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London Calling - the long campaign by the British capital to stage the IAAF World Championships

  • The Big Read

When the 16th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships open at the Olympic Stadium in London this week it will represent the end of a long and torturous campaign by the British capital to stage the event.

re-allocated to Helsinki, hosts of the inaugural IAAF World Championships in 1983.Now IAAF President Sebastian Coe

It needed the intervention of Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012 at the time, at the crucial IAAF


IAAF to hear report on Russia's reinstatement prior to 2017 World Championships

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is due to hear a report on the progress of Russia's push for membership reinstatement prior to the start of next month's World Championships in London.

standard for the event.Following the IAAF Council meeting in London in April, IAAF President Sebastian Coe


IAAF to reallocate two World Championship golds at London 2017

  • Athletics

Hepathlete Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and the American women's 4x400 metres relay team will receive their reallocated World Championship gold medals at next month's edition in London, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have confirmed.

than in front of passionate athletics fans at a major championship," said IAAF President Sebastian Coe


Exclusive: Rolland and de Vos set to be proposed for IOC membership as Coe and Infantino overlooked

  • Olympics

France's Jean-Christophe Rolland and Belgium's Ingmar de Vos are each set to be proposed for membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this year as representatives for International Federations (IFs), insidethegames understands.

holds the same position at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI).This means that Sebastian Coe

 It is therefore possible that Coe and Infantino could still be added this year, although there

will happen.Infantino was elected FIFA boss to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter in February 2016.Coe

was implicated in a scandal which included the alleged covering up of Russian doping cases.Sebastian Coe


Women's 50km race walk added to 2017 IAAF World Championships schedule as part of gender parity

  • Athletics

A women’s 50 kilometres race walk event will feature for the first time at an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships when this year's edition takes place here next month, it was announced today.

Rome, where one female athlete from the USA joined her four male team-mates," IAAF President Sebastian Coe

IAAF President Sebastian Coe claimed the decision to add a 50 kilometres race walk for women at this


Twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations for Barcelona 1992 Opening Ceremony re-ignite vivid memories of the Regeneration Games

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As the 25th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics looms on Tuesday (July 25), many will recall the drama of the Olympic Cauldron being lit by a single, flaming arrow dispatched from the infield by Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo.

outwards," she said.For his part, Alejandro Blanco Bravo, the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE


Sprinter pleads with IAAF President to allow Irish transfer for World Championships

  • Athletics

written an open letter to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe

20.38 in the final.With Sunday’s (July 23) selection deadline looming, Reid has issued a new plea to Coe

22, 2016 to start the paperwork process.Leon Reid's open letter was sent to IAAF President Sebastian Coe







Former long jump world champion among 16 Russians cleared to compete internationally

  • Athletics

Former world long jump champion Alexsandr Menkov is among 16 more Russian athletes granted permission to compete neutrally at global events by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), it has been announced.

level playing field in which the world’s clean athletes have confidence," said IAAF President Sebastian Coe