Steve Ovett is uniquely the only athlete to win major championship golds at 800m (Olympics), 1500m (Europeans) and 5000m (Commonwealth). His first mention in AW was 50 years ago in 1970 and his ...

He now lives in Australia and was part of the BBC commentary team at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006. Steve’s son Freddy Ovett, incidentally, was a promising middle-distance runner ...

So much for deadly rivals – Steve Ovett says Sebastian Coe was his toughest ... Q&A session at a businessmen’s breakfast during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne six years ago,” said ...

Seb Coe and Steve Ovett were gladiators all and the globe belonged most definitely to us. He was the Commonwealth, European and World champion in the blue riband event, the metric mile ...

Steve Ovett is uniquely the only athlete to win major championship golds at 800m (Olympics), 1500m (Europeans) and 5000m (Commonwealth). His first mention in AW was 50 years ago in 1970 and his ...