Relax and Win from Legacy of Speed

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sharing a new Pushkin show, Legacy of Speed. When two Black sprinters raised their fists in protest at the 1968 Olympic Games, it shook the world. More than 50 years later, the ripple effects of their activism are still felt. Host Malcolm Gladwel tells the stories of the runners who took a stand, and the coaches and mentors who helped make them fast enough — and brave enough — to change the world.

In this episode, we hear how coach Bud Winter took what he learned from working with fighter pilots in World War II and created a system for training sprinters at San Jose State. His “Relax and Win” methods used breathing, visualization and other unconventional coaching techniques to create a powerhouse track program. Another thing that made him unique at the time? His focus on recruiting Black athletes to a mostly white school.

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0:00.0	Pushing.
0:07.0	Hello, hello revisionist history listeners.
0:11.3	I'm so excited to bring you season 7 in just two short weeks.
0:16.4	Until then, I wanted to share another podcast with you that I've been working on.
0:20.9	It's a new show called Legacy of Speed.
0:24.3	As any loyal revisionist history listener knows, I'm totally crazy about running.
0:28.7	To Intraxmith approached Pushkin to make a show about running in sports activism, I was
0:33.5	all in.
0:34.5	Legacy of Speed is a series about the transformation of a track program at San Jose State in the
0:39.2	1960s.
0:41.0	What started out as just a second tier state college that no one outside of Northern
0:45.5	California had even heard of quickly became known as the home to speed city.
0:51.3	Under the guidance of one coach and his unconventional techniques, San Jose launched the
0:55.8	careers of the fastest sprinters of the day.
0:59.4	Attrace the journey of those sprinters who went on to make an iconic protest at the 1968
1:04.9	Summer Olympics.
1:06.5	The show features conversations with Olympic athletes, sports journalists, performance
1:11.1	coaches and documentarians.
1:13.4	You'll hear from some of the best runners of all time, Tommy Smith, John Carlos, Lee Evans.
1:19.7	It's a story about athletes who dared to take a stand and the mentors who made them fast
1:25.4	and brave enough to pave the way for the sports activism we see today.
1:30.4	Here's a preview.
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