Seb Coe

Great pleasure.

Heard a lot about it.

I do because it was a, look, it was a great games, but if you look back, if I look back at my career, I probably had the greatest span of,

or range of Olympic games you could possibly have because Moscow was the first of the communist games, the communist command and control.

They were great games, lots of world records, but they weren't without their controversy.

I fought and was quite outspoken against the boycott at the time, which the newly elected prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, pushed for.

And in the end, we went, but we went without any support, really, other than the British Olympic Association that took a very independent position.

And then it was pretty sort of split back at home.

Some thought we should be there.

Some thought we shouldn't.

And then when I won my, ultimately won my medal, there were no national anthems.

There were no flags or there were no opening ceremonies.

The

It was a very, very good Games and really well organised, but it was strange.

We never left the village.

There was a guy who sort of shattered us everywhere we went.

His name was Boris.

And Brendan Foster, one of my great friends, one of our great distance runners, summoned up enough courage at one point to ask Boris where the nearest nightclub was when we were all in the Olympic Village.

And he never looked up from the newspaper he was reading.

He just said, Helsinki.