1980 Olympics in Moscow the 800m final - winner Steve Ovett

No sports or acting, or doing any job that is not dangerous deserves a knighthood. Knights were men of bravery, valour, and chivalrous. These were ‘real’ men who fought for the people, and who would always put others before themselves.
Anyone who doesn’t fall into that category can get their little gold medal, their little gold statuette and then carry on doing their little running about thing and their pretending to be somebody else lives!

Coe ran such an awfull race if he had not been as fit as he was he would have ended with a 5th or 6th place finish
He was in a league of his own and had absolutely zero tactics on this day

Ovett was a nasty runner , Coe better than him allways

Steve Ovett!❤

Great Run...
Fantastik finish
My favorlte Steve Ovett...

Steve rocks

Should not even be considered seeing it was boycotted as real world didn't go.

David Warren just for making the 800 metres final with Coe and Ovett. 👏👏

If President Carter did not ban the U.S. from the Russian Olympics and the economy did not falter along with the botched hostage attempt we wpould not have Reagan.

The bruising nature of the race exemplified by the East German I think barging into Ovett even after the race is over and he is trying to celebrate.

PEOPLE THAT WAS KNOWN AS THE BRITISH BULLDOG SPIRIT MAJESTIC

Thank Jimmy Carter the moron for the USA boycott. SMH

The great races on Telly no satellite dishes back then in the 80's.Tune into BBC1 or BBC2 back then, saw all the Running on every olympic games brilliant coverage we got 🙂

Dommage qu'ils n'aient plus cette densité, cela donnerait peut être plus d'envies aux autres pays Européens...

Without the Yanks Moscow 1980 was absolutely brilliant.

The greatest era in British athletics !! This is one of the finest races of all time !!

You have to say if Coe hadn't cocked up his position he would probably have won both

were these 2 destined to win each others best events.. I believe so.

To watch Steve running was very exciting waiting for that burst of speed near the end, great days.

This was really a lousy race....

One nil.

David Coleman Legend

In his book Ovett revealed that he was expecting Kirov to take the lead somewhere on the backstraight. Which is exactly what happened at the blue eyes like chips of ice moment. He was focussed on Kirov and that decisive. Both he and Coleman were spot on.

He should have been disqualified.

ovett, coe and cram. great days for middle distance runners

How was Ovett not DQd with all the pushing and elbowing

"Those blue eyes like chips of ice.." - god bless Dave Coleman!

I remember Coe being utterly mortified that he'd lost this race to Ovett. There was a huge rivalry at the time and they werent known for being exactly friends.
Something absolutely shifted in Coe and drove him to win the 1500, he was on a mission.

Wwhere was that giant Cuban? Did he fail to qualify?

look at coe now. totally corrupt puppet

Great to hear David Coleman’s voice again.

Ovett was the best. He didn't always win, he didn't always have the world record, but he was always the most exciting racer. What an era this was - for Brits and non-Brits.

DQ i don't think so. This thing happened in the sport then. Look at the 10000m in Tokyo 64 the way Billy Mills was pushed, far worse than what Ovett did, by Clarke and Gamoudi in the last lap. Anyway, Re 800m no complaint was put in by any of the runners or their ruling bodies. I think no complaint would have been put in as this happened before halfway.

Ovett everyday. Never liked coe and never will

Many years later the two met and talked about the races. Coe said to Ovett that on Christmas day he had two intense sessions. Ovetts reply was "are you being serious, only two" I thought that summed up their rivalry.

Coe all over the place.

Who cares about the Commie Olympics, 3rd rate competition

Y los mexicanos donde,.

English women would marry Coe but have sex with Ovett.

oh Ovett wins not much point in watching this

I love to watch these old films. In most cases, I watching them all in real time.

Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett, and Steve Cram. That was an incredible time for British middle distance running. Britain was the home of the Olympic champion, World champion and World Record holder in the 1,500 m - titles held by Coe, Cram and Ovett respectively at the same time. Trading records and medals back and forth. A small country, but had the best middle distance runners. Their times are still elite.

800m is the toughest track event there is.

Ovett was always the "racer", and Coe the "time" guy. Ovett was big in championships for that reason. He did whatever. Coe got knocked off his strategy - he came close to pulling it out, but Ovett just said no way.

I do not get so many people in the UK, trying to make this Coe-Ovett rivalry into World War III. Good God, it was a couple of guys running around on a track. Have fun, be entertained, but lighten up.

Coe ran like a coward