[ChuckyTheGoat]

Ran what WOULD HAVE been a WR-time. Beaten by Norwegian who ran an even FASTER time.

Congratulations, young man. We're proud of you.

[jjgold]

Great work

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Great work

Gold medalist broke 46.00, which would be a very fast 400 WITHOUT hurdles.

[Mike Huntertz]

All are great athletes but fan perception of greatness is just not as it once was.

The USA has changed and is now happy to settle for 2nd......that was once unacceptable.

Sad

[pablo222]

Sucks to break WR and not win gold.
400H are brutal.
Ran them back in the day.

[Mac4Lyfe]

All are great athletes but fan perception of greatness is just not as it once was.The USA has changed and is now happy to settle for 2nd......that was once unacceptable. Sad

Dude, how old are you? We have always been proud of all our Olympians whether they medal or not. No shame in being the 2nd fastest person in the entire world of 8 BILLION people. Settle down.

You do know Roy Jones Jr came in 2nd in the 1988 Olympics after being robbed by fake judges. Was he unacceptable to you as well?

[lakerboy]

Great job

Tamyra Mensah-Stock

[beerman2619]

Great job

Tamyra Mensah-Stock

Couldn't agree more with Lakerboy, Wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock after winning gold: "I love representing the U.S. I freaking love living there." Was great watching that wrestling match of hers and interview. A athlete that is proud of representing the USA, Great role model as well. Roy Jones Jr did get robbed back in 88 olympics with a silver medal, should of been gold. Remember watching him box in Portland. Man he was a great boxer.

[Chi_archie]

nice

[jjgold]

I just saw Randall Cunningham daughter jumping in some event she’s pretty good

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Dude, how old are you? We have always been proud of all our Olympians whether they medal or not. No shame in being the 2nd fastest person in the entire world of 8 BILLION people. Settle down.

You do know Roy Jones Jr came in 2nd in the 1988 Olympics after being robbed by fake judges. Was he unacceptable to you as well?

Yes, travesty of justice. I think Jones was a little fearful of killing the guy, so he backed off later in the bout.

[Mac4Lyfe]

That bogus decision destroyed the Korean boxer who wished he never won that gold medal.

He controversially beat Roy Jones Jr. for Olympic gold. He wishes he had silver.

