Best middle distance runner ever, IMO. And, he could have run sub 45 for the 400M if he trained for it. In 2023, I think he'd be the world record holder in the 800, 1500 and mile. Imagine the times he'd run with modern equipment and training methods.
out of all the runners sebastian coe was my favourite he made running look effortless he seemed to just glide around the track and had great acceleration he was simply the best for me he was pure class
I agree, but so disappointed he didn't face overt in Zurich in 1979 we had to wait 10 year before it finally happened in a grand Prix meeting., Apart from the major Olympic,world , European.a year earlier they destroyed each other ,that famous line by Coleman.in the European championship 78 , when Bauer won
We had to wait 10 years until they met APART from them meetiong in Moscow when at their peak!!!!!. When they met ten years leter coe AND ovett were well WELL PASSED THEIR athletic best
They never met in the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS..did they ..No definitely not...by 1983 illness and injuries had litterally DESTROYED OVETT AND COE by then...they were shadows of their former( 2 yrs)selves
Still the most elegant male runner ever. He seemed barely to touch the ground, and at his absolute prime, his speed in the last 200 metres was astonishing. With modern tracks and footwear, he'd be surely still right up with any runner from today. He's still the third fastest 800m runner of all time, and he did that 1:41.73 seconds on a track in dreadful conditions, running almost half the distance on his own and beating the field by over 40 metres. He's managed to take a total 1.7 seconds off the world record in the course of his two record runs over two years. That's approaching twice the improvement there has been in the record in the last 42 years in total.
I had the pleasure of meeting Seb's mother and father. I live in Sheffield and Sebastian parents had locked their keys in there car,my Dad was on vehicle breakdown down from the dealership where they purchased the car from.. Suffice to say my Dad broke in their car and got them on their way.. Nice people
Yes he was . I so very well remember the magnificence of those '41 days' in July and August '79. Their performances were electrifying to watch. I was striving for a 'mere' 4 minute mile at the time and was so bewildered by the greatness of Peter Coe as both a masterful coach - and father . Never had a single conversation with mine .
Amazing . No special colorful tapes on his body, NO SPECIAL gel, no bars , you don’t see Coe sipping any special drinks the whole 45 minutes . No special socks or shoes NO EPO. 1”41 half miler ,3”47 miler , 2 x Olympic champion . BACK TONTHE BASICS !!!!!! True Legend !!! LORD COE👍
ALL that generation of Brit mid distance runners were legends, training back then was virtually self-funded and their times are world class even today with 21st century springy tracks and unlimited budgets. Today's athletes never even SEE a winter, let alone train through one.
Cesar Coelho I understand your point and I’m a huge fan of Seb, however, a man ran a 2:01.39 marathon thanks to all those things you mentioned. Pretty sure in this era no one could have even dreamt of running a 2:01 marathon. (Excluding the EPO, screw doping)
Shunsui Kyoraku Kipchoge ran that by training on dirt roads and living in pretty much a shack with no toilet and sharing a small room and just training hard, he didn’t use all the scientific nonsense
He probably helped him a lot to get faster in the mile, 1500 meters and 800 meters. If I was coached by Peter Coe, I wonder what I could have done, 1:39 in the 800 meters?
This video is pretty awesome. Coe is in my mind, the best middle distance man the world has ever seen. Never again will we see a man win gold 1500m silver 800m in consecutive Olympic games
As a Belgian, I find it a pity that at age 22, 2x silver medalist at the Montreal games died a few months later. I would have loved to see him compete with Coe, Ovett, Cram.
@@richardmilliken5651 As a Brit, I totally agree. Our boys would not have had it all their own way if Van Damme was still around in the late 70s, early 80s. Ivo Van Damme was a very powerful runner and like Steve Prefontaine, was tragically taken in a road accident. Alas, we will never know.
What a great find, thanks for uploading! He was my hero as a teenager racing the same distances. I was lucky enough to bump into him once training in Nottingham. What an amazing athlete!
His form was great. I used to visualize it when I ran and say his name sometimes to imitate his style as best I could. Just doing that made me go faster.
He is amazing! Love how he runs his body looks so relax, beautiful stride and a kind of down to earth person. Love this video, thank you for sharing.❤️
A beautiful running style. I saw him in Central London 4 days ago. He was standing right in front of me and I got star-struck and couldn't get a word out. 😔
Wow...this is a WONDERFUL documentary. It is an inside look with great footage of his interval training on the road and hills. I have been a fan of the sport for a long time so to actually see this stuff is something else. He runs up the hill in a regular neighborhood just like us mere mortals! Thank you Mr. Reilly.
Size doesn't matter...get your minds out of the gutter. Coe is a slight, relatively small man. He plainly and simply had the God given gifts to be an exceptional runner. It was Coe's good fortune that these gifts were realized and he literally "ran" with them! Never give up. 🇺🇸👍🏼✌🏽
I hope I'm not being too bias but coe is the greatest 800-1500m ever. In any age his raw talent and grace and severe training would make him a winner in any era.
