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Halfway through his victory lap, a spectator handed Sebastian Coe a hazel branch with the Union Jack attached. Holding the flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...
What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping...
Bislett Stadium, a runner's paradise that has produced more than 30 world records, attracted an outstanding field, including such world class milers as Steve Scott, the U.S.'s best, Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland and Walker. Slight of build (5 ft. 9¾ in., 129 Ibs.), Coe is a "tactical" runner who compensates for lack of brute horsepower with shrewd race strategy. His plan this time, he explained later, had been "to stay close to the lead, but never be the lead myself, until...
...ease of Coe's victory dumbfounded his rivals. "He didn't even go full blast," marveled Scott. A graduate this year (in economics) of Loughborough University of Technology, Coe was a late bloomer as a runner. Though a champion schoolboy racer, his world class potential did not appear until later. He ran a 3:57.7 mile in 1977, and he turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett...
DIED. Fred Coe, 64, director and producer of Broadway and television dramas, including more than 500 live productions for NBC's Playhouse (1948-53); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. After studying for two years at the Yale Drama School and working in radio and theater, Coe landed his first TV job in 1945 and within a year was producing, directing and writing his own shows, aspiring, he said, "to bring Broadway to America via the television set." For twelve years at NBC and three at CBS, he pursued this goal, creating small-screen renditions of works...