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Loch Lomond Shores launch bid to host Commonwealth Games triathlon event

  • Glasgow 2014

By James CrookSeptember 27- Officials at Loch Lomond Shores have launched a bid to take over from the algae-ridden Strathclyde Park as hosts of next year's Commonwealth Games triathlon event.

cancelledAugust 2012: Glasgow 2014 may move triathlon venue over pollution fearsAugust 2011: Coe



Hickey unopposed in EOC Presidential election as Coe seeks place on Executive Committee

  • ANOC News

seeks a third term as President of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in November while Sebastian Coe

Coe, former chairman of London 2012 and now head of the British Olympic Association (BOA), made a late

Sebastian Coe will be hoping to replace Colin Moynihan as Britain's representative on the European Olympic

Olympics and Paralympics, will be seeking re-election.Among those standing down is Colin Moynihan, who Coe


Rogge concludes his "passionate quest for working hard" to end 125th IOC Session

  • Olympics

By Nick Butler at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 10 - Jacques Rogge ended the 125th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, as well as his 12-year tenure as leader of the Olympic Movement, here this afternoon with a speech that came dangerously close to revealing the emotion the Belgian so invariably keeps in check.

short video offered further opportunity for praise from sporting figures including athletes Sebastian Coe


Bach must now turn to future after being winner "majority of people" wanted

  • Olympics

By David Owen at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 10 - "Ouffff!" The first word uttered by Thomas Bach as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, at around 12.42pm, may not have been very Presidential, but it tells you that this was no cake-walk.

if languid, observer from a second-floor balcony as Bach's election was announced was one Sebastian Coe

bonds between sport and youth, for the good of both the Movement and society as a whole.For the moment, Coe


Coe urges new IOC President to prioritise youth after delivering final London 2012 report

  • London 2012

By David Owen at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 8 - Sebastian Coe urged the new International Olympic

In conversation after his speech, Coe, the British Olympic Association chairman, said that Jacques Rogge's

notably well-rounded speech that was part of the final report from London 2012 to IOC members in which Coe

On London 2012's economic impact, Coe told the IOC that some £6 billion ($10 billion/€7 billion) 


How Tokyo 2020 won its Olympics and Paralympic bid despite Fukushima

  • Tokyo 2020

By David Owen at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 7 - Money; technical capacity; infrastructure; and a sprinkling of striking signature developments, such as the $1.5 billion (£992 million/€1.2 billion) Zaha Hadid-designed Kasumigaoka Stadium and Tokyo Bay's transformation.

her impact on the decisive closing stages of this peculiar race was comparable to that of Sebastian Coe


Cookson UCI Presidential campaign boosted by backing of Canada and New Zealand

  • Cycling

By Emily GoddardSeptember 5 - Brian Cookson's campaign to take over as President of the International Cycling Union (UCI) continued to gather momentum today as he received the backing of a further two national federations in the form of Canada and New Zealand.

from Canada and New Zealand follows the news that British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe


Exclusive: Cycling's influence in Olympic Movement would be damaged by Cookson election, warns McQuaid

  • Cycling

By Duncan Mackay in Buenos AiresSeptember 4 - Pat McQuaid today warned that cycling risked losing its influence within the Olympic Movement if Brian Cookson is elected as President of the International Cycling Union (UCI).

He sounded the cautionary note after Sebastian Coe, chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA)

BOA chairman Seb Coe has recently written to each of the UCI Confederation Presidents to express the

BOA chairman Sebastian Coe has written to the heads of the UCI Confederations supporting Brian Cookson's

"The statement [from Coe] doesn't change the fact that Brian has no influence within the IOC and no one

As well as Coe, Cookson also received support today from Sir Chris Hoy, Britain's most successful Olympian



London theatre to stage play in Russia anti-gay law protest

  • Sochi 2014

By Gary AndersonAugust 13 - The ongoing row surrounding the controversial anti-gay legislation passed by Russian Parliament in June has led to a theatre pub in London commissioning a protest play called Sochi 2014 to highlight opposition to the controversial new laws.

Stephen Fry to do so in an open letter to Cameron, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe


Athletes will suffer if we boycott Sochi 2014, warns British athlete body

  • Sochi 2014

By Emily GoddardAugust 13 - The British Athletes Commission (BAC) has warned that it will be the athletes who suffer if a Sochi 2014 boycott goes ahead in the wake of the contentious Russian anti-gay bill, but insisted it will "stand up" for its members as tensions grow.

input of both Prime Minister David Cameron and British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe


Alan Hubbard: I would back Ser Miang Ng to be captain of the IOC ship

  • Inside the Blogs

President but, at the age of only 49, may be considered too young Failing this, he will challenge Coe

make a cracking IOC President.He's especially hot on doping and shares with Ng and Wu - as well as Coe

seemed to have absorbed the lesson that one man he cannot afford to upset is his "very good friend" Lord Coe

Then well-connected Coe also happens to have the ear of some influential IOC members.The BOA had been


President Putin's sporting project is resting ultimately on athletes shining brightly

  • The Big Read

By Mike RowbottomIt seemed odd to be holding an opening ceremony at the end of the first day of competition here at the 2013 World Championships – but perhaps President Vladimir Putin was busy earlier.He certainly appeared to have things on his mind as he stood listening, with increasingly barely concealed impatience, to the very long speeches of the sporting dignitaries around him before the celebrations concluded with fireworks which burst and flared over the already sumptuously lit centre of Moscow.For Russia, and Putin, these World Athletics Championships are one in a sequence of similarly annexed sporting gatherings including the...

motion by the recent law passed here forbidding open discussion of gay rights or gay issues.Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe speaking at the Luzhniki StadiumCoe is looking forward to "very, very good championships

Recalling his disappointment, and subsequent triumph in Moscow 33 years ago, Coe added: "Yes, it seems

What, one wonders, might Mr Coe have been thinking, one year on from the glorious triumph of the London

Of course, Coe would not have wished for anything other than packed stands for the sport he loves.


British Prime Minister Cameron rejects call for Sochi 2014 boycott

  • Sochi 2014

By Emily GoddardAugust 10 - British Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected a call from actor Stephen Fry to boycott the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics over the introduction of host Russia's anti-gay law.

He signed off with his initials "DC".British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe also slammed

boycott of the Sochi 2014 Olympics Fry, an openly-gay activist, published an open letter to Cameron, Coe