Imagine what times he could have achieved with modern pacemakers! Most of his WRs he was running by himself for a long way! Extraordinary he took a whole second off the 800m record and looked still full of running. The best middle distance runner ever - could win it from the front or with a sprint at the end. Incredible kick off pace.
Did you watch the video? He had pace makers in all his WR races. And he is not the best middle distance runner ever. His countryman Steve Ovett was more than his equal.
Ovett was not the equal of Sebastian Coe. The latter had two 1,500 metre Olympic gold medals and two 800m silvers vs one 800m gold and 1500m bronze of he former. Coe's best times beat Ovett's at 400 metres, 800 metres, 1,000 metres, the mile. Admittedly Ovett was faster at the longer distances, but neither were world class at 3,000 metres and above. Ovett did set 6 world records at 1500 metres, the mile and the rarely run 2 miles. But the 1500 and mile rune times were all beaten by Coe who set 9 outdoor world records, and in 1979 set three in just 41 days. Coe's 1981 800 metre world record, run at a track in dreadful condition, wasn't broken for 18 years, and he remains the third fastest 800 metres runner of all time, in a run that is 42 years old. What he could have done with modern tracks and footwear we can't say for sure, but he would certainly be challenging right at the top. Both were great runners of course, but Coe was the greater of the two. When he was at his peak he could beat a world class field by 40 metres in an 800 metre race.
What a fantastic documentary! Kudos to the movie's production crew and thanks to the uploader! Coe was a hero of mine as a high schooler running track, though I ran nothing longer than 400 after middle school, watching Coe inspired me to wish I had tried my hand at the 800. Where I lived in 1981, in rural Montana, it was difficult to find much information on Coe aside from what I read in the regional newspaper. This documentary fills in so many gaps and so very nicely.
***** Why do you think Coe stepped down after 2 years to help the British bid for the 2018 World Cup? Could it be that he saw the corruption and could do little to change it ? If he was embroiled in the corruption don't you think he'd have secured a successful British bid for the World Cup?
Man, training so hard on that road with traffic and breathing in that old exhaust when cars went by him. I think he'd be the world's best right now if he was training today instead of back then and had modern training shoes.
Sebastian Coe in the late 70's and into the 80's was the man in middle distance. Previous to him it was Lasse Viren. Long distance wise Bill Rodgers dominated from 1975-1980
Brutal training, that’s commitment . Not like the namby pamby pampered athletes of today. He just had a huge amount of natural ability. It’s so old school, his dad out there with a stop watch, what he achieved was stupendous.
I was an 800 Meter runner at Williams College in the mid 1980s and even set the school record which stands to this day. I ran a 1:50.3 800M purely on anaerobic and aerobic running training. We did ZERO strength training as you see Coe doing here 3:31 I suffered grievous injury trying to get under 1:50, which over my lifetime has lead from one compensatory injury leading to another. Now I see it would have been possible to achieve my dream of getting under 1:50 had I also added strength training. Ie, I wish I had trained with Coe for a season or two. His training was really advanced for his era, as were his 800M times.
Respect for Scott. Suffered from being human in an era where they seem to come from Mars. Really loved the sport and went everywhere to race. Buy him a beer anytime.
I am not anti Coe by any means but an objective assessment of him would be; The greatest ever middle distance runner against the clock and greatest ever at doubling up at 800/1500, but not the greatest racer in a tactical situation. Steve Cram won more major titles at 1500m and Coe only won one at his best event the 800m. He was also fortunate that not all his rivals were present at Moscow 80 and Los Angeles 84 due to the boycotts and that Said Aouita opted for the 5000m at the latter. The selectors were wrong not to take him to Soul in 88 as though he was past his best he was still one of the best 1500m runners in the world and you should always take your best men.
Cram was more lucky when winning the European & Commonwealth of 82 when both Coe and Ovett were ill or injured. He also had no Coe at the World Champs in 83. Coe won both his 1500 golds with both Cram and Ovett in the fields in both. Coe's championship record over 1500m was better than Cram's - he contested 4 major races and won 2 golds and 2 silvers. Cram won the World gold (Coe absent), the European and Commonwealth golds in 82 (Coe & Ovett absent), the Commonwealth in 86 (Coe absent) and the European gold against Coe in 86. But he also contested the World final in 87 and the Olympic final in 88 and failed to medal in either.
@@deano27671 Deano yes all true. If Coe hadn't been ill and injured so much he would probably have won more titles - it's a lot of ifs and buts with all three of them and you could argue all day about their relative merits - it's difficult to categorise them. Cram did extremely well to win the 1500m in Helsinki in '83 as he'd missed so much training but Ovett should have won that race by a mile, pardon the pun! Ovett also fancied his chances strongly for Los Angeles '84 but his chest infection and the smog did for him. If Cram had been fully fit in '84 would he have won? etc, etc. I still think though that we never saw the limit of Ovett's ability. After Moscow '80 he seemed to lose some desire and then I think the railings injury affected him. If he could break the world record for 1500m in '83 in 3:30.77 when he was past his best he should have been able to run 3.29 in about 1980/81.
