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If he can hold this pace...
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Prefontaine will own
the NCAA indoor record.
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Here are the 5,000 meter
final results;
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First place with a new American
record, Steve Prefontaine.
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No one within 60 yards as
Pre wins his 21st straight win.
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Pre turned distance running
into a blood sport.
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You want to know what he meant
to folks around here?
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What was it the hippie kids
used to say back then?
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You just had to be there.
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We raised Steve the way most
folks in Coos Bay raised their kids.
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We just tried to give him the kind of
life that we never had growing up.
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But Steve was a
different kind of kid.
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Nine, ten, eleven, twelve...
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13, 14, 15...
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16, 17, 18...
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19, 20, 21, 22...
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23, 24...
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- You go first. - It's Buck's turn.
I went first yesterday.
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That was off the
dinky little bridge.
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What's the matter?
Are you scared, Buck?
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What the hell is Pre doing?
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How'd he get up there?
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Go ahead, Pre, jump.
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- Yeah. Go, Pre!
- Shut up!
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Come down, Pre, before you
get yourself killed.
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- Cool!
- My God!
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Yeah! Yeah!
Whoo-hoo!
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- You ready to play?
- Yeah!
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Okay. Dick's catcher.
Bobby, take second.
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Jimmy, center field.
Buck, you're my pitcher.
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Pre.
First sub in.
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Jeff, third base.
Joe, right field.
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- You'll get in, Pre.
- Let go, Buck.
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Let's go, guys.
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Take the field, boys.
Let's go!
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Pre did love sports, but...
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he was like, four-eight.
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He weighed 90 pounds.
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He had really shaky
hand-eye coordination.
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It seemed like the
less he got to play...
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the more he felt
he had to prove.
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Prefontaine!
Kickoff team!
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Go get 'em, Pre!
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Go, Pre, go!
Go, Pre, go!
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Once he started running,
I guess he never stopped.
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Here is Jim Ryun,
beginning to move up now...
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This is the race he's been preparing for
since he was a high school sophomore.
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I'm going to Munich.
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What's that, son?
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The Munich Olympics four years
from now? I'm gonna be there.
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- In Munich?
- Relax, Elfriede.
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Let the boy dream.
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- In Germany? - I'm goin' and
nobody's gonna stop me.
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First it was football, now this.
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Getting up at dawn
to run before school.
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I thought that the neighbors
must think...
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I'm a crazy German woman
to let my son do this.
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Keep your speed constant, Ellie.
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I had an itch on my gas foot.
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He was my first real boyfriend.
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He was hot stuff.
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Hey, don't kill me, now.
Come on.
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I didn't have any idea what I wanted
to do when I was growing up.
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But he knew.
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Steve, grab the level and
check this for me, will you?
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Ray,your son sure kicked that
North Bend boy's behind last week.
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- How bad you beat him?
- Not that bad. Maybe half a lap.
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You let him off easy, Ray.
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Not my son. Okay, Steve.
Bring that two-by-four over here.
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Yeah, keep runnin, 'kid,
so you don't have to spend your life...
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shaggin' two-by-fours
for your old man.
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All right, hold it steady.
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We heard about this small kid
from Coos Bay who could run.
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A kid we had to see.
A real fire-eater.
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After he broke all those national
high school records...
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- college scouts came like
bees to honey. - Uh-uh.
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Thanks, Coach.
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Steve?
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Steve tells me you're
quite an architect.
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No, actually,
I'm just a carpenter.
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I'll be honest with you, Ray.
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Architects... they're
overrated in my book.
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Have you seen
Steve's scrapbook?
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No, ma'am.
Not, uh...
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Not lately.
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Steve!
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Hello, again, Pre.
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- Where's Bowerman? - He sends his
apologies. It's hard for him to get away.
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- To make the trip. - Plenty of other
head coaches have gotten away.
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- Steve.
- He did ask me, though...
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to, uh... give you
a personal letter.
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That's all right.
I've got milk crates full of'em.
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Come on, son.
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Not, uh... like this one.
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That's hot off the press.
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Dear Pre, If you want to come
to the University of Oregon...
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there's no doubt in my mind...
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you'll be the greatest
distance runner in the world.
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Please, don't wrinkle it, Steve.
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I want it for the scrapbook.
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No more war! No more war!
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Hell, no! We won't go!
Hell, no! We won't go!
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# Some folks are born #
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# Made to wave the flag #
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# Ooh, they're red,
white and blue #
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Any question of violence on the
University of Oregon campus...
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is in the hands of President Clark and
the police department of Eugene.
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If they want violence, they will
start violence. We will not.
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I shall take what action
is necessary to end it.
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Whether it's disciplinary
or police action.
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# It ain't me
It ain't me #
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# Some folks are born
silver spoon in hand #
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# But when the tax man
comes to the door #
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# Now their house looks
like a rummage sale #
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He definitely wasn't what
anyone expected.
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It's the Beverly Hillbillies.
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You've gotta remember,
back then...
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most of the best distance
runners on the team...
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in the whole country, were these
middle-class or upper-class kids.
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Hey, guys.
Steve Prefontaine.
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- Hey, I'm Mac.
- Hey, Mac.
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Hi. Pat Tyson,
your roommate.
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I moved in yesterday.
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- Hi, I'm Ellie.
- Ellie Mae?
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No,just Ellie.
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- Thomas Becker.
- That's right.
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Saw you run that 3:57.4
last summer.
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- Personal best, right?
- Yeah.
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- Man, that was really smokin'.
- I'm flattered.
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I'm going to beat
that time this year.
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Man, if it wasn't for runnin'...
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I'd be dodging bullets in 'Nam
instead of training for Munich.
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- Munich. As in Olympics?
Three years from now? - Yeah.
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The only way I'm getting to Munich is
if I buy a plane ticket.
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- Hey, hey, U.S.A., how many kids
did you kill today? - Look at this.
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They'd be the casualties
back in Coos Bay.
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Hey, hey, U.S.A., how many kids
did you kill today?
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Oops.
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Hey, Pre. The sidewalk's
over here. Pre!
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- Hey!
- Peace.
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Do you realize, Ellie,
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that I've been reading about this
place since I was in junior high?
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The road to Olympic gold.
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Track capitol, U.S.A.
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The house that Bowerman built.
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You really know how
to sweet-talk a girl.
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I'll be coming down
that backstretch...
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burning all eight cylinders...
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a world record in my hand,
blowing past all the competition...
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the crowd cheering me on.
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I'll look up in the stands...
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and there you'll be.
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Yeah, on my way
to the bathroom.
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You're dead!
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- Always gotta keep me humble, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
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Which is why I'm gonna
have to marry you someday.
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Yeah. Someday.
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Someday soon.
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Did I say what field
are we on?
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Track capitol, U.S.A.
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That's right, you son of a bitch!
You'd better drive away!
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Last goddamn time
you'll clip my box!
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- Coach Bowerman?
- Don't ever call me "coach".
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Had an S.O.B. for a coach.
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Still hate that word
to this day.
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Um, Mr. Bowerman.
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Or "Bill" would be fine.
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Come on, rube.
Give me a hand here.
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I'm, uh...
I'm Steve Prefontaine.
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You don't say, rube.
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That's it.
Hold it right there.
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Now, what are you doin' here?
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I heard you wanted to see me.
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I mean, what are you doin'
here at the university?
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Well, you said in your letter you'd
make me the best runner in the world.
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Letter. You think
I wrote you a letter?
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That's dynamite.
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Uh-huh.
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Just enough to get the
bastard's attention.
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Hell of a view, wouldn't you say?
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Yeah, it's beautiful.
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You know, back home
I have this...
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this magazine with a picture of you,
and, uh...
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Stay right here.
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What are you doing
out there? Bill?
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Bill! You better not have
my new waffle iron!
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Go! Go!
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Why don't you go set down,
and take your shoes and socks off?
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So you want to be a miler.
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I am a miler.
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Funny thing, when I saw you in
Corvallis, you won the two-mile.
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Well, I won the mile as well.
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But you set a record
in the two-mile.
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Give me your foot up here.
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I'm going to run a 3:49 here
by my junior year.
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That's two seconds
under Ryun's world record.
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How you gonna do that, rube?
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I'm gonna run three seconds
faster every year.
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Well, then I guess we'd better
get started right away.
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Tomorrow, 6:00 a. m.,
at the track.
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You mind if I ask
what you're doin'?
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No, I don't mind at all.
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You son of a bitch!
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Have some of that.
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6:00 a. m., rube.
You ready to run?
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- I just need a minute.
- Make sure you're stretched out.
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The reason Lord Nelson never lost a battle
was 'cause he showed up 15 minutes early.
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You'll be outta here
in less than four.
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Can't run without proper shoes.
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- Jesus, Bill.
- Hell of a pair of shoes.
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You run like a prizefighter, rube.
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You mad about somethin'?
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Am I mad about something?
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I only design 'em to last one race.
Just fell a lap short with that pair.
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What was my time?
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4:03, give or take.
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Pretty good, Pre,
without competition.
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And without shoes.
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You'll be running in the three-mile
for the team, rube.
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- What did you say? - Your kick
is not fast enough for the mile.
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I'll prove you wrong.
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Doubtful, rube.
Highly doubtful.
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Aw,Jesus, Bill.
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He'll get over it.
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The mile was everything
back then.
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The glamour event
of track and field.
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Every kid comin' along fool enough
to take up this crazy sport...
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wanted to be the next Jim Ryun.
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Forget Jim Ryun.
He's done.
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I'm gonna be the first
Steve Prefontaine.
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It must be nice to
wanna be yourself.
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- Like I can't run with him? - Pre,
Becker's the conference mile champ.
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Watch it, freshman. There's a
no-race policy during practice.
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Fine.
Don't race me, then.
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He's a cocky little mother.
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I'd like to bottle it and force-feed
it to the rest of you guys.
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Wendy Ray. KUGN, live.
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Calling the last lap of this
lively twilight meet mile.
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Pre is kicking hard
down the homestretch.
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Here comes Becker.
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It's a battle now between Becker
and the freshman phenom.
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Oregon senior Thomas
Becker wins it...
243
00:21:30,838 --> 00:21:33,852
outkicking Steve Prefontaine
down the stretch.
244
00:21:44,117 --> 00:21:46,301
Don't even say it.
245
00:21:47,787 --> 00:21:50,438
You are a damn
fine miler, rube.
246
00:21:50,524 --> 00:21:53,880
I beat him before,
I'll beat him again.
247
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,110
Oh, I know you will.
248
00:21:56,196 --> 00:21:58,118
This isn't about beating Becker.
249
00:21:58,198 --> 00:22:03,646
Becker's never gonna be the best,
and you won't settle for anything less.
250
00:22:03,736 --> 00:22:08,685
With your gas tank and your guts,
you could own the three-mile...
251
00:22:08,774 --> 00:22:10,787
make it your goddamn plaything.
252
00:22:10,876 --> 00:22:14,630
Nobody cares about
the three-mile.
253
00:22:14,713 --> 00:22:17,671
Why don't you give 'em
a reason to care?
254
00:22:22,121 --> 00:22:24,476
Hey, Felix, come here.
255
00:22:34,165 --> 00:22:37,919
Back then, everyone had
either dope or beer.
256
00:22:38,002 --> 00:22:40,891
Pre's drug was winning...
at everything.
257
00:22:42,974 --> 00:22:46,262
# Out here in the field #
258
00:22:46,344 --> 00:22:48,266
# I fought for my meals #
259
00:22:48,346 --> 00:22:52,442
She's beautiful.
I love you! I love you!
260
00:22:58,856 --> 00:23:01,471
# I don't need to fight #
261
00:23:03,694 --> 00:23:06,583
# To prove I'm right #
262
00:23:09,032 --> 00:23:11,648
# I don't need to be forgiven #
263
00:23:11,735 --> 00:23:14,852
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah #
264
00:23:19,610 --> 00:23:23,865
You're the only person
I know who'd buy a gold MG.
265
00:23:23,947 --> 00:23:26,768
What's wrong with a gold MG?
266
00:23:26,850 --> 00:23:28,772
You've got to have a gold
medal to go with it.
267
00:23:28,852 --> 00:23:30,773
Soon enough.
268
00:23:34,257 --> 00:23:37,738
He was like a rocket breaking
free of the Earth's gravity.
269
00:23:37,827 --> 00:23:41,149
- Get down here!
- Nothing could touch him.
270
00:23:47,370 --> 00:23:50,521
- Goddamn it!
- You okay?
271
00:23:57,179 --> 00:24:01,399
Pre is leading the N.C.A.A. final
on a foot with ten stitches in it.
272
00:24:10,158 --> 00:24:13,605
Here comes Bjorkland,
the defending three-mile champion.
273
00:24:15,563 --> 00:24:19,954
Looks like he smells blood,
and Dick Berkeley's going with him.
274
00:24:26,474 --> 00:24:29,453
The freshman, Steve Prefontaine
regains the lead.
