Pat Butcher

The Perfect Distance

'Few athletes have captured the world's attention as did Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett in the early 1980s... it was their fierce rivalry, more redolent of prefessional boxing that middle-glass running, that transformed their clashes at the Olympics into unmissable events. A runner himself, Pat Butcher has chronicled the way these two swift men spurred each other to glory and redefined their sport in the process, though ultimately for worse rather than better.'

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