@@Ruda-n4h Ovett was never the same after the railings injury!!! Ovett & Cruz smoked Coe in the "80" & "84" Olympic Games in the 800m. Ivo Van Damme would've been in the mix if he wasn't killed in a car crash!
He should have gone to the 1988 Olympic, it was very controversial at the time, I remember it well. He had a chance of winning it, but barring incident would probably have medalled. He missed all the Commonwealth and World medals due to illness and injury that dogged him. However , I have never seen a more beautiful runner when he was in full flow, such a huge talent.
Its interesting to note that peter coe was never at his sons 800m world records.... he missed them ....they were never expected to happen ESPECIALLY the 2nd (1:41'73) in June 1981 florence !!!!!!!!!!!!! What A SHOCKER!!!!!!! And Peter coe missed it !!!!!!!!!!!!
Chemiosmosis and the understanding of what it can produce, is what propelled Seb to world records. Peter understood it, I understand it, the sporting world is still in the dark. I would love to see an NHL hockey team adopt Chemiosmosis, then watch them win their cup 10 straight years in a row.
The Chemiosmotic hypothesis involves ATP production and measuring the heat exchange while electrons and protons move through several mechanisms. I can go a thousand miles in any direction from where I’m standing, and not run into one person that can talk intelligently on the subject. The first professional sports franchise to discover this, will own their sport. The interesting part about this, it has nothing to do with running, it’s the heat exchange in the cell. I hope this doesn’t answer your question, I hope it makes you more curious. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
As a proud Jamaican I find ur statement offensive. We pride ourselves on being the best sprinters but doing so cleanly because we love the sport. While there are many cheats , Usain St Leo Bolt has never been proven to be taking steriods by any international or local federation. I've watched this documentary because I wanted to find out more about Mr Coe I suggest that u do the same by watching a documentary about Jamaican athletic history .
I was not aware of that blood disorder. Why so much training on roads, all that pounding, and sucking in vehicle fume toxins. Must be Cross Country and grassy hills available. Great runner. Ironic not winning 800 m in Olympics. Super kick, because he had superior endurance at speed from high quality training. As discussed in interviews.
I feel the rivalry he had with Ovett messed things up a bit, same for Ovett the one who i felt handled it alot better was Cram he raced them both numerous times
Chris Weeks Low mileage, high intensity was exactly what Seb Coe did. Some of his weeks prior to a world record consisted of only 28 miles of running, all run fairly fast. Sure, not everyone can tolerate that kind of intensity and may need longer, slower runs to recover from harder workouts.
Averagebum Bum I’ve heard he didn’t record warm up and cool down in his training logs. Distance running has gone back to more of a strength approach in the us and is better than ever in my opinion
Chris Weeks Yes, I have read that on letsrun.com, but I don’t trust it. In the biography on Seb, “Born to Run,” David Miller wrote that Seb trained only twice a week prior to a university exam, a longish run, and a shorter faster run or speedwork (I cannot remember which now.) And Coe’s staple continuous runs were 10 milers run briskly at 45+ minutes. I do agree that the majority of runners may do better on higher mileage, with a larger base. And I too am excited about US distance running in recent years, with Alan Webb, Ryan Hall, Meb Keflezighi, Galen Rupp, Matthew Centrowitz, Jordan Hasay, Shalane Flanigan, Deena Castor, Molly Huddle, etc leading the fields.
Excuse me, observers, maybe I was in consorsium of Sebastian Coe. Hoping get checking of the payment documents of winner gifts in MIR ( Museum of Indonesia Record ) in Semarang, Center Java ; National Library of RI, Center Jakarta ; National Archive of RI, South Jakarta . I am still single and live alone in my age now, 49 years old . Maybe any chance to get a sweet girl from UK ?
Great upload. Forgive the 8 bit music and the cheesey mum and dad bit. Shame he couldn't keep his pants on a bit more. When you are telling your wife you are popping out for a pint of milk it should be the truth.
You missed a part at 35. After the scene about Jazz it goes to the 800 he lost to ovett and then from there to his mum talking about wanting to drown herself and then to his victory in the 1500 to reclaim himself.
Coe must have used some human growth hormone combined with some good training but with better results than the Germans, one must admit he had talent he was a good runner
No. Snell's fastest 440 leg in a relay was 47.9. For 400m that is worth 47.6. Coe's fastest 400m relay is 45.5! Even accounting for the fact Snell's was probably run on grass or cinders, Coe is a good second faster than Snell over 400m. Over a mile the gap is 7 secs! Again, on same track Coe ran on, Snell's 3:54.1 may come down between 2 and 3.5secs, making it worth between 3:50.6 and 3:52.1, still at least 3 and a half seconds slower than Coe's.
Snell, Walker, Ovett, Coe are the runners of their time & period of what they achieved as personnel goals against the clock and weather it was a world record a Gold medalist in their chosen event thats what was achieved at the time you cannot compare one against the other unless they are racing in the same event, Walker Ovett, Coe I believe they were in some of the races together and who won at the time thats what the end result of that race that showed they raced together at the same time. The name I have mentioned are still to this day are recorded the best of their time and they set the bar & standard of there era they all champions in there own right.
