Today at the Olympic Stadium,
in a sport totally dominated by the clock,
one of the most bizarre incidents in the history
of track and field.
Ladies and gentlemen,
in a few minutes, over 70 television
and radio stations from all over the world
will begin broadcasting
from the Munich Olympic Stadium.
Yes. My name is Valeriy Borzov.
My first thought after the victory was,
"Really, is it that easy to win the 100m?"
It's important not to stand up quickly
and to maintain the angle of my body for the first 30 metres.
If I rise up gradually, I get top speed for those 30 metres.
After this, we have to maintain speed for the next 70 metres.
I hear the moans and other sounds of my opponents
to my right and left.
It's very impressive.
All eight sportsmen are rising up like a very heavy ship.
Everyone is playing his own musical composition.
After 50 metres,
you can already see what place you'll have.
By 70 metres, all doubts are dispelled.
By the 70th metre, all doubts are dispelled.
When I finished,
I lifted my hands emotionally, which is not typical of me.
I was emotional...
..it was an emotional gesture of victory.
It cost me 0.15 seconds.
After I stopped, Miller and Taylor came to me
with brief congratulations.
It seemed they were surprised.
Because I destroyed the hegemony
of African-American sprinters at the Olympic Games.
They asked this question at the press conference.
It went like this -
"Can you consider yourself, Mr Borzov,
"the fastest man in the world
"if two Americans were absent in the final?"
An incredible thing has happened in the 100m here
as we move to the second round, the quarterfinals.
The Americans, including their coaches,
did not know that that second round
was going to be run this afternoon.
Ten minutes ago, some of them walked into our ABC centre,
looked at the television screen
and saw some of these quarterfinal heats being run.
They all jumped into a car, raced over here,
but the first two of them,
Reynaud Robinson and Eddie Hart,
two of our favourites to run for a gold medal,
missed their heats and they're out of the Olympics.
Hello. My name is Rey Robinson.
100m dash, co-world record holder, 100m.
I did not compete in the finals
of the 100m in 1972 in Munich.
This is something that is going
to stay in the back of my mind forever.
After the warm-up,
my coach, Petrovskiy, Hart, Robinson and I
went to the call room,
where the official representative informed us
that the 100m competitions were delayed by 40 minutes.
My coach woke me up to tell me
that the quarterfinal competition was on the monitor
and my running spot was empty.
I managed to get to the race.
I jumped out and the starter showed me one finger.
It meant that there was only one minute left
until the start.
Unfortunately, the coach that we had, Stan Wright,
had outdated schedules
and that's what caused the mishap.
But a mistake to happen like that
I don't put in on the coach itself
but you put it on the organization as a whole.
Yeah, I watched the race. I think I could've won it.
I had ran 9.9 twice that year.
You're looking at Reynaud Robinson, 100m sprint star.
A very great athlete with tears in his eyes
who in the last 30 minutes has discovered
that he's been declared out of the Olympic Games
for failing to show up in time for his heat.
Now, in the light of what's happened, Rey,
I think you should tell it like it is.
What did happen and who's to blame?
I was asked a question at the press conference.
It went like this,
"Can you consider yourself, Mr Borzov,
"the fastest man in the world
"if two Americans were absent in the final?"
Bye-bye.