Herb Elliott

Nah.

Herb Elliott came out of W.A.

One, sorry, so for those that don't know who Elliot is.

For me.

But ever? No.

In my opinion.

Yeah, Herb Elliott has run 335 for the 15.

That is back in 1960.

But I didn't know who Percy was.

I knew, I knew about Herb Elliott and those blokes.

Yeah, sure.

But I didn't know who Percy was.

commentator's voice, the way he would say, Jane Fleming, Australia, heptathlon.

No, it was Herb Elliott, 1960, Rome, Olympic 1500 metre final.

Oh, my God.

I need to get into this.

I thought, no, I need to push on.

Push on like, you remember the famous story? You ever heard of our famous story about Herb Elliott back in the day and his coach, Percy Serity? Yeah.

You know, Herb Elliott was a famous

Olympian.

Yes.

The oval just down the bottom of where Mel lives in Portsea is called the Percy Serity Oval.

I didn't know he

coached Herb Elliott though.

I mean, it almost blows my mind that we're seriously considering this guy to win this, obviously, you know, the absolute, one of the blue-ribbon events of the athletics, you know, in middle distance.

I'm talking Herb Elliott kind of, you know, significance here.

So that's great.

And then I came back and then I flew back to America about a week later and went back to Eugene, Oregon for the World Junior Championships.

Dunno.

We went for a drive with Herb Elliott, didn't we? Herb drove us around Homebush one stage.

He, he did, yeah.

He was a very good driver.