Nearly 1,000 videos of Lyon worlds on YouTube keep spirit alive
Lyon’s LOC Prez Marcel Ferrari watches Stan hand WMA flag to Perth’s Robert Schickert .
M105 Polish sprinter Stansilaw Kowalski didn’t make it to Lyon. (I don’t know why.) So the oldest entrant at worlds was Brazil’s Frederico Fischer, 98, who ate up the attention. He told media folks that he was a decathlete in his youth and was a national champion 400-meter guy. “Sports are the best doctors you can have,” he says in the YouTube clip created by Pierre Coquelle for the Lyon LOC. “I have run just for fun because seeing so many people is wonderful.” It’s one of nearly 1,000 videos posted from worlds — gotta be a record. Many were by athletes and friends, including American Linda Carty, who told me: “Between me and my super-cameraman/editor/producer Clinton Aurelien, we got some good masters stuff.” (See her YouTube channel.) The Eurovets site posted a shot from closing ceremonies, where WMA President Stan Perkins handed the WMA flag to 2016 LOC chief Robert Schickert, who said: “I welcome you all to Perth – come and enjoy the hospitality of Australia!” See the Lyon farewell video as well.
Just look at the video of Thad Wilson’s M60 300m final and tell me how anyone could think he deliberately knocked down either of the last two hurdles? http://youtu.be/ACglJI28HSY
I’m the trackside photographer in the green bib who makes a brief cameo appearance in the closing seconds of the video, btw!
Rob Jerome - August 21, 2015
These online videos are great. Some of the “credentialed” videographers were a little questionable in their practices. I saw one guy (wearing a blue TV bib with the number 17) approach athletes during the M45 TJ qualifying round and try to sell them whatever he was shooting…in the middle of the competiton. The officials did nothing, and the athletes themselves had to kick him out.
I suspect that one of the reasons that the working international press had difficulty getting press bibs is that local media cut deals with the LOC to try to make some money like Mr. Blue Bib 17 was doing.
Ken has followed track as an athlete, writer and web-master since the late 1960s, and saw most sessions of track and field at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He also attended the 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Trials, the last three as a blogger and Patch correspondent. [More...]
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Just look at the video of Thad Wilson’s M60 300m final and tell me how anyone could think he deliberately knocked down either of the last two hurdles? http://youtu.be/ACglJI28HSY
I’m the trackside photographer in the green bib who makes a brief cameo appearance in the closing seconds of the video, btw!
These online videos are great. Some of the “credentialed” videographers were a little questionable in their practices. I saw one guy (wearing a blue TV bib with the number 17) approach athletes during the M45 TJ qualifying round and try to sell them whatever he was shooting…in the middle of the competiton. The officials did nothing, and the athletes themselves had to kick him out.
I suspect that one of the reasons that the working international press had difficulty getting press bibs is that local media cut deals with the LOC to try to make some money like Mr. Blue Bib 17 was doing.
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