This must have been one of S.O.'s very last races. He was a good XC runner. In 1978 he finished something like 4th or 5th in the National over 9 miles and set a British 800m record in Prague. That's never been replicated by a Brit.

Not seen this race before, Ovett was back to his best in 83…

This is fantastic, Nat! Thanks for uploading it. I've not seen this race before.

I have written elsewhere, and I repeat it here, that Warren did Ovett a massive favour by taking off on the early part of the penultimate bend. Coe would have had to run the bend in Lane 3 to get round the crowd in front of him at that point. Understandably Coe left it to the start of the back straight to move through the field, but by then it was too late. Ovett deserved it, he didn't have an easy race, and he ran like Hercules, reacting to situations as they arose. Coe ran with a plan, and he ran like Pegasus, but the plan was sunk by its own inflexibility, a bit like the Schlieffen plan 66 years earlier. This was the great race of the modern era. I must have watched it 25 times.

There is a story in ovett book ,that ovett looked over at the British team,and he said the only two British athletes who was clapping him was Geoff capes and David Jenkins,it's funny that straiub only ever beat overt in this race.

So easy!

Cram was a brilliant athlete but unfortunately for him his time at the very top was comparatively short (1983- 1986). He got his best results when Coe or Ovett were injured. 2 of his best performances were beating Ovett in the 1983 1500 @ Crystal Palace & beating Aouita in Nice 1985. Right in-between those at the Olympic 1500 metre final in Los Angeles he took on a Coe who had already had his toxoplasmosis episode but was just too good for any runner on that day. His blistering pace down the final 100 was something else! Coe, Cram and Ovett had different strengths, but they were the main players in all a golden era for British middle distance athletics 👍

Peter Elliott is 7 years younger than Steve Ovett, so Steve’s performance at 35 years of age was impressive.

HUMBLE MAN He was right up there with those two in my eyes

Look at Seb Coes " facials " :-)

Finally - something about Dave Warren who quickly disappeared after the 1980 Olympics. I always assumed he got injured and then retired very young.

Sally Jones was The Underdog going into this special & She ended up as the Winner!

It's a shame for David that not many remember he was the third Brit in that 800m final. To get in the team was an achievement in itself and then in his semi final he beat amongst others two previous finalists (Grippo and Singh) and the European champion (Beyer) to qualify.

Jürgen Straub was the german athlete that beat Ovett in case anyone was wondering

Excellent post, Nat! I really enjoyed that. The footage was really clear.

0:24 The USA boycott of the 1980's Olympics by Jimmy Carter has Zbigniew Brzezhinski (his national security advisor) written all over it.

Coe had to withdraw from the final suffering from a bad cold. Interestingly he was going to run but was talked out of it beforehand by Steve Ovett who told him "It's not worth it" after his own experiences of running while ill at the LA Olympics.

Surveillance cameras in Moscow, those big bad communists.

Daba gusto verlo correr con esa zancada tan larga, suelta, flexible y cadenciosa.

The 400m & 800m double was absolutely amazing will never be reproduced in my lifetime.

400m and 800m double at Montreal... Who's gonna match it?

Крэму и по сей день принадлежит уникальное достижение.Он единственный бегун в мире, пробежавший 1500м быстрее 3.30 и 800м быстрее 143 , в течении одного сезона 1985 ( 329.67 и 142.88)

85 unbeatable including smashing Cruz over 800m but 88 with Elliot was his chance I couldn’t believe they couldn’t get past Rono in a hat 1500m Final I thought they should of gone earlier if Cram lead at the 400m mark he would win but his confidence 😢was never the same after he was beaten by Gonzalez in that European Cup race where it was slow & he ran the last lap in like 50:8 secs but Gonzalez ran it in 50:5 & pipped him

As a German, I can only congratulate the British on this excellent runner. We very much regret that he did not start for Germany. But he would probably never have been so strong if he had competed for Germany ;-) What golden times those were for British middle distance running.

Superb pace.

Some would say that Graham Williamson, (a Scot) was a victim of the English selection process and that Cram was the beneficiary.

Definitely ones of the best ever

Great Cram...

No one is ever going to duplicate what Juantorena accomplished in his early years in winning the 400/800 in the Olympic Games.

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El mejor atleta latinoamericano en pista de todos los tiempos.

This man was a legend Snell Coe Lovelock Elliot they would give anyone a go from the last 30 years

Er ist der Lochschwager von Theodor Waigel

Paul Forbes waited 38 years to set a world record!

Respected him as an athlete, but was a big fan of the other guy.

Originally broadcast on BBC2 during the afternoon of 6 April 1999. Eamonn Holmes also interviewed Allan Wells, Brendan Foster, Dave Moorcroft, Steve Cram, Roger Black, Kriss Akabusi, Sally Gunnell, Geoff Capes and Fatima Whitbread from the athletics world.

Boit said after the race that he wanted to go out fast--his style--but during the first lap, he thought he was about to pull a hamstring. Still, tremendous race.

Fantastico Alberto sei stato uno dei più grandi atleti della storia, sei entrato nel cuore di milioni di persone, la tua classe, il tuo stile, ma soprattutto la tua straordinaria falcata è diventata un viaggio leggendario nel mondo dello sport. Grazie infinite Alberto ....max da Sora

Back when 800m was a British gem.

The Horse!

Right back to one of my favourite eras.

Keep waiting for Scammell to trip someone!

McKean and Cram good buddies

Even after so many years Juantorena impresses with his amazing performance!

"Sriram. He did this in Montréal. Big surprise. Everybody thought he would die early, but he's gone off very fast. But he held out there, to 7th place" is a wild quote.

To quote sports commentator David Coleman " Juantorena opens his legs and shows his class" 😂😂

Hypocritical when the yanks invaded Afghanistan 20 years later....

I am 80 years old veteran I was a harrier In the days off come Coe was a professional Other runners were the three AAA I had to work and train before work and after work coe was sponsored that is cheating the AAA Men runner coe was a snob overt was a working man he was better than coe at races coe wouldn't mix with the field overt was down to earth So don't put coe on a pedestal I ran for 30 years with Ron hill.so up yours coe

Альберто искренне из правил😅

Coe was such sore loser and ungracious winner, it was easy to want Ovett to win.