275
00:24:32,279 --> 00:24:34,201
- Go! Go! Go!
- Come on!
276
00:24:42,790 --> 00:24:45,042
Steve Prefontaine is the
three-mile champion...
277
00:24:45,125 --> 00:24:48,777
in one of the most electrifying
performances in a long time.
278
00:24:51,165 --> 00:24:53,178
One at a time!
One at a time!
279
00:24:53,267 --> 00:24:55,189
Pre, how'd you feel
about the race?
280
00:24:55,269 --> 00:24:58,351
If I'd gone out stronger, I could have
set an American record today.
281
00:24:58,438 --> 00:25:01,327
You're disappointed?
You set an N.C.A.A. record.
282
00:25:01,407 --> 00:25:03,489
I can run better, a lot better...
283
00:25:03,576 --> 00:25:05,498
but I need better
competition to do it.
284
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,537
What about the end?
You must have had doubts...
285
00:25:09,615 --> 00:25:11,867
when Bjorkland and Berkeley
came at you like that.
286
00:25:11,951 --> 00:25:15,773
Never. What, I ran 2:00 flat
for the last two laps?
287
00:25:15,855 --> 00:25:20,838
Let me tell you something.
Nobody... nobody's gonna outkick me.
288
00:25:20,927 --> 00:25:24,818
I gotta go take care of my foot, guys.
Thanks a lot.
289
00:25:26,998 --> 00:25:29,956
That was a very impressive
performance, rube.
290
00:25:30,035 --> 00:25:31,957
I just ran my race.
291
00:25:32,037 --> 00:25:35,154
I'm talking about the way
you ran your mouth.
292
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,597
Pre, you're gonna have every runner
in the country looking to gun you down.
293
00:25:39,678 --> 00:25:41,600
Bring 'em on.
294
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,638
# I don't need to fight #
295
00:25:44,716 --> 00:25:49,267
# To prove I'm right #
296
00:25:49,354 --> 00:25:52,972
# I don't need to be forgiven #
297
00:25:53,058 --> 00:25:56,242
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah #
298
00:25:56,394 --> 00:25:57,873
I thought he was, basically...
299
00:25:57,962 --> 00:26:01,284
a talented little pissant
from the day I met him.
300
00:26:01,365 --> 00:26:05,290
As far as he was concerned, it was
like no one else on the team existed.
301
00:26:05,369 --> 00:26:10,056
In the discus circle,
Oregon sophomore Mac Wilkins.
302
00:26:10,141 --> 00:26:13,224
- Let's go!
- All right, Mac!
303
00:26:20,885 --> 00:26:23,967
That's easily the best throw
of Wilkins'career.
304
00:26:24,053 --> 00:26:28,342
It's beyond the 190-foot mark. Should
qualify him for the Olympic Trials.
305
00:26:31,294 --> 00:26:34,741
And guess who just
entered the field?
306
00:26:36,299 --> 00:26:41,384
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
307
00:26:41,471 --> 00:26:44,395
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
308
00:26:44,474 --> 00:26:48,763
I started calling him "World",
short for "World Famous".
309
00:26:48,845 --> 00:26:52,268
That meet, I also
won the shot put.
310
00:26:52,347 --> 00:26:54,907
I scored ten total
points for the team.
311
00:26:56,552 --> 00:26:59,271
I mean, Pre won his race.
It was no record time or nothing.
312
00:26:59,354 --> 00:27:02,039
He scored five points.
313
00:27:02,124 --> 00:27:05,412
But did it stop him from running
three victory laps?
314
00:27:05,494 --> 00:27:08,509
Or hogging the headlines
in the papers the next day?
315
00:27:10,432 --> 00:27:12,354
It didn't matter how
many events I won.
316
00:27:12,434 --> 00:27:14,686
He always had to be the man.
317
00:27:14,770 --> 00:27:17,557
- # If you get down #
- Big Mac!
318
00:27:17,639 --> 00:27:20,290
# And you get confused #
319
00:27:20,375 --> 00:27:23,628
# And you don't remember #
320
00:27:23,711 --> 00:27:25,463
# Who you been talkin' to #
321
00:27:25,546 --> 00:27:27,468
- Route change.
- Pre...
322
00:27:27,548 --> 00:27:29,470
# Concentration #
323
00:27:29,550 --> 00:27:32,599
A little privacy, please?
324
00:27:32,687 --> 00:27:35,542
- Hi.
- Hi.
325
00:27:35,623 --> 00:27:38,945
- I love your stride.
- Yours isn't too bad, either.
326
00:27:39,026 --> 00:27:42,177
- New on campus?
- I'm a freshman.
327
00:27:42,263 --> 00:27:44,242
- What's your name?
- Nancy Alleman.
328
00:27:44,332 --> 00:27:48,280
Steve was nothing like
I had expected him to be.
329
00:27:48,369 --> 00:27:50,347
He never even told me
who he was.
330
00:27:50,437 --> 00:27:53,224
I didn't tell you because...
331
00:27:53,306 --> 00:27:56,992
you know, I wanted you
to like me for me.
332
00:27:57,077 --> 00:27:58,556
I've heard things about you.
333
00:28:01,481 --> 00:28:05,668
Well, that's just with
guys I run against.
334
00:28:05,752 --> 00:28:07,708
I'm not that bad a guy.
335
00:28:07,787 --> 00:28:09,709
I'm sure.
336
00:28:09,789 --> 00:28:12,747
So, you race the 5,000
for the girls' team?
337
00:28:12,826 --> 00:28:14,942
And the two-mile relay.
338
00:28:18,565 --> 00:28:20,486
Ever since high school.
339
00:28:22,668 --> 00:28:25,148
I could really do something with you.
340
00:28:25,237 --> 00:28:27,660
What's that supposed to mean?
341
00:28:29,441 --> 00:28:31,363
I mean as a runner.
342
00:28:34,947 --> 00:28:36,926
Ellie. Ellie, no.
343
00:28:37,016 --> 00:28:39,940
The guy's car is...
It stalled.
344
00:28:40,019 --> 00:28:43,671
And double-parked.
I gotta tow him.
345
00:28:48,127 --> 00:28:52,449
Steve, he would lie because
he didn't want to hurt anyone.
346
00:28:54,866 --> 00:28:59,257
But what he didn't realize
was that... his lying...
347
00:28:59,337 --> 00:29:01,988
it hurt a hundred times worse.
348
00:29:02,073 --> 00:29:05,759
You don't have to sneak around
on me anymore, Mr. Big Shot.
349
00:29:05,843 --> 00:29:09,199
This is ridiculous.
I was at the library.
350
00:29:10,882 --> 00:29:14,067
Now go screw all the rich little
college girls your heart desires.
351
00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:16,074
Wait a second.
Where are you goin'?
352
00:29:16,154 --> 00:29:20,476
I came here for you.
Nothing else but you.
353
00:29:21,625 --> 00:29:25,072
Look...
But you can't do this, Ellie.
354
00:29:26,597 --> 00:29:28,519
I'm gonna marry you.
355
00:29:47,583 --> 00:29:51,872
Less than a year later,
when he found out that I was...
356
00:29:51,954 --> 00:29:54,240
I was gonna get married
in Portland...
357
00:29:54,323 --> 00:29:57,838
he called my mother and said
that I couldn't get married...
358
00:29:57,927 --> 00:30:01,283
because he was still planning
on marrying me someday.
359
00:30:07,470 --> 00:30:10,917
How many runners
we got here today?
360
00:30:12,008 --> 00:30:14,966
Hey, Pre, I'm on deadline.
361
00:30:15,044 --> 00:30:17,329
I said when I'm done.
362
00:30:17,412 --> 00:30:20,028
- What about baseball?
- Yeah.
363
00:30:20,115 --> 00:30:23,471
- See, baseball wouldn't be anything
without running, now would it? - No.
364
00:30:23,551 --> 00:30:28,067
- That's right. Anybody
like football? - Yeah.
365
00:30:28,156 --> 00:30:31,136
Football wouldn't be much
without running, now would it?
366
00:30:31,226 --> 00:30:34,616
- He always made time
for kids. - Sign mine!
367
00:30:34,696 --> 00:30:38,450
- One at a time. - He said he
saw himself in their little faces.
368
00:30:38,533 --> 00:30:41,354
- You got any fast
runners here? - Yeah!
369
00:30:41,436 --> 00:30:43,620
- You got any slowpokes?
- No!
370
00:30:43,705 --> 00:30:45,626
Ah, we'll see.
371
00:30:45,706 --> 00:30:48,527
Don't forget.
Use your upper body.
372
00:30:48,609 --> 00:30:52,193
You've gotta run with your arms,
too, not just with your legs.
373
00:30:53,180 --> 00:30:55,102
That's better, Ricky.
374
00:30:55,182 --> 00:30:56,900
Doin' a good job.
375
00:30:56,984 --> 00:31:00,636
Hey, Speed Racer.
376
00:31:00,721 --> 00:31:03,508
You're not ready
for me yet, kid.
377
00:31:08,162 --> 00:31:10,084
Steve, for the rest of his life...
378
00:31:10,164 --> 00:31:13,951
that little kid would have remembered
the day Steve Prefontaine let him win.
379
00:31:14,033 --> 00:31:18,549
Oh, you can't let a losing mentality
creep in here... ever.
380
00:31:18,638 --> 00:31:23,359
A losing mentality? Against a
nine-year-old? Are you serious?
381
00:31:25,378 --> 00:31:28,358
How do you think
I got this far, Nance?
382
00:31:28,448 --> 00:31:30,871
What do you mean?
383
00:31:33,586 --> 00:31:35,736
Well...
384
00:31:35,822 --> 00:31:37,870
do I look like a runner?
385
00:31:37,957 --> 00:31:40,812
No, you look like
a hammer thrower.
386
00:31:42,594 --> 00:31:45,245
Look at you.
387
00:31:45,330 --> 00:31:47,480
You've got long legs...
388
00:31:47,566 --> 00:31:51,991
a great stride,
you're tall, slender.
389
00:31:52,070 --> 00:31:54,550
You're built like a runner, not me.
390
00:31:54,639 --> 00:31:56,652
Steve.
391
00:31:57,776 --> 00:32:01,325
So, what have I got going for me?
392
00:32:04,116 --> 00:32:08,166
Why does some kid
from Coos Bay...
393
00:32:08,253 --> 00:32:12,302
with one leg shorter than
the other win races?
394
00:32:14,825 --> 00:32:17,714
Let me tell you somethin'.
395
00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:22,118
All of my life people
have said to me...
396
00:32:22,199 --> 00:32:24,713
"You're too small, Pre. "
397
00:32:24,802 --> 00:32:27,726
"You're not fast enough, Pre. "
398
00:32:28,806 --> 00:32:31,957
"Give up your foolish
dreams, Steve. "
399
00:32:34,044 --> 00:32:37,161
But you know what?
They forgot somethin'.
400
00:32:37,248 --> 00:32:39,671
I have to win.
401
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:45,039
There's no fallback here. No
great stride, no long legs! Nothing!
402
00:32:53,463 --> 00:32:55,419
I'm sorry.
403
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,517
Steve, from the moment I saw you...
404
00:33:00,603 --> 00:33:02,992
you looked like the
best runner ever.
405
00:33:07,844 --> 00:33:12,359
He always had a great need,
ya know.
406
00:33:12,447 --> 00:33:15,268
I mean, just...
just an endless need...
407
00:33:15,350 --> 00:33:17,773
that came from somewhere.
408
00:33:52,220 --> 00:33:55,178
I'm not thinkin' about
makin' the team.
409
00:33:55,256 --> 00:33:57,304
I'm thinkin' about gold in Munich.
410
00:34:07,235 --> 00:34:10,214
What's on the training table
this morning, Galloway?
411
00:34:10,303 --> 00:34:12,658
Hot dogs again.
412
00:34:12,739 --> 00:34:15,321
Breakfast of champions.
413
00:34:18,178 --> 00:34:20,430
Oh, man.
414
00:34:31,157 --> 00:34:33,307
This is bullshit, Frank.
415
00:34:33,393 --> 00:34:36,180
And we're paying for these
wonderful accommodations too.
416
00:34:36,263 --> 00:34:39,880
I met a runner who had to hock his
trophies to pay for his plane ticket.
417
00:34:39,965 --> 00:34:43,116
You'd think they'd at least put
guys up once they got here.
418
00:34:43,202 --> 00:34:45,124
Au contraire, the A.T.U.
and the Olympic committee...
419
00:34:45,204 --> 00:34:47,456
are dedicated to preserving
our amateur virginity.
420
00:34:47,539 --> 00:34:49,587
That's so screwed up.
421
00:34:49,675 --> 00:34:51,893
Somebody ought
to do something.
422
00:34:59,885 --> 00:35:02,001
Frank Shorter is going to Munich!
423
00:35:02,087 --> 00:35:05,011
He'll be our top qualifier
in the 10,000 meters.
