Talk:Cliff Young (athlete)

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There is a lot of inaccuracies and urban legend in this article about Cliff. For a start he was a cattle farmer! I will be extending to it and adding information on his other great races.

Phil Essam Webmaster for Cliff Young Memorial page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.130.109.53 (talk • contribs)

I agree with Phil. A lot of the material on this page has been directly lifted from a website (Reference 3) that does not cite any sources and, indeed, the article reads more like a story than an encyclopaedia entry. I have attempted to tidy it a little, but it needs a lot of work.

DylanNickelson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.74.173.113 (talk) 08:27, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(No changes made - comment here only.) One of the External links (* Tribute to Cliff Young) gave me a 404 Error not found. I couldn't find a search option on that particular website, and didn't attempt to contact the elected official who owns it. I didn't delete the link because that article may be out there somewhere. Maysmithb (talk) 11:34, 16 August 2010 (UTC)maysmithb[reply]

"A cameo features his then friend and local nurse, Matron Margaret 'Maggy' Sloane." - presumably a joke. Matron Maggy Sloan was a fictional character from the serial 'A Country Practice'. Was there any connection between Cliff Young and the actress Joan Sydney? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.49.200.122 (talk) 13:03, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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EliteFeet source error

Basic math shows that Young could not have been 76 in 1997, and thus the EliteFeet article has this detail incorrect. Is there a different verifiable source covering his attempt at breaking Gant's record that has the correct age? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:CD:480:FCC0:A8DB:1C3A:2560:C93F (talk) 01:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Sydney Morning Herald uses the same numbers: "End of the road for Cliff" (4 November 2002). WP:VNT. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:58, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The ABC source says 75,[1] so I have changed it to use that. Or we could omit his age altogether; but to me it makes no sense to put the wrong age in the article. Adpete (talk) 02:56, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Price money

At the moment the article says:

Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he split the money equally between them, keeping none.

But in this interview he says this when responding to what was the highlight of the race:

The prize money of ten thousand dollars! Now that's a helluva lot of potatoes. There were only 11 starters, so I thought I had a chance of getting something and I finished up getting the lot. Joe Record and I had a pact on before we ran that if either of us won we would split the prize money between us. I forgot about Joe and started giving it away left, right and centre. I gave $4,000 away to the other runners. So I said to Joe here's your half of the spoils. He said "Hmm $3,000? I thought the prize was $10,000." I said "I give the lot away. Don't worry about it." He wasn't that concerned.

Pek79 (talk) 11:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sleeping

Currently the article says:

He ran continuously for five days, taking the lead during the first night and eventually winning by 10 hours.

But in this article and this article it is said he sleep two hours the first night. This is also mentioned in this article that also says that he sleep 12 hours totally under the race.

In this article it is said that he passed all of the world-class athletes the last night. Not sure about that. How could he then win by a 10-hour margin?

Pek79 (talk) 17:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Boots

The article, and all references, says that he arrived at the race in overalls and work boots. But this article also says:

Young showed up at the event on April 27, 1983 wearing overalls and gumboots, though he later used ten pairs of shoes during the event.

Is this true? It makes sense I think, he was an experienced runner after all. But why did he start with gumboots? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pek79 (talk • contribs) 17:34, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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