Wottle I think was a miler who was running like his 3rd 800.
I believe you are correct.
It’s crazy because it looks like he made up ten meters in the last one hundred meters of the race. Caught two Kenyans. And the undoubtedly juiced Soviet who might still have won if he did not fall at the finish. That was the Olympics where the Russian won the 100 and 200 meter dashes shocking the Americans who of course had dominated those races. So this win made us all feel much better. But the other things happened …