{"id":2876,"date":"2012-07-27T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T09:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:40:44","slug":"olympics-open-today-heres-my-all-time-favorite-race-1988-womens-400-m-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Olympics open today; here&#8217;s my all-time favorite race &#8211; 1988 women&#8217;s 400 m hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 400 m hurdles has got to be the toughest race &#8211; virtually a sprint and jump over the hurdles!<\/p>\n<p>I remember I had taped this live on our VCR, along with lots of other races. Last night I went looking for it on youtube. The vid below is what Brigid and I saw &#8211; the USA feed. I also found the Australian feed, and the UK feed and have links to them. Interesting to see the different commentaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie runner&#8217;s sister had died just a few days before the race. What a finish!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PNSgoDmKVKQ\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/n_kLKyhlZzY\">the Aussie feed<\/a> &#8211; a minute and a half.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WESI25r2IfI\">the British feed<\/a> &#8211; 4 and a half minutes long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 400 m hurdles has got to be the toughest race &#8211; virtually a sprint and jump over the hurdles! I remember I had taped this live on our VCR, along with lots of other races. Last night I went looking for it on youtube. The vid below is what Brigid and I saw &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}