424
00:35:08,293 --> 00:35:12,184
Are you paying for your suite
at the Hyatt, Curtis?
425
00:35:12,263 --> 00:35:14,515
Is Dick here sleeping
on your floor?
426
00:35:14,599 --> 00:35:16,521
You're mixing apples
and oranges, Bill.
427
00:35:16,601 --> 00:35:19,286
We couldn't afford to put the
athletes up even if we wanted to.
428
00:35:19,370 --> 00:35:22,794
That's right. Gotta save back some of
those millions you got in the treasury...
429
00:35:22,874 --> 00:35:26,696
so you can send over 100 officials
to Munich in style.
430
00:35:26,778 --> 00:35:28,325
Luckily for you,
your opinions on that...
431
00:35:28,413 --> 00:35:31,496
were overlooked by the selection
committee this year.
432
00:35:31,582 --> 00:35:36,666
Your job is to coach the
team on the track. Period.
433
00:35:36,753 --> 00:35:38,937
Understand?
434
00:35:39,022 --> 00:35:42,640
Maybe I'll have the university
hold back the gate receipts.
435
00:35:42,726 --> 00:35:45,012
Let a court decide
this situation.
436
00:35:45,095 --> 00:35:48,610
No, no.
437
00:35:48,699 --> 00:35:51,315
No, you've got a choice.
438
00:35:51,401 --> 00:35:53,790
You can take us to court...
439
00:35:53,870 --> 00:35:56,725
or you can take the
team to Munich.
440
00:35:56,807 --> 00:35:58,923
What's it gonna be, Bill?
441
00:36:05,614 --> 00:36:08,970
Wilkins up. James on deck.
Gilbert in the hole.
442
00:36:20,429 --> 00:36:24,217
Wilkins' final throw,
175 feet, four inches.
443
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,222
He remains in 12th place.
444
00:36:30,139 --> 00:36:33,528
First call for the 5,000 meter final.
445
00:36:33,608 --> 00:36:35,656
All competitors,
please report to the clerk.
446
00:36:35,744 --> 00:36:39,566
- New and improved.
- Still no one-piece toe?
447
00:36:39,647 --> 00:36:42,468
That's harder than you think.
Nobody makes them one-piece.
448
00:36:42,550 --> 00:36:45,007
These homemade seams are
gonna give me big-time blisters.
449
00:36:45,086 --> 00:36:47,668
Give me the damn shoes back.
450
00:36:47,756 --> 00:36:52,341
Give 'em back! Last damn thing I need
is you out there thinking about shoes.
451
00:36:52,427 --> 00:36:55,078
One-piece toe! When's
the last time you ate?
452
00:36:55,163 --> 00:36:58,314
It doesn't matter. It's all
over there in that trash can.
453
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,221
- You okay?
- I'm all right.
454
00:37:01,302 --> 00:37:04,418
It's weird.
455
00:37:04,505 --> 00:37:08,487
Here I am,just a race away
from making it to Munich...
456
00:37:08,575 --> 00:37:11,692
and suddenly my legs
feel like logs.
457
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,996
That's just nerves.
458
00:37:15,082 --> 00:37:18,597
Think of how nervous Young
is trying to slay you...
459
00:37:18,685 --> 00:37:21,836
a fire-breathing dragon
in your own backyard.
460
00:37:21,922 --> 00:37:27,212
You are going to burn his ass up.
461
00:37:27,361 --> 00:37:32,514
In lane one, bronze medalist
in the '68 Olympics...
462
00:37:32,598 --> 00:37:35,681
the legend, the veteran,
George Young.
463
00:37:42,175 --> 00:37:46,862
In lane two, Washington State's great
four-time N.C.A.A. champion...
464
00:37:46,946 --> 00:37:49,699
Jerry Lindgren.
465
00:37:57,356 --> 00:37:59,335
Boo!
466
00:38:02,527 --> 00:38:06,384
And in lane three, a junior
from the University of Oregon...
467
00:38:06,465 --> 00:38:09,480
three-time N.C.A.A. champion...
468
00:38:09,568 --> 00:38:13,584
American record holder
in the 5,000 meters...
469
00:38:13,672 --> 00:38:17,893
never defeated at Hayward Field,
Steve Prefontaine!
470
00:38:30,754 --> 00:38:33,177
Lap ten of a very fast 5,000.
471
00:38:34,558 --> 00:38:37,072
The race now is between
Pre and Young.
472
00:38:46,904 --> 00:38:48,952
Pre takes the lead!
473
00:38:49,039 --> 00:38:51,462
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
474
00:38:51,542 --> 00:38:55,694
Can the kid break the veteran? One of
the guttiest runners in track history.
475
00:39:03,386 --> 00:39:07,072
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
476
00:39:08,258 --> 00:39:10,818
Little son of a gun's
goin' for the record.
477
00:39:12,362 --> 00:39:14,375
- Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick!
- Go for it! Go for it!
478
00:39:35,984 --> 00:39:38,839
Prefontaine misses
the world record...
479
00:39:38,921 --> 00:39:42,140
but shatters his own American
record by seven seconds.
480
00:39:50,032 --> 00:39:52,683
Congratulations.
You did it.
481
00:39:52,768 --> 00:39:54,690
We did it.
482
00:39:56,037 --> 00:39:58,892
You still think nobody cares
about the three-mile?
483
00:40:04,579 --> 00:40:07,503
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
484
00:40:10,451 --> 00:40:13,340
I never understood,
son, why you ran.
485
00:40:13,421 --> 00:40:16,743
Now she's a nervous wreck as
soon as you come on to the field.
486
00:40:16,824 --> 00:40:20,578
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
487
00:40:48,688 --> 00:40:53,580
Steve Prefontaine has capped an impressive
week for American track and field.
488
00:40:53,660 --> 00:40:56,480
Prefontaine celebrates
his 21 st victory today.
489
00:40:56,562 --> 00:41:00,350
Pre has won the 5,000, the glamour
event of these Olympic Trials.
490
00:41:00,432 --> 00:41:04,528
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
491
00:41:13,912 --> 00:41:16,494
It was like long ago
Steve had begun...
492
00:41:16,582 --> 00:41:20,632
this incredible dance with
the press and his fans.
493
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,575
Now the music was playing
faster and faster.
494
00:41:24,656 --> 00:41:26,578
How you feelin', Pre?
495
00:41:26,658 --> 00:41:28,637
- I'm feelin' very late.
- Are you ready?
496
00:41:28,726 --> 00:41:32,913
- Ready for what? - Come on, Pre.
You're always good for a quote.
497
00:41:32,997 --> 00:41:36,216
Pre, the experts say you're just a
21-year-old, inexperienced kid...
498
00:41:36,301 --> 00:41:38,587
who's never faced the
top European runners.
499
00:41:38,670 --> 00:41:42,527
Hey, Pre, how do you expect to beat
the best in the world on their turf?
500
00:41:42,607 --> 00:41:45,861
I'm going to run the last mile
under four minutes...
501
00:41:45,943 --> 00:41:47,956
and I dare anybody
to stay with me.
502
00:41:48,046 --> 00:41:51,902
That's crazy!
503
00:41:51,982 --> 00:41:55,065
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
504
00:41:59,256 --> 00:42:02,111
I guess this is good-bye.
505
00:42:07,798 --> 00:42:12,223
I've been dreamin' about this for
so long. Tell me it's really happening.
506
00:42:12,302 --> 00:42:15,123
Look, Steve,
I want you to know...
507
00:42:15,205 --> 00:42:17,457
you're more than
just my boyfriend.
508
00:42:17,541 --> 00:42:20,362
You're my hero too.
509
00:42:20,444 --> 00:42:22,866
I know you're gonna kick ass.
510
00:42:22,945 --> 00:42:26,130
What if I don't?
511
00:42:34,223 --> 00:42:36,145
I don't want to go.
512
00:42:38,394 --> 00:42:40,646
I'm scared.
513
00:43:00,682 --> 00:43:04,869
Only these people will
ever see this live...
514
00:43:04,953 --> 00:43:10,175
but you, along with almost
a billion other people...
515
00:43:10,258 --> 00:43:13,147
are seeing it on television.
516
00:43:13,228 --> 00:43:15,913
Okay, they just cued the doves.
Here they come.
517
00:43:15,997 --> 00:43:18,648
There go the Bavarian doves,
5,000 of them.
518
00:43:18,733 --> 00:43:21,121
They've dubbed this Olympiad...
519
00:43:21,201 --> 00:43:23,658
the "Serene Olympics".
520
00:43:23,737 --> 00:43:26,558
Those are the symbolic colors
of these Olympics...
521
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,655
instead of the Nazi banners
that flew here the last time.
522
00:43:29,743 --> 00:43:34,362
And here they come,
the United States of America.
523
00:43:34,448 --> 00:43:36,370
Great uniforms this year,
aren't they?
524
00:43:36,450 --> 00:43:38,372
Look.
525
00:43:38,452 --> 00:43:42,434
There's Steve Prefontaine, one of
America's best hopes for a gold medal.
526
00:43:44,291 --> 00:43:46,213
And there's Art Walker,
the triple jumper.
527
00:43:46,293 --> 00:43:49,807
- You guys see that Swedish long jumper?
- What do you think, I'm blind?
528
00:43:49,896 --> 00:43:54,151
She sure wasn't. The way she was checking
out every guy in the U.S. delegation.
529
00:43:54,233 --> 00:43:57,248
- For real? God bless America.
- That's right.
530
00:43:57,336 --> 00:44:01,432
- Goodbye.
- # Oh, say can you see #
531
00:44:01,507 --> 00:44:04,158
- Identification. Identification.
- # By the dawn's early light #
532
00:44:04,243 --> 00:44:08,464
- # By the twilight's last gleam... #
- Give it up, Galloway.
533
00:44:08,548 --> 00:44:11,108
If you get on the medal stand,
just move your lips.
534
00:44:13,820 --> 00:44:16,505
Home sweet home.
535
00:44:17,956 --> 00:44:20,811
What did they have, 5,000 doves?
536
00:44:20,892 --> 00:44:24,214
800 dancing girls?
537
00:44:24,296 --> 00:44:27,015
At least we know what they
spent their money on.
538
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:30,422
Look on the bright side, guys.
539
00:44:30,502 --> 00:44:33,153
To clean it, all we
need is a fire hose.
540
00:44:33,238 --> 00:44:35,160
Jesus.
541
00:45:27,991 --> 00:45:30,505
Mark Spitz has the lead. Here
comes Hayden Locke in the middle.
542
00:45:30,593 --> 00:45:33,517
Over here in lane eight,
it's John Murphy, putting on a sprint.
543
00:45:33,596 --> 00:45:36,053
John Murphy coming hard
in lane eight.
544
00:45:36,132 --> 00:45:41,650
Murphy's after Spitz! It's too late.
The winner is Mark Spitz! He's got six!
545
00:45:41,738 --> 00:45:45,025
And he's got a new world
and Olympic record.
546
00:45:45,107 --> 00:45:49,123
There is time for the Russians to go
to their big man, Alexander Belov.
547
00:45:49,211 --> 00:45:51,133
They're going to try.
548
00:45:53,615 --> 00:45:56,539
Alexander Belov!
And this time it is over.
549
00:45:58,487 --> 00:46:02,071
First it was indicated
the U.S. had won 49-48.
550
00:46:02,157 --> 00:46:04,079
That looks like the final score...
551
00:46:04,159 --> 00:46:06,810
although there is a big rhubarb
going on in front of the bench.
552
00:46:09,631 --> 00:46:12,953
No, no, no.
I'm serious. Come on.
553
00:46:13,034 --> 00:46:16,959
Guys who are trying to double up
on the 5,000 and 10,000?
554
00:46:17,038 --> 00:46:19,518
Bedford? Yifter? Lasse Viren?
555
00:46:19,607 --> 00:46:21,529
I'm not worried about them.
556
00:46:23,210 --> 00:46:26,225
- The race is in the bag.
- Shh.
557
00:46:26,314 --> 00:46:29,738
What the hell are
you drinkin', Pre?
558
00:46:29,817 --> 00:46:33,366
Last I looked, Bedford was
the world record holder.
559
00:46:33,454 --> 00:46:36,742
Viren just set a world record in
the two-mile last month.
560
00:46:36,824 --> 00:46:41,750
Viren's been running
good races, true. True.
561
00:46:41,829 --> 00:46:45,184
But when I make my move
with a mile to go...
562
00:46:45,265 --> 00:46:47,415
it's gonna be "whoosh"!
563
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:51,015
And those guy's will feel
like they hit a stone wall.
564
00:46:51,104 --> 00:46:53,186
"Whoosh"?
565
00:46:54,441 --> 00:46:57,262
"Whoosh".
566
00:46:57,344 --> 00:47:00,302
Frank Shorter of the United
States is still hanging back.
567
00:47:00,380 --> 00:47:05,135
You're watching the 10,000 meter final
live on a beautiful sunny day in Munich.
