by Pat Butcher
Tullylease and Fr Liam Kelleher (i)
World Cup Düsseldorf 1977 (i)
Westhall, Charles (i)
Whitbread, Fatima (i)
Williams, Paul (i), (ii)
Williamson, Graham (i), (ii)
Dubai Golden Mile, Oslo 1979 (i)
European Championships 1982 (i)
Los Angeles Olympics 1984 (i)
Moscow Olympics 1980 (i)
Oslo 1980 (i)
World Championships 1983 (i)
Wilson, Harry (i)
1973 season (i)
coaching Ovett (i)
Commonwealth Games 1974 (i)
Kirk Dumpleton (i), (ii)
Los Angeles Olympics (i), (ii), (iii)
Merthyr Mawr (i)
Moscow Olympics (i), (ii)
Ovett’s move to middle distance (i)
Peter Elliott (i)
Steve Cram (i)
Wilson, Neil
Dubai Golden Mile 1978 (i)
Gay Ovett (i)
Peter Coe (i)
Steve Ovett (i), (ii), (iii)
Withdean Stadium, Brighton (i), (ii), (iii)
Wolhuter, Rick (i)
Wooderson, Sydney (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
World Championships
Helsinki 1983 (i), (ii), (iii)
pacemaking (i), (ii)
World Cup
1977 Düsseldorf (i)
1981 Rome (i)
world records
800 metres
Coe 1979 (i)
Coe 1981 (i), (ii)
1000 metres, Coe 1980 (i)
1500 metres
Coe 1979 (i)
history (i)
Ovett 1980 (i), (ii)
Ovett 1983 (i)
Ovett’s attempt 1979 (i)
1000 metres, 1981 (i)
5000 metres, Moorcroft 1982 (i)
mile
Coe 1979 (i)
Coe 1981 (i), (ii)
history (i), (ii)
Ovett 1980 (i)
Ovett’s attempts 1979 (i)
pacemakers (i)
Wülbeck, Willi (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Yifter, Miruts (i), (ii)
Yorkshire Post (i)
Young, Kevin (i)
Zátopek, Emil (i), (ii), (iii)
Zdravkovic, Dragan (i)
Zivotic, Dragan (i)
About the Author
Pat Butcher is athletics correspondent for the Financial Times. He has made two television documentaries, Arabian Knight, the Enigma of Saïd Aouita and Race for Kenya, an exploration of the genetic and cultural reasons for East African running success. He once ran a mile in 4 min. 09.4 sec.
The Mighty Atom – Coe at 13 is only a year younger than the clubmate behind him
‘Did he win? Those little pair of legs went . . . and he was away. He won easy’ – Ovett at 13
Seb at 16: the Sheffield schoolboy with visions of bringing the world mile record – once held by Derek Ibbotson – back to Yorkshire
Nature Boy – Ovett at 19
A rare shot of Ovett (aged 17) with sister Susie
Family debate – Angela Coe and Seb, aged 21
Ovett’s first international title, 1973. ‘He wasn’t necessarily the favourite, but he always managed to pull through’
Running dialogue – coach Harry Wilson and Ovett, aged 22
The future Olympic 1500 metres champion takes on the current title holder, John Walker, in an 800 metres at Crystal Palace in 1977
Student in form – 1977
‘Olaf who?’ Prague 1978, after the European 800 metres final
Zurich 1979 – Coe’s third world record in 41 days
The Moscow 800 metres – a work of art for Ovett and Italian painter Angelo Titonel
‘. . . treading in his footprints before the dust could settle there’ – a Homeric rivalry
Ecstasy!
Peter Coe and Seb
1981. Brussels. Another record falls . . . and another, Zurich
Ovett blooms late in 1983 with the world 1500 metres record in Rieti
Coe begins 1983 with an 800 metres indoor world record, before the season falls apart.
A year later he climbs Richmond Hill on the way to scaling another Olympic peak
Don’t look back – Ovett’s only win in LA, in his 1500 metres heat
The finest, maybe the final flowering of the Great Tradition. Ovett, Cram and Coe in LA
After the Olympic 800 metres, Los Angeles – ‘We’re too old to be playing with fire’
1989 – ‘Didn’t you used to be . . .?’
Copyright
A Phoenix ebook
First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Ebook first published in 2012 by Phoenix
© Pat Butcher 2004
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