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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...