Jim Hines

There's only four buildings there to knock over, but at 6.8 they would've been leveled.

1968, Jim Hines runs 9.95 to win gold in Mexico.

So '68, the Mexico Olympics, Jim Hines belts out a 9.95, busts the ten-second mark.

And you think about all of the modern-day advantages that these athletes have, and this is, um, over 55 years ago, 57 years ago.

Jim Hines has strapped the boots on, you can imagine what the boots were like, and he's run a 9.95.

It just gives you an idea, isn't it? Is-- We, we are at...

In, in terms of the 100-meter sprint, we are at the physical limits of the human body.

All of the technique, all of the technicians, all of the input, you know, the diet, the, the training, the, the, the, the sort of repetition, being a paid professional, all of that stuff, and Jim Hines has ripped out a 9.95 in 1968.

Yeah.

Or Jim Hines, the world record holder for the 100.

Ab- I absolutely thought that.

It's amazing that you had this love for athletics, so-

Yeah.

We've met, no, we haven't met Jim Hines or, um- Bob Hayes.

Bob Hayes.

Bob, yeah, Jim Hines or Bob Hayes, but we have met Armin Hary, not Bo- Bobby Morrow.

Did he win in '56? I don't know.

Um, but then, yeah, Lindy Rem- Lindy Remigio and, um, Lindy R- I can't say his name, but Lindy Remigio.

talks to him and kind of tries to upset their concentration.

Matter of fact, in Miami, I know that one of their, when Jimmy Hines almost had one last time, purely on speed, all the way back, and for the rest of the afternoon, every time Gordon saw him, he said, called him Boots.

Calling him Boots.

He said he had a little trouble, Boots.