THE man with the starting gun is usually long forgotten after the race gets underway, but that was far from the case at the Geoff Watt Memorial Fun Run in Warragul at the weekend. Olympic legend Steve ...

Andrew Osagie revealed how he has been inspired by just three words from Olympic champion Steve Ovett. Osagie, who has a black belt in karate, is certainly not lacking in self-belief and admits he ...

Steve Smythe charts the middle-distance runner's early years through the 1970s in the first part of an Ovett race history special. Steve Ovett is uniquely the only athlete to win major ...

"Once [Ovett] won the 800, you thought, 'Well, he's just going to turn up and win the 1,500," recalled fellow British miler Steve Cram. "Bloody hell, Coe needn't bother turning up.'" But Coe did ...

As London gets ready to host the 2012 Olympic Games, Steve Ovett, who has not often spoken of Sebastian Coe, opened up about the man who formed the other half of the most notorious British middle ...

I don’t think you’ll probably realise how good it is until it is done – that’s the sad thing,” says Jake Wightman, reflecting on a British middle-distance crop which, three weeks from ...

The controversial waves Steve Ovett gave to the crowds, as he raced for the line leaving rivals in his wake, were just a sign that he was enjoying himself. He did it several times during his ...

Steve Ovett wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1978 . ... Man Utd's stadium before Old Trafford. Video, 00:01:49 'A toxic dump!' Man Utd's stadium before Old Trafford. Subsection.

Steve Ovett believes no one will forget his era when British middle distance runners dominated the world. The current talk is more of foreign stars than our own breed as to who is going to win the ...

Olympic legend Steve Ovett never knew his rivalry with Sebastian Coe was the talk of the jungle until he spent seven days exploring the swamps in Papua New Guinea.