When Coe Lorded It Over All His Rivals

Summary


The good Lord gave us all much upon which to rejoice. He was good all right - no he was gloriously, uniquely brilliant.

Lord Coe may be a statesman of substance these days but Sebastian Newbold Coe was so fleet of foot that he won four Olympic medals and smashed 12 world records during one of the fiercest sporting rivalries ever witnessed on planet earth.

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When Coe Lorded It Over All His Rivals

The peak period of Seb Coe and Steve Ovett - 1979 to 1984 - were the thunder and lightning years of track.

Never have their like been witnessed before or since. Coe and Ovett were demi gods of athletics who, when they met over 1,500 metres in the cavernous 103,000-seater Lenin Stadium at the Moscow Olympics, produced the single most captivating indiv...

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