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Sebastian Coe highlights "important questions" in possible run for the top job

Coe remains open minded on IOC presidential run

Sebastian Coe has refused to rule out a run to become president of the International Olympic Committee.

Russia's Olympic future may be uncertain, but it's athletics one is less so

No quick return for Russia in face of ban, says Coe

While the IOC prevaricates about the "dilemma" of banning Russian athletes from the 2024 Olympics, World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe has made it clear that as far as his sport is concerned they remain very much on the outside, twice-over.

Athletics • 16 Dec 22

Sebastian Coe had been in Budapest for the World Swimming Championships

Coe hints athletics could adopt FINA transgender policy

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has hinted track and field could follow swimming in banning transgender athletes.

Athletics • 20 Jun 22

Coe: ""It's almost like being back in training because you're sort of working on muscularity and all sorts of things"

Coe gets voice treatment after radio listener alert

Sebastian Coe has thanked a retired GP who got in touch about his "gravelly" voice after hearing the former double Olympic champion being interviewed on the radio.

Athletics • 25 Feb 21

Coe says "if any country can see this through, it is actually Japan"

Coe: Tokyo 2021 will go ahead - but will look different

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is confident the Olympic Games will take place in 2021 but acknowledged that "they will look different."

Olympics • 19 Jan 21

Christian Coleman was among those sanctioned by the Athletics Integrity Unit

Reputation won't protect athletes from doping ban - Coe

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said reputation will not protect the sport's high-profile athletes from doping raps and warned that it would be harder than ever to get away with taking banned substances at next year's Tokyo Olympics.

Athletics • 23 Dec 20

Coe compares allegiance switches to 'human trafficking'

World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe believes some cases of young athletes switching allegiance between countries before he tightened the rules last year were all but indistinguishable from human trafficking.

Athletics • 22 Aug 20

Sebastian Coe: "Our sport has always been about fairness and a level playing field so we shouldn't feel ashamed to set that as our ambition."

Coe: It's possible Games will be moved to the autumn

World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe said on Thursday that moving the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to September or October due to the coronavirus outbreak was a possibility but it was too soon to take a decision on whether to cancel the Games.

Paris 2024 • 19 Mar 20

FIFA's Infantino proposed as IOC member

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been proposed for International Olympic Committee membership, but World Athletics head Sebastian Coe will have to wait due to a conflict of interest, IOC President Thomas Bach said.

Paris 2024 • 05 Dec 19

'The investigator concluded there is no evidence such that there is any prospect any case could be established.'

Coe cleared by IAAF investigation

It was alleged that the former Olympic champion had given misleading questions to a British parliamentary committee in 2015

Athletics • 11 Apr 19

'Ms Semenya does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born'

Semenya rebukes Coe for questioning her gender

Caster Semenya has accused Sebastian Coe of "opening old wounds" after his comments about the double Olympic champion in a newspaper article.

Athletics • 27 Mar 19

Sebastian Coe: 'We can't just sit here for ever and a day - it's costly and time consuming.'

IAAF tell Russia: admit doping or risk expulsion

Sebastian Coe has threatened Russia with the "ultimate sanction" of expulsion from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) because of its refusal to admit it ran a state-sponsored doping programme.

Athletics • 06 Mar 18

IAAF President Sebastian Coe: "This is one of the most exciting innovative events we are seeing in our sport."

London to host new eight-nation athletics World Cup

A brand-new athletics World Cup will be held in London this summer.

Athletics • 05 Feb 18

Doping remains a major issue among Russian sports

Russia needs 'cultural change' to lift ban - Coe

Russia still needs to demonstrate a "cultural shift" in its commitment to clean sport if its track and field athletes hope to compete under the nation's flag again, IAAF President Sebastian Coe said.

Athletics • 10 Feb 17

Sebastian Coe is expected to snub the request to answer further questions

Seb Coe wanted for fresh corruption questions

Sebastian Coe is expected to snub the request to reappear before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee by the end of this month after "some doubt" was cast on evidence he gave to British MPs in December 2015 about corruption within athletics' world governing body.

Athletics • 11 Jan 17

Sebastian Coe: 'It has to be our ambition not to leave a country sitting outside the athletics family.'

Coe wants clean Russia back in 'athletics family'

Sebastian Coe has warned Russia it still has work to do if it is to be allowed to return to international competition in time for next year's World Athletics Championships in London.

Athletics • 05 Oct 16

Seb Coe: 'When you look at the horror show that has unfolded in the last six months, year or so, the question we all have to ask ourselves... is how on earth did we get to this position?'

Sebastian Coe threatens to ban Kenya from Olympics

Sebastian Coe is ready to ban Kenya's track and field team from the Olympics if the country's athletics federation is declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency [WADA] code.

Athletics • 18 Feb 16

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack was arrested by French police on suspicion of taking money from Russian athletes to cover up doping offences

'Toxic' IAAF could be dropped from Worlds branding

Organisers of the 2017 World Championships in London are in talks with athletics' world governing body about dropping 'IAAF' from the event's branding.

Athletics • 29 Jan 16

Sebastien Coe denies knowledge of 2017 bribes

IAAF president Sebastian Coe has denied knowing of "bribes being offered or received" in the awarding of the 2017 world athletics championships, a spokesman for the crisis-hit governing body said today.

Athletics • 29 Jan 16

What new will WADA's independent commission reveal?

Athletics chiefs await second WADA report

IAAF president Sebastian Coe is braced for more disclosures in athletics' doping and corruption crisis when the second part of an independent investigation into the scandal is revealed on Thursday.

Athletics • 14 Jan 16

Mo Farah has placed his faith in Sebastian Coe's roadmap to reform

Farah: Coe is the right man to reform athletics

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah has backed IAAF president Sebastian Coe to clean up athletics as he welcomed the latest anti-corruption and doping-related bans to hit the sport.

Athletics • 08 Jan 16

Sebastian Coe: 'It is clear that perception and reality have become horribly mangled.'

Coe: Nike position was not a conflict of interest

IAAF president Lord Coe has continued to deny his association with Nike was a conflict of interest, even after quitting his ambassador's role with the company.

Athletics • 27 Nov 15

Sebastian Coe: 'I did not lobby anyone on behalf of the Eugene 2021 bid'

Coe faces fresh scrutiny over Eugene 2021 decision

The head of world athletics Sebastian Coe faced fresh allegations about his involvement in the controversial award of the 2021 world championships to the American city of Eugene, but insisted he had acted fairly throughout.

Athletics • 25 Nov 15

Sebastian Coe arrives at the IAAF's offices ahead of Friday night's marathon emergency meeting

Russia suspended following doping cover-up

Athletics' world governing body voted overwhelmingly to provisionally suspend the Russian federation and the country's athletes from the sport.

Athletics • 13 Nov 15

Sebastian Coe is coming under increasing pressure over his position as a Nike ambassador.

Russia facing suspension as heat rises on Coe

Russia is expected to be provisionally suspended by athletics' world governing body on Friday as IAAF president Lord Coe faced fresh calls to sever his links with sportswear giants Nike.

Athletics • 12 Nov 15