Peter Snell: Tearing Up the Track
The 800-metre race at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was supposed to be a showdown between Roger Moens of Belgium, the world record holder, and George Kerr of Jamaica. While Kerr won his semifinal heat, Moens was outpaced by an unheralded New Zealander named Peter Snell. The final was still expected to be a two-man duel, but Snell shocked the field once again by charging past Moens in the last 25 yards to win by two-tenths of a second. It would be the last time that a Snell triumph would surprise anybody. In the four years leading up to ...(100 of 333 words)