Word: coes
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...draft. That was certainly the impression he left with those of us lucky enough to see him run the 1,500 m at the world championships in Seville last year. He crossed the line slowing down to a 3:27.65 clocking, blowing kisses to the packed stadium after what Coe described as "a definitive performance"; Coe's Olympic record of 3:32.53 seems doomed. And once again El Guerrouj had defeated the only man who can push him to change gears, the brilliant young Kenyan Noah Ngeny...
...Moroccans' view of their world-record holder over both distances may be suffused with national pride, but the outstanding middle-distance athletes who have gone before El Guerrouj don't dispute the praise. "He's the best I've seen by a long way," says Sebastian Coe, now Lord Coe, who along with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram traded the mile record between 1979 and 1985. Their reign fell to Africa in 1993, when Algeria's Noureddine Morceli sheared almost 2 sec. from Cram's eight-year-old record...
...Aboriginal Tent Embassy, though, stands for far more than an official apology; instead, Coe and her supporters are demanding "sovereignty and self-determination." "This needs to be done in a negotiated fashion," she says. "We want the war against the indigenous people...
...Coe argues that the Aboriginal people have been subject to "genocide," and that this genocide is continuing. "The community is constantly under attack," she says. "From the police and legislation. Now they kill us with a stroke of the pen. We have no say in the legislation or the justice system...
...Coe reckons that this sad situation "reflects the trauma unleashed by 200 years of undeclared war." And though she believes that the Tent Embassy is "far more important than the Olympics," she also realizes where most of the world's attention will be focused - and hopes that just a small part of that attention will be diverted to her continuing struggle...