1972 Olympic 10,000 metres,

I've included this clip to show one of the greatest athletes and races of all time.  Lasse Viren in the 1972 Olympic 10,000 metre final. Viren lead for nearly half the race in what was an aggressive pace in a strong field and still finished with a long sprint finish, he fended off his rivals in the last few hundred metres by stepping up yet another gear and finding an even faster sprint. VIren's coach was trained by Arthur Lydiard, and employed Arthur's training principles of years of long slow distance running topped off with strength and speed training to perfect Viren's talents.  He makes it look so easy the way he holds off the 
other athletes, he was accused of taking drugs due to his lack
lustre performance in the years btween his Olympc golds in the 
72 and 76 Olympics, but his training was focused on peaking
 primarily for the Olympics better than his opponents had 
prepared.