Allan Wells Powers To 100m Gold For Great Britain - Moscow 1980 Olympics

📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Classic highlights from the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games as Great Britain's Alan Wells wins gold in the men's 100m event. The absence of the American contingent from the Olympic Games in Moscow did little to lessen the tension and air of expectancy before track and field's blue riband event, the men's 100m. With the likes of Stanley Floyd and Harvey Glance being forced to watch from home in the United States, the favourites after the early rounds appeared to be Cuban Silvio Leonard, Italian floater Pietro Mennea and Pole Marian Woronin. The fact that Scotland's Wells was there at all was something of a minor miracle. The powerful Scot had been subjected to a barrage of propaganda, some from the British government itself, attempting to persuade him to join the boycott. He went to Russia on the back of some excellent form: he had won the 200m Commonwealth Games gold in Alberta in 1978 and was the British champion over 100m and 200