Steve Ovett

The Olympic glass is either one-third empty or two-thirds full, depending on whether you're looking from the perspective of the boycott or from the floor of Lenin Stadium this Saturday. The 62 nations not in Moscow...

Sebastian Coe added the 1,000 to his list of records, but just minutes later Steve Ovett snatched away Coe's mile mark

On a mild, midsummer's evening, Sebastian Coe took the world record in the mile from John Walker. The author traces the threads of motive and commitment that led to Oslo

He got his nickname, Skeets, as a babe, his father said, because he crawled so fast "he seemed to be running." Against Renaldo Nehemiah, every other high hurdler seemed to crawl last year. A University of Maryland...