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Seb Coe: Running For Office
Sebastian Coe won four Olympic medals and broke no fewer than 12 world records during his career as a middle distance runner. Having retired from the track in 1990, Coe remained in the public eye and began a new career in politics. He is now right-hand man to the leader of the British opposition - William Hague.
Having recently returned from the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where he was a spectator, in About Face Coe discusses how it felt to win an Olympic gold and his transition from athletics to politics.
For Lord Sebastian Coe life has been divided by two loves. In the late 1970s and throughout the 80s he was the British star of the track. Regularly racing against fellow competitor Steve Ovett, Coe was the meticulous runner who fought his way to the finishing line, collecting gold medals and setting records along the way.
In the 1990s Coe’s career took a different path. Having retired from the track, he pursued his second love and became the Conservative MP for Falmouth and Cambourne. After holding th
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Sebastian Coe
Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron CoeCHKBE (born 29 September 1956, and often nicknamed Seb Coe)[1] is a former athlete and politician from the United Kingdom. A middle distance runner, Coe won the 1500 m gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and set eight outdoor and three indoor world records. He is widely considered to be amongst the greatest middle distance runners of all time. Following his retirement from athletics, he served as a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1992-97. He became a life peer in 2000. He is the head of the London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. After the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to London, he became the chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was also elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Personal life
[change | change source]Coe was born in Hammersmith, London. He grew up in Warwickshire and Sheffield. His mother, Tina Angela Coe, died in Hammersmith and Fulham, London, in 2005,
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Described in some quarters as ‘Britain’s greatest ever athlete’, Coe helped catapult athletics into the nation’s consciousness with a series of awesome performances on the running track.
Winner of two Olympic gold medals in the 1500m, in 1980 and 1984, Coe also broke eight world records during a glittering career.
| Coe turned to politics at the end of his athletics career |
His world record mark of 1min 41.73sec, set in Oslo, in 1981, stood unbroken until 1997 - proof if ever it was needed that Coe was a very special athlete indeed.
Born in Chiswick, London in 1956, Coe was raised in Sheffield and began his running career when he joined Hallamshire Harriers at the age of 12.
Success quickly followed, and such was Coe’s obvious talent, his father Peter predicted in 1973 that his then teenage son would break the 1500m record by 1980.
In fact, Coe exceeded even his father’s expectations by smashing three world records, including the 1500m, in the space of 41 days in 1979.
After retiring from the sport in 1989, Coe pursued a political career, becoming the Conservativ
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