Sebastian Coe, a two-time Olympic 1500-meter gold medalist, holder of myriad middle distance records, Tory member of Britain’s Parliament, and most recently, the head of the organizing committee ...

On a weekend when the British were ready to bury their previous generation of middle-distance stars, Sebastian Coe showed there was life remaining in his 31-year-old legs. Coe ran an impressive ...

Sebastian Coe was a middle-distance runner, one of the best the 20th century produced. He stretched his sinews to grab gold, memorably, at both the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.

Coe was part of the great British middle-distance resurgence of the late 1970s and early '80s. He was a world record-holder for 800 and 1500 meters and for the mile, and he won two Olympic golds ...

Sebastian Coe insists there is life in athletics after Usain Bolt. The world's fastest man has stated he plans to hang up his spikes after the 2017 World Championships in London. The Jamaican said ...

Looking Back with Sebastian Coe: ... But life is marginals, isn't it, ... "Very early on we decided that we didn't want to be seen thinking that anywhere was a no-go area for us," Coe says.

Coe hung up his spikes in early 1990 with an eye on a different pathway. He made the surprise move into politics in 1992, when he was elected as Conservative MP for Falmouth and Camborne.