568
00:47:06,252 --> 00:47:08,174
There goes Viren, down.
569
00:47:08,254 --> 00:47:11,734
- Gammoudi trips over him and falls
off the track. - Man. Tough break.
570
00:47:11,824 --> 00:47:14,907
Not for Shorter!
571
00:47:14,994 --> 00:47:17,383
Come on, Frank.
Time to make your move.
572
00:47:17,463 --> 00:47:20,443
Don't count Viren out yet.
573
00:47:20,532 --> 00:47:22,454
...less than three laps to go.
574
00:47:22,534 --> 00:47:23,392
Amazing!
575
00:47:23,695 --> 00:47:27,607
After falling, Viren has quickly rejoined
the pack and is now moving into fifth.
576
00:47:27,642 --> 00:47:32,695
- Jesus, what a talent. - Yeah,
it's the best that money can buy.
577
00:47:32,778 --> 00:47:34,928
What's that supposed to mean?
578
00:47:35,014 --> 00:47:37,869
He's like a lot of
the top Europeans.
579
00:47:37,950 --> 00:47:41,806
He's got a fake government job that
doesn't cut into his training regime.
580
00:47:41,886 --> 00:47:45,538
Got an entourage of doctors
and trainers wherever he goes.
581
00:47:47,558 --> 00:47:52,643
But they're not athletes over here, man.
It's like they're national treasures.
582
00:47:52,730 --> 00:47:56,848
I don't know. Looks like
a goddamn stallion to me.
583
00:47:56,934 --> 00:47:59,823
And now, after six miles,
here they go.
584
00:47:59,904 --> 00:48:02,919
Passing slower runners.
The three of them going for the gold.
585
00:48:03,007 --> 00:48:06,955
This is unbelievable.
586
00:48:07,045 --> 00:48:09,365
- He's going after the record.
- The Finnish flag's still flying.
587
00:48:09,446 --> 00:48:13,633
Here comes Puttemans after Viren.
588
00:48:13,717 --> 00:48:15,969
Look at Viren accelerate.
589
00:48:16,053 --> 00:48:19,011
And Viren's going to hold it!
590
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,720
Lasse Viren the winner, 27:38.
591
00:48:25,796 --> 00:48:30,221
That breaks the world record
of 27:39.4...
592
00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:32,985
By about half a second.
593
00:48:33,070 --> 00:48:35,686
I'll tell you, Jim, there's
one man in these stands...
594
00:48:35,772 --> 00:48:39,628
that had better be worried having watched
this race, and that's Steve Prefontaine.
595
00:48:39,709 --> 00:48:44,032
The world record of Ron Clarke had stood
since 1965. There was Frank Shannon.
596
00:48:44,113 --> 00:48:48,436
Look at this. Here's
a bit of real Olympia.
597
00:48:48,517 --> 00:48:52,271
A kid, a blond-haired boy with the
Finnish flag leaping over the barrier...
598
00:48:54,156 --> 00:48:56,078
Viren!
599
00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:03,653
Look.
600
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,222
Hey, Pre, come here,
quick. I need you.
601
00:49:15,376 --> 00:49:18,197
God, he makes other guys look like
they're standin' still.
602
00:49:18,279 --> 00:49:22,101
Exactly. Stand still.
Don't move.
603
00:49:22,183 --> 00:49:26,233
To folks up there watchin', it's just
America's greatest distance runner...
604
00:49:26,321 --> 00:49:28,937
conferring with his two coaches.
605
00:49:29,023 --> 00:49:32,777
Down here, it's you two guys
covering me while I take a leak.
606
00:49:32,861 --> 00:49:36,546
- This isn't Eugene, Bill.
- I need a new race plan.
607
00:49:36,630 --> 00:49:40,111
- Relax, rube.
- Goddamn it, Bill. I'm serious.
608
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,852
Look, if you were running
the 400 against Viren...
609
00:49:43,937 --> 00:49:46,417
we could all join hands about
now and have a good cry.
610
00:49:46,507 --> 00:49:49,522
You're runnin'the 5,000.
611
00:49:51,345 --> 00:49:55,668
Listen to me, rube. On Saturday,
his posse won't mean squat.
612
00:49:55,749 --> 00:49:59,503
Bedford'll go out fast,
and you'll stay right on his butt.
613
00:49:59,586 --> 00:50:03,682
By the time you get ready to take over,
Viren's legs will be crap.
614
00:50:03,757 --> 00:50:08,546
The only kick he'll have left is the one
you give him in the ass on your way by.
615
00:50:23,784 --> 00:50:26,207
Look at Viren accelerate!
616
00:50:26,286 --> 00:50:28,436
And Viren's going to hold it!
617
00:50:28,522 --> 00:50:31,673
That breaks the world
record of 27:39...
618
00:51:25,443 --> 00:51:27,365
Hello?
619
00:51:27,445 --> 00:51:30,027
Hello. Is this the U.S. complex?
Please, is this...
620
00:51:30,114 --> 00:51:33,867
- Who the hell is this? - Shaoul Adami.
Something horrible is happening.
621
00:51:33,951 --> 00:51:36,533
I know it. Please.
I need your help.
622
00:51:39,256 --> 00:51:42,737
- What's going on? Where are you?
- I need you. Run! No!
623
00:51:42,826 --> 00:51:45,750
Run! No! No!
624
00:51:45,829 --> 00:51:48,514
- No!
- Hello? Hello?
625
00:51:54,972 --> 00:51:59,454
I've got an extreme emergency. Get me a
number inside of the American Embassy.
626
00:51:59,543 --> 00:52:01,794
Right away, damn it!
Do it now!
627
00:52:09,485 --> 00:52:12,136
This is an I.T.N. news flash...
628
00:52:12,221 --> 00:52:15,372
from the Olympic Village in Munich,
where Arab gunmen...
629
00:52:15,458 --> 00:52:18,018
The peace of what have been
called the "Serene Olympics"...
630
00:52:18,094 --> 00:52:20,574
was shattered just before
dawn this morning...
631
00:52:26,736 --> 00:52:30,024
Arriving passengers,
do not be alarmed.
632
00:52:30,106 --> 00:52:34,030
- American killed him?
- No, Israeli.
633
00:52:34,109 --> 00:52:37,966
Arab terrorists went to the
headquarters of the Israeli team...
634
00:52:38,046 --> 00:52:41,493
and immediately killed one man,
Moshe Weinberg, a coach.
635
00:52:41,583 --> 00:52:44,234
Two shots in the head,
one in the stomach.
636
00:52:44,319 --> 00:52:47,038
The guerillas are demanding
the release...
637
00:52:47,122 --> 00:52:50,569
of 250 Arabs held
prisoner in Israel...
638
00:52:50,659 --> 00:52:53,583
and have set noon as the
deadline for their release.
639
00:52:53,662 --> 00:52:56,142
They had set a deadline of noon...
640
00:52:56,231 --> 00:52:59,052
saying that they were going to kill
all of their hostages at that time.
641
00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:01,249
That deadline, obviously, has passed.
642
00:53:01,335 --> 00:53:04,816
There are men with guns
beginning to train those guns...
643
00:53:04,905 --> 00:53:07,825
on the rooms where the two heads
were sticking out a moment ago
644
00:53:08,082 --> 00:53:09,943
of the Arab guerilla lookouts.
645
00:53:09,978 --> 00:53:13,334
- One man with binoculars...
- Has anybody here seen Mark Spitz?
646
00:53:13,414 --> 00:53:16,099
- No. - Where in
the hell is Spitz?
647
00:53:16,183 --> 00:53:19,163
How many Jewish athletes
do we have on the team?
648
00:53:19,253 --> 00:53:22,609
This is happening now,
if you can possibly believe that.
649
00:53:22,690 --> 00:53:26,205
A crowd estimated
at 75,000 to 80,000 people...
650
00:53:26,293 --> 00:53:29,216
has gathered, awaiting
the outcome of this.
651
00:53:29,295 --> 00:53:33,686
Here are the men with what appear to be,
I suppose, submachine guns.
652
00:53:33,766 --> 00:53:38,055
These are the Germans. They are
the men trying to free the Israelis.
653
00:54:02,628 --> 00:54:05,552
They suspended the Games.
654
00:54:05,631 --> 00:54:08,555
Burke just told us.
655
00:54:08,634 --> 00:54:13,492
I guess murdered athletes
don't make for good sport.
656
00:54:13,572 --> 00:54:18,498
It's the right thing to do.
We should all go home now.
657
00:54:18,577 --> 00:54:20,761
Oh, I don't know.
658
00:54:20,846 --> 00:54:25,829
I know this is awful to say, 'cause
I feel terribly for those guys over there...
659
00:54:25,917 --> 00:54:30,671
but right now all I can think about
is how hard I've worked to get here.
660
00:54:30,755 --> 00:54:33,337
I feel ripped off, man.
661
00:54:33,424 --> 00:54:35,745
Is that where you're at, Pre?
662
00:54:51,375 --> 00:54:54,128
It's dark. It's 23 minutes
past 7:00 in the evening...
663
00:54:54,211 --> 00:54:57,691
and inside that little block
are ten Israelis,
664
00:54:57,781 --> 00:54:59,703
one of them believed dead...
665
00:54:59,783 --> 00:55:02,536
the other nine said to
be standing in a circle...
666
00:55:02,619 --> 00:55:05,179
hands tied behind their back
and lashed to each other...
667
00:55:11,294 --> 00:55:13,216
Come on, Pre.
668
00:55:17,233 --> 00:55:20,316
Grab your stuff. You're
staying with me tonight.
669
00:55:28,844 --> 00:55:30,994
Steve! Steve!
670
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,002
Steve!
671
00:55:33,082 --> 00:55:35,334
- I'm okay.
- I was so worried.
672
00:55:35,417 --> 00:55:37,874
On the plane it was
so awful, so awful.
673
00:55:37,953 --> 00:55:40,433
The guards won't let us in.
Oh, Steve!
674
00:55:43,592 --> 00:55:46,914
It's all right.
I'm okay.
675
00:55:46,995 --> 00:55:49,919
Pre, can you give us a sense
of the mood inside...
676
00:55:49,998 --> 00:55:53,252
Goddamn it!
Leave me alone!
677
00:55:53,335 --> 00:55:55,723
PeterJennings here in
the Olympic Village.
678
00:55:55,803 --> 00:55:59,159
One of the helicopters now proceeds
out over the Olympic site.
679
00:56:02,310 --> 00:56:05,632
You cannot exit this gate.
You must leave the area immediately.
680
00:56:05,713 --> 00:56:08,864
I'm sorry. I gotta get him out of here.
He'll be staying with me.
681
00:56:08,950 --> 00:56:11,839
I'll call you at the hotel, Mom.
682
00:56:11,919 --> 00:56:14,843
The Israeli hostages and
the Arab commandos...
683
00:56:14,922 --> 00:56:17,971
who have held them hostage
for this entire day...
684
00:56:18,415 --> 00:56:19,967
have now left,
685
00:56:20,314 --> 00:56:23,379
gone to a makeshift helicopter pad
at the back of the Olympic Village.
686
00:56:43,283 --> 00:56:46,036
I've just been told that
the German police...
687
00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:49,008
thought they had
the Arabs isolated...
688
00:56:49,089 --> 00:56:52,012
opened fire on them,
whereupon, reportedly...
689
00:56:52,091 --> 00:56:55,049
the Arabs threw a hand
grenade into the helicopter...
690
00:56:55,127 --> 00:56:58,415
- Ohhh. - blowing up the helicopter
and killing all the hostages.
691
00:56:58,497 --> 00:57:02,046
All of the hostages are dead.
692
00:57:02,134 --> 00:57:06,082
- Most of the Arabs are dead, three of
them are in hospitals, - What happened?
693
00:57:06,172 --> 00:57:08,857
and one of them may
still be on the loose.
694
00:57:08,941 --> 00:57:12,661
It's over.
Everybody's dead.
695
00:57:12,745 --> 00:57:15,100
They're all gone.
696
00:57:15,181 --> 00:57:18,105
The Israeli Olympic team
is destroyed...
697
00:57:18,184 --> 00:57:21,107
much of it, some of their officials.
698
00:57:21,186 --> 00:57:24,633
But what will happen to the
Games of the 20th Olympiad?
699
00:57:24,722 --> 00:57:29,477
None of us know what will happen
to the course of world history.
700
00:57:57,754 --> 00:58:00,769
I know this is hard, but you
gotta put this behind you.
701
00:58:00,858 --> 00:58:04,680
Behind me?
The Games are over.
702
00:58:04,761 --> 00:58:07,480
- The Games will resume.
- Yeah, right.
703
00:58:09,099 --> 00:58:11,750
They'll resume, and they'll
run the 5,000 meters.
704
00:58:11,835 --> 00:58:14,486
So what?
I'm not running.
705
00:58:14,571 --> 00:58:16,493
Calm down.
706
00:58:16,573 --> 00:58:18,620
Calm down?