THATS WHAT IT TAKES,, KILLER INSTINCT, YOU'RE NOT HERE TO MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO LIKE YOU,,, COE ,OVETT CRAM WE'RE KILLER'S ON THE TRACK OF COURSE YOU HAD TO BE A HORRIBLE PERSON ,,,,BEING ABLE TO 8+300 IN 36/37 1min rec or 4. 400m in 49/50 2 mins rec,,,,MAAAAAN YOU HAVE GOT TO BE A BEAST ,,,,(horrible person) to achieve this!!!!!!! You art what you have to be at the top,,,nobody cares WHAT YOU THINK,,,,WATCH THE OLYMPIC 800 1980 how OVETT THREW PEOPLE AROUND ESPECIALLY DOWN THE BACK STRAIGHT JUST AFTER 150!!!!!!!! KILLER INSTINCT !!!!!!!!!!
Perfectly fine to wag the finger if there's something substantial there to base it on i.e Mr Salazaar's athletes Mo included 😂 but otherwise the comment is Empty! as it's based on ?? Nowt!
No, just one of those amazing talents that appear from time to time. Did you even notice that raw talent at such an early age? And, then that training!!
Best middle distance runner ever, IMO. And, he could have run sub 45 for the 400M if he trained for it. In 2023, I think he'd be the world record holder in the 800, 1500 and mile. Imagine the times he'd run with modern equipment and training methods.
He was my hero as a 9 and 10 year old Canadian boy. Then Hicham after that. Great runners. Seb's body language showed an undying confidence.
out of all the runners sebastian coe was my favourite he made running look effortless he seemed to just glide around the track and had great acceleration he was simply the best for me he was pure class
A really good documentary about an extraordinary person.
What the man did in ‘79 was extraordinary. Arguably his best season. The mile WR in particular was such a great performance.
I agree, but so disappointed he didn't face overt in Zurich in 1979 we had to wait 10 year before it finally happened in a grand Prix meeting., Apart from the major Olympic,world , European.a year earlier they destroyed each other ,that famous line by Coleman.in the European championship 78 , when Bauer won
@@redd605 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.. ..YOU ARE YOUNG AREN'T YOU?... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT?? YOU DON'T KNOW SEBASTIAN C0E!!!!!!!!!
We had to wait 10 years until they met APART from them meetiong in Moscow when at their peak!!!!!. When they met ten years leter coe AND ovett were well WELL PASSED THEIR athletic best
They never met in the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS..did they ..No definitely not...by 1983 illness and injuries had litterally DESTROYED OVETT AND COE by then...they were shadows of their former( 2 yrs)selves
Still the most elegant male runner ever. He seemed barely to touch the ground, and at his absolute prime, his speed in the last 200 metres was astonishing. With modern tracks and footwear, he'd be surely still right up with any runner from today. He's still the third fastest 800m runner of all time, and he did that 1:41.73 seconds on a track in dreadful conditions, running almost half the distance on his own and beating the field by over 40 metres. He's managed to take a total 1.7 seconds off the world record in the course of his two record runs over two years. That's approaching twice the improvement there has been in the record in the last 42 years in total.
I had the pleasure of meeting Seb's mother and father.
I live in Sheffield and Sebastian parents had locked their keys in there car,my Dad was on vehicle breakdown down from the dealership where they purchased the car from..
Suffice to say my Dad broke in their car and got them on their way..
Nice people
His father was an amazing coach - in fact a great family
Yes he was . I so very well remember the magnificence of those '41 days' in July and August '79. Their performances were electrifying to watch. I was striving for a 'mere' 4 minute mile at the time and was so bewildered by the greatness of Peter Coe as both a masterful coach - and father . Never had a single conversation with mine .
Amazing . No special colorful tapes on his body, NO SPECIAL gel, no bars , you don’t see Coe sipping any special drinks the whole 45 minutes . No special socks or shoes NO EPO. 1”41 half miler ,3”47 miler , 2 x Olympic champion . BACK TONTHE BASICS !!!!!! True Legend !!! LORD COE👍
Cesar Coelho you know the score mate . Yorkshire hill reps were a staple diet with very short recoveries .
ALL that generation of Brit mid distance runners were legends, training back then was virtually self-funded and their times are world class even today with 21st century springy tracks and unlimited budgets. Today's athletes never even SEE a winter, let alone train through one.
Cesar Coelho I understand your point and I’m a huge fan of Seb, however, a man ran a 2:01.39 marathon thanks to all those things you mentioned. Pretty sure in this era no one could have even dreamt of running a 2:01 marathon. (Excluding the EPO, screw doping)
Coe is the GoaT.
Shunsui Kyoraku Kipchoge ran that by training on dirt roads and living in pretty much a shack with no toilet and sharing a small room and just training hard, he didn’t use all the scientific nonsense
Seb was lucky to have a Dad like Peter.
He probably helped him a lot to get faster in the mile, 1500 meters and 800 meters. If I was coached by Peter Coe, I wonder what I could have done, 1:39 in the 800 meters?
