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The Perfect Distance: Ovett and Coe: The Record-Breaking Rivalry

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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. As far apart as possible in terms of class and upbringing, their rivalry burned as intense on the track as away from it. The pendulum swung between the pair of themeach breaking the other's records, and, memorably, triumphing in each other's events in Moscow in 1980. "The Perfect Distance" is both a detailed re-creation ...

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The Perfect Distance: Ovett and Coe: The Record-Breaking Rivalry 2005, Orion Publishing Group, London

ISBN-13: 9780753819005

Trade paperback

Perfect Distance: Ovett and Coe - The Record Breaking Rivalry 2004, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

ISBN-13: 9780297847458

Hardcover