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Seb Coe at 70: his career, race by race

As Lord Sebastian Coe approaches his seventieth birthday, athletics publications are retracing every recorded competition of his storied athletic journey. Long before leading global track and field administration or spearheading the capital city's 2012 Olympic bid, he established himself as a legendary middle-distance competitor with a dozen global records and multiple Olympic medals.

A detailed chronicle of his early racing years reveals humble beginnings as a fourteen-year-old in regional cross-country events rather than immediate teenage dominance. Statistics from his formative junior campaigns in the early nineteen-seventies capture his gradual ascent through various regional and national championships across England.

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