless 668 00:39:29,034 --> 00:39:31,670 and enjoyable as possible. 669 00:39:38,444 --> 00:39:40,646 - Fred was among the 1st, I have to say 670 00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:44,049 if not the 1st, who began to see 671 00:39:44,082 --> 00:39:46,952 uh, the benefit of doing this 672 00:39:46,985 --> 00:39:50,288 uh, over and above accomplishment. 673 00:39:51,690 --> 00:39:54,460 What he did, is he set the stage for that and he created 674 00:39:54,493 --> 00:39:58,530 an atmosphere that was very welcoming to people 675 00:39:58,564 --> 00:40:00,331 who just wanted to participate. 676 00:40:00,365 --> 00:40:04,102 Where the great benefit of sports is to be with others. 677 00:40:04,135 --> 00:40:06,838 And that's the beauty of the marathon, you start together 678 00:40:06,872 --> 00:40:08,707 you start with the best, you know 679 00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:12,410 you race with them and you finish. 680 00:40:12,444 --> 00:40:15,280 - He had a wonderful analogy for what was appealing 681 00:40:15,313 --> 00:40:16,782 about the marathon. 682 00:40:16,815 --> 00:40:19,951 And that was, "We all wanna be on the stage. 683 00:40:19,985 --> 00:40:23,989 "Not everyone can be a champion, an Olympic athlete 684 00:40:24,022 --> 00:40:28,359 "a performer on a Broadway stage, but for that 1 day 685 00:40:28,393 --> 00:40:31,797 "you're on your own stage, 26.2 miles. 686 00:40:31,830 --> 00:40:35,166 And you're doing it, by the power of your own 2 feet." 687 00:40:36,334 --> 00:40:39,270 [instrumental music] 688 00:40:45,877 --> 00:40:48,313 - Inspired by the New York City Marathon 689 00:40:48,346 --> 00:40:50,982 people everywhere took up running. 690 00:40:51,016 --> 00:40:54,319 In Europe, the magazine "Spiridon" grew into a massive 691 00:40:54,352 --> 00:40:57,122 grassroots movement that swept the continent. 692 00:40:57,155 --> 00:41:00,859 Noel Tamini and his friends had grasped that the desire 693 00:41:00,892 --> 00:41:03,128 to run free was catching. 694 00:41:03,161 --> 00:41:06,064 Their example and their impassioned style spawned 695 00:41:06,097 --> 00:41:09,501 new races here, there and everywhere. 696 00:41:09,535 --> 00:41:12,838 The orange "Spiridon" running shirts started appearing 697 00:41:12,871 --> 00:41:17,008 all over with the famous slogan "Run With Us." 698 00:41:19,077 --> 00:41:22,013 [speaking in foreign language] 699 00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:50,676 - Because despite appearances, people were still 700 00:41:50,709 --> 00:41:53,511 by no means totally free to run. 701 00:41:53,545 --> 00:41:56,314 And the athletics federations continued to impose 702 00:41:56,347 --> 00:42:00,552 their outdated rules on road races and runners. 703 00:42:00,586 --> 00:42:02,688 But not for much longer. 704 00:42:02,721 --> 00:42:04,823 Revolt was in the air. 705 00:42:04,856 --> 00:42:08,894 In Europe, it was epitomized by the Marvejols-Mende road race 706 00:42:08,927 --> 00:42:11,529 a half-marathon that had originated in the heart 707 00:42:11,563 --> 00:42:14,566 of the French countryside, a wildcat event 708 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,234 maintained despite being banned 709 00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:18,604 by the National Athletics Federation. 710 00:42:19,504 --> 00:42:22,507 [instrumental music] 711 00:42:23,341 --> 00:42:26,277 [speaking in foreign language] 712 00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:11,289 - As long as only a handful of eccentrics wanted to run 713 00:43:11,322 --> 00:43:14,726 road races, the federations and the athletics establishment 714 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,495 had more or less turned a blind eye to them. 715 00:43:17,528 --> 00:43:21,733 But with the movement growing, much more was at stake. 716 00:43:21,767 --> 00:43:24,703 [speaking in foreign language] 717 00:43:46,057 --> 00:43:48,994 [speaking in foreign language] 718 00:44:21,292 --> 00:44:23,795 - Road runners were not the only ones butting heads 719 00:44:23,829 --> 00:44:26,732 with the governing bodies. 720 00:44:26,765 --> 00:44:29,667 Track runners also had to remain amateurs 721 00:44:29,701 --> 00:44:33,171 if they wanted to take part in the Olympic games. 722 00:44:33,204 --> 00:44:36,607 In the USA, where they were not allowed to earn a single cent 723 00:44:36,641 --> 00:44:40,178 from their sport, on pain of being disqualified for life 724 00:44:40,211 --> 00:44:43,782 the situation was dire for leading athletes. 725 00:44:43,815 --> 00:44:46,251 But they gritted their teeth and submitted to 726 00:44:46,284 --> 00:44:49,187 the federations' bullying. 727 00:44:49,220 --> 00:44:52,557 All that changed when Steve Prefontaine 728 00:44:52,590 --> 00:44:53,892 burst on to the scene. 729 00:44:55,626 --> 00:44:57,896 -Well, I think there's gonna have to be a reworking 730 00:44:57,929 --> 00:45:00,766 of the whole amateur athlete as a whole. 731 00:45:00,799 --> 00:45:03,769 Um, there's a lot of things that I think that should be changed. 732 00:45:03,802 --> 00:45:05,703 I don't think that we have time to go in -- in them all 733 00:45:05,737 --> 00:45:08,106 because I could talk probably for a couple of hours on 'em. 734 00:45:08,139 --> 00:45:09,841 - Pre, uh, was the 735 00:45:09,875 --> 00:45:13,411 was the champion of runners' rights. 736 00:45:13,444 --> 00:45:15,480 He wanted equality for runners. 737 00:45:15,513 --> 00:45:17,248 Every other athlete in the world got paid 738 00:45:17,282 --> 00:45:19,785 for doing their sport, runners did not. 739 00:45:19,818 --> 00:45:22,253 And he thought that that was this huge injustice. 740 00:45:22,287 --> 00:45:23,654 [instrumental music] 741 00:45:23,688 --> 00:45:27,125 - But Prefontaine was not just a powerful spokesperson 742 00:45:27,158 --> 00:45:28,726 he was first and foremost 743 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,429 an exceptionally talented runner. 744 00:45:31,462 --> 00:45:35,566 At just 21, he already had a 2 year unbeaten run 745 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,602 and held all the US track records 746 00:45:37,635 --> 00:45:40,305 from 2000 to 10,000 meters. 747 00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:45,176 [instrumental music] 748 00:45:55,053 --> 00:45:56,855 - Steve Prefontaine was maybe 749 00:45:56,888 --> 00:45:59,624 the most exciting athlete I've ever seen. 750 00:45:59,657 --> 00:46:02,460 He had a ferocity that was just in his personality 751 00:46:02,493 --> 00:46:05,363 and in his eyes, and in his, in his actions 752 00:46:05,396 --> 00:46:09,835 and in his attitude that I've never seen anywhere. 753 00:46:12,203 --> 00:46:16,307 -Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Tiger Woods 754 00:46:16,341 --> 00:46:19,177 there is something that whatever they have, Pre had it. 755 00:46:20,311 --> 00:46:23,114 - A performer, he was a performer. 756 00:46:23,148 --> 00:46:24,615 There was no question.. no doubt. 757 00:46:24,649 --> 00:46:26,084 People were louder for him. 758 00:46:26,117 --> 00:46:30,822 More people connected with him than with anyone who would come 759 00:46:30,856 --> 00:46:35,994 before then and as it turns out, anyone who's come since. 760 00:46:36,027 --> 00:46:38,463 - The combination of his track success 761 00:46:38,496 --> 00:46:41,732 his charisma and his outspokenness made Prefontaine 762 00:46:41,766 --> 00:46:43,434 the people's champion. 763 00:46:43,468 --> 00:46:45,070 Crowds went wild for him 764 00:46:45,103 --> 00:46:46,671 especially on his home track 765 00:46:46,704 --> 00:46:50,541 in Eugene, Oregon, where his appearances sparked hysteria. 766 00:46:51,209 --> 00:46:52,143 [gunshot] 767 00:46:54,512 --> 00:46:57,482 - Prefontaine in a surprise move there. 768 00:46:57,515 --> 00:46:59,851 He said he didn't enter this race to be second! 769 00:46:59,885 --> 00:47:02,820 [audience chanting] 770 00:47:11,729 --> 00:47:14,665 [instrumental music] 771 00:47:22,941 --> 00:47:26,244 - Season after season, ever bigger crowds flocked 772 00:47:26,277 --> 00:47:30,949 to see Prefontaine win, generating colossal revenues.. 773 00:47:30,982 --> 00:47:33,451 ...but not for Pre himself. 774 00:47:33,484 --> 00:47:36,287 To remain an amateur, he had to scrape by and live 775 00:47:36,321 --> 00:47:40,525 in a trailer while others cashed in on his performances. 776 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,829 -I'd like to possibly go to the '76 Games 777 00:47:44,862 --> 00:47:48,233 if financially possible, um 778 00:47:48,266 --> 00:47:52,137 but right now, I'm just kinda floating along and.. 779 00:47:52,170 --> 00:47:54,639 - The workers were getting peanuts 780 00:47:54,672 --> 00:47:57,775 and the director was, uh 781 00:47:57,808 --> 00:48:00,411 making, uh, reasonable money 782 00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:04,049 for himself and for the federation.. 783 00:48:04,082 --> 00:48:06,217 ...and it didn't feel good. 784 00:48:06,251 --> 00:48:09,720 It didn't feel good at all, it felt like slavery. 785 00:48:09,754 --> 00:48:11,889 -Running doesn't pay your bills. 