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The Perfect Distance - Ovett and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry (Paperback, New ed)
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The Perfect Distance - Ovett and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry (Paperback, New ed)
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The definitive, fully authorised story of the record-breaking
rivalry between London Olympics organiser Sebastian Coe and Steve
Ovett. Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe presided over the golden era
of British athletics. Between them they won three Olympic gold
medals, two silvers, one bronze and broke a total of twelve
middle-distance records. They were part of the landscape of the
late seventies and early eighties -- both household names, their
exploits were watched by millions. As far apart as possible in
terms of class and upbringing -- Ovett is the art student, the
long-haired son of a market-trader from Brighton, a natural
athlete; Coe's formative years were spent under the rigorous
training routine of Peter Coe, a self-taught trainer who referred
to his son as 'my athlete' -- their rivalry burned as intense on
the track as away from it. The pendulum swung between the pair of
them -- each breaking the other's records, and, memorably,
triumphing in each other's events in Moscow in 1980 -- for the best
part of a decade, until the final showdown at the Los Angeles
Olympics in 1984 . . . The Perfect Distance is both a detailed
re-creation and a fitting celebration of the greatest era of
British athletics.
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