707
00:58:18,708 --> 00:58:21,962
Come on.
Can't you see?
708
00:58:22,044 --> 00:58:24,968
It's all ruined now.
709
00:58:25,047 --> 00:58:28,198
With the "Happy Games. "
What a joke!
710
00:58:28,284 --> 00:58:31,435
I've been dreaming about
this since I was 16.
711
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,444
This is not how it's
supposed to be!
712
00:58:34,523 --> 00:58:37,242
They'll start back up
tomorrow or the day after.
713
00:58:37,326 --> 00:58:40,511
That's great. Great.
714
00:58:40,596 --> 00:58:43,485
That's just great.
715
00:58:45,401 --> 00:58:47,686
Over the dead bodies
of those athletes...
716
00:58:47,769 --> 00:58:49,987
we're gonna go on like
nothing happened.
717
00:58:50,071 --> 00:58:52,687
Run races and salute the flag!
718
00:58:52,774 --> 00:58:54,696
Pre, look at me.
719
00:58:54,776 --> 00:58:58,223
You think that Viren and Yifter
and Bedford are talking like this?
720
00:58:58,313 --> 00:59:01,828
You think they're wringing their hands
and packing their bags over this thing?
721
00:59:01,917 --> 00:59:04,431
They came here to win
a goddamn race!
722
00:59:04,519 --> 00:59:07,943
Now, maybe Viren's a sensitive
humanitarian back in Finland...
723
00:59:08,023 --> 00:59:11,447
but right now I'll bet there's a
little voice in his head, saying...
724
00:59:11,526 --> 00:59:15,451
"Hey, I just got an extra day's rest
for the 5,000. "
725
00:59:15,530 --> 00:59:18,953
An extra day's rest?
726
00:59:19,033 --> 00:59:21,547
That's not fair.
727
00:59:21,635 --> 00:59:23,557
- Pre, listen...
- Wait a second!
728
00:59:23,637 --> 00:59:27,152
- They can't let any of the 10,000 guys
off the hook... - Pre, listen to me!
729
00:59:27,241 --> 00:59:29,892
Now, you've got to
keep your focus!
730
00:59:29,977 --> 00:59:32,229
You're running phenomenal
intervals right now...
731
00:59:32,313 --> 00:59:35,396
and believe me,
those guys know it too.
732
00:59:35,482 --> 00:59:39,373
They're afraid of you.
Don't be afraid of them.
733
00:59:40,888 --> 00:59:43,903
I'm not afraid of them.
734
00:59:43,991 --> 00:59:46,470
I'm not afraid of anybody.
735
00:59:49,662 --> 00:59:52,313
One day away from the biggest
race in your life...
736
00:59:52,398 --> 00:59:54,650
what's going through your mind?
737
00:59:54,734 --> 00:59:57,521
I just want to run my race
and get it over with.
738
00:59:57,603 --> 00:59:59,787
Still predicting victory?
739
00:59:59,872 --> 01:00:01,988
Pre?
740
01:00:02,075 --> 01:00:04,691
I'm just doing the best I can.
741
01:00:06,145 --> 01:00:08,898
The basketball federation
has upheld...
742
01:00:08,982 --> 01:00:12,167
Russia's controversial
victory in basketball.
743
01:00:12,251 --> 01:00:15,208
Things continue to go downhill
for the United States in Munich.
744
01:00:33,338 --> 01:00:38,526
All competitors for the 5,000 meter
race,your event is next.
745
01:00:38,610 --> 01:00:43,536
Make sure your numbers are visible on
the front of jersey and right hip of shorts.
746
01:00:43,615 --> 01:00:48,233
Make sure your numbers are clearly visible
on front of jersey and right hip of shorts.
747
01:00:48,319 --> 01:00:52,369
Officials will check your number
at the entrance to the stadium.
748
01:01:01,966 --> 01:01:05,720
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
749
01:01:05,803 --> 01:01:09,091
This unquestionably,
I would say, Erich...
750
01:01:09,173 --> 01:01:11,391
is the quality field
of the Olympics.
751
01:01:11,475 --> 01:01:14,921
There are, perhaps, seven,
eight, nine or ten men in this field...
752
01:01:15,011 --> 01:01:17,935
that could easily take
the gold medal.
753
01:01:18,014 --> 01:01:21,836
Prefontaine told me the other night,
or about a week ago...
754
01:01:21,918 --> 01:01:25,843
"What I'm gonna try to do is work it out
so it'll be a pure guts race at the end...
755
01:01:25,922 --> 01:01:28,846
and if it is, I'm the only
one who can win. "
756
01:01:35,765 --> 01:01:38,814
I'd like to make this statement;
I think Steve Prefontaine...
757
01:01:38,902 --> 01:01:41,257
will be the Olympic
5,000 meter champion.
758
01:01:42,671 --> 01:01:45,458
I think he will break the world's
record at 5,000 meters...
759
01:01:45,541 --> 01:01:48,465
but I think he will have
to do it in Montreal.
760
01:01:48,544 --> 01:01:51,433
Because today,
Steve Prefontaine, 21 years old...
761
01:01:51,513 --> 01:01:53,697
is running up against
the very big boys.
762
01:01:53,782 --> 01:01:55,704
All right, you know the plan:
763
01:01:55,784 --> 01:01:58,207
You're gonna draft behind Bedford
until the last three laps...
764
01:01:58,287 --> 01:02:01,211
then you're gonna go out
and take over the race.
765
01:02:01,290 --> 01:02:04,680
Put the crap in all those
damn kickers' legs, Pre.
766
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,843
Feel like someone threw a
shot put down your throat?
767
01:02:07,930 --> 01:02:11,513
It'll all go away when
the gun sounds.
768
01:02:11,599 --> 01:02:14,523
I can't look.
769
01:02:14,602 --> 01:02:17,685
He'll do fine, Elfriede.
He'll do just fine.
770
01:02:17,772 --> 01:02:19,956
Here they are at the line.
771
01:02:20,041 --> 01:02:24,865
There's no field more talented than the
field that is running in the 5,000 meters.
772
01:02:27,381 --> 01:02:30,566
Auf die Platzen.
773
01:02:44,664 --> 01:02:46,848
A very slow pace, Jim.
774
01:02:46,933 --> 01:02:49,515
Sixty-nine-second quarters.
A very slow pace.
775
01:02:49,603 --> 01:02:53,289
This kind of slow pace
favors the finishers...
776
01:02:53,373 --> 01:02:56,092
like Ian Stewart, Lasse Viren...
777
01:02:58,345 --> 01:03:02,463
- Where is Bedford? David
Bedford of Britain. - Who?
778
01:03:02,549 --> 01:03:05,871
Bedford's always been a front-runner,
but he's way back.
779
01:03:05,952 --> 01:03:09,034
Only six laps to go, Erich.
780
01:03:09,121 --> 01:03:11,305
This is a little dangerous...
781
01:03:11,390 --> 01:03:13,847
even for Steve Prefontaine,
to let it go this slowly.
782
01:03:13,926 --> 01:03:15,746
This is not good.
783
01:03:15,828 --> 01:03:18,581
If it's so slow, why doesn't Pre
just take over?
784
01:03:18,664 --> 01:03:21,087
'Cause then everyone will
just draft right behind him.
785
01:03:21,167 --> 01:03:23,647
Leading drains you
more than following.
786
01:03:23,736 --> 01:03:26,296
I've never seen Pre
do anything but lead.
787
01:03:36,148 --> 01:03:38,160
Go, Steve!
788
01:03:38,249 --> 01:03:40,433
Sixty-seven on that last quarter.
789
01:03:40,518 --> 01:03:42,907
The kickers are licking their chops.
790
01:03:53,798 --> 01:03:55,880
Now Prefontaine moving up.
791
01:03:55,967 --> 01:03:58,049
And Steve Prefontaine
is going to take the lead.
792
01:03:58,136 --> 01:04:01,060
- One mile to go.
- Four laps to go.
793
01:04:05,243 --> 01:04:07,563
Steve! Steve! Steve!
794
01:04:17,654 --> 01:04:20,578
Viren is moving up on the outside.
795
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,440
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
796
01:04:47,516 --> 01:04:50,667
Here's Viren going for the lead.
797
01:04:50,753 --> 01:04:54,803
This is when Viren
makes his long drive.
798
01:04:54,890 --> 01:04:57,609
This could be the break
from the other group.
799
01:04:57,693 --> 01:05:02,642
You have Viren, Puttemans, Stewart,
Gammoudi and Prefontaine.
800
01:05:02,732 --> 01:05:05,188
No man at the age of
21 has ever won...
801
01:05:05,267 --> 01:05:08,020
this long, tough and
thinking man's race...
802
01:05:08,103 --> 01:05:10,287
the 5,000 meters.
803
01:05:20,048 --> 01:05:22,369
Prefontaine going
for the lead again.
804
01:05:22,450 --> 01:05:25,237
Just 600 yards to go, and he's
trying an all-out kick.
805
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:27,902
Come on, Pre!
806
01:05:27,989 --> 01:05:30,571
Look at that magnificent
little son of a bitch.
807
01:05:30,659 --> 01:05:33,583
He knows he can't out-kick Viren,
so he's going to sprint 600 yards.
808
01:05:33,662 --> 01:05:38,382
Pre is running a gutsy race.
What a kick he's putting on.
809
01:05:51,578 --> 01:05:53,660
It's gonna be a last lap fight.
810
01:05:53,747 --> 01:05:56,830
It seems impossible that Prefontaine
can out-kick Viren or Gammoudi.
811
01:05:56,917 --> 01:05:59,067
Viren!
Viren!
812
01:06:01,021 --> 01:06:03,500
Viren is going for his second
gold medal of the Games.
813
01:06:03,589 --> 01:06:05,511
Mohammed Gammoudi
is right with him.
814
01:06:05,591 --> 01:06:07,980
And so is Steve Prefontaine!
815
01:06:08,061 --> 01:06:10,211
The kid is showing all
the guts in the world.
816
01:06:10,296 --> 01:06:13,254
Go, World!
Kick their asses!
817
01:06:13,333 --> 01:06:17,019
He's hanging in there
with the kickers.
818
01:06:17,103 --> 01:06:19,458
Prefontaine going for the
lead with Gammoudi.
819
01:06:19,539 --> 01:06:21,359
You can do it!
Come on!
820
01:06:21,441 --> 01:06:24,092
Viren is still there.
821
01:06:24,177 --> 01:06:26,793
We're coming to you live
from the Munich Stadium.
822
01:06:26,879 --> 01:06:30,770
Nobody in the world knows how it's going to
turn out until they head down the stretch.
823
01:06:30,850 --> 01:06:34,945
Coming to the last turn!
Here comes Prefontaine!
824
01:06:35,020 --> 01:06:37,807
Let's go!
Come on, baby!
825
01:06:56,174 --> 01:06:58,153
And here it comes.
826
01:06:58,243 --> 01:07:02,292
The Brit's try to pass Prefontaine
for the bronze. It's going to be close.
827
01:07:28,739 --> 01:07:33,596
That man is one of the world's
greatest runners in a long time.
828
01:07:33,676 --> 01:07:38,602
At the age of 23, Lasse Viren,
the policeman from Finland, has won it.
829
01:07:38,681 --> 01:07:42,128
How do you feel about
winning two gold medals?
830
01:07:51,728 --> 01:07:53,980
He ran his heart out.
831
01:07:55,732 --> 01:07:57,711
He ran his heart out.
832
01:08:07,276 --> 01:08:09,232
Let him go.
833
01:08:09,311 --> 01:08:13,998
Viren! Viren! Viren!
834
01:08:14,082 --> 01:08:17,734
Viren! Viren!
Viren!
835
01:08:17,820 --> 01:08:22,188
Viren! Viren!
Viren! Viren!
836
01:08:22,363 --> 01:08:27,174
Viren! Viren!
Viren! Viren!
837
01:08:27,296 --> 01:08:30,048
This is the way it ended...
838
01:08:30,131 --> 01:08:33,316
almost four years ago on
that night in Mexico City.
839
01:08:40,374 --> 01:08:42,422
Pre?
840
01:08:44,745 --> 01:08:47,600
Oh, no!
841
01:08:55,056 --> 01:08:57,512
- Come on. Let's get you to bed.
- I lost it.
842
01:08:57,591 --> 01:09:01,072
- Come on. You need sleep.
- No. It's my fault.
843
01:09:01,161 --> 01:09:04,141
- Kid, stand up. Help me...
- It's my fault!
844
01:09:04,231 --> 01:09:06,688
- I fucked up!
- It's not your fault.
845
01:09:06,766 --> 01:09:09,985
It was in '66-'67...
846
01:09:10,070 --> 01:09:13,085
'67-'68.
847
01:09:13,173 --> 01:09:15,528
I'm sorry.
848
01:09:18,512 --> 01:09:21,197
Bedford never went out.
849
01:09:21,281 --> 01:09:24,261
Son of a bitch has been a
front-runner his whole life.