786 00:48:11,923 --> 00:48:14,659 Uh, you've, you have gotta make a -- a lot of sacrifices 787 00:48:14,692 --> 00:48:16,962 uh, to be an amateur sport in this country 788 00:48:16,995 --> 00:48:19,197 considering it's so professionally oriented. 789 00:48:19,230 --> 00:48:21,866 -He was a consummate, uh, spokesperson 790 00:48:21,899 --> 00:48:24,735 for the sport of running, not just Prefontaine 791 00:48:24,769 --> 00:48:28,873 and who am I, but he was, he reached out and the AAU battle 792 00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:31,142 started right away, because here's a guy who was not 793 00:48:31,176 --> 00:48:34,245 gonna follow the old archaic 794 00:48:34,279 --> 00:48:36,948 out-of-touch rules of the old governing body. 795 00:48:40,518 --> 00:48:43,021 - In his campaign for a better deal for runners 796 00:48:43,054 --> 00:48:46,724 Prefontaine soon found support in the shape of a small running 797 00:48:46,757 --> 00:48:48,859 shoe company that had just started up 798 00:48:48,893 --> 00:48:50,962 in his home state of Oregon. 799 00:48:50,996 --> 00:48:53,531 As soon as he was out of college, they recruited him 800 00:48:53,564 --> 00:48:55,967 to help with their PR operations. 801 00:48:56,001 --> 00:48:59,304 - The image of Prefontaine as a rebel, as running free 802 00:48:59,337 --> 00:49:02,440 with his long shaggy hair and his big moustache 803 00:49:02,473 --> 00:49:04,175 and kind of fighting the establishment. 804 00:49:04,209 --> 00:49:07,112 I mean, that was, that was there, that was.. 805 00:49:07,145 --> 00:49:08,146 ...true, I think to an extent. 806 00:49:08,179 --> 00:49:09,914 And then Nike.. 807 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:12,683 ...as a small company, uh, embraced this. 808 00:49:17,422 --> 00:49:20,591 - The company was small, there may have been 809 00:49:20,625 --> 00:49:22,760 less than 15 people. 810 00:49:22,793 --> 00:49:25,396 I don't know, I don't remember, very small. 811 00:49:25,430 --> 00:49:28,366 -The first logo that we came out with was a script logo 812 00:49:28,399 --> 00:49:31,302 and you know, a script, lower case script logo 813 00:49:31,336 --> 00:49:33,504 and the, and the beginning of the N had a 814 00:49:33,538 --> 00:49:35,573 had a little lead into it 815 00:49:35,606 --> 00:49:37,375 which looked like another leg and it looked like 816 00:49:37,408 --> 00:49:39,210 an M as much as it did an N 817 00:49:39,244 --> 00:49:41,012 and so a lot of people misread it 818 00:49:41,046 --> 00:49:43,448 and asked that very question, "Who is Mike?" 819 00:49:45,683 --> 00:49:47,818 -It was youthful. 820 00:49:47,852 --> 00:49:50,921 It was, uh, kind of carefree 821 00:49:50,955 --> 00:49:52,890 because you didn't worry about too much. 822 00:49:53,958 --> 00:49:56,561 Everybody was involved with running 823 00:49:56,594 --> 00:49:58,863 in 1 way or another. 824 00:49:58,896 --> 00:50:02,267 We were trying to do anything we could to help the sport get 825 00:50:02,300 --> 00:50:05,336 better and I mean, put on a road race, um 826 00:50:05,370 --> 00:50:07,272 battle the governing bodies 827 00:50:07,305 --> 00:50:10,175 support Pre, whatever it was 828 00:50:10,208 --> 00:50:12,710 the collectiveness of that added value 829 00:50:12,743 --> 00:50:15,546 big time to the running boom. 830 00:50:15,580 --> 00:50:18,349 - So Prefontaine was able to count on Nike's help when 831 00:50:18,383 --> 00:50:22,587 in 1975, he decided to take matters into his own hands 832 00:50:22,620 --> 00:50:25,923 and organized the very first competitive athletics circuit 833 00:50:25,956 --> 00:50:29,794 set up by athletes for athletes. 834 00:50:29,827 --> 00:50:32,230 Overt challenge to the Amateur Athletic Union 835 00:50:32,263 --> 00:50:33,964 which had always forbidden athletes 836 00:50:33,998 --> 00:50:37,202 from competing in unofficial events. 837 00:50:37,235 --> 00:50:39,337 And to make sure it was a success 838 00:50:39,370 --> 00:50:42,140 Pre also invited Finland's leading runners 839 00:50:42,173 --> 00:50:43,908 to come to the USA. 840 00:50:43,941 --> 00:50:46,277 -The athletes have enough hassles without being 841 00:50:46,311 --> 00:50:48,913 uh, uh, told what to do, when and where and 842 00:50:48,946 --> 00:50:51,816 and throwing in new rules now and then to, to, uh 843 00:50:51,849 --> 00:50:54,051 benefit themselves instead of the athletes. 844 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,222 - You know, at the end of the day the most important 845 00:50:57,255 --> 00:50:59,624 thing you get out of all this international competition 846 00:50:59,657 --> 00:51:02,093 is the friendships. 847 00:51:02,127 --> 00:51:04,962 These are our friends, this is, here's where we are 848 00:51:04,995 --> 00:51:07,064 this is really cool, come see this 849 00:51:07,098 --> 00:51:09,066 we wanna share this with you. 850 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:13,571 That was the atmosphere, um, for these competitions. 851 00:51:14,972 --> 00:51:18,243 - Pre's independent circuit came to a triumphant end 852 00:51:18,276 --> 00:51:22,347 on May 29, 1975 in Eugene. 853 00:51:22,380 --> 00:51:24,915 Pre won the 5000 meters ahead of his friend 854 00:51:24,949 --> 00:51:28,486 Olympic medal-winning marathon runner Frank Shorter 855 00:51:28,519 --> 00:51:31,055 and was already planning the next step 856 00:51:31,088 --> 00:51:34,625 in this struggle for athletes independence. 857 00:51:36,227 --> 00:51:39,630 - He was willing to, uh, go to the mat with those people 858 00:51:39,664 --> 00:51:41,866 and did, and, uh, he stood up to them. 859 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,602 He was a rebel. 860 00:51:44,635 --> 00:51:46,337 But he was always fighting for the 861 00:51:46,371 --> 00:51:48,539 the cause of the athletes. 862 00:51:48,573 --> 00:51:50,808 And putting himself at risk sometimes. 863 00:51:54,479 --> 00:51:57,248 -Until today, Steve Prefontaine was ahead 864 00:51:57,282 --> 00:52:00,151 of everyone in this country as a long-distance runner. 865 00:52:00,185 --> 00:52:04,289 He held the American records in the 3000 meter, the 2 mile 866 00:52:04,322 --> 00:52:07,625 the 3 mile, the 5000 meter, the 6 mile 867 00:52:07,658 --> 00:52:10,161 and the 10,000 meter races. 868 00:52:10,195 --> 00:52:12,663 Early today, his sports car jumped a curb 869 00:52:12,697 --> 00:52:15,233 on an Oregon highway and flipped over. 870 00:52:15,266 --> 00:52:18,836 He was alone, and he was killed. He was 24. 871 00:52:25,643 --> 00:52:29,780 -Never a shock...as it is possible for me to ever again 872 00:52:29,814 --> 00:52:31,916 anything like that now. 873 00:52:34,652 --> 00:52:38,723 His incredible... life just gone. 874 00:52:40,758 --> 00:52:44,362 -He was our glory and we were his. 875 00:52:44,395 --> 00:52:48,399 And it's up to us now to hold in mind clearly.. 876 00:52:49,634 --> 00:52:52,237 ...to remember him as he touched us 877 00:52:52,270 --> 00:52:55,740 and infuriated us and challenged us. 878 00:52:58,576 --> 00:53:00,778 Time holds him.. 879 00:53:00,811 --> 00:53:03,614 ...green and dying.. 880 00:53:03,648 --> 00:53:07,685 ...though he sang in his chains like the sea. 881 00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,922 -I was lost in my own thoughts. 882 00:53:11,956 --> 00:53:13,891 I was lost in my own thoughts. 883 00:53:15,826 --> 00:53:17,061 Um.. 884 00:53:18,963 --> 00:53:20,598 I don't know. 885 00:53:20,631 --> 00:53:23,334 -At the end of it, these various people, uh, you know 886 00:53:23,368 --> 00:53:26,704 talked about him and then, um 887 00:53:26,737 --> 00:53:29,974 you know, now we'll have a moment of silence and picture 888 00:53:30,007 --> 00:53:33,511 him running his last lap of what would have been a world record. 889 00:53:33,544 --> 00:53:35,646 And.. 890 00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,549 Yeah, you...uh, it 891 00:53:38,583 --> 00:53:40,551 it was a pretty, pretty emotional day. 892 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,335 [audience applauds] 893 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,450 - As we all know, part of what 894 00:54:12,483 --> 00:54:14,585 caused that revolution 895 00:54:14,619 --> 00:54:18,188 in road running, was Prefontaine. 896 00:54:18,222 --> 00:54:21,258 His standing up to the AAU 897 00:54:21,292 --> 00:54:23,561 was the first part of it 898 00:54:23,594 --> 00:54:25,262 but the second part was 899 00:54:25,296 --> 00:54:28,499 his death really caused people 900 00:54:28,533 --> 00:54:31,669 to assess what was important 901 00:54:31,702 --> 00:54:34,104 and to them it was freedom 902 00:54:34,138 --> 00:54:37,708 and being able to make a living doing what you love to do. 903 00:54:40,811 --> 00:54:43,213 You know, having somebody who was the most famous person 904 00:54:43,247 --> 00:54:46,351 in American track and field.. 905 00:54:46,384 --> 00:54:49,387 ...take a stand, made it easier 906 00:54:49,420 --> 00:54:51,922 in the years to come for others to do the same. 907 00:55:03,334 --> 00:55:06,303 -Bill Rodgers, the best marathon runner in the country 908 00:55:06,337 --> 00:55:09,374 proved that again today by wining the Boston Marathon 909 00:55:09,407 --> 00:55:12,176 for the third time, even broke his own record 910 00:55:12,209 --> 00:55:15,880 today he ran 2 hours, 9 minutes and 27 seconds 911 00:55:18,315 --> 00:55:20,718 - We all wanted to be professionals. 