“It’s amazing, crazy. I don’t think you’ll probably realise how good it is until it is done – that’s the sad thing,” says Jake Wightman, reflecting on a British middle-distance crop which, three weeks ...

Steve Smythe charts the middle-distance runner's early years through the 1970s in the first part of an Ovett race history special Steve Ovett is uniquely the only athlete to win major championship ...

Following the Tingle Creek, Phil Turner wonders whether today's owners and trainers could take a hint from yesterday's ...

The rivalry between British athletics legends Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett is to be made into a film by the BBC. The pair dominated middle distance running in the late 1970s and first half of the ...