850
01:09:24,351 --> 01:09:26,671
He wimps out now.
851
01:09:26,752 --> 01:09:31,439
I'm such a fuckin' loser.
I fucked up!
852
01:09:31,524 --> 01:09:36,211
You're not a loser.
You ran your heart out.
853
01:09:38,364 --> 01:09:40,753
You got to try and let it go, Pre.
854
01:09:45,604 --> 01:09:46,792
Go, Pre.
855
01:09:48,876 --> 01:09:50,429
Go, Pre.
856
01:09:53,272 --> 01:09:54,914
Go, Pre.
857
01:10:41,058 --> 01:10:43,515
Welcome home.
858
01:10:43,594 --> 01:10:45,550
Hi, baby.
859
01:10:45,629 --> 01:10:48,951
There's no fans out there,
are there?
860
01:10:49,032 --> 01:10:50,954
No.
861
01:10:51,034 --> 01:10:52,956
Any reporters?
862
01:10:53,036 --> 01:10:56,357
No one knows you're back.
You okay?
863
01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:58,452
Yeah, I'm all right.
864
01:11:00,943 --> 01:11:02,865
Really, I am.
865
01:11:02,945 --> 01:11:06,369
I'm very proud of you, Steve.
The whole town is.
866
01:11:06,449 --> 01:11:09,873
Yeah, I'm sure. They'll probably
name a street after me.
867
01:11:09,952 --> 01:11:12,204
Call it "Fourth Street. "
868
01:11:24,065 --> 01:11:26,852
Hey!
Pre!
869
01:11:26,935 --> 01:11:29,517
Hey, Mac.
870
01:11:31,072 --> 01:11:33,529
I saw your race.
871
01:11:46,421 --> 01:11:49,845
Somebody forget to tell you
guys the season's over?
872
01:11:49,924 --> 01:11:53,040
Something's happened to Mac.
Must've bumped his head or something.
873
01:11:53,127 --> 01:11:55,277
He's lookin' awfully good.
874
01:11:55,362 --> 01:11:58,809
You, on the other hand,
look like shit.
875
01:11:58,899 --> 01:12:01,015
When'd you get back?
876
01:12:01,101 --> 01:12:03,183
Tell me the rumors
aren't true, Bill.
877
01:12:03,270 --> 01:12:05,352
Which rumors?
878
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,760
This is no time to retire.
879
01:12:07,841 --> 01:12:11,060
You know, someone once said,
"He who runs against time...
880
01:12:11,145 --> 01:12:14,501
has an adversary not
subject to casualties. "
881
01:12:14,581 --> 01:12:18,802
I'm 62. I'm gettin'
too old for all this.
882
01:12:18,886 --> 01:12:21,809
That's bullshit.
883
01:12:21,888 --> 01:12:24,903
You're the best damn
coach in the world.
884
01:12:24,991 --> 01:12:30,440
Who presided over the worst performance
of a U.S. team in Olympic history?
885
01:12:33,066 --> 01:12:35,318
That wasn't your fault.
886
01:12:35,401 --> 01:12:39,497
After all that happened,
you couldn't run those races for us.
887
01:12:39,572 --> 01:12:41,995
We're the ones that blew it.
888
01:12:42,075 --> 01:12:43,997
I blew it.
889
01:12:44,077 --> 01:12:46,295
You could've run for the bronze.
890
01:12:46,379 --> 01:12:49,336
You could've run for the silver.
891
01:12:49,414 --> 01:12:52,338
You ran to win.
892
01:12:52,417 --> 01:12:55,102
I couldn't ask more than
that from an athlete.
893
01:12:57,255 --> 01:12:59,576
It's funny.
These days...
894
01:12:59,658 --> 01:13:03,583
I don't know if I want to train like
hell and kick Lasse Viren's ass...
895
01:13:03,662 --> 01:13:06,222
or stay in bed.
896
01:13:06,298 --> 01:13:10,689
Look, you're not some rube
from Coos Bay anymore.
897
01:13:10,769 --> 01:13:13,954
Nobody's gonna wipe your behind,
warm your milk.
898
01:13:14,039 --> 01:13:16,599
We're past all that now.
899
01:13:16,675 --> 01:13:19,962
If you want to run, you run.
900
01:13:20,044 --> 01:13:23,696
If you don't,
then you walk away from it.
901
01:13:23,781 --> 01:13:27,638
Nobody can coach desire, Pre.
902
01:13:47,570 --> 01:13:49,492
Ellie!
903
01:14:02,418 --> 01:14:05,307
I like your hair that way.
It makes you look older.
904
01:14:05,388 --> 01:14:08,505
I mean, uh, in a good way.
905
01:14:10,593 --> 01:14:13,312
Yeah, you don't look like a boy
from Coos Bay anymore either.
906
01:14:18,500 --> 01:14:21,719
When we first came up here...
907
01:14:21,804 --> 01:14:25,422
I thought that was the way
it was gonna be.
908
01:14:25,507 --> 01:14:29,193
You and me, forever.
909
01:14:30,979 --> 01:14:35,495
Things definitely don't always turn
out the way you expect them to.
910
01:14:35,584 --> 01:14:38,200
You know?
911
01:14:39,988 --> 01:14:43,310
I've been reading about
your running in the paper.
912
01:14:43,392 --> 01:14:46,315
You're reading the sports pages?
913
01:14:46,394 --> 01:14:48,316
Yeah.
914
01:14:48,396 --> 01:14:52,947
After we broke up,
I resented it even more.
915
01:14:53,034 --> 01:14:56,390
I thought, if he hadn't
have done all that...
916
01:14:56,470 --> 01:15:00,361
then we would've just stayed in
Coos Bay and lived happily ever after.
917
01:15:03,244 --> 01:15:06,930
But then I watched your
Olympic race on TV...
918
01:15:08,249 --> 01:15:10,934
and I realized...
919
01:15:11,018 --> 01:15:13,805
it's really what you love.
920
01:15:15,188 --> 01:15:18,077
It's really who you are, Steve.
921
01:15:44,783 --> 01:15:48,503
Well, it took a while,
but Pre bounced back.
922
01:15:51,390 --> 01:15:53,642
Hell, he had a great senior year.
923
01:16:03,769 --> 01:16:07,216
Steve Prefontaine,
University of Oregon senior...
924
01:16:07,306 --> 01:16:09,456
wins his fourth straight
N.C.A.A. title...
925
01:16:09,541 --> 01:16:12,101
and breaks his own
American record again.
926
01:16:12,177 --> 01:16:14,736
But something was missing.
927
01:16:14,812 --> 01:16:17,326
You know?
Something was different.
928
01:16:20,351 --> 01:16:23,832
That spark he had before
Munich was gone.
929
01:16:23,922 --> 01:16:26,902
Although the words
may be ambiguous...
930
01:16:26,991 --> 01:16:29,607
Let me get another
one down here.
931
01:16:29,694 --> 01:16:32,481
Hey, it's not every day you get
big track stars serving beers.
932
01:16:32,563 --> 01:16:34,485
Hey, Pre, you still running?
933
01:16:34,565 --> 01:16:38,661
Of course he is, you idiot. He has to go
to Montreal and kick some serious butt.
934
01:16:38,736 --> 01:16:41,852
Put things right after what happened
in Munich. Right, Pre?
935
01:16:41,939 --> 01:16:43,952
Am I right, Pre?
936
01:16:44,041 --> 01:16:46,521
The transcripts themselves do
not make things perfectly clear.
937
01:16:46,610 --> 01:16:49,226
- Get you something?
- A bottle of Bud.
938
01:16:52,983 --> 01:16:55,497
I'm Mike O'Hara.
939
01:16:55,585 --> 01:16:58,008
There is testimony to support
John Dean's version...
940
01:16:58,088 --> 01:17:00,648
"To the President of the A.T.U.
941
01:17:00,724 --> 01:17:04,911
A representative of the new Professional
Track League has recently approached me. "
942
01:17:04,995 --> 01:17:08,476
I'm prepared to offer you more
than I paid Keino, Ryun...
943
01:17:08,565 --> 01:17:12,352
Seagren and Lee Evans combined.
944
01:17:12,435 --> 01:17:14,892
Two hundred thousand dollars.
945
01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:19,726
Two hundred thousand?
946
01:17:19,809 --> 01:17:22,562
"I feel for me to continue now
as an amateur...
947
01:17:22,645 --> 01:17:25,125
"I must get the support
and experience...
948
01:17:25,214 --> 01:17:28,229
"I need to win in Montreal in '76.
949
01:17:28,317 --> 01:17:32,208
"I love my country, but does it
love me enough to allow me...
950
01:17:32,288 --> 01:17:36,679
"to compete in Finland
against my real competition?
951
01:17:36,759 --> 01:17:40,376
"Please let me have a chance
to become the best...
952
01:17:40,462 --> 01:17:43,147
"so I can bring home the gold.
953
01:17:43,231 --> 01:17:47,122
I'm waiting on your answer.
Sincerely, Steve Prefontaine. "
954
01:18:12,059 --> 01:18:13,981
Screw 'em!
955
01:18:14,061 --> 01:18:15,983
What's it say?
956
01:18:16,063 --> 01:18:19,510
They're gonna make me run
in Russia instead of Finland.
957
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,251
Tell 'em to shove it and
go race Viren anyway.
958
01:18:22,336 --> 01:18:25,920
If I don't run their bullshit TV money
meets in Russia, Cunningham says...
959
01:18:26,006 --> 01:18:28,884
they're gonna suspend me from
any international competition
960
01:18:29,238 --> 01:18:31,707
- for a whole goddamn year.
- What? - Yeah.
961
01:18:32,174 --> 01:18:35,770
People say I should be running
for the gold in Montreal.
962
01:18:35,849 --> 01:18:38,601
For good old
"Red, White and Blue. "
963
01:18:38,684 --> 01:18:40,663
But where has it gotten me?
964
01:18:40,753 --> 01:18:44,678
Living hear on food stamps,
begging for crumbs from the A.T.U.
965
01:18:44,757 --> 01:18:48,944
I never protested.
I always saluted the flag.
966
01:18:49,028 --> 01:18:50,984
But what about at Montreal?
967
01:18:51,064 --> 01:18:53,646
Right now I feel like saying,
to hell with Montreal.
968
01:18:53,733 --> 01:18:56,657
To hell with love of country.
I'm lookin' out for me.
969
01:18:56,736 --> 01:18:59,489
Right now I feel like saying,
to hell with Montreal.
970
01:18:59,572 --> 01:19:02,257
To hell with love of country.
I'm lookin' out for me.
971
01:19:02,341 --> 01:19:05,094
An angry Steve Prefontaine
lashes out...
972
01:19:05,178 --> 01:19:07,759
- Two beers.
- Don't want 'em.
973
01:19:07,846 --> 01:19:10,303
That's a buck.
You ordered 'em.
974
01:19:10,382 --> 01:19:13,237
- Changed my mind.
- It's okay. We can still pay.
975
01:19:13,318 --> 01:19:15,400
Forget that.
I'm leavin', man.
976
01:19:15,487 --> 01:19:17,569
To hell with the country, huh?
977
01:19:17,656 --> 01:19:20,580
Maybe he's just scared that he'll
tank again like he did in Munich.
978
01:19:20,659 --> 01:19:22,581
Well, to hell with him.
979
01:19:22,661 --> 01:19:24,640
- Hey, come on! Take it outside!
- I'll kill ya!
980
01:19:24,729 --> 01:19:26,913
You're a loser!
981
01:19:26,998 --> 01:19:28,920
Get the hell out!
982
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,560
You're goin'down, man!
You're a loser!
983
01:19:40,911 --> 01:19:43,596
What's wrong?
984
01:19:43,681 --> 01:19:46,434
Be honest with me.
985
01:19:46,517 --> 01:19:49,077
Out there at the meets...
986
01:19:49,153 --> 01:19:51,474
tell me the truth...
987
01:19:51,555 --> 01:19:54,240
do I still look like a runner?
988
01:19:54,325 --> 01:19:57,146
Oh, God, Steve.
989
01:19:57,228 --> 01:20:00,186
What is it?
990
01:20:02,867 --> 01:20:06,290
I keep thinking, uh...
991
01:20:06,369 --> 01:20:09,293
what if I don't win
in Montreal?
992
01:20:11,107 --> 01:20:13,792
It's like...
993
01:20:13,877 --> 01:20:16,334
deep down...
994
01:20:16,412 --> 01:20:19,336
I want to turn pro
not for the money...
995
01:20:19,415 --> 01:20:22,634
but so I'll never have
to face Viren again.
996
01:20:22,719 --> 01:20:25,643
Didn't you say once that when
a guy gives you his best shot...
997
01:20:25,722 --> 01:20:28,236
and you beat him anyway,
that you own him?
998
01:20:28,324 --> 01:20:30,542
I didn't give him my
best shot in Munich.
999
01:20:30,627 --> 01:20:32,549
Exactly.