912 00:55:20,751 --> 00:55:23,688 We wanted to be respected like other athletes 913 00:55:23,721 --> 00:55:26,591 or anyone in America who had a job 914 00:55:26,624 --> 00:55:28,058 gets paid for it, you know. 915 00:55:28,092 --> 00:55:30,761 Or anywhere in the world, if you're good at it, you're paid 916 00:55:30,795 --> 00:55:32,497 so why were we so different? 917 00:55:32,530 --> 00:55:33,764 And we didn't feel we were. 918 00:55:33,798 --> 00:55:36,033 -The hundreds of thousands of people who will watch 919 00:55:36,066 --> 00:55:38,302 the New York marathon run a week from Sunday 920 00:55:38,335 --> 00:55:40,104 will watch a race exploding 921 00:55:40,137 --> 00:55:42,373 in controversy, more from Reggie Harris. 922 00:55:42,407 --> 00:55:46,010 - Next weekend more than 16,000 runners will participate 923 00:55:46,043 --> 00:55:48,078 in the New York City Marathon. 924 00:55:48,112 --> 00:55:50,548 Technically all of them are amateur athletes 925 00:55:50,581 --> 00:55:53,618 and amateur runs for competition not for money. 926 00:55:53,651 --> 00:55:56,887 But the New York Times reports coaches of some top marathoners 927 00:55:56,921 --> 00:55:59,724 say under the table prize money is being offered 928 00:55:59,757 --> 00:56:03,027 to get big name runners to show up. 929 00:56:03,060 --> 00:56:04,695 That would violate rules 930 00:56:04,729 --> 00:56:07,164 of the International Amateur Athletic Federation 931 00:56:07,197 --> 00:56:11,035 or IAAF which sanctions the New York City Marathon 932 00:56:11,068 --> 00:56:13,070 and if prize money is being paid 933 00:56:13,103 --> 00:56:15,973 it would jeopardize the amateur status of many athletes 934 00:56:16,006 --> 00:56:18,843 who hope to compete in the 1984 Olympics. 935 00:56:18,876 --> 00:56:21,412 The New York Road Runners Club Fred Lebow 936 00:56:21,446 --> 00:56:22,813 declined to confirm or deny 937 00:56:22,847 --> 00:56:25,282 the Times' allegations, but he says it's time 938 00:56:25,315 --> 00:56:27,785 for marathoners to win big prize money. 939 00:56:27,818 --> 00:56:30,921 -I, I believe a -- a runner like Bill Rodgers 940 00:56:30,955 --> 00:56:34,158 who, uh, uh, who trains twice a day 941 00:56:34,191 --> 00:56:35,893 uh, every single day of the year 942 00:56:35,926 --> 00:56:39,363 is as much an athlete as a Reggie Jackson. 943 00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:43,133 -Uh, Fred Lebow was paying runners from the start 944 00:56:43,167 --> 00:56:45,269 at the New York City Marathon. 945 00:56:45,302 --> 00:56:47,538 Uh, not openly but they were getting paid. 946 00:56:47,572 --> 00:56:49,540 -There's been a lot of dispute about under the 947 00:56:49,574 --> 00:56:51,842 under-the-table payments for these so called world class. 948 00:56:51,876 --> 00:56:53,243 Do they get paid? 949 00:56:53,277 --> 00:56:56,346 -Well, I'm not, we're not going to ignore this situation 950 00:56:56,380 --> 00:56:59,249 uh, but this has been going on for a long time 951 00:56:59,283 --> 00:57:02,720 in track and field, whether runners get paid or not. 952 00:57:02,753 --> 00:57:05,422 It's a subject that's under very deep discussion right now 953 00:57:05,456 --> 00:57:06,857 within the Athletic Congress 954 00:57:06,891 --> 00:57:09,126 and the world bodies on this subject. 955 00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:11,295 - They could lose their amateur sta -- standing, that's right? 956 00:57:11,328 --> 00:57:12,797 -That's right and we wouldn't do anything 957 00:57:12,830 --> 00:57:14,865 that would jeopardize their eligibility 958 00:57:14,899 --> 00:57:15,866 to compete internationally. 959 00:57:15,900 --> 00:57:17,134 -I understand that. 960 00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:18,469 - I hope you're not paying for anyone. 961 00:57:18,503 --> 00:57:20,571 That's what the -- the maj.. Hope you're not. 962 00:57:20,605 --> 00:57:22,139 Oh, he said, "No, no, I would never do that. 963 00:57:22,172 --> 00:57:23,307 I never pay for any.." 964 00:57:23,340 --> 00:57:26,544 Meanwhile, he was paying everybody. 965 00:57:26,577 --> 00:57:28,412 And they.. They said, "I hope you're not giving away 966 00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:29,714 all the money. This is supposed to be.." 967 00:57:29,747 --> 00:57:32,216 "Oh, not at all, no, I would never do that." 968 00:57:32,249 --> 00:57:34,084 Meanwhile, all these people started appearing 969 00:57:34,118 --> 00:57:36,220 from all around the world. 970 00:57:36,253 --> 00:57:39,624 Everywhere, Australia, Japan, Europe, France 971 00:57:39,657 --> 00:57:42,459 oh, my God, they -- they all were coming. 972 00:57:42,493 --> 00:57:45,129 - In the late 1970s, the practice of making 973 00:57:45,162 --> 00:57:47,565 under-the-table payments to top athletes 974 00:57:47,598 --> 00:57:50,467 became commonplace in the road-race community 975 00:57:50,501 --> 00:57:53,270 whose members were the first to raise their voices 976 00:57:53,303 --> 00:57:56,373 against the federation's hypocritical attitude. 977 00:57:56,406 --> 00:57:59,309 The farsighted Fred Lebow who had never been afraid 978 00:57:59,343 --> 00:58:00,511 to be provocative 979 00:58:00,545 --> 00:58:02,913 decided it was time to clear the air. 980 00:58:02,947 --> 00:58:06,216 He wrote a book that openly referred to those payments. 981 00:58:06,250 --> 00:58:08,853 - "The total prize money we paid over the years 982 00:58:08,886 --> 00:58:10,621 "to the highest finishers in New York 983 00:58:10,655 --> 00:58:12,089 reached a million dollars." 984 00:58:12,122 --> 00:58:13,357 - New York mayor, Edward Koch 985 00:58:13,390 --> 00:58:15,425 gave the road runners a new deal. 986 00:58:15,459 --> 00:58:16,861 For every dollar the club now spends 987 00:58:16,894 --> 00:58:18,896 on appearance fees and prize money 988 00:58:18,929 --> 00:58:21,065 it must also give a dollar to the city. 989 00:58:21,098 --> 00:58:23,568 In effect, the publication of Lebow's book 990 00:58:23,601 --> 00:58:27,772 may have cost the road runners more than $300,000 this year. 991 00:58:27,805 --> 00:58:29,707 -Uh, in retrospect, I 992 00:58:29,740 --> 00:58:32,109 if I knew the ruckus it would cause 993 00:58:32,142 --> 00:58:34,511 I would have not published the book in the first place. 994 00:58:34,545 --> 00:58:37,147 It turned out as the most expensive book ever published. 995 00:58:39,550 --> 00:58:43,453 - We paid millions of dollars to the city 996 00:58:43,487 --> 00:58:45,990 for the police protection 997 00:58:46,023 --> 00:58:49,594 um, for 26 miles. 998 00:58:49,627 --> 00:58:52,129 But that -- that's been going on for some years 999 00:58:52,162 --> 00:58:54,431 although those fees have been going up. 1000 00:58:56,300 --> 00:58:58,402 - Nowadays, running has become a race 1001 00:58:58,435 --> 00:59:00,971 just as much for money as for glory. 1002 00:59:01,005 --> 00:59:03,440 In Chicago today, the winners of the marathon 1003 00:59:03,473 --> 00:59:06,176 got $45,000 each! 1004 00:59:08,312 --> 00:59:10,615 -Early '80s, they were saying.. 1005 00:59:10,648 --> 00:59:11,882 "We don't care about your rules, we're gonna take 1006 00:59:11,916 --> 00:59:13,918 we're gonna give money and take money." 1007 00:59:13,951 --> 00:59:17,021 And, uh, and they, th -- they threw down the challenge 1008 00:59:17,054 --> 00:59:20,625 and the, the amateur officials couldn't answer it. 1009 00:59:20,658 --> 00:59:22,559 And before, before long 1010 00:59:22,593 --> 00:59:24,862 the -- the entire sport was open to 1011 00:59:24,895 --> 00:59:25,996 whatever you can get, take it. 1012 00:59:26,030 --> 00:59:28,966 [guitar music] 1013 00:59:37,942 --> 00:59:40,611 - Male track-and-road champions were not the only ones 1014 00:59:40,645 --> 00:59:43,714 to throw off their shackles at the end of the '70s. 1015 00:59:43,748 --> 00:59:46,416 Women had also gradually won the right 1016 00:59:46,450 --> 00:59:49,353 to run on roads alongside men. 1017 00:59:49,386 --> 00:59:51,989 But there were still far fewer women than men 1018 00:59:52,022 --> 00:59:53,791 running in races 1019 00:59:53,824 --> 00:59:56,927 until Kathrine Switzer heard of a madcap scheme 1020 00:59:56,961 --> 00:59:59,864 proposed by a major cosmetics firm 1021 00:59:59,897 --> 01:00:02,700 to create a women-only international 1022 01:00:02,733 --> 01:00:04,068 running race circuit. 1023 01:00:08,438 --> 01:00:12,677 -Wow, this will be the avenue to get women into running. 1024 01:00:12,710 --> 01:00:16,180 Not saying, "Hey, come join us in the marathon 1025 01:00:16,213 --> 01:00:19,083 "where there are 2 women and there are 800 men 1026 01:00:19,116 --> 01:00:22,519 "because you're gonna feel slow and -- and -- and not welcome. 1027 01:00:23,788 --> 01:00:25,522 Come in a women's-only race." 1028 01:00:25,555 --> 01:00:28,492 [instrumental music] 1029 01:00:29,426 --> 01:00:30,861 - More than 400 runners 1030 01:00:30,895 --> 01:00:33,998 competed in the first all-female 15-kilometer run 1031 01:00:34,031 --> 01:00:36,433 in Arizona this morning. 