There are plenty of ways to skin a cat or, indeed, to pace a Mile, but perhaps embracing history is as valid as opening new frontiers.
By Nick Butler, InsideTheGames.biz
Sebastian Coe pretended to have gone off-piste during a press conference yesterday by "accidentally" revealing plans to...
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The Mile "is something that we have been talking with the IAAF about recently, particularly with the passing of Roger Bannister."
By Nick Butler, InsideTheGames.biz
A Mile race could be added to the program for future editions of the Commonwealth Games as part of a broader attempt to embrace...
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Middle distance legend, former Mile world record holder and current IAAF president part of the event’s Olympians Mile field on Sunday, May 28 in London
By Athletics Weekly
Forty years after beating Filbert Bayi to win the Emsley Carr Mile in a breakthrough 1977 season, Seb Coe will return to...
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Mile legends earned unofficial billing as the "Coe vs. Ovett Olympics"
By Jamie Fuller, InsideTheGames.biz
Long before Sebastian, Lord Coe, hit the giddy heights of presiding over London 2012 and then taking over as grand pooh-bah of the International Association of Athletics Federations (...
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Politics and IAAF presidency aside, let’s not forget what a fantastic athlete Coe was: Olympic champion, Mile world record holder and more!
By Jason Henderson, Athletics Weekly
Every athlete usually remembers a moment where they were drawn into the sport. For me, I was hooked after watching...
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"The whole stadium was upstanding, arms outstretched, to join him in his ecstasy. They had witnessed a classic chase and race."
By Douglas Perry, The Oregonian
Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt proved once again this week that the 100 meter sprint is the highest-profile track event in the world....
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International federation to award $25,000 every year to each national federation to assist their development.
From IAAF
IAAF President Sebastian Coe has today announced to IAAF Member Federations full details concerning the ‘IAAF Olympic Athletics Dividend’ which offers $25,000 every year to...
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Our favorite titanic throw downs from the last half century include two Mile pairings
By Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Magazine
You don’t have to be a ruthless Darwinist or Wall Street trader to appreciate the benefits of competition. In sports, when the best athletes go head-to-head on a very...
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With six weeks to go until the election, Mile legend and IAAF Presidential candidate Sebastian Coe has today launched a campaign film featuring iconic athletes past and present as well as British Prime Minister David Cameron.
By Larry Eder, RunBlogRun
This is a pretty impressive video with...
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Coe, like Sergei Bubka, has big plans if he wins the IAAF presidency...
By Christopher Clarey, New York Times
The middle-distance star has become a marathoner.
Sebastian Coe, Mile legend, traversed plenty of time zones in his competitive running days, but that is nothing compared with what...
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