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Aarhus 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championship organisers turn to England for inspiration

  • Athletics

Danish organisers of the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships have revealed that they are taking inspiration from Britain, spiritual home of the sport.

 He revealed this during a visit here to inspect the course by IAAF President Sebastian Coe, timed

to what I will describe as a traditional cross country course with the surrounding landscape," said Coe

men's senior event at this year's World Cross Country Championships in Kampala.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

 Coe is also still campaigning for cross country to be reintroduced to the Olympic programme having


Coe apologises to athletes after IAAF data theft attack by Fancy Bears'

  • Athletics

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has apologised after

athletes who have provided the IAAF with information that they believed would be secure and confidential," Coe

The cyber attack was discovered by the IAAF, Coe claimed.


IAAF President Coe named as Chancellor of Loughborough University

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International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastien Coe has been named as the

Coe graduated from the English university back in 1979 with a BSc in economics and social history, before

Great Britain at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.He repeated the feat four-years later at Los Angeles 1984.Coe

 Sebastian Coe graduated from Loughborough University in 1979 ©Getty Images"Loughborough University

seems to have been part of my life for about as long as I remember," Coe, who will take over from Sir

In addition to his athletics success, Coe served as the chairman of London 2012 and until recently held


UK Athletics chair calls for changes to running of International Federations

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UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner has called for a move away from International Federations being led by people who have been elected on the back of serving time in their sport, but admits he does not know if it will happen after comparing it to asking "turkeys to vote for Christmas".

medallist in men’s team foil fencing at the Montreal 1976 Games, while Warner’s fellow Briton Sebastian Coe

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe is the current President of the IAAF ©Getty ImagesWarner


David Owen: Mind the gap - the Olympic Movement has become remote from the real world

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Other work projects have had me immersed in the world of sport of 50 years ago just lately, a world in some ways impossibly distant from ours today, albeit one that many contemporary sports administrators will remember quite well, as I do.

amateurism, this could well mean holding down a job or a profession.Long jumper Sheila Sherwood was, as Lord Coe


Nick Butler: Cross country running and Winter Olympics would be a perfect fit

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This weekend's World Cross Country Championships in Uganda saw a pulsating senior men's contest take place in searing heat at Kampala's Kololo Independence Grounds.

Coe" from Abbeydale Grange School could still be included.

IAAF President Sebastian Coe has also advocated this idea in the past.


Fredericks temporarily stands down from IAAF Council role amid ethics probe

  • Athletics

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council, according to the body's President Sebastian Coe

since this issue came out and he decided to step away from all this as he needs time to sort all this," Coe

IAAF President Sebastian Coe said Frankie Fredericks would not attend the Council meeting in London ©


“Document difficulties” prevent refugee team from competing in IAAF World Cross Country Championships

  • Athletics

The four-strong Athletes Refugee Team due to take part in tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships in the Ugandan capital of Kampala has been unable to make the trip because administrative problems, it was revealed at today’s pre-event press conference.

Sebastian Coe, the IAAF President, said the absence of the quartet was due to “document difficulties”

to have the refugee team here but because of document difficulties it hasn’t been proved possible,” Coe

will not stay in that country, they will go back to training camp," she said.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

see tomorrow absolutely and quintessentially exemplifies the fact that this is a truly global sport,” Coe


Exclusive: Innovative plans detailed by Aarhus 2019 organisers to get cross country back at Olympics

  • Athletics

Organisers of the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus plan to use mass participation and a more challenging course to help achieve the key aim of getting the sport back onto the Olympic programme.

confirmed Aarhus's hosting of the 2019, Larsen relayed some of the comments that had been made by Sebastian Coe



David Owen: All for one and one for all? Bach puts his four musketeers on the spot over 2028

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It seems a typically clever move by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to appoint his four vice presidents to a working group to, as the news release put it, “explore changes to the candidature procedure” with “everything…on the table”.

applicant cities for 2028 lose their rights and it will be another problem.”Spanish Olympic Committee (COE


Hansen calls for officials under investigation to leave all sporting roles

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European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen has claimed individuals under suspicion for any potential ethics breaches should immediately step down from sporting roles while allegations are investigated.

At this time, I would like to underline my support for the leadership of IAAF President Sebastian Coe


Coe and Casado set to join ASOIF Council

  • Olympics

Sebastian Coe and Marisol Casado are set to be elected onto the Association of Summer Olympic International

Coe and Casado, Presidents of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International

from his FIH position in November and was replaced by India's Narinder Batra.Double Olympic champion Coe

been a member since 2014, while Wu, the vice-president, was elected in 2013.IAAF President Sebastian Coe


Alan Hubbard: A knight to remember - but since then sport has endured many days to forget

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It is coming up for 63 years since a young junior doctor named Roger Bannister finished his morning rounds at Paddington Hospital and travelled to Oxford, where he became the History Man by breaking the four-minute mile barrier.

a Companion of Honour (CH) .He is now one of only 53 current holders of the award - among them Lord Coe

stories above which the headlines read "Cycle of deception", "Impassé over Mo samples" and "It’s time Coe

knights Sir Mo Farah, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Sir Dave Brailsford are under intense scrutiny while Lord Coe


Antseliovich resigns as RUSADA director general

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Anna Antseliovich, the acting director general of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), has resigned.

World Championships in London.Hansen’s comments support those made by the IAAF President Sebastian Coe