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This is Your Life - Peter Snell

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2000

I would have been thrilled with the silver. It was more you guys [Roger Moens and George Kerr] slowing down. I didn't feel like I was accelerating.
– Snell reflects on his victory in the 800m at Rome
I think Peter won that
– Les Mills to Arthur Lydiard, in the stands at Rome, obscured from seeing the finish line
I closed my eyes and thought, 'Yes, this is it, you are the champion this time,' on the home stretch and when I opened my eyes there was Peter Snell beside me, in front of me and, who was this man?
– Belgian Roger Moens, the then-world record holder and 800m favourite for Rome
His kick made us all look as though we were standing still. I can still feel the cinder ashes flicking up off his shoes and up into my face as he left the rest of us for dead.
– John Davies on watching Snell leave the field behind in the Tokyo 1500m