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1 Lasse Viren
Fell in the Olympic 10,000m final only to get up and win gold in a world record time. Munich, 31 August 1972

At the start of the Munich Games, Lasse Viren, a 23-year-old Finnish policeman from the small village of Myrskyla, was not widely known. Indeed, the heats of the 10,000 metres were his Olympic debut. But when he stumbled and fell just before the halfway mark in the final his chance of victory seemed to have gone. The Tunisian Mohamed Gammoudi (who had won the 5,000 metres at the 1968 Olympics) tripped over Viren and gave up two laps later. But the Finnish runner calmly got to his feet and chased his way back into contention, overtaking Britain's David Bedford, the long-time leader, to not only win the gold medal, but set a world record of 27min 38.4sec. Ten days later, he also won the 5,000m (in an Olympic record time) - a double that he repeated in Montreal in 1976.

One of the greatest comeback

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1 Lasse Viren
Fell in the Olympic 10,000m final only to get up and win gold in a world record time. Munich, 31 August 1972

At the start of the Munich Games, Lasse Viren, a 23-year-old Finnish policeman from the small village of Myrskyla, was not widely known. Indeed, the heats of the 10,000 metres were his Olympic debut. But when he stumbled and fell just before the halfway mark in the final his chance of victory seemed to have gone. The Tunisian Mohamed Gammoudi (who had won the 5,000 metres at the 1968 Olympics) tripped over Viren and gave up two laps later. But the Finnish runner calmly got to his feet and chased his way back into contention, overtaking Britain's David Bedford, the long-time leader, to not only win the gold medal, but set a world record of 27min 38.4sec. Ten days later, he also won the 5,000m (in an Olympic record time) - a double that he repeated in Montreal in 1976.

http://observer.theguardian.com/osm/story/0,,562527,00.html

nooooooooooo! i didn't get to watch that, I was going to watch it until now you told me.  I always tell myself don't come on here before you watch a match else you will run in to spoilers, but today i forgot, damm nevermind, i'm not coming here until i have watched mayweather vs canelo no way am i going to forget that. lol

Dammn, he got knocked out, by the guy who has 8 losses especially to ponce de leon and he looked good in his match against ponce de leon. now you have already started and now you must finish.

what happened, did mares get lazy and caught off guard? or something else.

EDIT: Just watched it, what that was crazy....
abner mares was doing good especially a few seconds before he got knocked
he was controlling the action a few nice combos and then out of no where a knock out punch from gonzales, you were right, that was nuts, i didn't expect it from gonzales, even though he had the record of 1 round ko but with 8 losses i didn't think he would be able to pull it off with mares, and then the second one, woooww the number of left hooks to the jaw was just unbelieveable lol at the commentators " mama miah" and shouting at this lmao.

it was a good fight but shocking 1 rd kO.