“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 ...

Steve Smythe charts the middle-distance runner's early years through the 1970s in the first part of an Ovett race history special Steve Ovett is uniquely the only athlete to win major championship ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 (AP) — "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play British Olympic runner Sebastian Coe in a movie about rivalries on the running track. "Gold" will tell the story of the tense ...

As Eliud Kipchoge and a group of some of the world's fastest runners assemble at the starting line for the Berlin Marathon on September 25, professional cyclist Freddy Ovett will lace up a pair of ...

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Fresh from winning the 5K/10K European Championships double, Farah set a new British two-mile record at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham last weekend, breaking Steve Ovett's 36-year reign in ...