Steve Ovett is uniquely the only athlete to win ... and ranked eighth all-time in the world and was only 0.6 off Alberto Juantorena’s world record. He still had his main event to go and there ...

Steve Smythe charts the middle-distance ... at a cracking pace and won in a world record 1:43.5 by Alberto Juantorena (below, with Ovett and Ivo Van Damme behind). In his 1500m heat, he ran ...

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 ...

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 ...

ONE OF the greatest sporting rivalries of modern times, the one-upmanship battle between Seb Coe and Steve Ovett, is to be brought… ONE OF the greatest sporting rivalries of modern times ...

I said: "I'd love to do it. Have you got him?" The reply: "No, but we're trying." Steve Ovett eventually said yes and I spent the day with him in Brighton. I found a totally different and relaxed ...

Q - What has happened to retired athlete Steve Ovett? Where has he gone? Most of the athletes of his time such as Steve Cram, Brendan Foster and Sebastian Coe were commentators at the recent World ...