By Emily GoddardBritish Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe has called on the young people

distance covered and awards virtual badges for reaching milestones and trying different sports.As well as Coe

started as a way to inspire and engage young people around London 2012 - and it is still going strong," Coe

By Mike RowbottomEddy Merckx, five-times winner of the Tour de France and acknowledged by many of cycling's cognoscenti as the most accomplished rider the world has ever known, described it as "the hardest ride I have ever done."A fortnight ago Australia's professional rider and double gold medallist at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Jack Bobridge, described it as "a bit like dying."What are these two champions talking about? Challenging for the world hour cycling record, that's what.

swift records and record responses - with Obree and Boardman coming on like Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe

By Emily GoddardThe Saudi Arabia Olympic Committee (SAOC) has appointed CSM Strategic for the development of an elite athlete programme in the build up to the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games.

London-based firm, headed by former London 2012 chairman and British Olympic Association chief Sebastian Coe

Athletics Federations (IAAF) Presidential candidates, Ukraine's Sergey Bubka and Britain's Sebastian Coe

Coe and Bubka have each promised that planned changes to the Olympics as a result of Agenda 2020, adopted

Sebastian Coe has promised two-time Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams (pictured right) he will

Coe, though, did concede that athletics had to adapt to the 21st century to make it more attractive. 

to become IAAF PresidentJanuary 2015: Alan Hubbard: Prince Ali and Sebastian Coe could lead new sporting

2014: Alan Hubbard: Coe versus Bubka, the heavyweight clash for IAAF Presidency

mouth-watering prospect of two out-and-out heavyweights of the sport - Bubka and Britain's Sebastian Coe

superstars; they have taken time to absorb the many and varied arts of effective administration.For Coe

with another sporting election currently unfolding before our astonished gaze.Athletics legends Seb Coe

is a hugely compelling question when people care about the protagonists.The Coe vs Ovett rivalry was

world championship if you are lucky.No, not even I could see that happening within the time-span of a Coe

By Mike RowbottomSvein Arne Hansen, promoter of Oslo's Bislett Games from 1985 to 2009, will run for the European Athletics Presidency this year on a ticket of making "significant, sometimes difficult changes".

its key points, Hansen's manifesto strikes numerous echoes with that released last month by Sebastian Coe

manifesto Leading Change shares some similarities with the one launched by his friend and ally Sebastian Coe

the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), pitting him against Britain's Sebastian Coe

Coe, the former chairman of London 2012 and also an IAAF vice-president, had launched his campaign last

manifesto, entitled Growing Athletics in a New Age which he claims "is about engaging with young people".Coe

[email protected] storiesJanuary 2015: Alan Hubbard: Prince Ali and Sebastian Coe

Hubbard: Russian doping allegations juice up race for IAAF PresidentDecember 2014: Echoing London 2012, Coe

puts youth engagement at heart of his IAAF campaignDecember 2014: Alan Hubbard: Coe versus Bubka, the

More women stalking sport's corridors of power include other former Coe aides Emma Boggis, now chief

By Mike RowbottomGustav Schwenk, one of the most highly regarded athletics journalists of all time - and the man who played a key part in the setting of a 100 metres world record - has died in Düsseldorf aged 91.

by Lamine Diack, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations, and Sebastian Coe

he covered, at a Ceremony involving the IAAF President Lamine Diack (left), LOCOG Chairman Sebastian Coe

out, if you ask our sporting champions - like Dame Kelly Holmes, Jessica Ennis-Hill or even Sebastian Coe

By Mike RowbottomSebastian Coe has renewed his plea for cross country running to return to the Olympic

"I would love to see cross-country back in the Olympic programme," Coe, who is running to replace Lamine

Jacques Rogge in 2009.In 2013 at an IAAF Global Seminar in Belgrade, a number of figures, including Coe

other major ruling body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), with Sebastian Coe

time has come for him to rise to yet another challenge, as I believe he will.When Prince Ali, like Coe

Blatter if he stayed with FIFA ©Getty ImagesThe multi-faceted Lord Coe - an ardent boxing aficionado

It is a deliberate omission for Baron Coe of Ranmore, who says as far as athletics is concerned he is

Like Coe, the far more autocratic Lord Exeter was also an Olympic athlete - a hurdler - as well as a

International Association of Athletics Federation Presidential race is also on the cards between Messrs Coe

By Daniel EtchellsThe Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has appointed judoka Isabel Fernández as its vice-president

big part in Madrid's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.She stepped down from the COE

By Mike RowbottomTyson Gay's coach, Jon Drummond, has been given an eight-year ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) after arbitrators concluded he had convinced the sprinter - who has also served a doping suspension - to take illegal substances.

the time as 'signficant assistance" with regard to his case.Many in the sport, including Sebastian Coe

medallist reveals himself as "friend" in Tyson Gay doping case after launching legal actionMay 2014: Coe