23/01/2023
An illuminating profile of Lord Coe in the Sunday Times at the weekend in which he discusses the impact of his father's WW2 experience has had on his upbringing and his glittering athletic career, what inheriting a scandal-ridden sports organisation was like, and whether he has his eyes on the biggest job in sport.
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He likes to think what he has achieved until now owes much to the man who decided, when he plunged into those icy Atlantic waters, that he would die another day; another 68 years later, as it turned out. “You have to understand my father to understand, in a way, my career, because so much of what I’ve done has been steered by a bloody-minded determination,” Coe says. “After what happened to him in the war, he also regarded every day as a bonus. Everything he did with me, not least as my coach, was predicated on the view that, ‘I really don’t give a f*** what anyone else says.’ ”
Read the full article here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-coe-you-have-to-know-my-fathers-second-world-war-story-to-understand-me-2rb6vxfxz