This video is pretty awesome. Coe is in my mind, the best middle distance man the world has ever seen. Never again will we see a man win gold 1500m silver 800m in consecutive Olympic games
might do if you extrapolate ahead 200 years.
Taoufik Makhloufi got 2 silvers... that's close
Except Peter Snell got 2 olympic 800m Golds and 1 1500m gold in consecutive Olympic games. He got more Golds than Seb.
no golds
As a Belgian, I find it a pity that at age 22, 2x silver medalist at the Montreal games died a few months later. I would have loved to see him compete with Coe, Ovett, Cram.
Ivo Van Damme would've been in the mix with the British runners!
@@richardmilliken5651 As a Brit, I totally agree. Our boys would not have had it all their own way if Van Damme was still around in the late 70s, early 80s. Ivo Van Damme was a very powerful runner and like Steve Prefontaine, was tragically taken in a road accident. Alas, we will never know.
The one and only Seb coe, My youth idol!
He is simply the greatest middle distance runner of all time. The Rolls Royce of running
I've watched a lot of YT videos but for me this has to be the best, as a runner at least. Like the retro music aswell
What a great find, thanks for uploading! He was my hero as a teenager racing the same distances. I was lucky enough to bump into him once training in Nottingham. What an amazing athlete!
Won't see a better one. Seeing him run in the street is a privilege. No matter on the track. Just so fluid and effortless.
His form was great. I used to visualize it when I ran and say his name sometimes to imitate his style as best I could. Just doing that made me go faster.
He is amazing! Love how he runs his body looks so relax, beautiful stride and a kind of down to earth person. Love this video, thank you for sharing.❤️
A beautiful running style.
I saw him in Central London 4 days ago. He was standing right in front of me and I got star-struck and couldn't get a word out. 😔
Wow...this is a WONDERFUL documentary. It is an inside look with great footage of his interval training on the road and hills. I have been a fan of the sport for a long time so to actually see this stuff is something else. He runs up the hill in a regular neighborhood just like us mere mortals! Thank you Mr. Reilly.
Amazing that he was training in an ordinary residential area and running on normal highways !?
There are other sports documentaries on the internet I believe; but you don't need to worry about them - for this is the only one you need.
Size doesn't matter...get your minds out of the gutter. Coe is a slight, relatively small man. He plainly and simply had the God given gifts to be an exceptional runner. It was Coe's good fortune that these gifts were realized and he literally "ran" with them! Never give up. 🇺🇸👍🏼✌🏽
This story is incredible.
Do you have a link to the article concerning Seb Coe and the fifa ethics committee?
Are you from the UK?
I hope I'm not being too bias but coe is the greatest 800-1500m ever.
In any age his raw talent and grace and severe training would make him a winner in any era.
He is the greatest 800/1500m athlete ever IMO too. Only other person in the conversation is Snell.
ONE OF MY IDOLS IS SEBASTIAN COE
Imagine what times he could have achieved with modern pacemakers! Most of his WRs he was running by himself for a long way! Extraordinary he took a whole second off the 800m record and looked still full of running. The best middle distance runner ever - could win it from the front or with a sprint at the end. Incredible kick off pace.
Without doubt the best 800m runner ever. It would be interesting to observe his rivalry with Rudisha or Amos or Borzakovsky in an imaginary world ...
Did you watch the video? He had pace makers in all his WR races.
And he is not the best middle distance runner ever.
His countryman Steve Ovett was more than his equal.
@@user-bf6qp1xb3e The best 800-meter runner ever has to have an Olympic and World Championship Gold medals. Coe has neither.
Ovett was not the equal of Sebastian Coe. The latter had two 1,500 metre Olympic gold medals and two 800m silvers vs one 800m gold and 1500m bronze of he former. Coe's best times beat Ovett's at 400 metres, 800 metres, 1,000 metres, the mile. Admittedly Ovett was faster at the longer distances, but neither were world class at 3,000 metres and above.
Ovett did set 6 world records at 1500 metres, the mile and the rarely run 2 miles. But the 1500 and mile rune times were all beaten by Coe who set 9 outdoor world records, and in 1979 set three in just 41 days. Coe's 1981 800 metre world record, run at a track in dreadful condition, wasn't broken for 18 years, and he remains the third fastest 800 metres runner of all time, in a run that is 42 years old. What he could have done with modern tracks and footwear we can't say for sure, but he would certainly be challenging right at the top.
Both were great runners of course, but Coe was the greater of the two. When he was at his peak he could beat a world class field by 40 metres in an 800 metre race.
What a fantastic documentary! Kudos to the movie's production crew and thanks to the uploader! Coe was a hero of mine as a high schooler running track, though I ran nothing longer than 400 after middle school, watching Coe inspired me to wish I had tried my hand at the 800. Where I lived in 1981, in rural Montana, it was difficult to find much information on Coe aside from what I read in the regional newspaper. This documentary fills in so many gaps and so very nicely.
Seb Coe had the most devastating kick ever.