1000
01:20:32,629 --> 01:20:36,883
He doesn't own me.
I got boxed in at the last turn.
1001
01:20:36,965 --> 01:20:40,014
I know that.
1002
01:20:44,740 --> 01:20:47,664
I can't beat Viren...
1003
01:20:47,743 --> 01:20:50,598
if I can't race him, Nancy.
1004
01:21:14,569 --> 01:21:17,129
Hey, Pre! Pre!
How's your training going?
1005
01:21:17,205 --> 01:21:19,856
Why don't you guys go buy
somebody else for a change?
1006
01:21:19,941 --> 01:21:23,866
Are you anxious to get back to Europe this
summer and get another crack at Viren?
1007
01:21:23,945 --> 01:21:28,063
The only way I'm gonna get near Viren
is if he takes his summer vacation here.
1008
01:21:28,149 --> 01:21:32,073
Personally, I'd like to give Viren a
5,000-meter tour of Hayward Field.
1009
01:21:35,055 --> 01:21:37,068
Listen up, Pre fans.
1010
01:21:37,157 --> 01:21:39,580
Members of the
Finnish National Team...
1011
01:21:39,659 --> 01:21:41,638
have formally accepted
an invitation...
1012
01:21:41,728 --> 01:21:44,481
from Steve Prefontaine
to come and compete...
1013
01:21:44,564 --> 01:21:47,818
against the Oregon Track Club
at Hayward Field this summer.
1014
01:21:47,901 --> 01:21:50,153
Athletes can't go off
half-cocked...
1015
01:21:50,237 --> 01:21:52,660
inviting foreign teams
into the U.S. for meets.
1016
01:21:52,739 --> 01:21:54,661
Only the A.T.U. does that.
1017
01:21:54,741 --> 01:21:56,925
What?
Go off half-cocked?
1018
01:21:59,746 --> 01:22:02,999
We control the issuance of all
travel permits for the purpose...
1019
01:22:03,082 --> 01:22:07,530
Travel permits of U.S. athletes,
not foreign. I've read the guidelines.
1020
01:22:07,620 --> 01:22:10,544
Well, if you, uh,
read the guidelines...
1021
01:22:10,623 --> 01:22:13,774
then you know that if you promote
an unsanctioned meet...
1022
01:22:13,859 --> 01:22:16,874
you can kiss your amateur
status good-bye.
1023
01:22:19,698 --> 01:22:22,121
So, what's it gonna be?
1024
01:22:23,369 --> 01:22:25,792
Race Viren in Oregon...
1025
01:22:25,871 --> 01:22:29,295
or race him in Montreal?
1026
01:22:29,375 --> 01:22:32,559
Is this America or what? How can
they threaten athletes like this?
1027
01:22:32,644 --> 01:22:36,228
I just don't want to lose my
amateur status. I've worked hard.
1028
01:22:36,314 --> 01:22:38,669
So you want to take on
the whole A.T.U.?
1029
01:22:38,750 --> 01:22:42,971
Yeah. We call their bluff,
plain and simple.
1030
01:22:43,054 --> 01:22:45,909
Look, Mac...
1031
01:22:45,990 --> 01:22:48,447
do you want that Finn
discus guy or not?
1032
01:22:48,526 --> 01:22:50,983
- I want Kahma.
- And I want Viren.
1033
01:22:51,062 --> 01:22:54,987
This will be our only chance to
face those guys before Montreal.
1034
01:22:55,066 --> 01:22:57,648
If we do this,
there won't be any Montreal.
1035
01:22:57,735 --> 01:22:59,850
It's pretty risky, Pre.
1036
01:22:59,936 --> 01:23:02,518
Hey, Pre, a little help here?
1037
01:23:03,974 --> 01:23:06,556
I'm going ahead.
1038
01:23:08,245 --> 01:23:10,998
You're either with
me or you're not.
1039
01:23:14,117 --> 01:23:16,733
Two more beers, please.
1040
01:23:16,820 --> 01:23:19,072
Great.
Thanks.
1041
01:23:31,467 --> 01:23:33,389
Jesus, Bill.
1042
01:23:33,469 --> 01:23:35,391
Doc said it was a seizure.
1043
01:23:35,471 --> 01:23:39,396
Guess I've sniffed too much
shoe glue over the years.
1044
01:23:39,475 --> 01:23:42,228
I passed out right
here on the floor.
1045
01:23:42,311 --> 01:23:44,529
Nerve damage, he says.
1046
01:23:46,048 --> 01:23:48,266
You gotta stop with the shoes.
1047
01:23:48,351 --> 01:23:52,242
I'm well-ventilated now.
Don't worry about me.
1048
01:23:54,590 --> 01:23:58,377
According to the newspapers,
you got plenty of worries of your own.
1049
01:24:00,128 --> 01:24:03,484
A.T.U.'s making everybody
really nervous, Bill.
1050
01:24:05,433 --> 01:24:07,481
I could use your help.
1051
01:24:07,569 --> 01:24:09,992
I'm retired.
1052
01:24:10,071 --> 01:24:13,154
Wait a second.
What did you used to say?
1053
01:24:13,241 --> 01:24:16,722
"It's hard to slay a dragon
in his own backyard"?
1054
01:24:16,811 --> 01:24:20,929
The A.T.U. will think twice
about defying you here.
1055
01:24:23,351 --> 01:24:26,308
You're the one that's bigger
than the A.T.U. now.
1056
01:24:26,387 --> 01:24:32,075
See if they have the balls to try to stop
Steve Prefontaine from going to Montreal.
1057
01:24:32,159 --> 01:24:34,582
My quarter says they don't.
1058
01:24:38,332 --> 01:24:41,722
We don't even have a sports
plan in this country.
1059
01:24:41,802 --> 01:24:44,225
No sports medicine.
1060
01:24:44,304 --> 01:24:46,886
No training facilities.
1061
01:24:46,974 --> 01:24:49,659
After college, our best
amateur athletes...
1062
01:24:49,743 --> 01:24:53,258
are put out to pasture and forgotten
about until the Olympics.
1063
01:24:53,347 --> 01:24:57,601
And then you guys and America...
1064
01:24:57,683 --> 01:25:01,471
wants to know,
where are the gold medals?
1065
01:25:01,554 --> 01:25:07,140
Now, I'm not a greedy athlete
looking for a handout.
1066
01:25:07,226 --> 01:25:11,913
I just turned down a lot of money
to chase the gold in Montreal...
1067
01:25:11,998 --> 01:25:16,389
and, uh, and all I want...
1068
01:25:16,469 --> 01:25:19,120
all we want...
1069
01:25:19,205 --> 01:25:24,130
is a fighting chance
to fulfill our dreams.
1070
01:25:24,209 --> 01:25:27,997
This meet is just one
small attempt by us...
1071
01:25:28,079 --> 01:25:32,698
the athletes, to take control
of our own destinies.
1072
01:25:32,784 --> 01:25:34,763
Pre!
1073
01:25:34,853 --> 01:25:39,301
No.
1074
01:25:40,859 --> 01:25:44,010
Okay, how are we picking up
the Finns from the airport?
1075
01:25:44,095 --> 01:25:46,313
In my MG.
1076
01:25:46,398 --> 01:25:48,821
A dozen athletes?
1077
01:25:48,900 --> 01:25:51,289
Ohh, I'll make a few trips.
1078
01:25:51,369 --> 01:25:54,383
And I suppose the pole vault
poles will go in the trunk?
1079
01:25:54,472 --> 01:25:56,622
- Hey.
- Hey, Mac.
1080
01:25:56,707 --> 01:25:59,961
This just came in
down at the track.
1081
01:26:02,246 --> 01:26:04,669
From the A.T.U.
1082
01:26:07,218 --> 01:26:09,641
What now? Are they
sentencing me to prison?
1083
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,575
A firing squad would be
more my recommendation.
1084
01:26:20,865 --> 01:26:22,786
They caved.
1085
01:26:24,100 --> 01:26:26,113
The meet's sanctioned.
1086
01:26:26,202 --> 01:26:28,386
Ha-ha!
Yes!
1087
01:26:28,471 --> 01:26:30,723
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- All right!
1088
01:26:30,807 --> 01:26:34,732
Nancy!
Yeah!
1089
01:26:34,811 --> 01:26:36,733
Yeah?
1090
01:26:36,813 --> 01:26:39,532
Hey, Yacco, how're you doin'?
1091
01:26:39,616 --> 01:26:42,596
Mm-hmm.
Good news.
1092
01:26:42,685 --> 01:26:45,370
Hey, Mac,you're gonna
get your shot.
1093
01:26:45,455 --> 01:26:48,242
Pentti Kahma's definitely coming.
1094
01:26:48,324 --> 01:26:50,645
Yeah!
1095
01:26:50,727 --> 01:26:53,650
- All right, Mac.
- What's that?
1096
01:26:59,635 --> 01:27:01,785
All right, thanks.
1097
01:27:01,870 --> 01:27:04,794
Yeah, I'll talk to you soon.
1098
01:27:11,213 --> 01:27:14,137
Viren's not coming.
1099
01:27:14,216 --> 01:27:18,732
Yacco says he, uh,
strained a muscle.
1100
01:27:24,692 --> 01:27:27,616
Come on, guys.
Let's go.
1101
01:27:37,672 --> 01:27:41,927
Damn it! I should've known he'd
never run against me here!
1102
01:27:42,009 --> 01:27:45,228
Screw the whole thing!
1103
01:27:45,313 --> 01:27:48,202
- Steve. - Screw the whole
goddamn meet.
1104
01:27:48,282 --> 01:27:51,535
People have bought plane tickets.
There are guys who are counting on this.
1105
01:27:51,618 --> 01:27:53,734
Yeah?
Well, they'll live.
1106
01:28:05,031 --> 01:28:08,455
Curtis Cunningham will have a
field day with this in the press.
1107
01:28:08,535 --> 01:28:11,390
The son of a bitch
will rub my nose in it.
1108
01:28:14,140 --> 01:28:17,257
I never asked to lead the fight
against the A.T.U. anyway.
1109
01:28:20,479 --> 01:28:22,458
Well, somebody better tell them.
1110
01:28:36,495 --> 01:28:38,713
Oh, man.
1111
01:28:45,004 --> 01:28:47,858
Ah, hell, the meet's still on.
1112
01:29:07,759 --> 01:29:09,977
All I wanted was Viren.
1113
01:29:11,329 --> 01:29:14,480
Well, Viren's not so
sure he wants you.
1114
01:29:14,565 --> 01:29:17,146
Which should tell you...
1115
01:29:17,234 --> 01:29:19,520
he doesn't own you.
1116
01:29:41,725 --> 01:29:44,285
You ready to run?
1117
01:29:44,361 --> 01:29:46,282
Bill.
1118
01:29:46,362 --> 01:29:49,877
Can't run without proper shoes.
1119
01:29:49,965 --> 01:29:52,081
That a one-piece toe?
1120
01:29:52,168 --> 01:29:55,558
Yep. And they are
a thing of beauty.
1121
01:29:55,638 --> 01:29:58,687
Piss it all.
Give me a second.
1122
01:29:58,774 --> 01:30:00,958
What are you doing?
1123
01:30:01,043 --> 01:30:04,331
- My new business partner.
- You got a business partner?
1124
01:30:04,413 --> 01:30:07,564
Yeah, a former walk-on of mine
with average speed.
1125
01:30:07,650 --> 01:30:09,902
Says when we put these
in production...
1126
01:30:09,985 --> 01:30:12,965
we're gonna need a splashy logo
if we expect 'em to sell.
1127
01:30:13,055 --> 01:30:15,705
What's that supposed to be?
1128
01:30:15,790 --> 01:30:18,611
We're calling 'em
the Nike Swoosh.
1129
01:30:18,693 --> 01:30:20,945
The what swoosh?
1130
01:30:21,029 --> 01:30:23,145
His idea.
1131
01:30:23,231 --> 01:30:25,847
Greek goddess of victory, 490 B.C.
1132
01:30:25,934 --> 01:30:28,858
Well, it looks like needless
wind resistance to me.
1133
01:30:28,937 --> 01:30:32,156
With us in the booth
for the first time ever...
1134
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:35,858
former Duck coach and legend-in-residence,
Bill Bowerman.
1135
01:30:35,944 --> 01:30:39,198
- Welcome, Bill.
- It's nice to be here, Wendy.
1136
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:42,829
Down on the field,
Finland's Pentti Kahma...
1137
01:30:42,916 --> 01:30:45,840
the top-ranked discus
thrower in the world.
1138
01:30:50,023 --> 01:30:52,275
There's one heck of a toss, Bill.
1139
01:30:54,361 --> 01:30:58,479
With a final throw of 211 feet,
four inches.
1140
01:30:59,700 --> 01:31:02,988
Uh... last up in the discus...
1141
01:31:03,070 --> 01:31:06,494
now, um, Oregon's own Mac Wilkins.
1142
01:31:06,573 --> 01:31:08,495
Hey, there's Pre!
