The 1500 Meters Documentary (The Metric Mile) No other Olympic event provides such an intensive test of strategy, speed and endurance. Featured in this Olympian look at the 1500 Meters for men are Finland's Paavo Nurmi, who won 9 gold medals in his Olympic career, Kip Keino's dramatic victory over Jim Ryun at Mexico City, Sebastian Coe's 1980 and 1984 victories, the only man to win the event twice, and the 1992 Barcelona winner Fermin Cacho of Spain who triumphantly won the race in front of his countrymen. These stories and many more capture the true drama of the premier race on the Olympic program." Other featured athletes are Josef Barthel, Ron Delaney, Herb Elliot, Peter Snell, Pekka Vasala, John Walker, and Peter Rono of Kenya.

The Bowerman Formula "Coaching styles have changed, too, but I think the principles remain the same. Types of application change, but basic principles don't. They're like the Law of Gravity."

Bill Bowerman

1998 NCAA XC Championships (Men's Race) Adam Goucher cross-country and track and field All-American won the Men's 1998 NCAA National Championship race. (Featured in Running With The Buffaloes, a book revolving around the 1998 season of the University of Colorado cross country team)

1987 Kinney Cross Country Championships - Bob Kennedy shows his natural kicking ability as the winner of the 1987 Kinney Cross Country Championships.

1 14:59.0 Robert Kennedy 12 MW Westerville North Westerville OH

2 15:08.9 John Sence 12 MW Milford Milford OH

3 15:12.7 Harley Hanson 12 MW Rosholt Rosholt SD

4 15:14.3 Chip Smith 12 W Sandia Albuquerque NM

5 15:15.0 John Horkheimer 11 NE Mendon Pittsford NY

6 15:15.2 Alexander Mendoza 12 SO Martin Laredo TX

7 15:15.6 Christopher Nelson 12 MW Florence Florence co

8 15:17.0 Eric Morrison 12 MW Poudre Fort Collins co

9 15:20.6 Virgil Thomas 12 W Gallup Gallup NM

10 15:21.6 David Scudamore 12 W Palos Verdes CA

11 15:21.8 Chris Schurz 11 W Westwood Scottsdale AZ

12 15:22.6 Chris Lewis 11 W Mead Spokane WA

Alan Webb is an American former track and field athlete and former triathlete. He holds the American national record in the mile, with a time of 3:46.91. Webb represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500-meters race. May 27, 2001 at the Prefontaine Classic, Webb ran a mile in 3:53.43 to shatter Ryun's 36-year-old national high school record of 3:55.3. En route Webb passed the 1500 mark in 3:38.26 to take down Ryun's 37-year-old high school AR of 3:39.0 set in 1964.

1 Alan Webb USA 3:50.85 3:34.42*(*Hayward Field & Pre Record)

2 Nick Willis New Zealand 3:53.51 3:38.20

3 Elkanah Angwenyi Kenya 3:54.52 3:38.66

The Australians by Bud Greenspan

Ron Clarke was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records.

Marjorie Jackson-Nelson is a former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athlete. She finished her sporting career with two Olympic and seven Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, six individual world records and every Australian State and National title she contested from 1950–1954. Herb Elliott is a former Australian athlete and arguably the world's greatest middle distance runner of his era. In the 1500 meters at the 1960 Rome Olympics, he won the gold medal and bettered his own world record with a time of 3:35.6. After winning in Rome in 1960, he started a degree course at the University of Cambridge, England.

Betty Cuthbert was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 meters, 100 yards, 200 meters, 220 yards and 440 yards. Cuthbert also contributed to Australian relay teams completing a win in the 4 × 100 meters, 4 × 110 yards, 4 × 200 meters and 4 × 220 yards. Cuthbert had a distinctive running style, with a high knee lift and mouth wide open.

John Landy is an Australian middle-distance runner and state governor. He was the second man to break the four-minute mile barrier in the mile run and held the world records for the 1500-metre run and the mile race. Landy won silver medal in the 1954 Commonwealth Games and bronze medal in the 1956 Olympic 1500 meters. He was also the 26th Governor of Victoria from 2001 to 2006.

The Marathon by Bud Greenspan

The modern marathon event was created and later refined through the Olympic competition. The idea of holding a marathon race at the first Olympics was suggested to Pierre de Coubertin by Michel Bréal. Based upon a popular myth stemming from the Battle of Marathon, in which Pheidippides ran to Athens from the town of Marathon, Greece to carry the message of a Greek victory, the 1896 course began in the town of Marathon and finished in Athens' Panathenaic Stadium 25 miles. On April 10, 1896, Greek water-carrier Spyridon Louis won the first Olympic marathon in 2 hours 58 minutes and 50 seconds.

Teaching Olympic Lifts Ivan Abadjiev was a Bulgarian weightlifter and later Bulgarian Olympic Weightlifting coach. As an active competitor, he won Bulgaria's first weightlifting medal in 1957. From 1968 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2000 he was the head coach of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation. He also spent a stint as the head Coach of the Turkish Weightlifting Federation during the late 1990s. During his career, Abadjiev produced 12 Olympic champions, 57 world champions and 64 European champions. He was called "The Pope of Weightlifting" for his great career as a coach of the Bulgarian national weightlifting team. Six times he was elected Coach of the Year of Bulgaria - 1985, 1986, 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, and in 2001 was elected Coach of the 20th Century of the country. Olympic champions under the leadership of Abadjiev are: for Bulgaria - Norair Nurikyan, Yordan Bikov, Andon Nikolov (Munich 1972), Yordan Mitkov, Norair Nurikyan (Montreal 1976), Yanko Rusev, Asen Zlatev (Moscow 1980), Sevdalin Marinov, Borislav Gidikov (Seoul 1988), Galabin Boevski (Sydney 2000); for Turkey - Halil Mutlu, Naim Suleymanoglu (Atlanta 1996).