open image in gallery Steve Ovett (279) pulls ahead of Sebastian Coe (254) to win at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 (Getty) (Getty Images) But Coe had form in losing the big ones. An unknown ...

The duels between Seb Coe and Steve Ovett, two of the greatest middle-distance runners, were packed with such tension and drama that you were either a Coe fanatic or an Ovett fanatic. There was no ...

Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt proved once again this week that the 100-meter sprint is the highest-profile track event in the world. But that hasn't always been the case. In the late 1970s and ...

The build-up was all about myself and Steve Ovett. We were both chasing the spoils and something had to give. They were saying if Seb beats Steve or Steve beats Seb the chance is that they will ...

Steve Ovett eventually said yes and I spent the ... when Coe left himself with far too much to do. I've interviewed Sebastian Coe many times and I actually asked him once: how on earth did you ...

“He asked me if I was Steve Ovett, and when I said yes he replied, ‘Ah, so you are the man who beat Sebastian Coe – I’m a big fan of yours, I used to run myself’. “Even in the back of ...

So much for deadly rivals – Steve Ovett says Sebastian Coe was his toughest opponent because he was “bullet-proof”. Today, Ovett lays to rest more than 20 years of intrigue, innuendo and ill ...

The big riddle of the forthcoming BBC film about the rivalry between Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, announced yesterday, is why nobody thought of it earlier. To British sports fans glued to their ...

From its inception, Steve Ovett vs Sebastian Coe was a social construction cleverly engineered by the tabloid press. The 24-year-old ‘brash’ and ‘arrogant’ Ovett was typecast in the role ...

British runner Sebastian Coe remembers his rivalry with Steve Ovett at the 1980 Olympics. Show more At the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, the world was gripped by the intense rivalry between the British ...

Seb Coe can recall Steve Ovett unknowingly ruining his Christmas Day. The World Athletics president tells the story of how after watching Dambusters with his family one year, he forced himself to ...

I want to put two Olympic Games and two men together. They are Steve Ovett, external and Sebastian Coe,, external and they had an extraordinary rivalry in the 800m and 1500m which lasted from the ...