1143
01:31:08,575 --> 01:31:10,657
- There he is!
- Hey, Pre!
1144
01:31:10,744 --> 01:31:13,098
- Pre!
- Pre!
1145
01:31:15,548 --> 01:31:20,133
This will be Mac's final throw.
Currently in second place.
1146
01:31:37,570 --> 01:31:41,084
Wilkins delivers his
best toss ever...
1147
01:31:41,173 --> 01:31:43,858
212 feet, three inches.
1148
01:31:43,942 --> 01:31:45,955
He wins the competition.
1149
01:31:46,044 --> 01:31:49,525
And he establishes a new
Hayward Field record.
1150
01:31:49,614 --> 01:31:53,061
For today, Mac Wilkins is the
best discus man in the world.
1151
01:32:08,300 --> 01:32:10,813
Hold this for me until
the end of the race.
1152
01:32:10,901 --> 01:32:12,755
Good luck, Steve.
1153
01:32:12,837 --> 01:32:14,759
Go get 'em, son.
1154
01:32:14,839 --> 01:32:16,921
Hi.
1155
01:32:21,512 --> 01:32:24,072
Do I look like a runner?
1156
01:32:28,953 --> 01:32:31,035
This will be the final event...
1157
01:32:31,121 --> 01:32:34,010
of today's first annual
Finn/Oregon Meet.
1158
01:32:34,091 --> 01:32:36,013
5,000 meters.
1159
01:32:36,093 --> 01:32:38,414
Ah, what the hell.
1160
01:32:40,797 --> 01:32:43,220
Thanks for coming and
bailing me out, Shorter.
1161
01:32:43,299 --> 01:32:45,221
I love sticking it to the A.T.U.
1162
01:32:45,301 --> 01:32:47,451
Are you going to the
party tonight?
1163
01:32:47,537 --> 01:32:50,188
- Runners to your mark.
- I guess so.
1164
01:32:50,273 --> 01:32:52,833
I'll see you there.
1165
01:32:59,048 --> 01:33:02,302
With two laps to go,
Pre makes his move.
1166
01:33:10,759 --> 01:33:14,013
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1167
01:33:14,096 --> 01:33:16,815
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
1168
01:33:16,899 --> 01:33:18,617
Go, Steve!
1169
01:33:18,700 --> 01:33:21,157
Come on!
Come on!
1170
01:33:21,236 --> 01:33:24,091
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1171
01:33:26,241 --> 01:33:30,792
I hope you people at home realize
what a rare runner this man is.
1172
01:33:37,585 --> 01:33:41,976
The kind a coach sees
only once in a lifetime.
1173
01:33:42,056 --> 01:33:45,605
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1174
01:33:47,561 --> 01:33:50,041
Come on, Steve!
Go, son!
1175
01:33:50,415 --> 01:33:53,352
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
1176
01:33:53,470 --> 01:33:56,803
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
1177
01:34:24,431 --> 01:34:28,447
Hey, Mac, you really
kicked Kahma's ass today.
1178
01:34:28,535 --> 01:34:31,151
I couldn't have done it
without this meet.
1179
01:34:31,237 --> 01:34:34,422
- # Once you get started #
- You know something?
1180
01:34:34,507 --> 01:34:37,430
It's like all those years,
to me...
1181
01:34:37,509 --> 01:34:39,795
you were just a talented
little jerk.
1182
01:34:39,878 --> 01:34:42,164
I'm serious.
You were a jerk.
1183
01:34:42,247 --> 01:34:44,602
I never understood you.
1184
01:34:44,683 --> 01:34:47,106
It took me a while too.
1185
01:34:47,186 --> 01:34:49,268
Well, now I do.
1186
01:34:49,355 --> 01:34:52,142
I live and breathe the discus, Pre.
1187
01:34:52,224 --> 01:34:54,510
I mean, I hate Christmas...
1188
01:34:54,593 --> 01:34:56,879
and Thanksgiving and Easter...
1189
01:34:56,962 --> 01:34:59,112
and anything that
disrupts my routine.
1190
01:34:59,198 --> 01:35:03,453
It worked for you today, man.
You beat the best.
1191
01:35:03,535 --> 01:35:06,514
Didn't always work for me.
1192
01:35:06,604 --> 01:35:09,289
Yeah, well, you aren't done yet.
1193
01:35:09,374 --> 01:35:11,695
No, I'm not.
1194
01:35:14,779 --> 01:35:18,465
# Once you get started #
1195
01:35:18,549 --> 01:35:20,369
# Oh, it's hard to stop #
1196
01:35:20,451 --> 01:35:23,875
Everybody shut up, will you?
1197
01:35:25,957 --> 01:35:28,915
I think we should all raise our
glasses to our Finnish guests...
1198
01:35:28,993 --> 01:35:31,644
for coming and making the
meet such a great success.
1199
01:35:31,729 --> 01:35:34,879
Hear!
Hear!
1200
01:35:34,965 --> 01:35:37,752
And, uh, to my roommate Pre.
1201
01:35:40,971 --> 01:35:42,984
Some guys win races.
1202
01:35:43,073 --> 01:35:46,657
Other guys watch and
learn and pass it on.
1203
01:35:46,743 --> 01:35:49,894
I never thought I'd learn so much
from a guy from Coos Bay.
1204
01:35:49,980 --> 01:35:52,767
But I did.
1205
01:35:52,849 --> 01:35:57,104
And, uh, I've enjoyed
every damn minute.
1206
01:35:57,187 --> 01:36:00,167
So... to Steve.
1207
01:36:00,257 --> 01:36:02,816
To Steve.
1208
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:06,944
Well, this was a team effort...
1209
01:36:07,029 --> 01:36:11,420
and thanks to everybody here
who helped put this together.
1210
01:36:13,469 --> 01:36:17,565
There's a feeling I got today
unlike any other.
1211
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:20,393
I guess, uh...
1212
01:36:22,144 --> 01:36:25,898
I guess it's what I thought
Munich would be.
1213
01:36:29,652 --> 01:36:32,006
I'm so glad we did this.
1214
01:36:35,523 --> 01:36:38,208
Way to go, World.
1215
01:36:38,293 --> 01:36:40,909
- Yeah.
- Way to go, Steve.
1216
01:36:43,965 --> 01:36:48,891
# They say every man
needs protection #
1217
01:36:51,306 --> 01:36:56,733
# They say that
every man must fall #
1218
01:36:59,948 --> 01:37:04,532
# Yet I swear I see
my reflection #
1219
01:37:07,187 --> 01:37:12,045
# Somewhere so high
above this wall #
1220
01:37:14,495 --> 01:37:17,350
# I see my life... #
1221
01:37:36,182 --> 01:37:39,003
Jesus Christ!
Come on! Hold on!
1222
01:37:39,085 --> 01:37:42,202
- Can't breathe.
- Hold on, kid. I'll get you.
1223
01:37:42,288 --> 01:37:45,041
Somebody help me!
1224
01:37:50,463 --> 01:37:53,284
I'm gonna...
I'm gonna get help.
1225
01:39:02,065 --> 01:39:06,081
He's dead, and that's final.
1226
01:39:06,169 --> 01:39:11,027
No amount of misery or suffering
by me is gonna bring him back.
1227
01:39:11,107 --> 01:39:13,826
I remember realizing that...
1228
01:39:13,910 --> 01:39:18,358
I had kind of settled for things
since we had broken up.
1229
01:39:18,448 --> 01:39:21,269
And he never did that.
1230
01:39:26,688 --> 01:39:30,112
I looked at him at that party
that night, and I thought...
1231
01:39:30,192 --> 01:39:34,117
he's gonna make a great
husband, father.
1232
01:39:36,965 --> 01:39:39,889
The best time in my life
was my time with him.
1233
01:39:46,375 --> 01:39:48,889
Well, let's be honest.
I mean, the only reason...
1234
01:39:48,977 --> 01:39:53,835
that we're sitting here talking about Pre
right now is because Pre was a winner.
1235
01:39:53,915 --> 01:39:56,565
People need winners.
1236
01:39:56,651 --> 01:39:59,575
Pre went to Munich to win.
1237
01:39:59,654 --> 01:40:02,976
In Montreal, by God,
he would have.
1238
01:40:10,831 --> 01:40:12,913
I woke up the morning
after the meet.
1239
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:15,252
I was out of my bed like a bull.
1240
01:40:15,336 --> 01:40:18,260
I ran down to the corner
to buy me a paper.
1241
01:40:18,339 --> 01:40:21,263
I took enough money
to buy ten copies.
1242
01:40:21,342 --> 01:40:24,265
I had beaten Pentti Kahma.
1243
01:40:26,279 --> 01:40:28,759
I mean, this was gonna be
my sports page today.
1244
01:40:28,848 --> 01:40:31,305
It was my big moment.
1245
01:40:35,522 --> 01:40:38,446
Then I just saw it
all over the papers.
1246
01:40:42,529 --> 01:40:44,850
You know what my
first thought was?
1247
01:40:44,931 --> 01:40:48,116
"That son of a bitch found
a way to beat me again. "
1248
01:40:51,037 --> 01:40:54,483
Pre ran every race as
though it were his last.
1249
01:40:56,542 --> 01:40:58,760
This is his last.
1250
01:41:04,416 --> 01:41:07,840
This is the bell lap for
Steve Prefontaine.
1251
01:41:15,294 --> 01:41:17,910
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1252
01:41:17,996 --> 01:41:19,952
Go, Pre!
1253
01:41:20,032 --> 01:41:23,149
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1254
01:41:23,634 --> 01:41:26,743
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1255
01:41:27,372 --> 01:41:30,570
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1256
01:41:31,042 --> 01:41:34,198
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1257
01:41:34,545 --> 01:41:38,082
Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1258
01:41:38,416 --> 01:41:43,570
Go, Pre! Go, Pre!
Go, Pre!
1259
01:42:37,006 --> 01:42:40,590
# May God bless and
keep you always #
1260
01:42:40,676 --> 01:42:43,531
# May your wishes all come true #
1261
01:42:43,612 --> 01:42:46,592
# May you always do for others #
1262
01:42:46,682 --> 01:42:49,764
# And let others do for you #
1263
01:42:54,088 --> 01:42:57,706
# May you build a
ladder to the stars #
1264
01:42:57,792 --> 01:43:00,249
# And climb on every rung #
1265
01:43:00,328 --> 01:43:02,649
# And may you stay #
1266
01:43:06,100 --> 01:43:08,887
# Forever young #
1267
01:43:12,640 --> 01:43:17,463
# Forever young #
1268
01:43:18,712 --> 01:43:23,399
# Forever young #
1269
01:43:25,252 --> 01:43:29,109
# May you stay #
1270
01:43:30,958 --> 01:43:33,279
# Forever young #
1271
01:43:37,631 --> 01:43:40,987
# May you grow up
to be righteous #
1272
01:43:41,068 --> 01:43:44,026
# May you grow up
to be true #
1273
01:43:44,104 --> 01:43:47,118
# May you always
know the truth #
1274
01:43:47,206 --> 01:43:50,255
# And see the light
surrounding you #
1275
01:43:54,647 --> 01:43:58,071
# May you always
be courageous #
1276
01:43:58,150 --> 01:44:00,835
# Stand upright
and be strong #
1277
01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:03,070
# And may you stay #
1278
01:44:06,692 --> 01:44:09,206
# Forever young #
1279
01:44:13,232 --> 01:44:17,986
# Forever young #
1280
01:44:19,204 --> 01:44:24,130
# Forever young #
1281
01:44:25,877 --> 01:44:29,973
# May you stay #
1282
01:44:31,616 --> 01:44:33,937
# Forever young #
1283
01:44:38,256 --> 01:44:41,510
# May your hands
always be busy #
1284
01:44:41,593 --> 01:44:44,641
# May your feet
always be swift #
1285
01:44:44,728 --> 01:44:47,652
# May you have a
strong foundation #
1286
01:44:47,731 --> 01:44:51,019
# When the winds
of changes shift #
1287
01:44:55,172 --> 01:44:58,619
# May your heart
always be joyful #
1288
01:44:58,709 --> 01:45:01,462
# May your song
always be sung #
1289
01:45:01,545 --> 01:45:03,695
# And may you stay #
1290
01:45:07,284 --> 01:45:09,605
# Forever young #
1291
01:45:13,723 --> 01:45:18,649
# Forever young #
1292
01:45:19,862 --> 01:45:24,788
# Forever young #
1293
01:45:26,202 --> 01:45:30,491
# May you stay #
1294
01:45:32,175 --> 01:45:34,598
# Forever young #
1295
01:45:38,548 --> 01:45:43,337
# Forever young #
1296
01:45:44,686 --> 01:45:49,373
# Forever young #
1297
01:45:51,126 --> 01:45:55,074
# And may you stay #
1298
01:45:57,065 --> 01:46:00,489
# Forever young #
1299
01:46:00,858 --> 01:46:06,310
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