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TIL: In 1980, British athletes attended the Moscow Olympics against the wishes of Margaret Thatcher. Sebastian Coe’s own parents were approached by the government in the shape of Douglas Hurd to put pressure on their son not to compete. As Coe himself recalled, they told him politely to get stuffed.

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