Sebastian Coe tells AP his run to be IOC president might not be such a longshot after all

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Coe is banking on the idea that the IOC's other 110 members might be ready to have a bigger say in what the candidate sees as a necessary “reset in the movement around sports” to make it more focused on athletes and the games they play than the politics and policymaking that surrounds them. “You just have to accept that not everyone's going to see the world in the same way,” said Coe, who won gold medals in the 1,500-meter race at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Games. “I think, in fact, I know, he's on the wrong side of history with this,” said Jules Boykoff, a political scientist and longtime observer of the Olympic movement, who called the transgender decision one of Coe's few, but very notable, missteps in sports leadership. “But maybe he'll be able to be persuaded.” Coe's most recent foray into norm-bending came when World Athletics announced it was awarding $50,000 to track and field's Olympic gold medalists in Paris.