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...That experience in no way resembled the Olympics week of Greene and Jones. These two Americans were about to embark on high-profile, high-stakes, big-money quests, and they each needed a bubble. They needed their own versions of what the great British miler Seb Coe called "a cocoon of concentration...
Harvard fired 20 shots on the Maine net, but only one found its way past Black Bear goalie Seb D'Appolonia...
...Cozza, who has interviewed for college positions in the past, seems willing to stay at Yale. Says long-time offensive coordinator Seb LaSpina. "I think he's committed to stay. I think he's found a home he likes...
...confrontation in the 800 and 1,500 with another nonboycotting Brit, Steve Ovett, 24, who on July 1 shaved .2 second from Coe's mile record of 3 min. 49 sec. Hungry for an international sports success, most Britons seemed to support Coe's decision. Still, young "Seb" came under pressure from boycott backers to stay at home. He handled it with analytical detachment, as befits a scholar-athlete with a double bachelor of arts degree (he studied economics, social history and political science at Loughborough University). Asked by an interviewer if he cared at all about Afghanistan...
...comfortable home in Sheffield, Coe spent hours discussing the boycott with his father (and trainer) Peter Coe, who owns a cutlery manufacturing firm. Said the elder Coe: "Often we would sit up until 1 in the morning, over countless cups of coffee, thrashing out the pros and cons." Ultimately, Seb Coe concluded that sports and politics should not be mixed. "It is a clash of two worlds," he declared. "Governments, politicians, are ruled by expediency. Athletes live in a world of natural...