Talk:Gerry Lindgren

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I'm in the progress of expanding this page please feel free to help me out by rearranging information, adding information, or just generally fixing it up. shijeru 07:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone have a reference to back up this remark?: "He also remains the only person to have defeated Steve Prefontaine in an NCAA Championship." Prefontaine entered college in 1970, Gerry Lindgren would have been 24 at the time, while is possible he was still competing in college is it unlikely.

Lindgren was a Senior as Washington State and Prefontaine was a Freshman at Oregon. Lindgren had taken part of 1968 off to train for the Olympics and was completing his eligibility that Fall. Prefontaine actually finished 3rd behind Lindgren and defending champion Mike Ryan of Air Force Academy. Lindgren also defeated Prefontaine at the Pacific-8 Conference Cross Country championships earilier that Fall. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.175.120.192 (talk) 01:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Pre committed to Oregon in the spring of 1969 and entered school that fall. 2601:603:1F7E:7280:FD53:39C:97DD:E217 (talk) 22:13, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

NPOV Issue?
I'd like to know what some of you think about this line from the page, "Since 1980, when he curiously abandoned his wife and children (with whom he continues to have no contact), Lindgren has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii." I believe this sentence may have a judgemental tone to it. I'm not sure about how to change it to reflect a NPOV, though. shijeru 07:41, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sounds like the facts are being stated and they are creating a judgmental
 * response by the reader. I know it did for me and that is not bad. 2601:603:1F7E:7280:FD53:39C:97DD:E217 (talk) 22:05, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * It is not clear if dirt track really means a cinder track which was the norm for the time. All major tracks were created with carefully groomed cinders. 2601:603:1F7E:7280:FD53:39C:97DD:E217 (talk) 22:09, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

No kidding. Sounds like he is a selfish idiot if it is true. In fact as a former running champion myself from Idaho back then, who ran against him once in a collegiate cross-country race I feel that Jerry is a coward. Isn't that what cowards do in battle when they are afraid to face the fight? They just run away..........as fast as they can. That's all Jerry has been doing all his life in all of his races, and especially with his poor family. In the case of his races someone just pointed him in the right direction so that he appears to be a winner, when in fact he is really nothing but a big loser. This is borne out in the fact that no one was there to point him in the right direction when it came to his poor family. Especially his 3 children. I say leave the fact that he abandoned his wife and children just as it is stated. I think it doesn't say enough about the truth of the man. (KB)

Talk about NPOV! I'll remove this, that looks like a flagrant NPOV issue: "widely recognized as being the best high school distance runner ever" Trackfan87543 (talk)

Oops, put in more reasonable text, but the crazy NPOV "best ever" is still there. Embarrassing. Fixing now. Sorry. Trackfan87543 (talk)

High mileage
Why is there nothing in this article about his renowned high mileage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.204.93.171 (talk) 02:16, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Overstatement
"This signaled the first time an American had beaten a Russian in an international distance race. " Not quite. Horace Ashenfelter beat the Soviet Vladimir Kazantsev to win the steeplechase gold at the 1952 Olympics. That should qualify as an "international distance race". It should be "Soviet" not "Russian" in that context as well.

[] Jszigeti (talk) 00:42, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

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