How unlucky was Seb Coe to be at his best when Steve Ovett and Steve Cram were also at their best?

Bit of a smeghead but boy! could he run.

Nearly overtook an Escort van running up that hill. Most majestic fluid runner there ever was.

I don't believe a word he says. He has a future at the BBC sorry but his religion may be helpful?

Please get you bastards away from politics. YOU are responsible for homelessness. YOU should be very seriously ASHAMED. COE ? a hero? NEVER. Disgusting entitled BRAT. SHAKE your drunken heads. Why are people living on the streets? Did you do this ? It's never YOU think about your greed.

Another Tony Maylam amazing sports documentary. Best regards, Andrew H.

He is simply the greatest middle distance runner of all time. The Rolls Royce of running

Toxoplasmosis, evidence that your cat really does want to kill you.

A beautiful running style. I saw him in Central London 4 days ago. He was standing right in front of me and I got star-struck and couldn't get a word out. 😔

This man wasted his own time and Janet Breens when he could have donated the same if not MORE than was raised. Complete joke of a man

I feel the rivalry he had with Ovett messed things up a bit, same for Ovett the one who i felt handled it alot better was Cram he raced them both numerous times

What drugs was he on?

The 80s synth. Dates it

This is true. He was also so unlikeable!

Hello, anyone know the title of the music at 18mn53? Please. Thank you very much!

I had the pleasure of meeting Seb's mother and father. I live in Sheffield and Sebastian parents had locked their keys in there car,my Dad was on vehicle breakdown down from the dealership where they purchased the car from.. Suffice to say my Dad broke in their car and got them on their way.. Nice people

out of all the runners sebastian coe was my favourite he made running look effortless he seemed to just glide around the track and had great acceleration he was simply the best for me he was pure class

Still the most elegant male runner ever. He seemed barely to touch the ground, and at his absolute prime, his speed in the last 200 metres was astonishing. With modern tracks and footwear, he'd be surely still right up with any runner from today. He's still the third fastest 800m runner of all time, and he did that 1:41.73 seconds on a track in dreadful conditions, running almost half the distance on his own and beating the field by over 40 metres. He's managed to take a total 1.7 seconds off the world record in the course of his two record runs over two years. That's approaching twice the improvement there has been in the record in the last 42 years in total.

Man, training so hard on that road with traffic and breathing in that old exhaust when cars went by him. I think he'd be the world's best right now if he was training today instead of back then and had modern training shoes.

Best middle distance runner ever, IMO. And, he could have run sub 45 for the 400M if he trained for it. In 2023, I think he'd be the world record holder in the 800, 1500 and mile. Imagine the times he'd run with modern equipment and training methods.

Staggering what Coe achieved when you just sit back and think about it. Incredible career stats!

A beautiful runner 🏃‍♂️

I was an 800 Meter runner at Williams College in the mid 1980s and even set the school record which stands to this day. I ran a 1:50.3 800M purely on anaerobic and aerobic running training. We did ZERO strength training as you see Coe doing here 3:31 I suffered grievous injury trying to get under 1:50, which over my lifetime has lead from one compensatory injury leading to another. Now I see it would have been possible to achieve my dream of getting under 1:50 had I also added strength training. Ie, I wish I had trained with Coe for a season or two. His training was really advanced for his era, as were his 800M times.

Hocker's cagey (smart) the way he crowded the other runner down the stretch. Not enough to push him off the track, but enough that the other guy can't pump arms as freely as he'd like...and then he shut down the lane entirely as soon as he got in front of him.

What a difference a year makes. Ouch!

I wish Nuguse sat on hocker the whole race

What a fantastic documentary! Kudos to the movie's production crew and thanks to the uploader! Coe was a hero of mine as a high schooler running track, though I ran nothing longer than 400 after middle school, watching Coe inspired me to wish I had tried my hand at the 800. Where I lived in 1981, in rural Montana, it was difficult to find much information on Coe aside from what I read in the regional newspaper. This documentary fills in so many gaps and so very nicely.

Time for the steeplechase (4:10)

Coe, Ovett, Cram, Mckean, Elliot etc etc etc would've been so much more successful had they decided to compete in Women's Sport. #let'sgobrandon

That is an awesome duo Seb and Coach

a real athlete

Bravo!

Anyone know what kind of shoes he’s wearing when he is doing his hill running?

Brutal training, that’s commitment . Not like the namby pamby pampered athletes of today. He just had a huge amount of natural ability. It’s so old school, his dad out there with a stop watch, what he achieved was stupendous.

I've watched a lot of YT videos but for me this has to be the best, as a runner at least. Like the retro music aswell

🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲,,,, puffffff SC MOTIVAS A BUSCAR Y HACER MÁS

His father was an amazing coach - in fact a great family

I'm here for the soundtrack

Did Great Britain have the two greatest middle distance runners of all time Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett I think they did

Kypsang ran that wrong. He should have started out much faster.

Funny seeing him train by running on main roads with his dad trailing in the car. That's 1980. Try doing that in 2021

I thought hocker was a sophmore

It’s crazy watching cole hocker run. You just look at his stride and he’s so much more powerful and athletic than all of the other athletes

Its interesting to note that peter coe was never at his sons 800m world records.... he missed them ....they were never expected to happen ESPECIALLY the 2nd (1:41'73) in June 1981 florence !!!!!!!!!!!!! What A SHOCKER!!!!!!! And Peter coe missed it !!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOEVER RECORDED THIS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RECORDING OF 1980 MOSCOW OLYMPICS 800M !!!!! ITS NOT ON THIS..HOW??? HOW IS THIS NOT RECORDED????????

Well I feel like a fat slob now

He was my hero as a 9 and 10 year old Canadian boy. Then Hicham after that. Great runners. Seb's body language showed an undying confidence.

At 10:58 seb COE 0slo 1979 WAS THE first to DO that now EVERYONE in THE world does it ???? TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Size doesn't matter...get your minds out of the gutter. Coe is a slight, relatively small man. He plainly and simply had the God given gifts to be an exceptional runner. It was Coe's good fortune that these gifts were realized and he literally "ran" with them! Never give up. 🇺🇸👍🏼✌🏽

GIVE US SOME SPLITS,,,,,,FOR FUCK SAAAAAAAAAAAAKE,, really really useless commentator !!!!!!!!!!!