The metric mile. No other Olympic event provides such an intensive test of strategy, speed and endurance. Featured in this Olympian look at the 1500 Meters for men are Finland's Paavo Nurmi, who won 9 gold medals in his Olympic career, Kip Keino's dramatic victory over Jim Ryun at Mexico City, Sebastian Coe's 1980 and 1984 victories, the only man to win the event twice, and the 1992 Barcelona winner Fermin Cacho of Spain who triumphantly won the race in front of his countrymen. These stories and many more capture the true drama of the premier race on the Olympic program." Other featured athletes are Josef Barthel, Ron Delaney, Herb Elliot, Peter Snell, Pekka Vasala, John Walker, and Peter Rono of Kenya.

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