Sebastian Coe v Steve Ovett

I see my little piss take about Coe went over your massive head. I apologise. I shall redo my post.

Coe was the little posh boy at school that no one liked and Steve Ovett was the working class grifter.

Both as talented as each other but you couldn't like Coe then or now. Something completely wrong about him the smarmy git.
 
BimboBob said:
Coe was the posh boy with all the talent, Ovett appeared to be the working class grifter.

Coe all day.
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Could argue it was the other way round, regarding talent. Ovett was the more impressive junior and had the better range, winning national titles from 400m to 12km cross-country. He probably did train harder than was often the perception, but I think Coe was possibly the harder training and Ovett the more naturally talented.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
So, how ‘bout that Sydney McLaughlin Levrone now?! ;-)

Keeps breaking her own World Records! WOW!
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Sorry, genuinely, to raise these doubts but:
1. Her coach is Bobby Kersee
2. She hardly ever races outside of the Olympics.

For me, I found these two reasons for caution when evaluating her performances.
 
chesterbells said:
Sorry, genuinely, to raise these doubts but:
1. Her coach is Bobby Kersee
2. She hardly ever races outside of the Olympics.

For me, I found these two reasons for caution when evaluating her performances.
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Nice slanderous remark!

Having read quite a bit about her, she has been an elite athlete for quite some time and changed coaches multiple times. It wasn’t until she engaged experts in biomechanics that she really started to pull away, literally and figuratively.

She changed her hurdle mechanics, her steps and even her lead off leg for the later hurdles, while also competing in the 400M to gain raw speed and better sprint endurance.

I guess when someone as cynical as you suggests she’s somehow cheating, it’d be nice to see a scintilla of evidence before deriding the GOAT in her event…but then who needs evidence in a world of “alternative facts” and “it’s just an opinion” cynicism.

Show your cards. She’s shown hers.
 
Pass_2_Silva said:
Can't have a bad word said about Dave Moorcroft!
One of the nicest guys you could meet. Very humble, has given so much back to the sport, and is one of the most inspirational speakers I've had the pleasure of listening to.
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Probably the most famous former pupil at my secondary school (2nd being a pupil who went on a TV quiz show....)
 
Those were indeed great times for athletics in the UK. I recall preferring Coe, but then I'm.a soft southerner.

I recall watching Steve Cram right in the mix too though, The Jarrow Arrow.

Alan Wells was mentioned earlier, 100m gold at the 1980 Olympics, that's certainly one for the history books.

I think 800/1500 are perfect race distances for TV, enough time to enjoy it but not too long
 
Vienna_70 said:
Initially, it was Coe, until I saw his reaction to defeat in the 800m to Ovett in Moscow. I thought, what a poor loser.

I went right off him. I went even further off him, when he became a Tory twat, and his stock fell even further, when he became my MP. He was fucking useless.

He and his wife loved the area so much that she went to London for the birth of their first child. Thankfully, he only lasted one parliament.
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I don't recall that but I was only 10 at the time. I was also too young to really know much about politics although I grew up in a largely Labour-voting family but in any case, I had no idea whether Coe was a Tory or not back then so yeah, it was always Coe for me, and a few years later it was Steve Cram who had some great battles not just with Coe and Ovett but also with Said Aouita.

Back then, athletics was a great watch. Almost every week in the summer months there would be athletics on prime-time terrestrial TV. Many of those meetings at home and on the continent would usually have at least one event where all the best athletes in the world would gather for an epic face-off and maybe an attempt at a world-record.
 
Great athletes but wasn't too keen on either of them, Coe 'posh and spoilt' and Ovett seemed to be a bit of a weirdo :)
 
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M18CTID said:
I don't recall that but I was only 10 at the time. I was also too young to really know much about politics although I grew up in a largely Labour-voting family but in any case, I had no idea whether Coe was a Tory or not back then so yeah, it was always Coe for me, and a few years later it was Steve Cram who had some great battles not just with Coe and Ovett but also with Said Aouita.

Back then, athletics was a great watch. Almost every week in the summer months there would be athletics on prime-time terrestrial TV. Many of those meetings at home and on the continent would usually have at least one event where all the best athletes in the world would gather for an epic face-off and maybe an attempt at a world-record.
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Athletics, like practically every sport, was more accessible to the public back then.

Dear Mr Murdoch and his ilk have a lot to answer for.
 
Coe was the twat who bollocked up the London Olympic ticket allocation.

Almost impossible to get tickets as an ordinary man in the street. He had given so many to companies offering hotel/ticket packages and to the hundreds of competing nations. It was farcical when the said nations were offering their tickets for sale as soon as they arrived in London having failed to sell them back in their own countries.

Sebastian Coe is a complete and utter self-centred TWAT.
 
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