The great Jim Hines is dead

[malaise]

Hines was the first person to run the 100 in under 10.00. Mexico 1968

https://olympics.com/en/news/olympic-champion-jim-hines-first-official-sub-10-100m-man-dies-aged-76

[marble falls]

1. Good to remember someone who did so good in amateur athletics, who also had a top time in the 100m.

... in the NFL. He did a lot of youth work in Houston. A quiet but good person.

[malaise]

2. Yes indeed

My dad told me a lot about him

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/06/05/jim-hines-dies-100-meters-olympics

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[marble falls]

3. I remember those Olympics for a bunch of reasons ...

Police shooting protesting students at the same time.

[malaise]

4. We all do

😀😀

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Iconic Picture. TFP.

[Ohio Joe]

5. RIP

[thatcrowwoman]

6. 🕯️💫

🕊thatcrowwoman

[Bayard]

8. A legend

[GreenWave]

9. Oh no!

RIP

[Poiuyt]

10. I loved watching track back in those days

But now, all my old sports heroes are passing away.

[malaise]

11. Our entire generation is moving on

Just reality but it’s hard to process

[Poiuyt]

12. So true Malaise

RIP: Jim Hines, Lennox Miller, and Charlie Greene.

[malaise]

14. Like you

We followed track and field big time (and cricket of course).

[WheelWalker]

15. You can never step into the same river twice.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. i was wearing a body cast from surgery and still in elementry school with those olympics.

i still remember the black power salute and the consternation that it caused.

[malaise]

16. Surgery - how old were you?

That must have been scary

[AllaN01Bear]

17. 16. spinal fusion. would have been hunchback in x amount of months . still gives me grief now nd th

[malaise]

18. My goddaughter had similar surgery

To think that she's now 51 - she has beautiful posture.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. 2 titanium rods on either side of spine and tennons from the thigh of ny right legg.

i was first for such a surgery.

[malaise]

20. I must ask her mum for details

They were worried about her because both her maternal grandmother and great aunt had bent backs - not completely hunched. I don't think she got any rods. That must have been something - with lots of physiotherapy.