Two races are featured: the women's 100 meters where Evelyn Ashford breaks the world record with a 10.79 (wind reading at 0.56) and Edwin Moses in the 400 meter hurdles where he extends his winning streak to 88 consecutive victories. Additional running events are sprinkled in with other sports including the men's and women's high hurdles and 400 meter relay competitions.The back of the box displays the following description:
"The American hopefuls competing at the National Sports Festival on the road to the Summer Olympic Games, uniquely captured on video and set to the original music of Ken Nordine. Ken Nordine has been reviewed as perhaps the greatest artist of our time in the crazy and bizarre world of television commercials. His amazing voice coupled with wonderful and dazzling visuals has for years sold you Levis® Jeans and countless other products. But Ken Nordine has a labor or love outside commercials, an electronic-age musical and verbal collage he calls "word jazz". He created the famous Word Jazz albums, a series of four records which allowed Ken to give his whimsy and imagination an open throttle. Ken appeared on an album with the sixties rock group H.P. Lovecraft, performing his own composition "Nothing´s Boy". His 1979 album titled Stare With Your Ears received a Grammy nomination. Now, Ken has been able to combine his awesome audio and video talents for the U.S. Olympic Committee and you, in this original music and video entertainment which you´ll enjoy any season, again and again. A portion of all artist and producer net royalty payments on each video sold go directly to the U.S. Olympic Committee."
Produced by Bruce Goronsky and directed by Laurence Grunberg. Note that other movies have been released with this title that are not related to running.
