I do not join with those who are cynically critical of the former England cricket captain Sir Ian Botham‘s elevation to the House of Lords, nor the peerage awarded to Kate Hoey, Britain’s first female sports minister and one of the finest, and feistiest ever.

chair of the BOA, and its successor and arguably most famous sporting lord of them all, Baron Sebastian Coe

Oxford and was once barred as an amateur for sparring with professionals at the Thomas Beckett.He and Coe

A rare Torch from the 1952 Winter Olympic Games in Oslo was the highest seller at the latest RR Auction sale.

prevent further bad publicity, a safer, simpler Torch was developed by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE

was exclusively made for use during certain portions of the Relay in Spain.As further evidence, the COE

World Athletics is working on contingency plans for a 2021 season where competition continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a similar way as 2020.

after the conclusion of the World Athletics Council meeting, the organisation’s President, Sebastian Coe

be shifted back because of measures imposed to combat COVID-19.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

as tricky a year for competition as 2020 given the continuing presence of COVID-19 ©Getty ImagesAnd Coe

 "We are also in a delicate geopolitical world," Coe said."

So news of the Russian Athletics Federation’s demise had been exaggerated.

funny and friendly presence on the Diamond League tour, being shut out from his beloved sport.Sebastian Coe

World Athletics will push for cross country to return to the Olympics in the form of a mixed relay at the 2024 Games in Paris - the city which last hosted it as an Olympic event 100 years earlier.

Speaking following a two-day meeting of the World Athletics Council, President Sebastian Coe said the

each running two-and-a-half kilometres, and they do it twice in order to make the endurance criteria," Coe

Winter Games has become the target for cross country’s proponents.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Cross country is the endurance bedrock on which middle and long-distance running is founded," Coe has

Coe added today: "This has a personal angle for me because as an 11-year-old the very first athletics

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has avoided expulsion from World Athletics after Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin made a last-minute "unconditional" guarantee to pay an outstanding fine of $6.31 million (£4.8 million/€5.32 million) by August 15.

This has been a tortuous process," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe."

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said the Russian situation had been a "torturous process" for

Bathurst, in Australia, host of next year’s World Athletics Cross Country Championships, has requested a postponement from the current scheduled date of March 20 because of travel restrictions currently in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

to our athletes, Member Federations, host cities and partners," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics has reduced the maximum allowable height of soles in spiked track shoes as part of an interim revision of its rules on shoe technology.

scheduled for the first half of next year will be able to go ahead," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has asked World Athletics to treat its non-payment of a fine as an issue separate from the reinstatement process of the governing body, ahead of a two-day World Athletics Council meeting where RusAF could be expelled.

Now [World Athletics president] Sebastian Coe is ready to suspend or disqualify Russian athletics forever

World Athletics has launched a new scheme ahead of the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, to encourage the running community to tackle the distance on the day of the event.

in-person event such as the race t-shirt, backpack and finisher's medal.World Athletics President Seb Coe

Former Moscow Laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov has said Russia should be handed a blanket ban from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, after claiming the country has learned "absolutely nothing" from its long-running doping scandal.

Now [World Athletics president] Sebastian Coe is ready to suspend or disqualify Russian athletics forever

Eight years ago today – it seems like a lifetime – the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics took place. 

between the man who steered those London 2012 Games as chairman of the Organising Committee, Sebastian Coe

former how he viewed those distant Games.When I asked him to evaluate the high point of his career, Coe

Forty years ago today, the most politically charged Olympics of modern times began when the distinctive chimes of the Kremlin were relayed to the Lenin Stadium by loudspeaker.

the correct transcription of his name was Muruse Yefter.Many relished the battles between Sebastian Coe

straight ahead of his great rival.The following week came the 1,500m final and a chance for redemption for Coe

year," she said.The battles between Steve Ovett, left, and now World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is one of five new International Olympic Committee (IOC) members

Coe was the sole new member nominated linked to their position within an International Federation.The

a tighter margin - 68 votes to 16.A basic majority was needed to approve membership.In the case of Coe

conflict of interest - to a more "passive position" with the global agency.As an athlete, Britain's Coe

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will hold its first virtual Session tomorrow, with elections of new members and vice-presidents among the agenda items.

Committee, and Ser Miang have previously served as vice-presidents.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

members have also been recommended for election at the IOC Session.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

addressing a conflict of interest which had previously prevented him from joining the organisation.Bach said Coe