- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollinsWillow (29 Oct 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002181193
- ISBN-13: 978-0002181198
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 144,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Steve Ovett was, for a time, the biggest name in Britain. Reading this autobiography lets you in to the humanity of a truly great natural athlete, and decent human being.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I recently bought and read Pat Butcher's "The Perfect Distance", and was inspired to track down Steve Ovett's autobiography.
After only seeing the public side of things at the time when Steve was racing, it is interesting to be able to look back over the years with the benefit of Steve's explanations for things that were happening to him behind the scenes.
For any athletics fan, this book is well worth tracking down. The only shame is that it was written before he retired - it would have been great to know what he has been up to since not making the team for the Seoul Olympics and his subsequent retirement.
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Genre: Biography
Title: Steve Ovett: An Autobiography
Author: Steve Ovett and John Rodda
ISBN: 0002181193
Pages: 209
Published by: Willow Books, 1984
Book Review
Steve Ovett was one of the most notable English athletes during the mid-1970s through to the mid-1980s. At this time - which was a renaissance of sorts for England, in the sport of middle-distance athletics - he was a world record holder in the 1500m and mile run distances and an Olympic Champion. He was born October 9, 1955 and grew up in Brighton, Sussex.
The era in which he ran is often referred to by who he was competing with at the time, typically the Ovett-Cram (Steve Cram) era superseded the Ovett-Coe (Sebastian Coe) era, when all three competed for world dominance while representing Great Britain. Little did he know how long his presence would prevail.
Presumably having no corporate sponsors to consider, Ovett and John Rodda deliver an autobiography that, by all appearances, reads refreshingly frank and honest.
In comparison to most sport-based authors of autobiographies, Ovett provides accounts of his training, racing and life outside of the sport in scrupulous fashion. For example, Ovett talks about his disdain for the British media and recounts that early on in his career he stopped communicating with the media altogether, when having just won a European Cup semi-final 800m in July of 1975, and had decided to not compete in the final. An ensuing conversation in the press box, "provided a final straw in my relationship with the media."
"I did not feel any responsibility to promote my sport in talking to the press - I did that out there on the track, by winning," Ovett lamented. He also writes, "when I added that I did not want to run because I was going to Athens that weekend to watch my girlfriend compete in the European Junior Championships, all hell broke loose."
Ovett's patriotism...read the rest here: [...]
Genre: Biography
Title: Steve Ovett: An Autobiography
Author: Steve Ovett and John Rodda
ISBN: 0002181193
Pages: 209
Published by: Willow Books, 1984
Book Review
Steve Ovett was one of the most notable English athletes during the mid-1970s through to the mid-1980s. At this time - which was a renaissance of sorts for England, in the sport of middle-distance athletics - he was a world record holder in the 1500m and mile run distances and an Olympic Champion. He was born October 9, 1955 and grew up in Brighton, Sussex.
The era in which he ran is often referred to by who he was competing with at the time, typically the Ovett-Cram (Steve Cram) era superseded the Ovett-Coe (Sebastian Coe) era, when all three competed for world dominance while representing Great Britain. Little did he know how long his presence would prevail.
Presumably having no corporate sponsors to consider, Ovett and John Rodda deliver an autobiography that, by all appearances, reads refreshingly frank and honest.
In comparison to most sport-based authors of autobiographies, Ovett provides accounts of his training, racing and life outside of the sport in scrupulous fashion. For example, Ovett talks about his disdain for the British media and recounts that early on in his career he stopped communicating with the media altogether, when having just won a European Cup semi-final 800m in July of 1975, and had decided to not compete in the final. An ensuing conversation in the press box, "provided a final straw in my relationship with the media."
"I did not feel any responsibility to promote my sport in talking to the press - I did that out there on the track, by winning," Ovett lamented. He also writes, "when I added that I did not want to run because I was going to Athens that weekend to watch my girlfriend compete in the European Junior Championships, all hell broke loose."
Ovett's patriotism...read the rest here: [...]
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