Lee Evans, Tommie Smith, John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Track & Field Trials

Name: Lee Evans, Tommie Smith, John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Track & Field
Uploaded: 2023-10-22T05:32:25-07:00
Description: Here is some rare footage of Lee Evans, Tommie Smith, John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic USA Track & Field

posted on October 22, 2023

Here is some rare footage of Lee Evans, Tommie Smith, John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic USA Track & Field Trials.

Included are interviews with Tommie Smith, Lee Evans, and Ronald Freeman. As well, there are members of the crowd reacting, one holding sign “Why Run in Mexico and Crawl at Home?”.

Tommie Smith discusses the Olympic boycott during his interview. Head coach Payton Jordan is also interviewed, discussing prospects for the team.

Here is the video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhwVdWTeOg

Bud Winter was the world renowned, legendary coach of the San Jose State Spartan Track and Field teams from 1941-1974. During his tenure at San Jose State, Bud coached 37 world record holders, 27 Olympians and 102 NCAA All-Americans. His world record holders included all of the sprints and sprint relays, as well as the pole vault. His cross country teams won the national championships twice.

Winter coached world record breaking sprinters Tommie Smith, Lee Evans, John Carlos, Ray Norton, Dennis Johnson, and Hal Davis. At one time his athletes held all ten world records for sprinting events. Bud was the first person to prove the idea that the key to winning in sports was not 100 or 110 percent effort. “Far more can be achieved with a four fifths effort” he said and he proved it. Because of the impact of Bud Winters on the coaching of sprinters, San Jose State was given the name “Speed City”.

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