Tough of the Track: The Ian Stewart Story

This full, and original biographical documentary, tells the story of Ian Stewart, from humble beginnings, to the heights of championship success. This video features all of his most important races. Chapters: ======== 00:00 - 01:26 Introduction 01:27 - 03:30 Junior Career 03:30 - 10:07 A Unique Race Tactic 10:08 - 18:31 The Memorable Win 18:32 - 43:03 The time when America's superstar was "upset" 43:04 - 44:59 The 1974 Commonwealth Games 45:00 - 48:50 A Unique "Double" 48:51 - 54:19 The 1976 Dream 54:20 - 55:42 The "World Record" that never was 55:43 - 58:04 Post-retirement Career The Cut List ========== This is a list of videos I could not include in this video documentary for various reasons, including copyright, which I include so you can see more of Stewart's races: British Pathe: Great Britain v. USA White City meet 1969, Stewart and Prefontaine in 5000m, both beaten by Dick Taylor.    • Great Britain V USA Athletics (1969)   British Pathe footage of AAA 5000m 1969:    • A.A.A. Championships (1969)   British Pathe footage of Stewart's 1969 1500m "British record":    • Athletics (1969)   British Pathe footage of 1969 European Championships 5000m final (2:59 into video):    • European Athletics Finals (1969)   Team Scotland’s video interview with Ian Stewart:    • Ian Stewart - Edinburgh 1970 Memories   Associated Press/British Movietone’s video of the 59th International Cross Country Championships:    • 59TH INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY - NO SOUND   Associated Press - 27th July 1972 - fascinating clip showing Ian and Peter Stewart in training with coach Geoff Warr, and interview:    • RR7230A UK BRITAIN'S HOPES FOR MUNICH   Without Limits (1998) - a biopic of Steve Prefontaine, this clip showing the re-enactment of the 1972 Munich 5,000m final:    • Steve Prefontaine Without Limits 1972 Muni...   Associated Press AP Archive video clip of World Cross Country Championship race:    • SYND 17 3 75 INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY R...   HistoricFilms.com 1975 2,000m at Crystal Palace:    • 1975 Crystal Palace 2000m featuring John W...   AP Movietone: Crystal Palace Meeting 18th September 1977, Stewart's 27:43, leading at the final bell:    • INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS - COLOUR   Music Track List: ============= All music, royalty free, performed by Martynas Laurinavicius on his Youtube Channel, Whitesand:    / @whitesandcomposer   A big thank you to Martynas for his amazing music. Please check out his channel. His music is incredible. Even the titles of his tracks line up with my narrative in this documentary! 00:01 – 01:28 Stories of the Untold    • Sad Emotional Piano Music - Stories of the...   01:35 – 03:31 Adventure Begins    • Beautiful Orchestral Music - Adventure Begins   03:31 – 04:55 Extent of my Power    • Epic Battle Music - Extent of my Power   04:56 – 06:54 I Am Strong Now    • Whitesand - I Am Strong Now [Epic Instrume...   10:09 – 11:18 Requiem for a Myth    • Whitesand - Requiem for a Myth (Ethereal: ...   11:18 – 14:19 Legends Anthem    • Whitesand - Legends Anthem [Epic Instrumen...   18:33 – 19:38 Alchemy of Life    • Alchemy of Life - Emotional Instrumental M...   19:38 – 20:44 The Only Way    • Whitesand - The Only Way [Epic Dark Music]   22:58 – 33:45 The Storm *    • Emotional Cinematic Music - The Storm (Cop...   33:41 – 35:23 Unreachable    • Whitesand - Unreachable   35:36 – 43:04 Glory    • Epic Trailer Music - Glory [Royalty Free]   43:04 – 45:00 The Power Within    • Whitesand - The Power Within [Emotional Be...   45:00 – 45:46 Courage To Be Free    • Cinematic Music - 'courage to be free' (by...   46:19 – 47:57 The Last Conquest    • Epic Emotional Instrumental Music - The La...   48:23 – 48:50 Story of the Wind    • Emotional Dramatic Orchestral Music - Stor...   48:50 – 52:57 Animal Heart    • Animal Heart - Instrumental Music   53:49 – 54:20 Demons    • Whitesand - Demons   54:20 – 55:43 The Last Stand    • Whitesand - The Last Stand [Epic Instrumen...   56:12 – 58:00 Reverie    • Beautiful Inspiring and Heroic Music - "Re...   Extended by Prentis Hancock About This Video ============== This original documentary was researched, written and produced by me, and originally published on 24th May 2021. Copyright fair use disclaimer: All video elements are copyright of the original publishers and no copyright infringement is intended. All video elements have been second-sourced from videos published on Youtube for many years. My thanks go to Tommytempo1 and AthletixStuffChannel. Fair use is made of these elements by providing original commentary, analysis and narrative to these elements to produce an original storyline. If any original, first-source publisher of these elements is offended, please let me know and I will take down the video, remove the element and republish the video. If you have enjoyed this video, please like, subscribe and share, and let me know in the comments below your memories of Ian Stewart's exploits? Also if you would like to see more videos like this?