By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de JaneiroNovember 20 - Sebastian Coe has backed the

Coe has long been a vocal anti-doping campaigner - throughout his time as an athlete and an administrator

pushing for a four-year ban.The new proposal does not specifically ban an athlete from the Olympics but Coe

the BOA was forced to drop its lifetime ban on drugs cheats "You know where I come from over drugs," Coe

Coe is confident that WADA will come up with a framework that will stop athletes from challenging the

By Mike RowbottomNovember 20 - Gold medallists from the London Olympics of 2012 and 1948 will be among the 120 athletes gathering for the annual World Athletics Gala of the International Athletics Foundation.

storiesNovember 2012: IAAF launches new website to mark centenaryOctober 2012: Exclusive - Ovett, Coe

By Duncan MackayNovember 19 - Four-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks has been re-elected as President of Athletics Namibia at the annual meeting in Ongwediva.

  Frankie Fredericks (right) joins London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe in lying the final piece

Nonetheless, erstwhile champion Sydney will scarcely be rounding the final bend as Lord Coe and his colleagues

the Beijing 2008 Games What the heck - he got nearly everything else right in his stint alongside Coe

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de JaneiroNovember 18 - Rio 2016 were today urged not to be "scared" by the success of London 2012 and to organise the Olympics and Paralympics in their own style as the official debriefing of this year's Games officially begun here today.

they were on secondment appeared unfounded, judging by the warmth that still exists between Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe (right) presents the copper petal that accompanied the Brazilian team during the Opening

Carlos Nuzman "We want to assist Rio and other future organisers with the London experience," said Coe

Coe has been able to travel here and revel in being head of what is widely being hailed as the greatest

stage without a tie and then announced he was banning them for the rest of the debriefing - leading to Coe

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de JaneiroNovember 17 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has cancelled a planned trip here to attend the debrief on London 2012, where a transfer of knowledge will take place between them and organisers of Rio 2016. 

More than 500 people, including London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe and Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman

begin tomorrow morning with a session on "Vision Development and Implementation".London 2012 Sebastian Coe

The expected grilling Lords Coe and Deighton underwent during this week's London 2012 debrief at the

Maximus and his friends faced armed soldiers borne on chariots with scythes attached to their wheels; Coe

At which point Lord Coe, metaphorically locking briefcases with the man next to him in an approximation

All our statistics make very clear that these were full venues," Coe added.

No," Coe replied. "On the contrary.

By Mike Rowbottom at City Hall in LondonNovember 14 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe told the London

Coe (pictured top, right), who now works in a Cabinet Committee dealing with Olympic legacy, which is

have this as a key area of discussion when we should be driving this part of the legacy forward," said Coe

Sebastian Coe insists the worth of school sport must be recognised Acknowledging that Tessa Jowell,

the former Shadow Olympics Minister, has called for a cross-party, 10-year plan for school sport, Coe

Coe and Deighton (pictured top, left) were criticised by the London Assembly for failing to hand over

By Duncan Mackay at UK Sport in LondonNovember 14 - Ed Warner, the chairman of UK Athletics, today branded the continuning uncertainty over the future of the Olympic Stadium as a "Stratford farce" but insisted that he did not believe it put in jeopardy the 2017 World Championships, which are due to be held there. 

IAAF were not concerned at the moment over the continuing delays following reassurances from Sebastian Coe

, the London 2012 chairman who is a vice-president of the world governing body.Sebastian Coe (centre)

By Emily GoddardNovember 14 - G4S has lost its third director in the wake of the London 2012 Olympic security blunder.

"humiliating shambles"September 2012: Overcoming G4S failure was our biggest challenge admits Coe

thing I learnt very quickly on was to always expect the unexpected.When we were appointed, Sebastian Coe

By Duncan MackayNovember 13 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe and chief executive Paul Deighton are

including a session-by-session breakdown in each price bracket, which they claim they had been promised by Coe

By Tom DegunIn the grand story of the London 2012 Games, May 4, 2010, will probably be only a small footnote even though it signalled an historic moment and led to controversy that went far behind these shores.It was the day that retail giant Sainsbury's were officially unveiled by London 2012 as the first ever Tier One Paralympic-only sponsor.The multi-million pound deal remains one of the biggest ever deals for the Paralympic Movement, giving Sainsbury's exclusive rights to the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

like Ellie Simmonds.Sainsbury's chief Justin King (right), pictured here with London 2012 Sebastian Coe

When Lord Coe was duly anointed as the new chair of the British Olympic Association (BOA) last week,

ready to host the IAAF World Athletics Championships in 2017, or any other athletics event.No wonder Coe

Sebastian Coe admitted that he will be keeping a close eye on the progress of the London Olympic Stadium

the shape and size of the stadium.Those influencing that decision included not only Tory peer Lord Coe

We can we equally sure that Coe will handle them will his usual aplomb.Much of it will be nit picking

By Tom Degun November 9 - Britain's Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson has embarked on the first of several foreign visits that he will use to promote the huge success of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games internationally.

Seb Coe [the London 2012 chairman] is heavily involved in all of this as the Government's Olympic legacy

Hugh Robertson (left) will be supported by Sebastian Coe (right) in his bid to promote the success of