Sebastian Coe’s flaws mean he is the wrong man to clean up athletics
9 years, 2 months ago

Sebastian Coe’s flaws mean he is the wrong man to clean up athletics

The Independent  

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The “reputational recovery” defined by Dick Pound, whose strident voice broke through the sycophancy of such dismal cheerleaders as Paula Radcliffe before it faltered, to counter-intuitively excuse Coe as athletics’ best hope, will be long and difficult for a sport stripped of credibility and unworthy of trust. I do not doubt Coe’s emotional allegiance to a sport he graced in a previous generation, but will only believe in him if he has the foresight and intestinal fortitude to insist Russian athletes remain banned when the Games start, on 5 August. Closer to home, UK Athletics will rely heavily on Coe to foster the florid myth that next year’s World Championships in London will signal the start of a new, clean era. They, and events of similar magnitude, like football’s World Cup, sustain a counter-culture of sleaze, in which bribes are paid, either overtly, or as “gifts” offered during easily corrupted bidding processes for hosting, broadcasting or marketing rights.

History of this topic

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1 week, 4 days ago
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2 weeks, 6 days ago
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3 months, 1 week ago
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7 months, 3 weeks ago
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11 months, 2 weeks ago
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1 year ago
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1 year, 7 months ago
Athletics integrity body to boost drug testing in Kenya
1 year, 11 months ago
World Athletics will address Russian doping before Ukraine - Sebastian Coe
2 years, 1 month ago
No quick return for Russia in face of dual ban, says World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe
2 years, 3 months ago
World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe favours 'fairness' over inclusion
2 years, 9 months ago
Sebastian Coe says sports must fight to keep Russia banned
3 years ago
'Inconceivable' that Russian, Belarusian athletes compete, says World Athletics president Sebastian Coe
3 years ago
Athletes from Russia and Belarus banned by World Athletics
3 years ago
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe welcomes roadmap for Russian athletics reintegration
4 years ago
Olympic Games not just financial, it's spiritual, says Lord Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics
4 years, 2 months ago
Athletics will ‘ruthlessly weed out drugs cheats’, Sebastian Coe insists
4 years, 3 months ago
World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe hails AFI for taking tough anti-doping stand
4 years, 4 months ago
Sebastian Coe: Some allegiance switches akin to human trafficking - Athletics News - Sportstar
4 years, 7 months ago
World Athletics President Seb Coe Believes Sport Can Grow Further in Post-coronavirus World
4 years, 7 months ago
Former IAAF chief Lamine Diack's corruption case trial to begin on 8 June in Paris
4 years, 9 months ago
Sebastian Coe warns doping cheats during COVID-19 pandemic
4 years, 11 months ago
Athletes like Sir Mo Farah should not be tarnished by Alberto Salazar links, says Lord Coe
5 years, 5 months ago
New sponsor but Russia doping woes linger for re-elected Coe
5 years, 6 months ago
Sebastian Coe re-elected for new term as IAAF chief
5 years, 6 months ago
IAAF president Sebastian Coe says world governing body has made progress on Russian doping, leveling female playing field
5 years, 6 months ago
IAAF was 'crumbling' - Sebastian Coe talks progress, Russia doping and Caster Semenya
5 years, 6 months ago
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to rebrand as World Athletics
5 years, 9 months ago
Former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe wants to run for second term as IAAF president, says he should be given chance
6 years, 1 month ago
Rio Olympics chief lynchpin behind plot to bribe IOC during Games bid, allege Brazilian police officials
7 years, 6 months ago
IAAF president Sebastian Coe believes athletics will rise again to be among world's top 4 sports
8 years, 3 months ago
IAAF plans extensive changes to make organisation more transparent amid new corruption claims
8 years, 3 months ago
Rio Olympics 2016: Michael Phelps says drug cheats shouldn't be allowed to participate
8 years, 7 months ago
Punishing Russia over Olympic doping not enough
8 years, 8 months ago
Russia's Rio Olympics hopes at stake as IAAF votes on athletics ban after another doping report
8 years, 9 months ago
Russian Track And Field Athletes Barred From Competing In Rio Olympics
8 years, 9 months ago
Darren Campbell warns IAAF not to waste chance to restore public faith
8 years, 9 months ago
Stop doping or explain to grandchildren why medals were snatched: IAAF chief Sebastien Coe
8 years, 9 months ago
Sebastian Coe is 'saddened' by Russia’s indoor absence at World Indoor Championships
9 years ago
Athletics doping crisis: Astonishing that Lord Coe did not hear the whispers
9 years, 2 months ago
Corruption 'embedded' in world athletics body IAAF, WADA report says
9 years, 2 months ago
Athletic doping scandal: Wada chairman Dick Pound backs President Coe to clean up mess
9 years, 2 months ago
Athletics doping crisis: Lord Coe declared fit to clean up athletics – but was he part of the problem?
9 years, 2 months ago
Lord Coe has to go: Second report into corruption at IAAF shows the new President is not fit to reform it
9 years, 2 months ago
IAAF 'could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics', claims second part of Wada report
9 years, 2 months ago
Dick Pound claims IAAF corruption was 'embedded in the organisation' in second report as Lord Coe suffers another blow
9 years, 2 months ago
‘Corruption embedded within IAAF’ - anti-doping report
9 years, 2 months ago
World Anti-Doping Agency Report Slams Track And Field's Governing Body
9 years, 2 months ago

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