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Butcher, Pat

 
9780753819005: The Perfect Distance: Ovett and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry
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ISBN 10: 0753819007 ISBN 13: 9780753819005
Editorial: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005

Sinopsis

The definitive, fully authorised story of the record-breaking rivalry between London Olympics organiser Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett.

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. They were part of the landscape of the late seventies and early eighties -- both household names, their exploits were watched by millions. As far apart as possible in terms of class and upbringing -- Ovett is the art student, the long-haired son of a market-trader from Brighton, a natural athlete; Coe's formative years were spent under the rigorous training routine of Peter Coe, a self-taught trainer who referred to his son as 'my athlete' -- their rivalry burned as intense on the track as away from it. The pendulum swung between the pair of them -- each breaking the other's records, and, memorably, triumphing in each other's events in Moscow in 1980 -- for the best part of a decade, until the final showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 . . .

The Perfect Distance is both a detailed re-creation and a fitting celebration of the greatest era of British athletics.

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Pat Butcher, a middle-distance runner himself, was athletics correspondent of The Times for most of the 1980s. He has subsequently worked for BBC radio and television, the Financial Times and L'Equipe.

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Editorial
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0753819007
ISBN 13 
9780753819005
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Número de páginas
320
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ISBN 10:  0297847457 ISBN 13:  9780297847458
Editorial: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004
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