Nelson Mandela had it. So did Bill Clinton. Muhammad Ali had it in bucketloads. George Best, Paul Gascoigne and Denis Law also had it, as did boxers Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Ricky Hatton, Naseem Hamed and David Haye. Frank Bruno still has it.

You can add to this list the likes of Daley Thompson, Seb Coe, Malcolm Allison, Brian Clough and Jose

Wildcard entries for the 2020 World Championships in Nanjing and $20,000 (£15,000/€18,000) bonuses for overall winners will be up for grabs on next year's World Athletics Indoor Tour.

off an exciting and ground-breaking year for track and field," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said Russian track and field athletes will not be admitted

Coe told the Press Association he is "not going to risk or imperil the careers of clean athletes".Last

able to compete - a condition Tarasenko claims should apply to track and field competitors.Although Coe

WADA has been criticised for not imposing a blanket ban on Russian athletes, but Coe does not think it

New Zealand's greatest Olympian, Sir Peter Snell, has died, aged 80, it has been announced.

sent a message to his fellow world mile record holders, including World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

The Olympic Summit has "strongly condemned those responsible for the manipulation of the data from the Moscow Laboratory" before it was transferred in January this year - but again vowed to make sure that Russian athletes are allowed to compete at Tokyo 2020 and signalled it would not support a total ban on the country hosting major international events. 

China.Also represented leading International Federation Presidents including World Athletics' Sebastian Coe

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is hardly one to talk about conflicts of interest.

the majority of this column if they were to be listed individually.The long-running sage of Sebastian Coe

his conflict of interest is no worse than the others scattered throughout the Olympic Movement.For Coe

of the IOC by the all-powerful Executive Board is FIFA President Gianni Infantino.Infantino, unlike Coe

reason behind his continued omission from the list of proposed members.It is widely known Bach and Coe

and the IOC.IOC President Thomas Bach said a continued conflict of interest was preventing Sebastian Coe

after he was proposed for membership by the Executive Board, but World Athletics counterpart Sebastian Coe

forward.All three are set to be elected during the IOC Session in Lausanne in January.The wait goes on for Coe

at CSM Sport & Entertainment was not in compliance with the criteria for new members.Bach said Coe

We wanted him (Coe) to become an IOC member as President of one of our most important Olympic sports,

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov is among the officials to have been invited by Thomas Bach to this year's Olympic Summit, due to take place two days before the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Executive Committee meets to decide the country's sporting future.

International Federations chief Francesco Ricci Bitti, at the Summit.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Forty years ago, preparations for the Moscow 1980 Olympics were proceeding smoothly with less than eight months until the opening day.

Sebastian Coe leads the field on his way to 1,500m gold in Moscow ©Getty ImagesThe Moscow 80 organising

Christian Taylor has outlined the measures that will shortly be taken to establish The Athletics Association - the representative group he founded earlier this month to form an independent mouthpiece for competitors.

governing body.Read Mike Rowbottom's blog on Taylor's discussion with World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Turkey's Hasan Arat, Canada's Abby Hoffman and the United States'Sunil Sabharwal have been approved by the World Athletics Council as the three newly appointed members of its Executive Board.

Executive Board comprises Britain's double Olympic 1500m gold medallist World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Something grown-up happened in Monaco this weekend at World Athletics’ annual award gathering: dialogue.

and Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor, has met the World Athletics’ President Sebastian Coe

, founder of the new The Athletics Association, held talks with World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

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was rolled out for the top names in the sport in Monte Carlo ©IAAFWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Eliud Kipchoge, the first man to run the marathon in under two hours, and Dalilah Muhammad, who twice broke the world 400 metres hurdles record in a year that saw her become world champion, have been named the respective male and female athletes of the year at the World Athletics Awards here.

correspondent of British newspaper The Sun, who died earlier this year.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

 "Thank you, World Athletics, and thank you Sebastian Coe."

Ten cities will be involved in the inaugural 2020 World Athletics Continental Tour, details of which were announced here today.

prize-money and world-ranking points to build up their profiles, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe