Sebastian Coe
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Athletics, Britain. Coe and Steve Ovett rarely raced each other outside championships, which made their meetings events. At the 1980 Moscow Olympics Ovett won the 800 metres, Coe's stronger event, and Coe won the 1,500 metres, where Ovett was favourite. In August 1981 the mile world record changed hands three times in ten days, Coe, then Ovett, then Coe again.
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