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HERB ELLIOTT winning the 1500m in Rome. He finished 18 metres in front of the field in a world record time (3:35.6) that would have won the gold medal in seven subsequent Olympics, including Atlanta 36 years later. “His absolute superiority over every other athlete was so apparent”.
KIEREN PERKINS winning the 1500m freestyle final in Atlanta from the outside lane after scraping into the final by the barest of margins. “A lot of it was self-belief, and maybe a lot of it was bluff. He just imposed himself on that race.”
THE DROPPED BATON IN HELSINKI. The dominant Australian 4x100m women’s relay team bombed a certain gold medal when Winsome Cripps’s knee knocked the baton from Marjorie Jackson’s hand after the last change. “An unforgettable moment in Olympic history – indelible for me because I saw how inconsolable Marjorie and Shirley (Strickland) were that the others would never win a medal.
BILL ROYCROFT rising from his hospital bed to seal the three-day eventing gold medal in Rome. “He was virtually folded onto his horse by his team mates and then rode a faultless round.”
DEBBIE FLINTOFF-KING winning the 400m hurdles in Seoul by .01 of a second. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more courageous performance because she was apparently beaten at the last hurdle, yet she still found something that drove her.”
GRANT HACKETT winning his second 1500m freestyle title in Athens. “We knew he’d had a virus and pneumonia, but when it transpired that he raced with a collapsed lung … marvellous courage.”