Sebastian Coe: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Recorded Sebastian Coe said elsewhere, not written here

Not hearing the Ellington band live.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2012 source ↗

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Tommy Hilfiger American fashion designer

My first business, People's Place, went bankrupt in the mid-70s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 source ↗

Christopher Eccleston English actor

Falling off the stage in the third preview of Macbeth at the RSC.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2019 source ↗

Ivan Lendl Czech and American tennis player

Plenty of matches got away, but there’s nothing I can do about it, so why worry?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2017 source ↗

Samira Ahmed British journalist and writer

When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