***** Why do you think Coe stepped down after 2 years to help the British bid for the 2018 World Cup? Could it be that he saw the corruption and could do little to change it ? If he was embroiled in the corruption don't you think he'd have secured a successful British bid for the World Cup?
Man, training so hard on that road with traffic and breathing in that old exhaust when cars went by him. I think he'd be the world's best right now if he was training today instead of back then and had modern training shoes.
That is an awesome duo Seb and Coach
My adorable Man... Sebastian Coe!!!
ONE OF MY IDOLS
Sebastian Coe in the late 70's and into the 80's was the man in middle distance. Previous to him it was Lasse Viren. Long distance wise Bill Rodgers dominated from 1975-1980
Boston Billy ruled the Marathon during those years and would've won Gold in the 1980 Olympics!
You clearly don't know much about middle distance running. Steve Ovett was more than Coe's equal.
SEB COE MY IDOL!!!!
I hate Sebastian Coe
@@tyvamakes5226 "I think he has made a worthwhile contribution"
loving the soundtrack!!!
Difficult to be trained by your father, Joe and Enzo Calzaghe come to mind. Wonderful Documentary
Brutal training, that’s commitment . Not like the namby pamby pampered athletes of today. He just had a huge amount of natural ability. It’s so old school, his dad out there with a stop watch, what he achieved was stupendous.
The sugar Ray, Jordan, Senna, Borg of Athletics 🙏🔥
And Ali and Best.
@@KryptonitetoallBS Coe was clutch in the 1500m at the Olympic Games like Orr, Russell, Brady, Big Pappi, Hagler, Bird and Bill Rodgers!
GREATEST OLYMPIC 1500M ATHLETE OF ALL TIME!
Staggering what Coe achieved when you just sit back and think about it. Incredible career stats!
Very impressive all things considered. Particularly for his time as well, he would still be incredibly competitive today.
I was an 800 Meter runner at Williams College in the mid 1980s and even set the school record which stands to this day. I ran a 1:50.3 800M purely on anaerobic and aerobic running training. We did ZERO strength training as you see Coe doing here 3:31 I suffered grievous injury trying to get under 1:50, which over my lifetime has lead from one compensatory injury leading to another. Now I see it would have been possible to achieve my dream of getting under 1:50 had I also added strength training. Ie, I wish I had trained with Coe for a season or two. His training was really advanced for his era, as were his 800M times.
Did Great Britain have the two greatest middle distance runners of all time Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett I think they did
Another Tony Maylam amazing sports documentary. Best regards, Andrew H.
Steve Scott was a very good miler, and Coe destroyed him
Respect for Scott. Suffered from being human in an era where they seem to come from Mars. Really loved the sport and went everywhere to race. Buy him a beer anytime.
So did Ovett
I was also born to run but somehow chess became more important to me. If i see videos about Coe (phenomenon! ) somehow i see or imagine my self.
How old are you? Humble Boy.
I'm here for the soundtrack
Very-very good Video...
Thanks...
Forever Sebastian Koe
BACK TO THE BASICS 👍
I am not anti Coe by any means but an objective assessment of him would be;
The greatest ever middle distance runner against the clock and greatest ever at doubling up at 800/1500, but not the greatest racer in a tactical situation. Steve Cram won more major titles at 1500m and Coe only won one at his best event the 800m. He was also fortunate that not all his rivals were present at Moscow 80 and Los Angeles 84 due to the boycotts and that Said Aouita opted for the 5000m at the latter. The selectors were wrong not to take him to Soul in 88 as though he was past his best he was still one of the best 1500m runners in the world and you should always take your best men.
Cram was more lucky when winning the European & Commonwealth of 82 when both Coe and Ovett were ill or injured. He also had no Coe at the World Champs in 83. Coe won both his 1500 golds with both Cram and Ovett in the fields in both. Coe's championship record over 1500m was better than Cram's - he contested 4 major races and won 2 golds and 2 silvers. Cram won the World gold (Coe absent), the European and Commonwealth golds in 82 (Coe & Ovett absent), the Commonwealth in 86 (Coe absent) and the European gold against Coe in 86. But he also contested the World final in 87 and the Olympic final in 88 and failed to medal in either.
@@deano27671 Deano yes all true. If Coe hadn't been ill and injured so much he would probably have won more titles - it's a lot of ifs and buts with all three of them and you could argue all day about their relative merits - it's difficult to categorise them. Cram did extremely well to win the 1500m in Helsinki in '83 as he'd missed so much training but Ovett should have won that race by a mile, pardon the pun! Ovett also fancied his chances strongly for Los Angeles '84 but his chest infection and the smog did for him. If Cram had been fully fit in '84 would he have won? etc, etc. I still think though that we never saw the limit of Ovett's ability. After Moscow '80 he seemed to lose some desire and then I think the railings injury affected him. If he could break the world record for 1500m in '83 in 3:30.77 when he was past his best he should have been able to run 3.29 in about 1980/81.
@@Ruda-n4h Ovett was never the same after the railings injury!!! Ovett & Cruz smoked Coe in the "80" & "84" Olympic Games in the 800m. Ivo Van Damme would've been in the mix if he wasn't killed in a car crash!
