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50-100 Paris 2024 athletes 'in registration process for Enhanced Games'

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Speaking to Australia's News Corp, Aron D'Souza, who founded the inaugural Enhanced Games, said that there were "many who are in the process of registering." Swimming and diving, athletics, weightlifting, martial arts and gymnastics will be among the Olympic sports. Registrations for 2025 are "very advanced."

World athletics president Sebastian Coe said anyone "stupid enough" to take part could face a "long ban

Times are changing, as Coe himself acknowledged, and it is possible that athletes' demands for increased

We challenge Lord Coe to a live, public debate. pic.twitter.com/TP1OpKEMCH— Enhanced Games (@enhanced_games


Seb Coe says Netflix series will showcase unique "global appeal" of athletics

  • Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe believes track and field's own Netflix series - focusing on sprinters

Netflix series showcasing Formula One, golf and tennis have proved very popular and Coe hopes the six

"It was really interesting when I spoke to the Netflix guys," Coe said in Nassau ahead of the World Athletics

this summer, will reveal the global appeal of the sport to a wider audience, according to Sebastian Coe

P7XItIE76O— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 4, 2024"There's no sport on the planet that can claim that," Coe

Coe, with plans already afoot for a second series centred around the Paris Olympics, concluded: "I think


Devynne Charlton donates world record singlet from Glasgow 24 to MOWA

  • Athletics

To mark the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24, Devynne Charlton has donated her Bahamas team singlet and name bib from the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow to the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA). It was there that she lowered her 60m hurdles world record to 7.65 as she claimed her first world title.

World Relays this weekend, Charlton presented her Glasgow top to World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe and Devynne Charlton.


Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs enjoying "quiet" life in Florida

  • Athletics

Marcell Jacobs says he is enjoying the "quiet" life in Florida after moving from Italy to the United States ahead of his Olympic 100m title defence in Paris this summer.

May 4, 2024Olympic qualification is up for grabs in Nassau and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


Has Umar Kremlev won?

  • Boxing

Baron Pierre de Coubertin conceived the Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century as a revival of the competition that had brought glory to ancient Greece, with an increasingly forgotten double motive: to defend sport against political interests and to celebrate amateurism.

Russian but from a British lord who dreams of succeeding the German at the helm of the IOC: Sebastian Coe

 Sebastian Coe has taken an important and courageous step forward.

Will the IOC take action against Coe and his World Athletics as it did against the IBA?

Kremlev is Russian and Coe is British.

Will Coe be right in the end?


The IOC rejects prize money for medallists from World Athletics

  • Paris 2024

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has distanced itself from the groundbreaking move by World Athletics to offer money to Paris 2024 medallists, saying its role is to level the playing field and reduce the gap between the powerhouses and the rest.

privileged and the less privileged or underprivileged," the German said.The President of World Athletics, Coe


Spain pays tribute to its Barcelona and Albertville '92 heroes

  • Olympics

It was an unprecedented success for Spanish sport. The national Olympic Committee wanted to honor the athletes who took part in the events that changed the country's sporting landscape forever. The 22 medals won in Barcelona and the first by a woman in a Winter Games set a milestone for Spain.

Both Olympics are to be remembered and enjoyed.This is what the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) wanted


The message the Olympic world needs to hear: Pay the athletes. Especially on the podium

  • Olympics

For those who don’t follow American television, one of the best shows in recent years is called Yellowstone. A spinoff, also hugely popular, is called 1923 – it features Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and purports to trace the backstory of the Dutton family in Montana roughly 100 years ago.

Blunt truth: it’s simply easier to bitch about Seb Coe.

As the 2024 Diamond League gets underway this weekend in Xiamen, China, you can be assured Coe is riding

 Since 2015, when he was first elected World Athletics president, Coe has promoted change.

Coe may yet have his day but coloring outside the lines hardly seems a guaranteed route to success.It

 That’s why Coe, and World Athletics, did what they did.


Own goal, master plan or athlete empowerment? World Athletics pushes back

  • Athletics

ANOCA has described the initiative to award prize money at the Paris 2024 Olympics as "repugnant", with international federation chiefs angry they weren't consulted by Sebastian Coe's World Athletics, who argue it's all about recognising the role of stars.

Coe, himself a double Olympic 1500m champion in the 1980s, acknowledged that his sport had long since

What surprised everyone was that Coe made the decision unilaterally, with one hour's warning to the IOC

The Irish acknowledged that Coe “has always been independent, and also a very skilled and experienced


ANOCA slams World Athletics' "repugnant" decision to award prize money in Paris

  • Summer Olympics

In a growing tide of international backlash, the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa has expressed its disapproval of World Athletics' initiative to offer prize money to gold medallists in Paris 2024. A move it described as "repugnant to the fundamental principles of the Olympic Movement."

release.African Olympic officials aren't the only ones opposed to what World Athletics president Sebastian Coe

director Michael Payne, an Irishman with close ties to the told AFP: "What surprised everyone is that Coe


International federation chiefs "apoplectic" at Coe's Olympic prize money plan

  • Paris 2024

Former IOC marketing director Michael Payne claims Sebastian Coe has damaged his chances of succeeding

World Athletics president Coe called it "a pivotal moment for World Athletics and the sport of athletics

a whole".Payne, an Irishman with close ties to the IOC, told AFP: "What surprised everyone is that Coe

Coe is seen as one of the frontrunners to succeed Thomas Bach as IOC president when he steps down next


The world has changed, Seb Coe: track and field winners at Games to get paid

  • Olympics

A few weeks back came the announcement of the Friendship Games, to be held in Russia in September. Total prize money across all sports: $100 million. Winners get $40,000. Second place, $25,000. Third: $17,000.

“I have to accept the world has changed,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Wednesday in an

 This brings us, in a roundabout way, back to World Athletics and Coe.

 —Anyone who does not understand that as WA president Coe has been offering a different position

Coe? Nope. They’re out.

Was Coe seeking political advantage for – something down the road? Come on, now.


World Athletics introduces Olympic gold medal prize money

  • Athletics

World Athletics has announced that it will make history by becoming the first International Federation to distribute prize money at the Olympic Games, starting with Paris 2024 in August.

outstanding achievements of athletes on the Olympic stage.According to World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

which is recognising the efforts that our competitors make to the overall success of the Games," said Coe

Athletics (@WorldAthletics) April 10, 2024Asked if he thought the IOC should have been informed earlier, Coe

empowering the athletes and recognising the critical role they play in the success of every Olympic Games," Coe

to when I was competing, so it's very important that the sport recognises that changed landscape," Coe


Sebastian Coe's challenge: "How to involve young people?'

  • Olympics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has called for "change" and a move away from routine.

 This is the question posed by Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics and double Olympic 1,500m

Focusing on young people as the foundation for the future in all areas of life, Coe points out: "There

His comments are part of the World Athletics podcast "Inside Track".Coe is confident because he claims

But it helps the pie to grow," he continued.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe insists: "Sport needs

"All those things are what we are looking at and we have an innovation unit for that," said Coe.


Glasgow's innovative World Indoor Championship comes to end

  • Athletics

The organisers of the World Indoor Championships in Athletics aim to raise the standards of international sporting events by prioritising sustainability, equality, diversity, and inclusion, while widening access to sport and physical activity at a local level.

 World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: "Thank you to Glasgow and Scotland for hosting a

Glasgow, you gave us performances for the ages.Thank you. pic.twitter.com/69EMFZmZyv— Seb Coe (@sebcoe

local athletes to train and compete on the same track as their World Championships heroes," stated Coe