A quiet start to the New Year? The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and FIFA are having none of it.

Commission publishes its eagerly-anticipated second report.It also came after President Sebastian Coe

He of all people will know the work is just beginning.IAAF President Sebastian Coe said the Ethics Commission

Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) officials, including the body's current President Sebastian Coe

The Canadian claimed Coe and other officials, including senior IAAF vice-president Sergey Bubka, could

“Coe and Bubka were there,” Pound told The Times.

Bydgoszcz in Poland will host this summer's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior Championships after an unanimous vote by the IAAF Council today, while Rome will host May's World Race Walking Team Championships.

members took part in the two votes today, although, for the sake of neutrality, IAAF President Sebastian Coe

“Many congratulations to Rome and Bydgoszcz," said Coe."

Papa Massata Diack, the consultant and son of former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack, is among three officials to have been banned for life from athletics today by the world governing body's Ethics Commission, who concluded that figures within the organisation have been "guilty of blackmail" since 2011.

only in Russia, but, potentially, in other countries such as Morocco and Turkey".Britain's Sebastian Coe

Lamine Diack, replaced by Coe as President in October, was also arrested in a separate French police

Two women have been added by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to its previously all-male Ethics Commission, it was announced today. 

decision is expected later this month.The announcement of two new members of the Commission comes after Coe

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has vowed to restore

 Coe has also reiterated his vow to double the anti-doping budget from $4 million (£2.7 million

Member Federations in anti-doping and other integrity-related matters has also been outlined, which Coe

Commission report, which alleged the presence of a state-supported doping scheme in Russia.Sebastian Coe

“Be under no illusion about how seriously I take these issues,” Coe said.

Anyone wishing Amir Khan a Happy New Year is risking a right-hander from the normally amiable boxer from Bolton who won a nation’s heart in Athens back in 2004 when, as a 17-year-old, he fought a solo battle for Britain in the Olympics, losing only to the Cuban Mario Kindelan, then the world's finest amateur, in the final.

Khan is a gesture boxing, and the Muslim community would appreciate.I am not sure if Lord Sebastian Coe

Antidoping Switzerland has suspended its cooperation with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) following the recent drugs scandals which have rocked the sport.

introduction of  athlete biological passports (ABP)  have been hailed by several experts, including Coe

Last year proved a difficult one for the Olympic Movement, with the challenge of sustaining interest in bidding for major events hardly helped by scandals in FIFA and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which together form the biggest threat to the running of global sport in generations.

whatever revelations emerge from part two of the WADA Report this month, and hope that Sebastian Coe

The New Year offers people across the world the chance to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start.

alleged role in covering up systemic doping from Russian athletes.Even Diack’s replacement Sebastian Coe

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a new champion Tweeter.

five.The new President of the troubled International Association of Athletics Federations, Sebastian Coe

You could understand it if both Louis van Gaal and Lord Sebastian Coe called their respective newsagents

for the Telegraph, for whom he writes) twisting theirs in the stabbing cuts they have inflicted on Coe

  Not for a moment do I believe that Coe has lost the plot.

does, that journalists should be free to write things those in authority might not like.Sebastian Coe

driver following an in-competition test which revealed the use of cocaine and diuretics.Unfortunately Coe

Just what Coe needs at the moment.I believe Coe is an honourable guy, if a frustratingly stubborn and

The move by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) to occasionally rebrand themselves as World Taekwondo has garnered interest from outside the sporting world, judging by a brief search on the internet this morning.

down, reportedly suggesting to hire CSM, the sports marketing firm chaired by IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe's chief aide Nick Davies tonight temporarily stood down from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) while the Ethics Commission investigated allegations he suggested delaying naming Russian athletes who had tested positive for banned-performance enhancing drugs.

Davies also reportedly suggested hiring CSM, the sports marketing firm chaired by Coe, elected as IAAF

Championships in the capital.Davies' decision to step aside followed a long conversation earlier today with Coe

Coe was not aware of them until that point and his firm CSM have never done any work for the IAAF. 

Davies being dragged into the scandal is a blow for Coe, who had worked closely with him, particularly

Twenty-fifteen: The year in which the high and mighty fell to earth with a resounding thump.

football, with large scale corrupt practices; however we are assured new incumbent Lord Sebastian Coe

Coe no doubt realises he has not helped himself, and cannot deflect all the opprobrium that has been

number of sports, rugby and boxing to name but two).Moreover, it transpired that the fleet-footedness Coe

after their poor start to the Premier League season ©Getty ImagesEven so, there is little doubt that Coe

hopes of athletics and must be allowed to get on with the job.Back in football, at the home of the club Coe