Coe ready to rim
N Z P A-Reuter Moscow World record-holder Sebastian Coe and other British athletic stars arrived at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport yesterday. “I’m very happy to be here,” said Coe, “and I am here to run some very hard races.” Coe. who has recently seen his British rival, Steve Ovett, break his mile world record and equal his 1500
’ metres world best, said- “ Records are there to be • broken, or even equalled.” He said that it would be : unwise to think only of Ovett as his main rival in the 800 metres and 1500 metres in these Olympics, i “That would be a dodgj’ I analysis,” he said. Other athletes on Coe’s 1 aircraft were the decathlon | : gold-medal prospect, Daley [ Thompson, and the distance I runner. Brendan Foster.
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