1032 01:00:36,466 --> 01:00:38,669 - 650 women setting out to do 1033 01:00:38,703 --> 01:00:40,705 what was once considered the impossible. 1034 01:00:40,738 --> 01:00:43,841 - More than a 1000 women compete in a half-marathon. 1035 01:00:43,874 --> 01:00:46,076 - I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg. 1036 01:00:46,110 --> 01:00:47,778 It's, it's really incredible. 1037 01:00:47,812 --> 01:00:50,748 [music continues] 1038 01:00:58,723 --> 01:01:01,091 - We had to overcome centuries of beliefs 1039 01:01:01,125 --> 01:01:02,827 that women have inherent weakness 1040 01:01:02,860 --> 01:01:04,528 and passivity as Aristotle said. 1041 01:01:04,561 --> 01:01:07,231 And it's been really all those years to make a -- a change 1042 01:01:07,264 --> 01:01:09,633 a cultural revolution, a social revolution. 1043 01:01:09,666 --> 01:01:11,836 And I say, "We need an intellectual one as well." 1044 01:01:13,170 --> 01:01:16,373 - It was just an amazing feel to give that back 1045 01:01:16,406 --> 01:01:18,675 to so many women around the country 1046 01:01:18,709 --> 01:01:20,177 and really, around the world. 1047 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,016 [speaking in foreign language] 1048 01:01:32,890 --> 01:01:35,893 - They were so poor that they'd never had anybody that said 1049 01:01:35,926 --> 01:01:37,427 that they could be somebody. 1050 01:01:37,461 --> 01:01:40,364 And when they finished a 5K race or a 10K race 1051 01:01:40,397 --> 01:01:43,033 and we gave them a T-shirt and a medal 1052 01:01:43,067 --> 01:01:46,036 and a lipstick gift...and said 1053 01:01:46,070 --> 01:01:48,372 "You are somebody," they-they understood 1054 01:01:48,405 --> 01:01:50,875 this sense of empowerment and fearlessness 1055 01:01:50,908 --> 01:01:55,612 and they really, really... changed their lives completely. 1056 01:01:55,645 --> 01:01:58,582 [instrumental music] 1057 01:02:02,787 --> 01:02:04,488 - You know, whether she made the best time or what 1058 01:02:04,521 --> 01:02:07,024 for her it's an improvement, and that's what counts. 1059 01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:09,459 I just, uh, would like to thank 'em for the opportunity. 1060 01:02:09,493 --> 01:02:11,929 I think it's a fantastic thing. 1061 01:02:11,962 --> 01:02:14,765 - It became phenomenally good for the corporation 1062 01:02:14,799 --> 01:02:17,334 because they were getting very excellent publicity 1063 01:02:17,367 --> 01:02:19,203 doing something that was unusual 1064 01:02:19,236 --> 01:02:21,571 in capturing the public imagination. 1065 01:02:21,605 --> 01:02:24,341 And everybody agreed that women did deserve 1066 01:02:24,374 --> 01:02:26,243 an opportunity in the Olympics. 1067 01:02:26,276 --> 01:02:27,411 [music continues] 1068 01:02:27,444 --> 01:02:28,745 - It's gonna be a new world record 1069 01:02:28,779 --> 01:02:31,048 for Grete Waitz! 1070 01:02:31,081 --> 01:02:34,819 - Perhaps the greatest marathon ever run, Joan Benoit! 1071 01:02:34,852 --> 01:02:37,955 - Every year, the women's marathon time keeps going down. 1072 01:02:37,988 --> 01:02:41,558 In 10 years, it has dropped almost 45 minutes. 1073 01:02:41,591 --> 01:02:43,760 This was the first year in more than 10 years 1074 01:02:43,794 --> 01:02:45,429 that the men's record has dropped 1075 01:02:45,462 --> 01:02:48,065 and that was just by a few seconds. 1076 01:02:48,098 --> 01:02:49,433 - In the early '80s 1077 01:02:49,466 --> 01:02:52,202 1500 meters was still the longest distance 1078 01:02:52,236 --> 01:02:54,038 the International Athletic Federation 1079 01:02:54,071 --> 01:02:57,041 would sanction for a women's race. 1080 01:02:57,074 --> 01:02:59,543 And although women were now free to run 1081 01:02:59,576 --> 01:03:02,379 many people were still prejudiced against the idea 1082 01:03:02,412 --> 01:03:05,983 of women running long distances in the Olympic Games 1083 01:03:06,016 --> 01:03:08,285 even more so, for the marathon. 1084 01:03:09,987 --> 01:03:12,923 [speaking in foreign language] 1085 01:03:14,224 --> 01:03:17,161 -Yeah. Yeah, that's what we need. 1086 01:03:17,194 --> 01:03:19,329 -Marathon in the Olympic Games! - Yeah. 1087 01:03:19,363 --> 01:03:20,831 [instrumental music] 1088 01:03:20,865 --> 01:03:24,134 - In 1980, 4 years before the Los Angeles Olympics 1089 01:03:24,168 --> 01:03:26,036 Kathrine Switzer cleverly chose 1090 01:03:26,070 --> 01:03:29,206 to hold her circuit's annual marathon in London 1091 01:03:29,239 --> 01:03:32,542 where the International Federation, the IAAF 1092 01:03:32,576 --> 01:03:34,244 had its headquarters. 1093 01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,182 - A sunny, warm day dawns in London 1094 01:03:38,215 --> 01:03:41,751 for the 3rd annual Avon Women's International Marathon. 1095 01:03:41,785 --> 01:03:43,921 This is a turning point for women's running. 1096 01:03:43,954 --> 01:03:47,157 The representation of 27 countries at the starting line 1097 01:03:47,191 --> 01:03:50,660 now surpasses the International Olympic Committee's requirements 1098 01:03:50,694 --> 01:03:51,828 for a new event. 1099 01:03:51,862 --> 01:03:54,798 [instrumental music] 1100 01:04:20,190 --> 01:04:23,127 [music continues] 1101 01:04:29,533 --> 01:04:32,002 - We had excellent performances 1102 01:04:32,036 --> 01:04:35,039 we had... incredible media coverage 1103 01:04:35,072 --> 01:04:37,207 we had the endorsement of the IAAF. 1104 01:04:37,241 --> 01:04:41,845 And the IAAF then made a recommendation to the IOC 1105 01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:44,381 to get the women's marathon in the Olympic Games. 1106 01:04:54,058 --> 01:04:56,393 I remember when Monique Berlioux stood up 1107 01:04:56,426 --> 01:04:57,461 and made the announcement. 1108 01:04:57,494 --> 01:04:58,895 She said, um 1109 01:04:58,929 --> 01:05:00,497 "This was not an easy decision 1110 01:05:00,530 --> 01:05:03,067 but it was a very important decision." 1111 01:05:03,100 --> 01:05:06,203 And I turned to my, my friend who was in the audience with me 1112 01:05:06,236 --> 01:05:07,837 and I said 1113 01:05:07,871 --> 01:05:11,508 "Nobody's gonna understand how important this moment is 1114 01:05:11,541 --> 01:05:14,444 "until the first woman comes through that tunnel 1115 01:05:14,478 --> 01:05:16,346 and into the Olympic stadium." 1116 01:05:16,380 --> 01:05:18,882 [instrumental music] 1117 01:05:18,915 --> 01:05:20,484 - Joan Benoit is running in a direction 1118 01:05:20,517 --> 01:05:22,619 away from the rest of the pack as well. 1119 01:05:22,652 --> 01:05:24,088 - You know, Al, people speculated 1120 01:05:24,121 --> 01:05:25,622 that it would either be a tactical race 1121 01:05:25,655 --> 01:05:26,690 or that Joan Benoit was gonna 1122 01:05:26,723 --> 01:05:28,658 eventually take it out very hard. 1123 01:05:28,692 --> 01:05:31,962 And here she is. It looks like she's gonna make her move really early. 1124 01:05:31,996 --> 01:05:33,998 [music continues] 1125 01:05:34,031 --> 01:05:36,833 - You know, when it came time for the Los Angeles Olympics 1126 01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:39,536 um, ABC asked me to be a commentator 1127 01:05:39,569 --> 01:05:41,871 for the women's marathon. 1128 01:05:41,905 --> 01:05:44,841 [crowd cheering] 1129 01:05:54,151 --> 01:05:55,552 - Right now anticipating 1130 01:05:55,585 --> 01:05:58,355 the imminent arrival of Joan Benoit 1131 01:05:58,388 --> 01:06:00,724 as she gets into some welcome shade 1132 01:06:00,757 --> 01:06:03,327 and then very surely, out again into that sunlight once again. 1133 01:06:04,894 --> 01:06:08,232 - I was trying at this point n -- not to get emotional. 1134 01:06:08,265 --> 01:06:10,767 I was trying to be very, very calm. 1135 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,870 And as she entered the tunnel, Al Michaels turned to all of us 1136 01:06:13,903 --> 01:06:15,572 and he went.. 1137 01:06:16,406 --> 01:06:18,042 [no audio] 1138 01:06:18,075 --> 01:06:20,110 "Let the crowd take it." 1139 01:06:20,144 --> 01:06:22,346 [indistinct chattering] 1140 01:06:22,379 --> 01:06:25,315 [crowd cheering] 1141 01:06:41,831 --> 01:06:44,768 [instrumental music] 1142 01:07:02,452 --> 01:07:05,021 To me, that moment was, was as important 1143 01:07:05,055 --> 01:07:07,191 as giving women the right to vote 1144 01:07:07,224 --> 01:07:10,127 because it represented the physical equivalent 1145 01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:13,663 of total acceptance into society 1146 01:07:13,697 --> 01:07:15,999 and that people around the world 1147 01:07:16,032 --> 01:07:19,503 not just those 90,000 people in that Olympic stadium 1148 01:07:19,536 --> 01:07:22,672 but people around the world, in their millions 1149 01:07:22,706 --> 01:07:24,608 were watching on television 1150 01:07:24,641 --> 01:07:26,976 and realized that somebody had just run 1151 01:07:27,010 --> 01:07:30,514 26 miles, 385 yards, 42.2 km 1152 01:07:30,547 --> 01:07:33,016 the most difficult event in the Olympic Games 1153 01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:36,320 and run it with heroic courage and grace and speed. 