Adair Shepard
speaker
214 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Adair Shepard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Again, Johnson takes back the lead, but he's only in the lead, the last event, the 1500 meters, he's only in the lead by 67 points.
So it comes down to this 1500 meter race.
And this is like insanely grueling.
This is notorious for being one of the worst races that you can do because they've already done two days.
Yeah, this is actually a really famous sporting photo.
This is what Johnson wrote about that moment.
He won seven out of ten of the events, but he still, just because of the point system, he didn't win enough.
He had to beat him by nine seconds and he only beat him by 1.2.
So Rafer retired after that decathlon and going into the Tokyo Olympics-
It was CK's turn.
Like it was CK's turn to win gold.
He didn't have Rafer.
This is 1964.
He didn't have Rafer competing against him.
He was by far the clear favorite.
The other thing is they were so far ahead of everyone else.
It was just those two.
And in 1963, he broke the world record.
He was the first man ever to get over 9,000 points, which, yeah, I guess is a lot of points.
And that's when he did that Sports Illustrated cover.
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