1.3M views · 2.6K shares | What an incredible story.  Happy birthday Philip Boit! | Olympics | Facebook

17K views · 218 reactions | Let's watch Mark Belger as he closely tracks a certain Mike Boit, controlling the race from the front, past 400m and surges past up the final back straight to gain a crucial lead that he never relinquishes to deliver an upset in 1:48.7 (indoor PB) to 1:48.9 (indoor PB) over 800m in Lond Beach (CA) in early January 1978. Belger missed out on an Olympic spot at the death as a 19-year-old at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene in 1976 and was reigning NCAA Indoor champion at