1154 01:07:36,353 --> 01:07:39,456 And it changed forever people's attitudes 1155 01:07:39,489 --> 01:07:41,925 about what women's capability was all about. 1156 01:07:43,527 --> 01:07:46,163 - A dramatic step forward for women in sports 1157 01:07:46,196 --> 01:07:47,731 for women athletes all around the world 1158 01:07:47,764 --> 01:07:48,998 indeed, for women in general. 1159 01:07:49,032 --> 01:07:50,334 It attracted the attention 1160 01:07:50,367 --> 01:07:52,136 of, literally, hundreds of women's groups. 1161 01:07:52,169 --> 01:07:55,071 How much does that particular historic fact 1162 01:07:55,105 --> 01:07:57,574 have to do with the degree of elation you feel right now? 1163 01:07:57,607 --> 01:07:59,443 -Well, again, Jim, I don't think it's set in 1164 01:07:59,476 --> 01:08:01,545 and as I said earlier, there are so many people 1165 01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:04,614 I have to thank, uh, this marathon for. 1166 01:08:04,648 --> 01:08:05,882 If it hadn't been for the work 1167 01:08:05,915 --> 01:08:08,818 of countless women pioneers in this sport 1168 01:08:08,852 --> 01:08:10,320 we wouldn't be here today. 1169 01:08:10,354 --> 01:08:12,322 And let's hope that in 1988 1170 01:08:12,356 --> 01:08:14,158 we can also run a 5 and 10K 1171 01:08:14,191 --> 01:08:16,393 because we showed today that women can be 1172 01:08:16,426 --> 01:08:17,994 very competitive over this distance. 1173 01:08:20,130 --> 01:08:21,831 - We were just wrapping up our coverage 1174 01:08:21,865 --> 01:08:23,467 and just about ending this show 1175 01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:26,002 and I was feeling, you know, relieved 1176 01:08:26,035 --> 01:08:28,004 when all of a sudden 1177 01:08:28,037 --> 01:08:30,607 out of the tunnel and into the stadium came 1178 01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:34,711 the very, very crippled-over image 1179 01:08:34,744 --> 01:08:38,014 uh, figure of Gabriela Andersen-Schiess 1180 01:08:38,047 --> 01:08:39,549 from Switzerland. 1181 01:08:39,949 --> 01:08:42,886 [speaking in foreign language] 1182 01:09:08,478 --> 01:09:11,415 [speaking in foreign language] 1183 01:09:36,973 --> 01:09:39,909 [speaking in foreign language] 1184 01:09:50,554 --> 01:09:53,490 [crowd cheering] 1185 01:10:05,502 --> 01:10:08,438 [speaking in foreign language] 1186 01:10:12,376 --> 01:10:15,579 And I thought, "Oh, no. 1187 01:10:15,612 --> 01:10:18,081 Oh, no, uh, this can't be happening." 1188 01:10:18,114 --> 01:10:21,685 Because they're going to make a media frenzy 1189 01:10:21,718 --> 01:10:24,554 of a woman in a distressed condition. 1190 01:10:24,588 --> 01:10:28,024 So, when she finished and was carted off 1191 01:10:28,057 --> 01:10:30,927 I just sort of left the studio thinking 1192 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,196 "I don't know what's gonna happen now with the women's marathon." 1193 01:10:34,764 --> 01:10:36,700 - Still on the Los Angeles Olympics 1194 01:10:36,733 --> 01:10:39,636 we've had an update on the health of Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss 1195 01:10:39,669 --> 01:10:42,339 the female marathon runner who touched hearts everywhere 1196 01:10:42,372 --> 01:10:44,040 the day before yesterday 1197 01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:46,843 when she finished the race in a state of total exhaustion. 1198 01:10:46,876 --> 01:10:48,177 And it's good news! 1199 01:10:48,211 --> 01:10:50,714 It seems she was just severely dehydrated 1200 01:10:50,747 --> 01:10:52,549 and has made a very quick recovery. 1201 01:10:52,582 --> 01:10:54,784 In fact, she's already back in training. 1202 01:10:57,521 --> 01:11:00,890 -Afterwards, uh, my husband, Roger Robinson, uh 1203 01:11:00,924 --> 01:11:03,059 wrote one of the best statements about it. 1204 01:11:03,092 --> 01:11:05,729 He said, "One of the most amazing things 1205 01:11:05,762 --> 01:11:09,566 "about the 1984 Women's Olympic Marathon 1206 01:11:09,599 --> 01:11:11,468 "the inaugural, was 1207 01:11:11,501 --> 01:11:13,002 "it allowed women 1208 01:11:13,036 --> 01:11:14,971 to be exhausted in public." 1209 01:11:17,607 --> 01:11:19,809 Maybe that's what equality is also all about. 1210 01:11:21,578 --> 01:11:23,947 [helicopter droning] 1211 01:11:23,980 --> 01:11:26,149 - Today, the New York City Marathon 1212 01:11:26,182 --> 01:11:28,918 has become the world's most famous race. 1213 01:11:28,952 --> 01:11:32,188 And this Sunday, 24,000 lucky people 1214 01:11:32,221 --> 01:11:33,723 will have the opportunity to run 1215 01:11:33,757 --> 01:11:36,059 its 26.4 miles 1216 01:11:36,092 --> 01:11:39,396 a challenging distance for any level. 1217 01:11:39,429 --> 01:11:42,766 - Even in the height of what we would call the running boom 1218 01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:45,869 the early running boom, the first running boom 1219 01:11:45,902 --> 01:11:48,304 Fred used to say, "This is nothing. 1220 01:11:48,338 --> 01:11:51,207 This is nothing. Just watch." 1221 01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,177 [instrumental music] 1222 01:11:56,813 --> 01:12:00,249 - Fred really wanted the whole world of running to grow 1223 01:12:00,283 --> 01:12:01,885 and the New York Road Runners 1224 01:12:01,918 --> 01:12:04,588 to be a leader in that. 1225 01:12:04,621 --> 01:12:06,890 And so bigger was always better. 1226 01:12:08,958 --> 01:12:11,294 - When I read that there are 34 million Americans 1227 01:12:11,327 --> 01:12:13,563 who run or jog 1228 01:12:13,597 --> 01:12:16,600 I wondered where the rest of the 60 million are 1229 01:12:16,633 --> 01:12:18,568 that should be running 1230 01:12:18,602 --> 01:12:20,537 or at least race-walking. 1231 01:12:22,205 --> 01:12:25,442 -New York suddenly realized they had this, this event 1232 01:12:25,475 --> 01:12:29,379 that was bringing money in for the city on an economic basis 1233 01:12:29,413 --> 01:12:31,781 which they had never really dreamed about. 1234 01:12:31,815 --> 01:12:35,552 -And other cities started seeing that this was happening 1235 01:12:35,585 --> 01:12:37,721 and along came 1236 01:12:37,754 --> 01:12:39,456 London, Chicago 1237 01:12:39,489 --> 01:12:41,858 Los Angeles, Honolulu. 1238 01:12:41,891 --> 01:12:44,828 [instrumental music] 1239 01:12:48,331 --> 01:12:51,267 [speaking in foreign language] 1240 01:12:53,637 --> 01:12:56,706 - In the 1990s, cities throughout the world 1241 01:12:56,740 --> 01:12:58,942 understood that there was big money to be made 1242 01:12:58,975 --> 01:13:01,545 from organizing marathons 1243 01:13:01,578 --> 01:13:05,181 even though New York remained, by far, the most glamorous. 1244 01:13:05,214 --> 01:13:07,517 -I happen to think, uh, that New York City's very special 1245 01:13:07,551 --> 01:13:09,586 and I'm proud that it is the, uh 1246 01:13:09,619 --> 01:13:12,121 marathon, uh, capital of the world now. 1247 01:13:12,155 --> 01:13:15,191 -Many marathons around the world have copied 1248 01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:16,259 much of what we are doing 1249 01:13:16,292 --> 01:13:20,363 from bar codes to, to computer scanning 1250 01:13:20,396 --> 01:13:22,131 to, uh, uh 1251 01:13:22,165 --> 01:13:24,300 timing and scoring devices 1252 01:13:24,333 --> 01:13:27,837 uh, but the one thing that no marathon in the country 1253 01:13:27,871 --> 01:13:29,639 or the world can match 1254 01:13:29,673 --> 01:13:31,608 is the vitality of this city. 1255 01:13:33,176 --> 01:13:36,045 -He would have these plans in his mind 1256 01:13:36,079 --> 01:13:39,215 that it would be increasing the sponsorship 1257 01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:42,151 increasing the number of people who could run. 1258 01:13:42,185 --> 01:13:44,220 - He said, "Look, I want every runner here 1259 01:13:44,253 --> 01:13:47,023 "who comes to this marathon to have the best experience. 1260 01:13:47,056 --> 01:13:48,424 "I wanna make sure they have a cover 1261 01:13:48,458 --> 01:13:50,560 "I wanna make sure they get the, the food. 1262 01:13:50,594 --> 01:13:52,228 "I wanna make sure they have, uh 1263 01:13:52,261 --> 01:13:54,698 that they're taken care of in every way." You know? 1264 01:13:54,731 --> 01:13:58,502 -"Oh, well, let's have coffee and donuts 1265 01:13:58,535 --> 01:14:00,870 at the starting line." 1266 01:14:00,904 --> 01:14:03,473 "But, Fred, that's not a healthy thing to do." 1267 01:14:03,507 --> 01:14:04,774 [laughs] 1268 01:14:04,808 --> 01:14:06,042 "But they'll love it!" 1269 01:14:09,145 --> 01:14:11,615 - "We'll have the race, uh, uh, on Wall Street." 1270 01:14:11,648 --> 01:14:14,183 "Wall Street? How can you have a race there?" 1271 01:14:14,217 --> 01:14:16,586 Then he got the back, going-backwards race 1272 01:14:16,620 --> 01:14:17,721 people running backwards. 1273 01:14:17,754 --> 01:14:19,388 -Press agents were out in force 1274 01:14:19,422 --> 01:14:20,890 at the Empire State Building 1275 01:14:20,924 --> 01:14:22,926 staging a publicity stunt so silly 1276 01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:24,894 but we decided to cover it. 1277 01:14:24,928 --> 01:14:26,429 -"Let's run up the Empire State Building!" 