“Dead and buried” was pretty much the consensus on Sebastian Coe’s career following the 1980 Olympic 800m final. He’d been widely expected to win but although he’d taken silver, he’d run dismally. His ...

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 go ...

Forty years ago this weekend athletics was top of the pops in Britain and Seb Coe and Steve Ovett vied for number one. At the Moscow Olympics the pair held the sporting world spellbound as they won ...

LONDON - Sebastian Coe's rivalry with Steve Ovett in which the two middle-distance runners took turns breaking the world record for the mile in the late 1970s and early '80s is going to be highlighted ...

“It’s amazing, crazy. 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 ...

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 early ...

BBC Films and AL Films are developing a film about the celebrated Olympic rivalry between middle-distance runners Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe. The pair famously clashed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics ...

Once upon a time, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, track and field’s global governing body, were the closest of friends. “Best ...