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.
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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
