Coe retired from athletics in and moved into politics. In he was appointed a life peer, becoming Lord Coe of Ranmore. He led London to victory over Paris, with many pointing to his rousing speech at the vote in Singapore as the decisive moment.
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Saved Speakers. It was there that he joined the athletics team at Hallamshire Harriers, specialising in middle distance events. On leaving school, Coe studied Economics and Social History at Loughborough University and in made his first mark as athlete, winning the m at the European Indoor Championship. The following year he set a new United Kingdom m record and in he broke the m, m and mile world records in the space of 41 days.
At the Olympic Games in Moscow in , Coe won the gold medal in the m, having won silver in the m. As a child, he preferred running to riding a bicycle on his trips around town. He took part in his first "official" run at the age of Coe's father did not have experience in coaching or running. When he saw his son in that first run, however, he knew that Coe had great potential.
He talked with people who knew about running, read all he could find on the subject, and became Coe's coach—using whatever ideas worked and discarding those that didn't. According to Michael Sandrock in Running with the Pros, he explained his method, "There is nothing revolutionary in what I have done with Seb, but it has been tailor-made for his physique. An athlete to a great extent determines his own training by his response to the tasks you set for him and by his racing results.
The coach must adjust to his athlete. When Coe was 14, he won the Yorkshire County 1,meter race with a time of His father saw this victory as a seed for future greatness, and he set out a training plan that would have Coe running the same distance in , five seconds under the world record, and winning the gold medal at the Olympics, which were then ten years away.
Predictions of future world records would be broken by his son were uncannily accurate. In , he predicted that the world records would be for meters and for the mile.
According to Sandrock, his father said, "When Seb was 14, I knew he was good; at 16, I had a strange kind of certainty that if I was patient I had a world beater. Because his father was not a trained coach, he had no preconceived notions about how to train, and was free to devise his own methods.
In addition, he didn't have any preconceived ideas about what Coe could or could not do, so he believed in his son's unlimited potential as an athlete. He kept Coe's mileage low, concentrating on speed. He also added hill training, making Coe run repeatedly up the steep Yorkshire hills, but then meeting him at the top and driving him down, so that Coe's bones and joints would not be stressed by the pounding downhill.
If Coe was injured, he stopped working out, unlike other runners who "ran through" an injury and often prolonged it. Running only 30 miles a week, in comparison to other runners' 80 or 90 miles a week, Coe won the Yorkshire School Cross-Country Championships. A runner named Steve Ovett placed second. Coe did not know him at the time, but he soon would.
He improved his times for the and meters as well. In , Coe experienced a stress fracture and took time off from training. In the fall of that year, he enrolled at Loughborough University in Leicester. His father asked the coach, George Gandy, to help Coe with weight training and to get him on the track team, running the meter race. When he was 18, Coe won the Northern Counties under 3, meters.
This victory and others led him to be chosen for the European junior championships in Athens, where he won a bronze medal and set a personal record for the 1, meters.
His father realized that Coe needed to add strength in order to have a strong, fast finish. Coe used weight training to build up his strength for that final kick. In , the family made an unusual decision: instead of pushing Coe toward longer and longer distances, they would concentrate on shorter distances, where Coe had much more potential.
Despite the fact that both Coe and his father were deeply involved in running, the family helped him to stay well-rounded. If he talked too much about running at family dinners, his siblings would chant "boring, boring.
According to Sandrock, "Coe's family helped imbue him with that special British sense of becoming a well-rounded citizen of the world, combining the artistic background of his mother with his father's scientific bent.
He developed an interest in jazz his favorite style being Dixieland , literature, and the theater. In , Coe stepped in a hole and tore the ligaments in his leg. He recovered in time, and went to the European Championships in Prague, the biggest race he'd been in so far.
Steve Ovett, the runner he had met several years before, was expected to win. He and Coe felt an intense rivalry. Both were surprised at the end of the meters when another runner, Olaf Beyer, passed them both and took the gold, leaving Ovett in second and Coe in third.
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