Coe vs.Ovett-1500m.Final,1980,Moscow Olympics,(with interview)

With shades of Jim Ryun in '68,Ovett had gone into this final with over 40 straight mile/1500m. victories to his name,but,on the day it counted for nothing.With Straub's surging final two laps and Coe's blistering homestraight (12.1 for the last 100 metres) Ovett was,finally,found wanting,and Coe astonished one and all with one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all.

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