By Zjan ShirinianThe Laureus World Sports Awards will be held in China for the first time next year, with Shanghai set to welcome some of the world's finest sportsmen and women.

I have been to Shanghai many times, including visits with fellow Laureus Academy members Sebastian Coe

By Gary AndersonHistorian and award-winning writer Harry Gordon has launched his latest book in Sydney marking 120 years of Australian involvement in the Olympic Movement since the first Modern Games were discussed in Paris in 1894.

contains a foreword by British Olympic Association (BOA) President and double Olympic champion Sebastian Coe

By Gary AndersonBritish Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe is set to lead the discussions at

and youth engagement, and so it is a real honour to be chairing the ANOC Youth Working Group," said Coe

representatives from Azerbaijan, Brazil, Great Britain, Jordan, Palau and South Africa have been selected to join Coe

: Bach and Sheikh Ahmad solidarity in Kuwait illustrates new look of Olympic MovementFebruary 2013: Coe

By Nick ButlerA long-awaited announcement has finally been made as to which company will take charge of construction and renovation for the northern portion of the second main Rio 2016 venues cluster at Deodoro.

progress being made" but admit less than 40 per cent of work completed with two years to goMay 2014: Coe

By Mike RowbottomTyson Gay's reduced doping ban, which will enable him to return to action on July 3 just over a year after testing positive for a banned steroid, is fully in line with World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules.

of the "assistance" Gay has offered the US authorities, and last month IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe

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

By Mike RowbottomTyson Gay, whose two-year doping ban was cut in half in exchange for "significant assistance" given to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), will return to competitive action on July 3 over 100 metres in the International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

He won the 100m in 9.79 sec.Last month Sebastian Coe, a vice-president of the IAAF and chairman of the

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

By Mike RowbottomHockey was a wow at the London 2012 Games, selling the third most tickets - 630,000 - after athletics and football, with the matches taking place in an atmosphere of high excitement.So imagine how those charged with its international destiny felt when, in February of the following year, the sport found itself on a shortlist of five sports under consideration to be voted off the Olympic programme, ending up in the final three with wrestling and modern pentathlon.The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) executive board decision to vote wrestling off the list of core Olympic sports was reversed seven...

I remember Sebastian Coe saying once at an Olympic presentation: 'Never let a good crisis go to waste

also containing vice-presidential colleague Nawal El Moutawakel, London 2012 heavyweights Sebastian Coe

By Duncan MackayNawal El Moutawakel has publicly ruled herself out of running for the Presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) next year when Lamine Diack steps down. 

Moroccan's decision means that the contest is likely to be a two-man race between Britain's Sebastian Coe

2016 Olympics and Paralympics.Lamine Diack (left) is expected to publicly back Britain's Sebastian Coe

rival, Ukraine's Sergey Bubka (right) when he steps down as IAAF President next year ©IAAFIt leaves Coe

Diack is widely expected to publicly anoint Coe as his successor before the election in Beijing in July

to replace DiackJuly 2013: Exclusive: Diack confirmation he will step down as IAAF President leaves Coe

By Duncan Mackay at The Hilton Hotel in NicosiaGoogle's executive chairman Eric Schmidt, Britain's former Culture Minister Dame Tessa Jowell and violinist Vanessa Mae are among a group of experts who will help shape the future of the Olympic Movement, it was announced today.

member Gerardo Werthein and will also include Younghee Lee, Samsung's head of mobile marketing.Sebastian Coe

one of the most crucial areas that the IOC need to reform.She will be joined, fittingly, by Sebastian Coe

By Duncan MackayOlympic gold medallist Jon Drummond has publicly unmasked himself as the "friend" who Tyson Gay alleges was behind his positive drugs test, which has led to him being suspended for a year and put in jeopardy the silver medals won by the United States 4x100 metres relay team at London 2012.

controversy because no other details were provided.Among those who have questioned the decision are Sebastian Coe

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By Mike RowbottomSebastian Coe has asked the hard question of the US anti-doping authorities following

Coe, a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) with a transparently

Well, first of all the IAAF has to look at this case," Coe told Reuters TV."

Sebastian Coe, an economics and social history student turned middle-distance champion turned London

International Olympic Committee President, are two who immediately spring to mind.Thomas Bach and Sebastian Coe

By Nick ButlerRio 2016 have hit back at critics who claim venues will remain incomplete when the Olympic and Paralympic Games begin in a little over two years' time, by insisting 38 per cent of venues are already completed and there is progress with all the others. 

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By Nick ButlerFormer London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe has provided a confidence boost for Rio 2016

was immediately rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as "non-starter and unfeasible".Coe

Paralympic Games is hard, take it from someone who has had a go at it and got the proverbial T-shirt," Coe

Sebastian Coe speaking alongside Rio 2016 counterpart Carlos Nuzman in 2013 ©Getty ImagesIOC President