Butch Reynolds (400M Olympian, former OSU coach)

[scooter1369]

cavemen strike me as being more hunters (meat eaters) than gatherers (fruits and vegies)

Men hunted, women foraged. It was the way things are believed to have been. The key part of this is no Microwave cooking.

 

[tundra1]

Men hunted, women foraged. It was the way things are believed to have been. The key part of this is no Microwave cooking.

And I thought the caveman diet looked a lot more civilized than that...

 

[MaxBuck]

Butch Reynolds is The Man.

 

[Buckskin86]

Olympic sprinter Butch Reynolds still stands tall: Bill Livingston
Published: Friday, July 30, 2010
Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer

Rick Bowmer / Associated PressAkron's Butch Reynolds, shown here at the Olympic Trials in 1996, was with inner-city youths with other track stars at Jesse Owens Stadium in Columbus.

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Butch Reynolds ran across the pain threshold into almost unimaginable agony in smashing the world record in the 400 meters a generation ago in Zurich, Switzerland. Afterward, he nearly collapsed.

"You did it!" said Jeff Reynolds, a world-class quarter-miler in his own right, as his embrace kept his older brother from falling.

"I had chased that record for a long time," said Butch Reynolds, 46, of his landmark 1988 performance, which came only a few weeks before the Seoul Olympics. "But I was in so much pain, I didn't care if I set the world record or not. I just wanted to sit down."

Reynolds ran a time of 43.29 seconds, a shocking 0.57 faster than Lee Evans' record set at high altitude in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Michael Johnson broke Reynolds' mark with a 43.18 clocking in 1999.

Share Even then, Reynolds, who became one of Ohio State's greatest track stars after graduating from Akron Hoban, had never really known pain. His real torment began two years later.

Reynolds -- the silver medalist by a half-stride after a bad start in Seoul and a member of the gold medal-winning American 4x400-relay team in 1988 -- faced ruin in track and field after he tested positive for the anabolic steroid Nandrolone after a meet in Monaco.

The legal fight that followed consumed Reynolds' prime years.

Olympic sprinter Butch Reynolds still stands tall: Bill Livingston | cleveland.com

 

[ShakerBuck]

The interesting part of that article that is not pasted above, is that Butch is in discussions with tOSU to become the schools speed coach for all sports

 

[Taosman]

Perhaps someone with knowledge of the past situation for leaving could enlighten us on how it all went down before and what's different now?
Thanks!

 

[Buckskin86]

Rob Oller commentary: Track hit skids after Reynolds? 400 record
By Rob Oller
The Columbus Dispatch Saturday August 17, 2013

Twenty-five years ago today, sprinter Butch Reynolds experienced his greatest gain ? and pain ? on the track.

His agony off the track and ache for track were yet to come. Those emotional sorrows left scars, but first came a near-perfect night in Zurich, where Reynolds ran 400 meters in 43.29 seconds, a world record that lasted until 1999, when Michael Johnson broke it (43.18).

On Aug. 17, 1988, with the Swiss Alps rising to watch, Reynolds settled in for the metric version of a quarter mile ? the ?real man?s race.?

On your mark ?

Track still seemed mostly innocent in 1988. Despite athletes from the Soviet bloc often being linked to steroids, the sport managed to maintain a pure, if not entirely clean, image. Then, a little more than a month after Reynolds? record run, Ben Johnson crushed the world record in the 100 meters and it was impossible not to see something fishy in those glassy, yellowish eyes. Sure enough, Johnson was caught doping.

The magnitude of the moment ? Johnson?s record run initially earned him a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea ? turned track and field into a chemistry experiment in which doubt and skepticism filled every test tube. The sport resembled the ground under a heaved shot put: crushed and dirty.

Get set ?

But the trapdoor did not open until after Reynolds blazed through the night in Zurich.

?It was gorgeous,? Reynolds said this week, recalling the Swiss setting.