1278 01:14:26,462 --> 01:14:28,364 [laughs] 1279 01:14:28,397 --> 01:14:31,167 What, what, what a great idea it turned out to be 1280 01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:32,802 but at the time.. 1281 01:14:32,836 --> 01:14:35,138 - They'd given people jingle bells 1282 01:14:35,171 --> 01:14:37,807 so that they can make noise when they run. 1283 01:14:37,841 --> 01:14:40,710 And people are dressed in Santa Claus outfits 1284 01:14:40,744 --> 01:14:43,179 and reindeer and they have antlers on. 1285 01:14:43,212 --> 01:14:45,081 A-and.. 1286 01:14:45,114 --> 01:14:47,984 And I'm going, "W -- what happened to my sport?" 1287 01:14:49,519 --> 01:14:52,455 [dogs barking] 1288 01:14:54,123 --> 01:14:55,258 - What next? 1289 01:14:56,325 --> 01:14:58,995 -There's just a lot more to do. 1290 01:14:59,028 --> 01:15:00,997 [instrumental music] 1291 01:15:01,030 --> 01:15:02,999 - Nobody is indispensable 1292 01:15:03,032 --> 01:15:04,801 but as far as the marathon is concerned 1293 01:15:04,834 --> 01:15:07,971 Lebow comes as close to being indispensable 1294 01:15:08,004 --> 01:15:10,139 as anybody. 1295 01:15:10,173 --> 01:15:11,941 - He was like the Pied Piper. 1296 01:15:11,975 --> 01:15:14,143 You know, the, the story of the Pied Piper 1297 01:15:14,177 --> 01:15:17,113 who plays his flute and the rest of us follow. 1298 01:15:17,146 --> 01:15:20,817 Those were his workers, but those were also the runners 1299 01:15:20,850 --> 01:15:22,218 and the other people who took advantage 1300 01:15:22,251 --> 01:15:24,120 of the events he put on. 1301 01:15:24,153 --> 01:15:26,389 They loved what he built 1302 01:15:26,422 --> 01:15:28,892 and so, that was his gift 1303 01:15:28,925 --> 01:15:31,728 that he could bring us all into his vision.. 1304 01:15:34,598 --> 01:15:36,800 ...and that he could create from his vision 1305 01:15:36,833 --> 01:15:39,502 an event that appealed to millions of people 1306 01:15:39,535 --> 01:15:41,605 whether you ran or whether you watched. 1307 01:15:43,339 --> 01:15:45,041 That was Fred's genius. 1308 01:15:45,074 --> 01:15:48,011 [instrumental music] 1309 01:15:52,148 --> 01:15:54,083 * Run 1310 01:15:54,117 --> 01:15:55,985 * Run and you'll be thinner 1311 01:15:56,019 --> 01:15:59,555 * Run to give your heart a thrill * 1312 01:15:59,589 --> 01:16:01,424 * Run 1313 01:16:01,457 --> 01:16:03,192 * Run to be a winner 1314 01:16:03,226 --> 01:16:07,163 * Not just run-of-the-mill 1315 01:16:07,196 --> 01:16:09,966 * Keep up the pace and we promise * 1316 01:16:09,999 --> 01:16:14,503 * You'll hit new highs 1317 01:16:14,537 --> 01:16:16,205 * Stay in the race 1318 01:16:16,239 --> 01:16:18,642 * And your spirit's will rise 1319 01:16:18,675 --> 01:16:21,344 * Rise rise 1320 01:16:21,377 --> 01:16:22,545 * Run * 1321 01:16:22,578 --> 01:16:23,713 -Well, I sure hope you like 1322 01:16:23,747 --> 01:16:27,316 our new, uh, award ceremony program. 1323 01:16:27,350 --> 01:16:29,085 It surprised me. 1324 01:16:29,118 --> 01:16:30,854 - I was at the dinner. It was a big dinner. 1325 01:16:30,887 --> 01:16:33,690 You know, you used to have the big dinner for awards, you know? 1326 01:16:33,723 --> 01:16:37,093 And, uh, he, uh, got up to speak. 1327 01:16:37,126 --> 01:16:38,895 And up to that point there was nothing, you know 1328 01:16:38,928 --> 01:16:40,296 I mean, he was fine, you know? 1329 01:16:40,329 --> 01:16:41,430 And he got up to speak 1330 01:16:41,464 --> 01:16:42,899 and right in the middle of his speech 1331 01:16:42,932 --> 01:16:44,100 he stopped talking. 1332 01:16:44,133 --> 01:16:45,601 You know, he forgot what to, what to say 1333 01:16:45,635 --> 01:16:48,171 you know, he, which he never did, you know, ever. 1334 01:16:48,204 --> 01:16:50,707 I was concerned about it, so I sent him, actually, on my own 1335 01:16:50,740 --> 01:16:52,709 right the next day up to my hospital 1336 01:16:52,742 --> 01:16:54,911 to get an MRI of the brain. 1337 01:16:54,944 --> 01:16:56,612 And that's when the, you know, the tumor was there. 1338 01:16:56,646 --> 01:16:59,683 Right away we detected it, you know, almost immediately. 1339 01:16:59,716 --> 01:17:02,018 -Um, he had a kind of brain tru -- tumor 1340 01:17:02,051 --> 01:17:05,621 that you can extend your life, but nobody recovers from this. 1341 01:17:05,655 --> 01:17:07,791 It's still one of the le -- most lethal forms 1342 01:17:07,824 --> 01:17:09,859 of, of cancer. 1343 01:17:09,893 --> 01:17:12,762 But Fred never saw things that way. 1344 01:17:16,599 --> 01:17:19,502 - I would go see him. I saw him, uh, when he was at Mount Sinai. 1345 01:17:19,535 --> 01:17:22,338 He, he had a pole, you know, he had the pole, you know 1346 01:17:22,371 --> 01:17:25,274 with the intravenous in the bag and all that stuff 1347 01:17:25,308 --> 01:17:27,376 and he had, around the corridors 1348 01:17:27,410 --> 01:17:29,813 he had it marked off to how far was a mile 1349 01:17:29,846 --> 01:17:32,015 and he was going down the corridor. 1350 01:17:32,048 --> 01:17:34,417 He was going like this, and the nurses say 1351 01:17:34,450 --> 01:17:37,286 "All he does is, he keeps going round and round." 1352 01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:40,356 So he refused to accept it, you know, he refused. 1353 01:17:40,389 --> 01:17:42,325 He fought like the, like the devil. 1354 01:17:46,696 --> 01:17:49,498 - I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids 1355 01:17:49,532 --> 01:17:52,836 but it -- it's like nurturing a child. 1356 01:17:52,869 --> 01:17:55,739 For 22 years, that's all I did. 1357 01:17:55,772 --> 01:17:57,006 You know, I worked also 1358 01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:58,274 but the marathon 1359 01:17:58,307 --> 01:18:01,010 is the most consuming thing in my life. 1360 01:18:01,044 --> 01:18:04,948 I've run 68 other marathons, but never New York City. 1361 01:18:04,981 --> 01:18:08,384 A few months ago, I turned 60. 1362 01:18:08,417 --> 01:18:12,155 I told myself, "No, no parties, no receptions. 1363 01:18:12,188 --> 01:18:15,725 "I just want to give myself a gift. 1364 01:18:15,759 --> 01:18:17,827 That's to finish the marathon." 1365 01:18:20,496 --> 01:18:22,899 - If visionary race director, Fred Lebow 1366 01:18:22,932 --> 01:18:25,301 manages to cross his own finish line today 1367 01:18:25,334 --> 01:18:28,271 He'll have finally captured his own American dream. 1368 01:18:28,304 --> 01:18:31,507 For 23 years he's staged New York City's biggest hit. 1369 01:18:31,540 --> 01:18:34,343 Today, his entry will provide a lot of the drama. 1370 01:18:36,980 --> 01:18:39,916 [instrumental music] 1371 01:18:43,887 --> 01:18:46,823 [crowd cheering] 1372 01:18:50,726 --> 01:18:53,863 - I always say that outside of having my two children 1373 01:18:53,897 --> 01:18:56,065 it was the most remarkable experience 1374 01:18:56,099 --> 01:18:57,466 I'd ever witness. 1375 01:18:57,500 --> 01:18:59,302 I had the pleasure and the privilege 1376 01:18:59,335 --> 01:19:02,371 to run behind Fred and Greta in that marathon 1377 01:19:02,405 --> 01:19:03,907 and I don't think 1378 01:19:03,940 --> 01:19:07,476 anyone has ever gotten the cheers and support 1379 01:19:07,510 --> 01:19:08,878 along the course that Fred did. 1380 01:19:08,912 --> 01:19:10,713 [crowd cheering] 1381 01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:13,416 -Jim, we're coming up on the halfway point 1382 01:19:13,449 --> 01:19:15,985 and I really have to take my hat off to Fred. 1383 01:19:16,019 --> 01:19:18,521 He's been clicking off 12-minute miles. 1384 01:19:18,554 --> 01:19:21,190 I've seen a lot of cancer patients in my day 1385 01:19:21,224 --> 01:19:22,725 but I haven't seen many that can do this. 1386 01:19:22,758 --> 01:19:24,427 I am truly impressed. 1387 01:19:27,096 --> 01:19:29,598 - And to this day I can barely talk about it 1388 01:19:29,632 --> 01:19:31,534 without choking up. 1389 01:19:31,567 --> 01:19:34,103 You understood that it was the ultimate statement 1390 01:19:34,137 --> 01:19:35,571 of Fred saying 1391 01:19:35,604 --> 01:19:38,041 "I'm alive, I'm here." 1392 01:19:38,074 --> 01:19:40,343 And it was then that I fully understood 1393 01:19:40,376 --> 01:19:42,979 that's why all of us run the marathon. 1394 01:19:43,012 --> 01:19:45,548 It's the ultimate way of saying 1395 01:19:45,581 --> 01:19:47,450 "I'm alive, I'm here." 1396 01:19:47,483 --> 01:19:48,517 [crowd cheering] 1397 01:19:48,551 --> 01:19:51,154 * And gravity 1398 01:19:51,187 --> 01:19:54,924 * We won't fall 1399 01:19:55,791 --> 01:20:00,897 * No we won't fall 1400 01:20:00,930 --> 01:20:05,134 * Ha ah ah 1401 01:20:07,904 --> 01:20:10,106 * Whatever it takes 1402 01:20:10,139 --> 01:20:13,943 * Wherever you are 1403 01:20:15,144 --> 01:20:19,815 * We won't fall 1404 01:20:19,849 --> 01:20:24,020 * No we won't fall 1405 01:20:26,956 --> 01:20:29,325 * Whatever it takes 1406 01:20:29,358 --> 01:20:33,229 * Wherever you are 1407 01:20:34,463 --> 01:20:39,135 * We won't fall 1408 01:20:39,168 --> 01:20:43,806 * We won't fall * 1409 01:21:05,694 --> 01:21:08,097 - Fred died two years later. 