In the season finale, Eamonn Coghlan lowered his indoor Mile world record to 3:49.78: "All I could think of was my coach Gerry Farnan and my father. I was saying, hey, this is for you guys."
By Craig Neff, Sports Illustrated
Eamonn Coghlan lay in his New Jersey hotel room early last Sunday...
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...and a promise to keep in Cleveland. Eamonn Coghlan and Steve Scott raced in San Diego, then flew all night to meet again
By Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated
Eamonn Coghlan (3:50.6) and Steve Scott (3:51.8) are the two fastest indoor Milers in history. They hadn't met indoors for two years,...
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“Steve’s greatest assets are his strength and resilience. He can run three days in a row and be as strong the third day as the first.”
By Joe Fares, People
As a freshman member of the Upland, Calif. high school track team, Steve Scott savored the pleasures of life in the slow lane. “I didn’t...
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His latest Mile world record having lasted but a week, Sebastian Coe came racing back to regain it in Brussels
By Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated
As the gun sounded to begin the Golden Mile in Brussels' Heizel Stadium last Friday night, August 28th, Tom Byers was caught off balance. He was in...
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A record-breaking performance... would solidify the Mile's stature as one of sport's most exciting spectacles... Who would have got excited about the 4 minute 1600 anyway?
By Craig Masback, The New York Times
Steve Ovett stood with hands on hips in silent contemplation of the men's 200...
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''It's the best Mile the world's ever seen." - Steve Ovett
By Neil Amdur, New York Times
OSLO, Norway — The Mile moved to a new frontier tonight when seven runners shattered 3 minutes, 51 seconds, led by Steve Ovett's winning 3:49.25 and an American record 3:49.68 by Steve Scott, who was...
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Can young Steve Scott, Miler and soap opera junkie, find happiness and success with a world record? You can bet he'd like to find out
By Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated
Call it the Seven-Per-Cent Problem. A Miler running at 15 mph—or 4 minutes per Mile—spends a tenth of his energy just...
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Having espied a portentous green bikini and donned his lucky singlet, Coghlan cleaved two seconds off his indoor Mile world record with a 3:50.6 clocking
By Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated
Eamonn Coghlan is not a superstitious man. Yet he kept a constant eye out for omens last week in San...
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As Coe entered, the meet's athletes rose in a standing ovation. For the first time what he had done began to sink in, and he was moved.
By Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated
The streams of talent and preparation and resolve that would converge in Oslo at twilight on July 17, 1979, arose in...
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Spurred by a memory, Eamonn Coghlan wiped out the indoor Mile world record; runner-up Steve Scott set U.S. record in San Diego
By Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated
Forty-five minutes before the Mile, Eamonn Coghlan began to warm up. As he ran through the tunnels beneath the San Diego Sports...
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