Stan Wright (track coach)

[1] He achieved notoriety in 1972 as the man held responsible for the two American favourites for the 100 meters title, Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson, missing their quarter-final races.

[6] In 1966, he was appointed head coach for the USA track and field teams for dual athletics meets against Poland and the USSR that occurred a week apart in Los Angeles.

[1] In recognition of his years as a highly respected coach and administrator, he received the accolade in 1993 of becoming an inductee into the United States Track and Field Hall of Fame.

[4][6] On the morning of August 31, 1972, all the three American representatives – Eddie Hart, Rey Robinson and Robert Taylor – in the 100 meters at the 1972 Munich Olympics qualified for the quarter-final round to be held later that day.

The 4 × 100 meters sprint relay team coached by Wright (with Hart on the final leg) later would win the gold medal,[9] but it was a "bittersweet ending" to the Olympics for all concerned.

[7][10] The report lays the blame on the late amendment to the schedule by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) not being conveyed effectively to the responsible coaches.

That it was a more general misunderstanding is given credence by the fact that Borzov later admitted that he nearly missed his quarter-final,[8] and that Lee Evans, a fellow American athlete, who was in the stadium and who had realised what was happening with the schedule, sprinted back to the Olympic Village in a desperate attempt to try to warn the three sprinters of the impending calamity.

[4] He died in Harris, Texas on November 6, 1998 following a long illness,[2] two days after the death of his cousin, Larry Ellis, who had been head coach of the 1984 United States Olympic Team and the former president of USA Track and Field Organisation.