1410 01:21:08,131 --> 01:21:10,699 In his lifetime he ran 69 marathons 1411 01:21:10,733 --> 01:21:12,468 across the world. 1412 01:21:12,501 --> 01:21:15,571 The last one was in New York in 1992. 1413 01:21:24,547 --> 01:21:27,483 [speaking in foreign language] 1414 01:21:55,444 --> 01:21:58,381 [speaking in foreign language] 1415 01:22:00,849 --> 01:22:02,518 - In the space of a decade 1416 01:22:02,551 --> 01:22:04,587 Fred Lebow's insatiable appetite 1417 01:22:04,620 --> 01:22:07,123 had transformed the New York City Marathon 1418 01:22:07,156 --> 01:22:09,658 from a small association of volunteers 1419 01:22:09,692 --> 01:22:12,228 to a large professional organization 1420 01:22:12,261 --> 01:22:13,596 whose revenues swelled 1421 01:22:13,629 --> 01:22:16,632 to tens of millions of dollars. 1422 01:22:16,665 --> 01:22:20,136 - To Fred, money was only a vehicle. 1423 01:22:20,169 --> 01:22:23,106 He had no interest in it personally. 1424 01:22:23,139 --> 01:22:26,075 And he, he used money 1425 01:22:26,109 --> 01:22:29,112 and greed of others 1426 01:22:29,145 --> 01:22:31,780 to create power. 1427 01:22:31,814 --> 01:22:34,250 And he thought he could control it all. 1428 01:22:34,283 --> 01:22:37,220 [instrumental music] 1429 01:22:43,226 --> 01:22:44,860 - Americans now spend 1430 01:22:44,893 --> 01:22:47,863 more than 500 million dollars a year 1431 01:22:47,896 --> 01:22:50,199 on shoes to run in. 1432 01:22:50,233 --> 01:22:52,435 - The initial few hundred runners had become 1433 01:22:52,468 --> 01:22:53,869 tens of thousand 1434 01:22:53,902 --> 01:22:56,039 then, millions worldwide. 1435 01:22:56,072 --> 01:22:59,175 All these runners in need of shoes, clothing and gear 1436 01:22:59,208 --> 01:23:02,245 represented a willing target for all those involved 1437 01:23:02,278 --> 01:23:04,713 in the overgrown-business of running. 1438 01:23:05,814 --> 01:23:08,417 [children screaming] 1439 01:23:09,218 --> 01:23:10,919 However, for some other people 1440 01:23:10,953 --> 01:23:13,122 it spelled the end of an era 1441 01:23:13,156 --> 01:23:15,824 and the loss of the romance and innocence 1442 01:23:15,858 --> 01:23:17,526 of the early days. 1443 01:23:18,961 --> 01:23:21,130 -Once that exposure started 1444 01:23:21,164 --> 01:23:22,798 uh -- uh, and more people came to it 1445 01:23:22,831 --> 01:23:26,402 we were no longer unusual, we were no longer the freaks. 1446 01:23:33,542 --> 01:23:36,479 [speaking in foreign language] 1447 01:23:43,086 --> 01:23:46,021 [instrumental music] 1448 01:23:51,460 --> 01:23:54,397 [speaking in foreign language] 1449 01:24:18,621 --> 01:24:21,090 -Uh, the pressures, really the commercial pressures 1450 01:24:21,124 --> 01:24:22,858 of continuing the magazine 1451 01:24:22,891 --> 01:24:25,661 meant that you had to go look for sponsors. 1452 01:24:25,694 --> 01:24:28,464 And the sponsors always want something 1453 01:24:28,497 --> 01:24:30,933 and the sponsors wanted to sell running shoes 1454 01:24:30,966 --> 01:24:33,502 or sell shirts or sell, you know, uh 1455 01:24:33,536 --> 01:24:35,271 vitamins or all this. 1456 01:24:35,304 --> 01:24:37,273 And so in a way they sold out 1457 01:24:37,306 --> 01:24:39,442 the, you know, the spirits 1458 01:24:39,475 --> 01:24:41,610 of the early, you know, uh 1459 01:24:41,644 --> 01:24:42,911 uh, spirit of running 1460 01:24:42,945 --> 01:24:45,348 to this era of commercialism. 1461 01:24:46,382 --> 01:24:48,451 You could argue, but what could we do? 1462 01:24:54,557 --> 01:24:58,227 And In a way I'm glad that Noel decided to stop. 1463 01:24:59,695 --> 01:25:02,631 [speaking in foreign language] 1464 01:25:26,455 --> 01:25:27,990 - As running grew 1465 01:25:28,023 --> 01:25:30,393 we all kept congratulating ourselves 1466 01:25:30,426 --> 01:25:32,261 that we were in a movement 1467 01:25:32,295 --> 01:25:35,097 that was entirely positive 1468 01:25:35,130 --> 01:25:38,734 healthy, open, inclusive 1469 01:25:38,767 --> 01:25:41,136 raises a lot of money for charity 1470 01:25:41,170 --> 01:25:43,672 helps health, helps society 1471 01:25:43,706 --> 01:25:46,074 brings cities like New York together 1472 01:25:46,108 --> 01:25:47,943 is symbolic of freedom 1473 01:25:47,976 --> 01:25:50,045 you know, like at Berlin in 1990 1474 01:25:50,078 --> 01:25:52,481 all of those very positive things. 1475 01:25:52,515 --> 01:25:54,683 And then we got bigger and bigger and bigger 1476 01:25:54,717 --> 01:25:57,220 and then the crunch came 1477 01:25:57,253 --> 01:26:00,756 and we have had to back off and look at ourselves and say 1478 01:26:00,789 --> 01:26:02,758 "It's actually not all positive 1479 01:26:02,791 --> 01:26:05,694 there is a darker side to what we've achieved." 1480 01:26:08,664 --> 01:26:10,466 - Hurricane Sandy is now approaching 1481 01:26:10,499 --> 01:26:12,535 the East Coast of the USA. 1482 01:26:12,568 --> 01:26:13,936 People of New York City 1483 01:26:13,969 --> 01:26:16,339 are preparing for the crunch. 1484 01:26:16,372 --> 01:26:19,275 -We have not experienced anything on this scale. 1485 01:26:19,308 --> 01:26:20,776 -We just want everyone to know 1486 01:26:20,809 --> 01:26:24,112 that we are hurting down here and we need help. 1487 01:26:27,283 --> 01:26:30,586 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg refuses to cancel the marathon 1488 01:26:30,619 --> 01:26:32,488 despite New York's struggle 1489 01:26:32,521 --> 01:26:34,323 to recover from the devastation 1490 01:26:34,357 --> 01:26:36,292 caused by Sandy. 1491 01:26:36,325 --> 01:26:37,626 -Uh, the city of New York right now 1492 01:26:37,660 --> 01:26:40,729 is talkin' about getting water out of the Battery Tunnel 1493 01:26:40,763 --> 01:26:43,299 and preparing for a marathon. 1494 01:26:43,332 --> 01:26:46,168 We're pulling bodies out of water. 1495 01:26:46,201 --> 01:26:48,437 You -- you see the disconnect here? 1496 01:26:48,471 --> 01:26:50,606 -Every single person on this block 1497 01:26:50,639 --> 01:26:53,075 lost everything. 1498 01:26:53,108 --> 01:26:56,044 [speaking in foreign language] 1499 01:27:03,686 --> 01:27:06,054 - I wanna go home, but there's no home! 1500 01:27:06,088 --> 01:27:09,592 I can't go home, and that's killing me! 1501 01:27:09,625 --> 01:27:11,193 -They're gonna run a marathon 1502 01:27:11,226 --> 01:27:13,662 and worry about, well, how many people are in the car 1503 01:27:13,696 --> 01:27:15,398 before they're worried about who's got electricity 1504 01:27:15,431 --> 01:27:16,565 and who's got water to drink. 1505 01:27:18,434 --> 01:27:20,636 -It's been quite the last 24 hours 1506 01:27:20,669 --> 01:27:23,272 since the mayor decided 1507 01:27:23,306 --> 01:27:26,509 that the best thing for the city of New York 1508 01:27:26,542 --> 01:27:28,944 was for the marathon to go on on Sunday. 1509 01:27:30,279 --> 01:27:32,315 They were some tough days. 1510 01:27:32,348 --> 01:27:34,850 They were days where the challenge was 1511 01:27:34,883 --> 01:27:38,287 what is the right thing to do and what's possible.. 1512 01:27:38,321 --> 01:27:40,489 ...for the city, um 1513 01:27:40,523 --> 01:27:41,990 and, ultimately, for runners. 1514 01:27:42,024 --> 01:27:44,827 -This has always been known 1515 01:27:44,860 --> 01:27:47,696 as the greatest day in the life of the city. 1516 01:27:48,731 --> 01:27:51,800 And if this city is on the road to recovery.. 1517 01:27:52,901 --> 01:27:54,837 ...to show its resilience 1518 01:27:54,870 --> 01:27:57,406 to show the world 1519 01:27:57,440 --> 01:27:59,975 that this is the greatest city in the world 1520 01:28:00,008 --> 01:28:02,077 then this race goes on. 1521 01:28:03,111 --> 01:28:05,180 We were convinced 1522 01:28:05,213 --> 01:28:07,750 that the marathon had to go on. 1523 01:28:07,783 --> 01:28:10,786 That was the history of the marathon, it lifted the city. 1524 01:28:10,819 --> 01:28:14,390 And, uh, in hindsight, we were wrong. 1525 01:28:14,423 --> 01:28:17,360 [speaking in foreign language] 1526 01:28:22,097 --> 01:28:23,131 -Good evening, Brian, well, the anger 1527 01:28:23,165 --> 01:28:24,667 was really triggered in earnest today 1528 01:28:24,700 --> 01:28:27,102 and a large part, by these generators behind me. 1529 01:28:27,135 --> 01:28:29,271 Race organizers brought them in to power things 1530 01:28:29,304 --> 01:28:30,906 like, like race clocks. 1531 01:28:30,939 --> 01:28:33,742 They're large enough to power 400 homes! 1532 01:28:33,776 --> 01:28:36,612 And as the anger grew today, the mayor had to respond. 1533 01:28:36,645 --> 01:28:39,348 Finally, he cancelled the race late today. 1534 01:28:39,382 --> 01:28:41,083 -Thank God! 1535 01:28:41,116 --> 01:28:44,286 My reaction is, I believe they're coming to their senses 1536 01:28:44,319 --> 01:28:46,722 and realizing that these resources 1537 01:28:46,755 --> 01:28:48,657 are gonna be needed where it's truly needed. 1538 01:28:48,691 --> 01:28:50,092 -You don't pull the plug at the last minute. 1539 01:28:50,125 --> 01:28:52,728 He could have made that decision days and days ago. 1540 01:28:52,761 --> 01:28:54,096 -We are very angry. 1541 01:28:54,129 --> 01:28:56,699 We spent thousands of dollars to bring our family here 1542 01:28:56,732 --> 01:28:58,867 pay for hotel rooms, airline tickets. 