Yeah, what's up with Pre movies? Can't they make one where he emerges from the ashes of his crushed MG unscathed, trains like a demon with a young Jack Daniels, crushes all comers to set WR's in the 5k in the '76 games, moves up to the Marathon distance and is the first guy under 2:06, retires from running on top, creates a hugely successful national program to encourage young people to run (thus avoiding an obesity epidemic), gets elected to the board of Nike and makes millions, quits in protest over the conditions of nike manufacturers' in the Third World, sells all of his worldly possessions, moves to India to do volunteer work with Mother Theresa, and then spends the remainder of his years meditating in an ashram?
Another argument for a runner to completely abstain from alcohol. With his talent, he probably would have done all that, or something equally remarkable. The sad thing, there are so many runners we never even hear of with Pre-like potential, that we would definitely know about had they been taught and given reason to stay away from alcohol from a young age.
