Steve Ovettbritish athlete.
mentioned IN prologue to history:'Today a poet who can't play guitar / Tomorrow Steve Ovett has injured his calf / Next year the world's greatest politician / Yesterday the boy who once had a mission'
british athlete who was born in 1955 in brighton. at the 1980 olympics in moscow he won Gold on the 800 m. at the 1978 european championships he won Gold on the 1500 m.the line 'Tomorrow Steve Ovett has injured his calf' refers to his hamstring or calf injury which hindered his recovering of cancer treatment for a month.