Associated PressAug 11, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT

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The last South Korean boxer to win an Olympic gold medal has spent the past 32 years wishing it was a silver.
Entering the men’s light-middleweight final against an American teenager named Roy Jones Jr. on the last day of the 1988 Games in Seoul, Park Si-Hun fantasized about etching his name in the pantheon of South Korean sports legends in front of a delirious home crowd.
He did get his gold three rounds later, but not the way he envisioned.
Park’s win by a 3-2 decision remains as one of the most controversial moments in boxing history, as Jones had seemed to dominate the fight from start to finish.
The outcome drew instant criticism and disdain, even from South Koreans, who heckled Park at the podium and bombarded local TV stations with phone calls protesting that the country’s home advantage had gone too far.
Jones went on to have a phenomenal professional career, retiring in 2018 with a 66-9 record that cemented him as one of the sport’s all-time greats. He is now a boxing commentator and is planning to fight Mike Tyson in an exhibition of retired greats later this year.
Deeply shaken and scarred, Park quietly retired at the end of the Seoul Games and spent the next 13 years as a middle- and high-school teacher in a rural seaside town before making a return to competitive boxing as a coach.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Park said his dream was to see one of his boxers pull off a convincing gold-winning performance in a future Olympics, which he said would possibly give him some sense of redemption and closure.
After three decades, it still stings that his gold is seen as a smudge on the image of the Games his country still glorifies as its coming-out party to the world.
“There’s hardened resentment built up in me that I will probably carry for the rest of my life,” said Park, 54, who now coaches the small municipal boxing team of Seogwipo City in the island province of Jeju.
“I didn’t want my hand to be raised (after the fight with Jones), but it did go up, and my life became gloomy because of that.”
Park still grimaces when talking about his match with Jones.
Desperate for Olympic glory, Park had gutted out the tournament with a broken right hand he suffered during training. He said it didn’t really matter until he met Jones, the one opponent in Seoul who was quicker than him.
With the injury taking away his right-hand, Park simply had no chance at slowing Jones, who was coming at him with “excellent speed, power and technique.”
“I was pretty quick for a middleweight, but Jones was at a different level,” Park recalled. “A boxer just knows whether he had won or lost a match. I thought I lost because I didn’t put up a fight deserving of a win.”
Park said he felt “confused” when the referee raised his hand. Wearing a stunned look on his face, Park awkwardly embraced and held up an expressionless Jones into the air.
He said he couldn’t wait to get off the podium, where he smiled weakly and slowly waved a bouquet of flowers toward the stands as fans let out hesitant cheers and scattered boos.
An even more humiliating moment came when a South Korean national broadcaster invited all of the country’s 12 gold medalists to a live TV celebration shortly after the Games. The host treated Park like he wasn’t there while interviewing each of the other 11.
There was an outpouring of media criticism and what Park described as “unspeakable” insults, which included derisive public calls for him to forfeit his medal.
The emotional distress “was like being hit with a hammer on the back of your head, again and again.”
“I keep thinking how my life would have been happier had I finished second,” Park said. “A gold medal is important, but isn’t any Olympic medal satisfying and glorious?”
Park said the sense of defeat and depression sometimes led to suicidal urges. He credits his wife for helping him navigate out of his darkest moods. The couple contemplated moving to a different country before deciding to stay after they had children.
Their youngest child, Rei, now a 20-year-old college student in Louisiana, has his own athletic ambitions, training as a javelin thrower with dreams of competing in the 2024 Olympics.
Park said he keeps his Olympic gold framed on a wall at his home in mainland South Korea, along with other awards he won in amateur competition. He doesn’t recall ever bringing it out of the house.
While Park doesn’t have many regrets about never going pro, saying he probably wouldn’t have gone far with an evasive style built for efficiency and avoiding hits but not for initiating pain, he still watched Jones’ post-Olympic triumphs with envy.
He wondered whether the public would ever forget the fiasco surrounding his gold medal, which the South Korean media brought up after almost every Jones fight or whenever there was controversy in any Olympic sport. He would try to laugh it off whenever students asked about his gold at school.
After overlooking him for years, South Korea’s boxing association reached back to Park in 2001, asking him to coach the national team following years of disappointing performances in international events, which reflected a dearth of talent in the sport.
During his on-and-off coaching stints with the national team since then, Park trained several boxers who performed decently in various events, but they never came close to an Olympic gold.
Park had the highest hopes for Lee Ok-Song, who won the men’s 51kg division in the 2005 World Championships. But Lee failed to reach the quarterfinals of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and retired after the Games.
Park said he had occasionally kept in touch with Jones, including a brief telephone conversation with him in 2004 while visiting Atlanta for an international event.
The International Olympic Committee in 1997 concluded it had found no evidence to support bribery allegations against the judges who voted in favor of Park in the Seoul Games.
The U.S. Olympic Committee had called for an investigation in 1996 after documents belonging to East Germany’s Stasi secret police revealed reports of judges being paid to vote for South Korean boxers.
While Park left South Korea’s national team after the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, he hasn’t given up on his goal of winning an Olympic gold as a coach.
Among the four boxers he trains in Seogwipo, Park is most impressed with Kang Hyeon-Bin, who competes in the men’s 64kg division, and Cho Hye-Bin, a woman in the 51kg category.
“I am constantly looking for a raw stone I could polish into a jewel,” he said. “I want to sculpt a true Olympic gold medalist with my own hands and see that fighter take the highest spot on the podium. That would restore my honor and allow me to leave the boxing ring for good.”

[SteveKerrsJunk]

Best race of Olympics so far IMO. That Norwegian guy was penetrating insane. You knew when he came out and started pounding his chest like a madman that shit was about to go down. Backs it up with the WR and then rips his shirt. Epic performance and character.

[Mac4Lyfe]

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Good post, Mac. Respect to the Korean.

I might, what was the point? Who was fooled? No one.

Too bad that the Korean felt so bad about it. Wasn't HIS fault. He had nothing to do w/ the decision.