It being general election week here in the United Kingdom, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the two high-profile electoral battles currently being waged in the world of sport, via the medium of the candidates’ Twitter feeds.Not because I judge this likely to offer great insights into the identity of the eventual winners: the sports officials in whose hands the outcomes lie are assuredly far too high-minded to be swayed by anything as trivial as social media.

interests and character.To be clear, I am talking about a) the heavyweight contest between Sebastian Coe

candidate has.For the record, at my cut-off point of noon on May 7, the situation was as follows: Coe

reads: “Pleased to see the number of people who run at least once a week has risen by 67%.”Sebastian Coe

Lowlight: retweet of a Tweet by the Spanish Olympic Committee, acronym COE.

This may be a coincidence or even a misperception, but while Coe seems to have been making a bit of

Sebastian Coe and Sergey Bubka, effectively on the campaign trail ahead of this summer’s Presidential

Coe has pledged to create an IAAF Youth Communications and Marketing Division “to help the sport connect

"I see this cooperation as a part of the social mission of athletics and the IAAF.”Sebastian Coe wants

with them and to make athletics as attractive as possible to as many youngsters as possible,” said Coe

General Election - it's all about FIFA and IAAF Presidential racesApril 2015: Mike Rowbottom: Bubka and Coe

Federations and tracks for all are key ideas as Bubka launches IAAF Presidential manifestoApril 2015: Coe

For the moment, the blue riband of cycling - the Hour record - rests with an Englishman. But another Englishman won’t rest until it rests with him - for a very long time.The first Englishman - Commonwealth time trial gold medallist Alex Dowsett - belatedly accomplished his goal at the weekend as he set the new record of 52.937 kilometres at the Manchester Velodrome.

perhaps, the swift records and record responses - with Obree and Boardman coming on like Ovett and Coe

Apart from Prime Minister David Cameron’s own-goal in confusing Aston Villa, the football team he supposedly supports, with West Ham - well, they do wear the same colours - sport has been given short shrift in the UK election campaign which reaches its conclusion on Thursday (May 7).

MPs in Parliament and those of us in the House of Lords who speak on sport like myself, Sebastian Coe

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has signed an agreement with JOMA, which will see the sports clothing

Spanish athletes attended an event marking the launch of the partnership, which was chaired by the COE

and has a brand presence in more than 80 countries throughout the world.President López thanked the COE

event was also attended by Presidents and representatives of Spanish sport federations, as well as COE

The athletics world is limbering up for an event which brought a new dimension to the sport last year, and which promises to create another colourful splash of entertainment and excitement over the weekend.We are talking, clearly, about the World Relays, the format which so amply rewarded the International Association of Athletics Federations for creating it as a main season-opener to their calendar last year.

Diack, who will retire this summer after almost 16 years in charge, to be replaced by either Sebastian Coe

More words have been spilled about the coming confrontation between Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao that any previous episode of unarmed combat in history.

like Real Madrid never playing Barcelona, Novak Djokovic never meeting Roger Federer or Sebastian Coe

Paralympic table tennis silver medallist Will Bayley has become the first ever Paralympian to be inducted into the English Institute of Sport (EIS) Hall of Champions.

Champions was opened by Olympic gold medal winner and British Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe

UK Athletics have today announced Chris Denny and Michael Beloff as the latest appointments for the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.

London, whose bid was headed by Sebastian Coe, was awarded the 2017 World Athletics Championships in

Have you caught the election bug? We are not talking Cameron v Miliband here, that messy political punch-up which seems to be heading for a bore draw, or at best a split decision, when Great Britain goes to the polls on May 7.

incumbent Sepp Blatter and the latter as intriguing a scrap between two legendary Olympians, Sebastian Coe

Let’s look ahead to a much more savoury set-to when Great Britain’s Lord Coe and Ukraine’s Bubka go

hustling on the hustings and scribbling manifestos.Being unashamedly biased, I’d like to think that Coe

Lord Coe insisted that she remained a member of the Olympic Board even when she lost office.She and

In that event, Jowell v Robertson could be as fascinating a sporting duel as Coe v Bubka.

The Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) voted overwhelmingly in favour of the recent decision to bypass normal procedure and award the 2021 Athletics World Championships to the city of Eugene in the United States, Lamine Diack, the body’s President, has told insidethegames.

Adolphus.A plainly unrepentant Diack, who will be replaced as IAAF President by either Britain's Sebastian Coe

2019 IAAF World ChampionshipsOctober 2014: Eugene bid for 2019 IAAF World Championships praised but Coe

The British Olympic Association (BOA) have announced an eight-year renewal with leading sportswear brand Adidas, which will see their partnership continue up to and including the 2024 Olympic Games.

Licensee, “The BOA is incredibly proud to have such a long standing partnership with adidas,” Sebastian Coe

The United States will host the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships for the first time after Eugene in Oregon was awarded the 2021 event.

opportunity" for the sport ©IAAFBut Diack, who will be replaced as IAAF President by either Sebastian Coe

2019 IAAF World ChampionshipsOctober 2014: Eugene bid for 2019 IAAF World Championships praised but Coe

British Athletics have today announced former Olympics Minister Dame Tessa Jowell as chair of the London 2017 World Athletics Inspiration Programme.

beat the Qatari capital of Doha to the 2017 IAAF World Championships and the bid was led by Sebastian Coe

Svein Arne Hansen’s first speech as European Athletics President - delivered at  the Congress in Bled where he was voted in as successor to the longstanding appointee Hansjörg Wirz - went down well, with a ripple of laughter greeting his sign-off statement:“I said I didn’t want people just to be involved, I wanted them to be committed,” Hansen recalls. “My final line was that it was like eggs and bacon - the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.”At the age of 68, with just one four-year term allowed to him to make his mark, Hansen is determined to...

the prospective candidates to take over the IAAF Presidency when Diack retires in August – Sebastian Coe

challenges.”Svein Arne Hansen has spoken to both the candidates for the IAAF Presidency, Sebastian Coe