The Akron native, who ran for Ohio State, never thought about a world record as he settled into the blocks. And he barely thought about it after winning, either, so painfully earned was the accomplishment.

?Every time you run the quarter mile, it hurts,? he said. ?I don?t care if you run it in 60 seconds or 43. But as you run faster, the pain hurts more.?

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...rack-hit-skids-after-reynolds-400-record.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State Olympic gold medalist Butch Reynolds says the Buckeyes' Dontre Wilson is about to open some eyes around football: Bill Livingston

Dontre Wilson burned Penn State for a touchdown on a swing pass last week. There's more where that came from, says Bill Livingston. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)
By Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer
November 01, 2013



CLEVELAND, Ohio – Baseball, a slow game, drives the former Olympian crazy because he knows he could speed it up. Literally.

“I watch those baseball guys get thrown out in the blink of an eye, within a yard of first base, after running 90 feet up the baseline, and it’s because of their technique. Their arm swing is all over the place,” said Butch Reynolds, the former Akron Hoban and Ohio State 400-meter runner.

He spent years making sure such flailing did not slow down Ohio State's football team.

Ohio State's Butch Reynolds, center, begins the 400-meter leg of the distance relay at the 1994 Penn Relays.AP Photo/Chris Gardner
A former world record-holder in the 400, a 1988 Olympic silver medalist in the individual event, as well as a gold medalist in the 4 x 400 relay at Seoul, Reynolds was the speed coach for the Ohio State football team from 2005-08.

It was part of the vision of former coach Jim Tressel, who looked past Reynolds’ disputed suspension by world track authorities for a positive drug test -- on which his urine specimen was incorrectly identified by a Paris lab -- to see what Reynolds could bring to OSU.

As a coach, Reynolds was persnickety about proper placement of his students’ arms, feet, hips and head. “I feel we began that process (of speeding up the Buckeyes),” said Reynolds. “I said then, we will have speed. We will bring (recruit) it, or we will teach it.”

Reynolds said proper mechanics can shave a half-second or more off 40- and 60-yard times.

“Slo-hio,” the sneer SEC teams directed at the Buckeyes, certainly no longer applies. Coach Urban Meyer has made speed one of the defining characteristics of the Buckeyes, who are unbeaten in 20 games under him.

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http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2013/11/ohio_state_olympic_gold_medali.html

 

[ScriptOhio]

Skull Session: Roddy Gayle Jr. Heads Up North, Mike Hall Explains How Ohio State Prepared Him for the NFL and ESPN’s Butch Reynolds Documentary Debuts This Week

Roddy Gayle Jr. commits to Michigan, Mike Hall says Ohio State prepared him for the NFL and ESPN Films will debut its Butch Reynolds documentary this week.

www.elevenwarriors.com

ESPN’S BUTCH REYNOLDS DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS THIS WEEK​

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU...? Former Ohio State sprinter and world record holder Butch Reynolds is the subject of ESPN’s newest 30 for 30 documentary, “False Positive,” which details the events prior to Reynolds testing positive for steroids in 1990 and the fallout from that result.



Reynolds and documentary director Ismail Al-Amin will appear at the Central Ohio premiere of the film at the Southern Theatre on Wednesday. The film is part of the Columbus Association of Performing Arts (CAPA) Columbus Film Festival.

Here is how CAPA describes the film:

Monte Carlo, 1990. The world record holder in the 400-meters, Butch Reynolds, takes a routine drug test that comes back positive for the anabolic steroid Nandrolone. When Butch challenges the results, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) publicly admits their lab technician mixed up Reynold’s urine specimen with another athlete’s, leading to a “false positive.” In an outrageous about-turn that would lead to one of the greatest injustices in American sports, the IAAF refuses to administer another test, claiming the lab “corrected their mistake.” Instead, they label Reynolds a “dirty athlete,” banning him from competition during the most vital years of his career.

This looks and sounds like another banger for ESPN Films and 30 for 30.
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