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Catalonia's CUP party calls €330,000 promotional cost of failed 2030 Winter Games bid a "nonsense"

  • 2030 Olympics

The Government of Catalonia spent just under €330,000 (£288,000/$326,500) in promoting the proposed Pyrenees-Barcelona bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics that was scrapped in June after internal divisions.

advertisement.Barcelona host the Summer Olympics in 1992 ©Getty ImagesThe Spanish Olympic Committee (COE

suggested the event could negatively impact the Pyrenees mountain range, due to climate change.The COE

other brilliant candidacies that didn't go ahead because we were competing with very strong rivals," COE


Turkey among countries put on World Athletics competition manipulation watchlist

  • Athletics

Seven countries have been placed on the a new competition manipulation watchlist by World Athletics following an investigation of suspicious results conducted by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

integrity of our sport is our highest priority at World Athletics," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


World Athletics survey finds 70 per cent of athletes concerned over climate change

  • Athletics

According to a World Athletics survey, more than 70 per cent of athletes are seriously concerned about climate change.

people don't just look at us as an international federation," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

They're very much more attuned to it.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, second left, feels the

We shouldn't hide from the fact that what we need to do is going to cost," continued Coe."

Coe said that World Athletics will continue to embed sustainability into its licensing and bidding processes



Cash reserves exceed $50 million as World Athletics learns to "dance in the rain"

  • Athletics

has helped World Athletics to boost cash reserves after a year characterised by President Sebastian Coe

pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain" is a quote World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

statements was said to have concluded that there were "no material impacts".In his President's report, Coe

Claimed Coe: "Across the sport we did just that."






Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships schedule will favour double bids

  • Budapest 2023

Next year's World Athletics Championships in Budapest will last for nine days - one less than the last five editions of this event - and will favour athletes seeking double bids.

Athletics Championships Budapest 23, now less than a year away," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


WADA invites candidates to apply for new independent ethics officer role

  • Latest

with the organisation's inaugural Independent Ethics Board (IEB) and uphold WADA’s new Code of Ethics (COE

The officer, who will not be an employee of the Agency, will be required to manage cases under the COE

and act independently of WADA, similarly to the IEB.Their duties will be decided by the COE as well

the WADA Foundation Board has approved since 2016, including the creation of the IEB and the agency’s COE

Olympic Movement.The IEB was established the following month with the responsibility of implementing the COE


Logo unveiled for 2023 World Athletics Championships with a year to go

  • Athletics

The logo for the 2023 World Athletics Championships has been revealed to mark a year until the competition is due to get underway at Budapest in Hungary.

Foundation Day, which celebrates the foundation of the Hungarian state.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


Sadness at London 2012 Closing Ceremony echoes at Birmingham 2022 ten years later

  • London 2012

Ten years ago, a phoenix hovered in the air as the London 2012 Olympic Flame was finally extinguished.

 Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee was exultant after a hugely

we lit up the world; we know more now, as individuals and as a nation, just what we are capable of," Coe


Philip Barker: Bayi hopes his record will be broken

  • Inside the Blogs

Before each competition begins, the big screens at the arenas here in Birmingham display a video montage of some of the greatest moments from previous Commonwealth Games.

been confined to his hospital bed with malaria when his world record time was lowered by Sebastian Coe

I was in the hospital in Germany when Sebastian Coe did it, I was suffering from malaria," Bayi recalled


World under-20 100m record-holder Tebogo to defend global age-group title in Cali

  • Athletics

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, who set a world 100 metres under-20 record of 9.94sec earlier this month, will defend his title at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships that start tomorrow in Colombian city Cali.

be a championships where fresh talent will be unearthed," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe