Word: coe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coe and Nehemiah set records
...less than friendly rivalry between Great Britain's marvelous distance runners Sebastian Coe, 24, and Steve Ovett, 25, has become the track world's version of playing chess by mail. Each year, the two set out on separate paths through the summer track circuit, studiously avoiding head-to-head encounters while carefully selecting races where they have the best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark...
When the 1981 track season rolled around, it quickly became clear that this was Coe's year to write home. In June he broke his own world record in the 800 meters at a meet in Florence by 61/100 sec. Last week in Zurich, he broke Ovett's mile record, crossing the finish line in 3 min. 48.53 sec., 27/100 sec. off the old mark...
...Coe had hoped to make his latest vic tory a chain letter by breaking Ovett's 1,500-meter record as well. But a slow early pace kept him nearly 2 sec. slower than Ovett at the 1,500-meter mark (120 yds. short of a mile). Coe shifted into over drive. With a capacity crowd of 23,000 at Zurich's Letzigrund Stadium stamping in rhythm with his every step, he was able to make up lost seconds in the final 100 yds. to finish the mile in record time. He had worked during the winter...
...roles of the French nobility are considerably trimmed, but Coe wisely avoided the common temptation to make them effete ninnies, which would significantly lessen King Henry's achievements. Edward Atienza would do well to rid his King Charles of lapses into the Maurice Evans tremolo; but it is effective, when he calls the roll of French nobles from the gallery, to have them line up in the shadows below clad in full armor and helmet, with their backs to the audience...