Incredible Moment As Underdog Billy Mills Wins 10, 000m Gold Tokyo 1964 Olympics

Watch highlights of one of the most incredible stories in Olympic history as the USA s Billy Mills wins the 10, 000m gold as a complete unknown underdog at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. Subscribe to the Olympics here hit the bell The story of the 10, 000m at the Tokyo 1964 Games is the story of one of the greatest upsets ever seen at the Olympics. The race had been predicted to be a threeway battle between Murray Halbert, the defending 5000m champion, the defending 10, 000m champion Pyotr Bolotnikov, and the world record holder Ron Clarke. It did not go according to plan. By the halfway mark, though, only Clarke was anywhere near the front, accompanied by Tunisian Mohamed Gammoudi and the American Billy Mills. Mills was so unheralded that, in the runup to the Games, not one reporter had asked him a single question. They should have done, for his story was memorable. He had been born in South Dakota as a member of a Native Ameri