He should have gone to the 1988 Olympic, it was very controversial at the time, I remember it well. He had a chance of winning it, but barring incident would probably have medalled. He missed all the Commonwealth and World medals due to illness and injury that dogged him. However , I have never seen a more beautiful runner when he was in full flow, such a huge talent.
i bet anyone next year at the oly in 2021 the iwinning time in the 800 will be slower than 141.73 and he will be there to see it
proud of the posh boy . 😊 and Peter and Mary
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A beautiful runner 🏃♂️
Its interesting to note that peter coe was never at his sons 800m world records.... he missed them ....they were never expected to happen ESPECIALLY the 2nd (1:41'73) in June 1981 florence !!!!!!!!!!!!! What A SHOCKER!!!!!!! And Peter coe missed it !!!!!!!!!!!!
Fast 800 times come out of nowhere, sometimes. Mine did.
@@andre1987eph TRUE ,,,VERY TRUE ,,,When you least expect it, ,,,,you are RIGHT sir!!!!!!!!!!!
Very aggresive audio.
Отец!!! Молодец!!!
a real athlete
Chemiosmosis and the understanding of what it can produce, is what propelled Seb to world records. Peter understood it, I understand it, the sporting world is still in the dark. I would love to see an NHL hockey team adopt Chemiosmosis, then watch them win their cup 10 straight years in a row.
What on earth is that?
The Chemiosmotic hypothesis involves ATP production and measuring the heat exchange while electrons and protons move through several mechanisms. I can go a thousand miles in any direction from where I’m standing, and not run into one person that can talk intelligently on the subject. The first professional sports franchise to discover this, will own their sport. The interesting part about this, it has nothing to do with running, it’s the heat exchange in the cell. I hope this doesn’t answer your question, I hope it makes you more curious. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
he beat the ODDS!! TOPS TO SEB COE!!!
Interesting philosophy of changing interests until he found something he could win at.
Funny seeing him train by running on main roads with his dad trailing in the car. That's 1980. Try doing that in 2021
Coe the better runner in the history ! Magnificent athlet ! Number one ! Without Bolt's steroids Thg
As a proud Jamaican I find ur statement offensive. We pride ourselves on being the best sprinters but doing so cleanly because we love the sport. While there are many cheats , Usain St Leo Bolt has never been proven to be taking steriods by any international or local federation. I've watched this documentary because I wanted to find out more about Mr Coe I suggest that u do the same by watching a documentary about Jamaican athletic history .
I don’t think seb was ever pushed! Incredible
Seb was not only pushed in the Olympic 800m but he was beaten by Ovett in the "80", 800m and he was beaten in "84" 800m by
Cruz as well!
WHOEVER RECORDED THIS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RECORDING OF 1980 MOSCOW OLYMPICS 800M !!!!! ITS NOT ON THIS..HOW??? HOW IS THIS NOT RECORDED????????
The 80s synth. Dates it
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I was not aware of that blood disorder. Why so much training on roads, all that pounding, and sucking in vehicle fume toxins. Must be Cross Country and grassy hills available. Great runner. Ironic not winning 800 m in Olympics. Super kick, because he had superior endurance at speed from high quality training. As discussed in interviews.
DON'T forget the ASTHMA coe had and kept HIDDEN from his rivals RIGHT through his career!!!!!! Yes indeed.....
Anyone notice Peter shouting at seb 43:47
Outside the rules. Risked being disqualified for it. Stupid thing to do.
I feel the rivalry he had with Ovett messed things up a bit, same for Ovett the one who i felt handled it alot better was Cram he raced them both numerous times
Where is the 800 Olympic final,??? They've gone straight into the 1500,,, where is the 800???????
Because he lost both 800’s when expected to win.
1:34 ILLINOIS REPRESENTED!
Hello, anyone know the title of the music at 18mn53?
Please.
Thank you very much!
“Low mileage high intensity” ruined American youth distance running in the 1990s.
Chris Weeks Low mileage, high intensity was exactly what Seb Coe did. Some of his weeks prior to a world record consisted of only 28 miles of running, all run fairly fast. Sure, not everyone can tolerate that kind of intensity and may need longer, slower runs to recover from harder workouts.
Averagebum Bum I’ve heard he didn’t record warm up and cool down in his training logs. Distance running has gone back to more of a strength approach in the us and is better than ever in my opinion
Chris Weeks Yes, I have read that on letsrun.com, but I don’t trust it. In the biography on Seb, “Born to Run,” David Miller wrote that Seb trained only twice a week prior to a university exam, a longish run, and a shorter faster run or speedwork (I cannot remember which now.)
And Coe’s staple continuous runs were 10 milers run briskly at 45+ minutes.
I do agree that the majority of runners may do better on higher mileage, with a larger base.
And I too am excited about US distance running in recent years, with Alan Webb,
Ryan Hall, Meb Keflezighi, Galen Rupp, Matthew Centrowitz, Jordan Hasay, Shalane Flanigan, Deena Castor, Molly Huddle, etc leading the fields.
