[HIGHLIGHTS] Michel Jazy, model, idol and example for all athletes in the 60s, dies

French middle distance runner Michel Jazy has died at the age of 87. Jazy was twice European champion and Olympic runner-up in the 1,500m in Rome 60.

He was a nine-time world record holder of the mile (3m 53.6s), of the two miles, of the 3,000m and the 2,000M. He could not beat Herb Elliott, the Australian who defeated him magnificently in the final of the distance queen in Rome.