Britain's former double Olympic champion's father dies
LONDON (Reuters) - Peter Coe, father and coach of Britain's double Olympic champion Sebastian, has died after a short illness at the age of 88, British media reported.
"Peter Coe's contribution to Seb's success and to British athletics was always of gold medal standard," said British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan.
"In the world of coaching and inspiring and influencing, there are few men in the history of British athletics of whom it could be said they were truly among the greatest," Moynihan told the Sunday Express newspaper.
Sebastian, 51, chair of the London 2012 Olympic organizing committee, won the 1,500 meters gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 1984 Games in Los Angeles four years later.
He also claimed two Olympic silver medals in the 800 and broke a host of middle-distance world records.
(Writing by Tony Jimenez, editing by Ken Ferris)