1543 01:28:58,901 --> 01:29:01,003 -We were still inside at the expo 1544 01:29:01,036 --> 01:29:02,538 buying tickets for the pasta dinner 1545 01:29:02,571 --> 01:29:05,508 buying paraphernalia, spending hundreds of dollars.. 1546 01:29:05,541 --> 01:29:08,477 [speaking in foreign language] 1547 01:29:14,883 --> 01:29:17,786 -Some runners say they're going home as soon as possible 1548 01:29:17,820 --> 01:29:19,922 others say they're gonna stay in the city 1549 01:29:19,955 --> 01:29:22,190 and try to enjoy it the best they can. 1550 01:29:22,224 --> 01:29:25,628 A few say they're running on Sunday, 26 miles 1551 01:29:25,661 --> 01:29:27,430 even without the race. 1552 01:29:27,463 --> 01:29:29,398 [indistinct chattering] 1553 01:29:30,566 --> 01:29:32,801 [instrumental music] 1554 01:29:32,835 --> 01:29:35,771 [speaking in foreign language] 1555 01:29:57,359 --> 01:30:00,295 [speaking in foreign language] 1556 01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,977 [music continues] 1557 01:30:16,712 --> 01:30:18,413 - The marathon movement, the whole running movement 1558 01:30:18,447 --> 01:30:20,483 had to confront the fact 1559 01:30:20,516 --> 01:30:22,651 that not everybody loves us. 1560 01:30:22,685 --> 01:30:25,788 That...we socially 1561 01:30:25,821 --> 01:30:28,724 running had not achieved all that it could achieve 1562 01:30:28,757 --> 01:30:30,793 that socially, even though we've grown 1563 01:30:30,826 --> 01:30:32,595 even though we're huge 1564 01:30:32,628 --> 01:30:33,729 we're actually only huge 1565 01:30:33,762 --> 01:30:35,498 in a very small segment of society. 1566 01:30:35,531 --> 01:30:38,667 And if you look at the average income of marathon runners 1567 01:30:38,701 --> 01:30:40,636 it's over a $100,000 dollars a year. 1568 01:30:40,669 --> 01:30:42,404 Well, if you're living on Staten Island, you know 1569 01:30:42,437 --> 01:30:45,107 that's, that's a different planet. 1570 01:30:45,140 --> 01:30:46,108 And that's, that's not a 1571 01:30:46,141 --> 01:30:47,342 that's not an activity 1572 01:30:47,375 --> 01:30:49,578 that you feel you relate to. 1573 01:30:49,612 --> 01:30:52,347 [music continues] 1574 01:30:52,380 --> 01:30:53,816 And we realized 1575 01:30:53,849 --> 01:30:57,185 that we should not continue to expect 1576 01:30:57,219 --> 01:31:00,022 that poor people will stand along the streets 1577 01:31:00,055 --> 01:31:02,157 and cheer for rich people. 1578 01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:08,296 [speaking in foreign language] 1579 01:31:14,537 --> 01:31:17,472 [indistinct chattering] 1580 01:31:21,977 --> 01:31:24,913 [indistinct yelling] 1581 01:31:30,252 --> 01:31:33,188 [speaking in foreign language] 1582 01:31:44,667 --> 01:31:47,603 [panting] 1583 01:31:52,507 --> 01:31:54,209 - You know, it's like the Robert Frost thing 1584 01:31:54,242 --> 01:31:56,011 the road, the road less taken 1585 01:31:56,044 --> 01:31:58,113 you can always go on the road less taken. 1586 01:32:07,322 --> 01:32:10,258 [instrumental music] 1587 01:32:24,172 --> 01:32:27,109 [speaking in foreign language] 1588 01:32:45,728 --> 01:32:48,664 [speaking in foreign language] 1589 01:32:54,903 --> 01:32:57,039 -You know, people who go out every single day 1590 01:32:57,072 --> 01:32:59,007 and lookin' at their watches. 1591 01:32:59,041 --> 01:33:00,776 Throw the watch away. 1592 01:33:00,809 --> 01:33:02,377 [laughs] 1593 01:33:02,410 --> 01:33:04,747 Look at the stars look at the, look at the sky 1594 01:33:04,780 --> 01:33:06,148 look at the.. 1595 01:33:06,181 --> 01:33:07,215 Yeah. 1596 01:33:14,422 --> 01:33:17,559 - This sport is still whatever you wanna make of it. 1597 01:33:18,694 --> 01:33:21,630 [music continues] 1598 01:33:49,491 --> 01:33:52,427 [instrumental music] 1599 01:34:09,978 --> 01:34:11,246 * Hey 1600 01:34:13,982 --> 01:34:15,250 * Hey 1601 01:34:18,453 --> 01:34:19,722 * Hey 1602 01:34:22,925 --> 01:34:24,927 * Remember when we sat in your car * 1603 01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:27,029 * And you told me all about the stars * 1604 01:34:27,062 --> 01:34:31,266 * And how you'd make it up there one day * 1605 01:34:31,299 --> 01:34:33,368 * And I would hum and whistle through * 1606 01:34:33,401 --> 01:34:35,503 * And you would try to get the tune * 1607 01:34:35,537 --> 01:34:39,908 * But you'd never really heard it anyway? * 1608 01:34:39,942 --> 01:34:41,609 * You told me about the only one * 1609 01:34:41,643 --> 01:34:43,478 * Who'd ever really shown you 1610 01:34:43,511 --> 01:34:46,882 * Something you had truly never seen before * 1611 01:34:48,250 --> 01:34:50,385 * Up until that very moment 1612 01:34:50,418 --> 01:34:52,487 * Nothing else had seemed important * 1613 01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:56,091 * Everyone had disappointed so 1614 01:34:56,124 --> 01:34:58,326 * Oh oh oh 1615 01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:00,228 * I've been holding you up 1616 01:35:00,262 --> 01:35:02,564 * So you'll know 1617 01:35:02,597 --> 01:35:06,634 * As the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1618 01:35:06,668 --> 01:35:08,636 * I've been holding you up 1619 01:35:08,670 --> 01:35:10,605 * So you'll grow 1620 01:35:10,638 --> 01:35:14,242 * Just as the waves aren't tied to the shore.. * 1621 01:35:14,276 --> 01:35:17,212 - Tamini, well done! 1622 01:35:19,882 --> 01:35:21,049 - Well done. 1623 01:35:23,518 --> 01:35:25,988 [speaking in foreign language] 1624 01:35:27,289 --> 01:35:28,991 - I'm George, can I have one for me? 1625 01:35:29,024 --> 01:35:30,625 - Yeah, please. 1626 01:35:30,658 --> 01:35:32,194 [indistinct chattering] 1627 01:35:32,227 --> 01:35:33,461 [speaking in foreign language] 1628 01:35:33,495 --> 01:35:37,265 My magazine. I have a magazine a long time ago. 1629 01:35:37,299 --> 01:35:39,567 Thirty years ago, about, uh, about the.. 1630 01:35:39,601 --> 01:35:41,536 [speaking in foreign language] 1631 01:35:43,171 --> 01:35:46,041 All with us, yes, like today. 1632 01:35:47,475 --> 01:35:52,114 * We all move away we all change * 1633 01:35:52,147 --> 01:35:55,750 * There's a place there's a place we * 1634 01:35:55,784 --> 01:36:00,322 * We all move away we all change * 1635 01:36:00,355 --> 01:36:04,026 * There's a place we are the same * 1636 01:36:04,059 --> 01:36:08,596 * We all move away we all change * 1637 01:36:08,630 --> 01:36:12,534 * There's a place there's a place we * 1638 01:36:12,567 --> 01:36:17,339 * We all move away we all change * 1639 01:36:17,372 --> 01:36:21,343 * There's a place there's a place we * 1640 01:36:21,376 --> 01:36:25,580 * I've been holding you up so you'll know * 1641 01:36:25,613 --> 01:36:29,818 * As the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1642 01:36:29,852 --> 01:36:33,788 * I've been holding you up so you'll grow * 1643 01:36:33,822 --> 01:36:37,292 * Just as the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1644 01:36:38,393 --> 01:36:42,597 * I've been holding you up so you'll know * 1645 01:36:42,630 --> 01:36:46,668 * As the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1646 01:36:46,701 --> 01:36:50,772 * I've been holding you up so you'll grow * 1647 01:36:50,805 --> 01:36:55,510 * Just as the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1648 01:36:55,543 --> 01:36:56,845 * Oh oh 1649 01:36:57,512 --> 01:36:59,948 * Oh oh 1650 01:36:59,982 --> 01:37:02,817 * Oh oh oh oh 1651 01:37:03,852 --> 01:37:05,988 * Oh 1652 01:37:06,021 --> 01:37:09,291 * Oh oh 1653 01:37:09,324 --> 01:37:12,294 * Oh oh oh 1654 01:37:12,327 --> 01:37:13,428 * Oh oh 1655 01:37:14,529 --> 01:37:15,830 * Oh oh 1656 01:37:16,798 --> 01:37:19,501 * Oh oh oh oh 1657 01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:22,770 * Oh 1658 01:37:22,804 --> 01:37:24,072 * Oh oh 1659 01:37:25,941 --> 01:37:28,276 * Oh oh oh 1660 01:37:28,310 --> 01:37:32,981 * We all move away we all change * 1661 01:37:33,015 --> 01:37:36,618 * There's a place there's a place we * 1662 01:37:36,651 --> 01:37:41,456 * We all move away we all change * 1663 01:37:41,489 --> 01:37:45,227 * There's a place we are the same * 1664 01:37:45,260 --> 01:37:49,764 * We all move away we all change * 1665 01:37:49,797 --> 01:37:53,468 * There's a place there's a place we * 1666 01:37:53,501 --> 01:37:58,406 * We all move away we all change * 1667 01:37:58,440 --> 01:38:02,544 * There's a place there's a place we * 1668 01:38:02,577 --> 01:38:06,714 * I've been holding you up so you'll know * 1669 01:38:06,748 --> 01:38:11,019 * As the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1670 01:38:11,053 --> 01:38:14,923 * I've been holding you up so you'll grow * 1671 01:38:14,957 --> 01:38:19,227 * Just as the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1672 01:38:19,261 --> 01:38:23,565 * I've been holding you up so you'll know * 1673 01:38:23,598 --> 01:38:27,702 * As the waves aren't tied to the shore * 1674 01:38:27,735 --> 01:38:31,839 * I've been holding you up so you'll grow * 1675 01:38:31,873 --> 01:38:35,510 * Just as the waves aren't tied to the shore ** 1676 01:39:05,940 --> 01:39:08,943 [music continues]