This man wasted his own time and Janet Breens when he could have donated the same if not MORE than was raised. Complete joke of a man
Anyone know what kind of shoes he’s wearing when he is doing his hill running?
... and he did.
At 32:44 It could also say "COE'S WAY"... IMHO
Looks like the James Woods of running.
Well I feel like a fat slob now
Excuse me, observers, maybe I was in consorsium of Sebastian Coe. Hoping get checking of the payment documents of winner gifts in MIR ( Museum of Indonesia Record ) in Semarang, Center Java ; National Library of RI, Center Jakarta ; National Archive of RI, South Jakarta . I am still single and live alone in my age now, 49 years old . Maybe any chance to get a sweet girl from UK ?
Toxoplasmosis, evidence that your cat really does want to kill you.
Great upload. Forgive the 8 bit music and the cheesey mum and dad bit. Shame he couldn't keep his pants on a bit more. When you are telling your wife you are popping out for a pint of milk it should be the truth.
You missed a part at 35. After the scene about Jazz it goes to the 800 he lost to ovett and then from there to his mum talking about wanting to drown herself and then to his victory in the 1500 to reclaim himself.
sirpow
But do the stars remember as the thronging masses cheer, the little people who help them on the road to their chosen career?
Imagine if Salazar had trained him ??? 1”35 in 800 and 3”22 1500, 3”39 miler. With Mo Farrah “ special “ vitamins.
Coe must have used some human growth hormone combined with some good training but with better results than the Germans, one must admit he had talent he was a good runner
Hever Morales good ??????????? He was fukkin fantastic !!!!!!!!!
Cesar Coelho way to over the top
1:35 in the 800 idk about that man
These times are not possible.
At 10:58 seb COE 0slo 1979 WAS THE first to DO that now EVERYONE in THE world does it ???? TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Coe, Ovett, Cram, Mckean, Elliot etc etc etc would've been so much more successful had they decided to compete in Women's Sport.
#let'sgobrandon
What drugs was he on?
Run Forrest
That's your comment?
I don't believe a word he says.
He has a future at the BBC sorry but his religion may be helpful?
Then this good runner turned into a politician. Why would he? WE'RE SICK OF SPORTSMEN THAT BECOME CORRUPT POLITICIANS
Women were not going out in 61 back then lol
Man what is up with that music
+johnservando It was the 80s xD
This plastic music giving me ear cancer
18:31 Mr. Fancypants goes for a jog.
20:55 why doesn't he just run right behind him and forget the car?
Peter Snell of new Zealand would have beaten Coe with a better kick.
No. Snell's fastest 440 leg in a relay was 47.9. For 400m that is worth 47.6. Coe's fastest 400m relay is 45.5! Even accounting for the fact Snell's was probably run on grass or cinders, Coe is a good second faster than Snell over 400m. Over a mile the gap is 7 secs! Again, on same track Coe ran on, Snell's 3:54.1 may come down between 2 and 3.5secs, making it worth between 3:50.6 and 3:52.1, still at least 3 and a half seconds slower than Coe's.
they are probably equally good.
they are probably equally good.
NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Snell, Walker, Ovett, Coe are the runners of their time & period of what they achieved as personnel goals against the clock and weather it was a world record a Gold medalist in their chosen event thats what was achieved at the time you cannot compare one against the other unless they are racing in the same event, Walker Ovett, Coe I believe they were in some of the races together and who won at the time thats what the end result of that race that showed they raced together at the same time. The name I have mentioned are still to this day are recorded the best of their time and they set the bar & standard of there era they all champions in there own right.
great runner, horrible person
THATS WHAT IT TAKES,, KILLER INSTINCT, YOU'RE NOT HERE TO MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO LIKE YOU,,, COE ,OVETT CRAM WE'RE KILLER'S ON THE TRACK OF COURSE YOU HAD TO BE A HORRIBLE PERSON ,,,,BEING ABLE TO 8+300 IN 36/37 1min rec or 4. 400m in 49/50 2 mins rec,,,,MAAAAAN YOU HAVE GOT TO BE A BEAST ,,,,(horrible person) to achieve this!!!!!!! You art what you have to be at the top,,,nobody cares WHAT YOU THINK,,,,WATCH THE OLYMPIC 800 1980 how OVETT THREW PEOPLE AROUND ESPECIALLY DOWN THE BACK STRAIGHT JUST AFTER 150!!!!!!!! KILLER INSTINCT !!!!!!!!!!
Nothing horrible there.
Ovett was my favourite.
wake up.drugs,dodgy at best.
Perfectly fine to wag the finger if there's something substantial there to base it on i.e Mr Salazaar's athletes Mo included 😂 but otherwise the comment is Empty! as it's based on ?? Nowt!
No, just one of those amazing talents that appear from time to time. Did you even notice that raw talent at such an early age? And, then that training!!
Just hard work and his dad for a coach, no drugs there at all. Sometimes someone just has ridiculous raw talent like Jesse Owens.
ONE OF MY IDOLS IS SEBASTIAN COE