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Russian backlash at Isinbayeva absence from World Athletics Championships historical features

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The absence of three-time world champion Yelena Isinbayeva from a World Athletics feature covering influential women at the World Championships has sparked a backlash in Russia.

.Russian State Duma deputy Dmitry Svishchev directly criticised World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

I think that Coe and the veterans who lead the federation and determine this list on a national basis

week celebrated reaching gender equity on the Council with 13 men and 13 women.Under the leadership of Coe


Oceanian athletics leaders warn of existential threat and against sport "talking two different languages" on climate change

  • Athletics

Athletics leaders from Oceania have expressed fears for the future of their islands here, and warned "we are actually talking two different languages" in search of continual improvement in competition while combatting climate change.

Pacific region have put the future of several nations at risk, and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Coe admitted on Friday climate change is likely to reschedule major athletics events, including endurance


Mike Rowbottom: Rudisha highlights the intangible rush of taking part

  • Inside the Blogs

For your elite international athlete, the classic Clash song is one that always seems relevant - Should I Stay or Should I Go?

song - on athletes.The question was answered, thoughtfully, by the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

We need more of these occasions, not fewer.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe reflected on the eve

be responsible for the fact that one or two big athletes had pulled out of the World Championships, Coe


Budapest's new National Athletics Centre could help home of the Rubik's cube solve its Olympic puzzle

  • The Big Read

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe gazed up into the towering stands of the new National Athletics

 "It’s a week ago that I arrived in Budapest," Coe said at the official pre-event press conference

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has been full of praise so far about the World Championships

Coe said here last week. "Of course, they do. Every country wants to showcase itself through sport.

the World Athletics Championships before a late agreement was reached and he was invited by Sebastian Coe


Coe insists "there is space" for new major athletics event in 2026 and says athletes want "more competition

  • Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted here "there is space" for the planned new "best

already led to World Championships being staged in back-to-back years in Eugene and Budapest.However, Coe

the level of the one in Budapest with "a billion people watching".World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Coe insisted the additional event in 2026 would benefit athletes competitively and financially."

Developing continental Championships has been identified as "one of our focuses" by Sebastian Coe ©Getty

ImagesAlthough details of the format are still being worked on, Coe revealed that the planned event


World Athletics creates appeals division of Disciplinary Tribunal on day two of Congress

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Creating an Appeals Division of the Disciplinary Tribunal was among the constitutional amendments approved on the second day of the World Athletics Congress here.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe claimed that the change, which has led to the body being renamed

candidates, to be made to the CAS removed by a 172 to eight margin.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


Coe warns climate change may impact scheduling of major athletics competitions

  • Budapest 2023

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has admitted here climate change may impact the scheduling of

carbon emissions by 2050 and limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius.However, Coe

capital.Speaking about the issue prior to the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, British IOC member Coe

Sebastian Coe expressed his lack of confidence in Governments' ability to meet climate change targets

particularly the road, need to be staged at times of year where you are not putting the athletes at risk," Coe

Road races at Tokyo 2020 were moved to Sapporo due to heat concerns, and Sebastian Coe admitted they


EBU reveals plans for 2,500 hours of live coverage from World Athletics Championships

  • Budapest 2023

European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members are set to show 2,500 hours of live coverage from the World Athletics Championships which is due to here tomorrow, a considerable increase on last year's event in Eugene.

rightsholders, offering all isolated camera angles and video-on-demand.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


Bubka receives World Athletics Gold Award of Merit from former rival Coe as leaves after 22-years

  • Athletics

Sergey Bubka thanked World Athletics for its support of Ukraine after its President Sebastian Coe presented

support Ukraine in this terrible war", insisting "we will never forget, we are united around Ukraine".Coe

at World Athletics.He has since served as senior vice-president after being appointed to the role by Coe

 Coe hailed Bubka as "the inspiration behind the current popularity of pole vault", following a

the inspiration behind the current popularity of pole vault" by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

to ill health.He could not be present to receive the award in person in the Hungarian capital, but Coe


Coe accused by Pozdnyakov of leading Russophobic World Athletics after warning they will miss Paris 2024

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Newly re-elected World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has been accused of being a Russophobe after

Coe has been pursuing a consistent Russophobic policy since the time he was first elected President of

Russia was banned by World Athletics in November 2015, shortly after Coe was elected to replace Lamine

in London and the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.The suspension was finally lifted in March, but Coe

Coe forgot about these ideals.”Pozdnyakov has encouraged Russian athletes to fight in the war against

Coe expressed his opinion," Zhurova told TASS."


World Athletics Championships to feature $100,000 world record reward

  • Budapest 2023

Athletes who break world records at the World Athletics Championships here are in line to win a $100,000 (£78.5 million/€92 million), after Japanese electronics giant TDK extended its long-running support of the event.

record does not make an athlete eligible for the $100,000 reward.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


Duncan Mackay: Coe's always defied the critics, so don't write off his chances of becoming IOC President

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Sebastian Coe has pretty much spent most of his life proving people who have written him off wrong, first

The first four years of my mandate was making sure the ship didn't sink," Coe admitted.

Coe had only been in position a few weeks following his election victory in 2015 when the offices of

It is undeniable that, even under Coe, the sport’s stature has slipped.

 But Coe has proven before that he is often at his best when being written off.

Olympics in history.The lesson is clear: you write off Sebastian Coe at your peril.


World Athletics Russia Task Force chair expresses content with RusAF leadership in final Congress report

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Rune Andersen reported for the final time in his position as chair of World Athletics' Russia Taskforce at the Congress here, where he expressed his content with the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) leadership's ability to meet conditions attached to its reinstatement.

and Rožle Prezelj of Slovenia, the World Athletics Council, AIU, management and President Sebastian Coe

were made to protect clean sport, your sport," he said.International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Coe

shown "the importance in any federation of patience and process".World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Coe has resisted the IOC's recommendations for Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to competitions

the prospect of either country returning in athletics before the Paris 2024 Olympics was "unlikely".Coe


Restrepo set to replace Bubka as World Athletics senior vice-president as gender equality achieved four years ahead of schedule

  • Athletics

Colombia's Olympic bronze medallist Ximena Restrepo topped the voting for the four vice-presidential positions at the World Athletics Congress here.

champion and six-time world champion, had been appointed as the senior vice-president by Sebastian Coe

vice-president is set to take on extra significance because they would be the most likely to follow Coe

years ahead of schedule ©World AthleticsThat means 13 of the 26 Council members are now female.Under Coe

with the election of World Athletics’ first gender equal Council four years ahead of schedule," said Coe


Coe re-elected for third and final term as World Athletics President

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Sebastian Coe was re-elected as World Athletics President for a third and final term here today.

 Coe thanked delegates for re-electing him."

 Russia has been a dominant issue for Coe having banned them shortly after his election following

, but remain out in the cold following Vladimir Putin's invasion in February 2022 of Ukraine, which Coe

 Coe acknowledged that most of his first two terms had been taken up fire-fighting rather being

Athletics could be cut short if he decided to stand for President of the IOC ©World Athletics Coe