On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Matthew H Fraser Moat wrote:
> You can have long debates about who is the best 1,500m/Mile runner of all
> time, you can have long debates about who is the best 800m runner of all
> time, but few people would argue that Coe should be included in both
> discussions.
> My questio
Matthew H Fraser Moat wrote:
> In Coe's heydey (1979 - 81) there was no Grand Prix circuit,
Maybe not as such, but there was the Dream Mile in Zurich and big meets in
Berlin, Rieti, Stockholm, Oslo, etc. etc. Both Coe and Ovett set records in
staged races.
> racing
> opportunities were more lim
> Just as a point of information, Coe's PR of 3:29.77 was on the notorious
> Rieti track where extraordinary performances have been commonplace over the
> past 20 years.
Few people can exceed me in admiration for Sebastian Coe's exploits* - my
next door neighbour, a middle-aged woman of battle-axe
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Subject: t-and-f: Re: Malmo's comments on El Guerrouj and Coe
Each successive generation has different standards of "excellence" -
athletes can only really aim to beat the current world record and the
current crop of runners. However, I know that Coe at his peak
Each successive generation has different standards of "excellence" -
athletes can only really aim to beat the current world record and the
current crop of runners. However, I know that Coe at his peak would have
relished the opportunity to race El Guerrouj at his peak.
However, twenty two seaso
