Totally ignorant a-hole, BUT media loves this stuff.
Anytbing critical of America or American values. Anything and anyone who wishes to go negative gets a megaphone.
Crap. The man was one of the greatest athletes of the 1980’s, an Olympic and World champion. Probably the greatest 800 and 1500m runner of all time.
To call him an a-hole is childish. All he did was give his honest opinion. If he had been antiamerican as you say, he wouldnt have had any US in his top five. He was right to argue that Redgrave and Thompson should be at least considered in any top 5 Olympians.
Redgrave and esp Thompson were fantastic athletes. Daley Thompson is the greatest modern decathlete. A giant of world athletics from the mid 70’s to the late 80’s.
BTW, if Coe was American, you bet that NO non-American would have been in his top 5. American sports media and experts are the most insular/parochial there are.
And would I be here whining about Coe the American being ‘anti-British’?. No.