Like fetid fumes, bad news continues to emanate from the citadels of power in world sport - with the seemingly endless fug of the FIFA investigation now casting itself over the shoulders of the great Franz Beckenbauer, and the International Association of Athletics Federations’ ex-President Lamine Diack newly announced as being under investigation by French police and the International Olympic Committee’s Ethics Commission following allegations of corruption.

so given the fact that he and the man who has just taken over the Presidency of the IAAF, Sebastian Coe

the French police arrived for their rendezvous at the IAAF office in Monaco on Tuesday (November 2), Coe

believe in the possibility of what we now call "role models" but will new IAAF President Sebastian Coe

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Commission Report into alleged systematic doping within Russian athletics is to be unveiled on Monday (November 9) in Geneva, it has been announced today.

brought forward due to the latest developments.Diack was replaced as President by Britain's Sebastian Coe

Former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack has been placed under investigation in France over an alleged doping cover up.

Sebastian Coe, who succeeded Diack as President at the IAAF election in Beijing in August, met investigators

 Last month, Coe announced that he is in the process of creating a new integrity unit

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face new challenge as British Parliament holds inquiry into blood doping in athleticsAugust 2015: Coe

Directly carrying out drug-testing would be a "natural extension" of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) remit, founding President Richard Pound believes, although he claims an independent body such as that proposed at last month's Olympic Summit would require a substantial funding increase.

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Sebastian Coe has stressed the need for athletics "to build trust and defend clean athletes at all times

Coe visited Moscow’s IAAF Regional Development Centre before meeting the country’s national team coaches

But speaking in Russia’s capital, where he met with Russian athletes, coaches and officials, Coe spoke

I also felt a very strong support for our plans to modernise athletics," added Coe on what he described

Coe used the visit to meet with Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and Alexander Zhukov, President

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Will it be a Sheikh or another suit who wins the dubious right to try and drag FIFA out of the quagmire of corruption after almost half a century when the presidential election to replace Sepp Blatter takes place in February?

would be rather like putting Boris Johnson in charge of the United Nations.So where is football’s Lord Coe

Mo Farah and Genzebe Dibaba are the latest two athletes to make the longlist for the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athlete of the Year Award.

drugs cheat Gatlin fails to make final three for IAAF World Athlete of the Year awardOctober 2014: Coe

Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica has been announced as the first name on the longlist for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) men’s Athlete of the Year award following the closure of the opening round of voting.

drugs cheat Gatlin fails to make final three for IAAF World Athlete of the Year awardOctober 2014: Coe

To me, the July 2005 vote to decide the host of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics conjures memories of a school trip to the Tower of London, fittingly enough, with a friend suddenly interrupting a lecture about the illustrious history of the city to bring tidings of a latest triumph.

voting International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to woo alongside his chief lieutenants Sebastian Coe

Olympic champion Lennox Lewis had a word for it: “Politricks”.

copious examples of each invading the other’s territory and vice-versa.In more modern times the Lords Coe

Former Tory MP Sebastian Coe flirted with boxing administration as a Board of Control steward before

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) believes doping should not be a criminal offence but has called on Governments to impose heavier sanctions on those who traffic illicit substances.

names, leading to newly-elected International Association of Athletics Federations President Sebastian Coe

dismissed the idea in November 2014.The doping problem in athletics has prompted IAAF President Sebastian Coe

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and the Catholic University of San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) have

unveiled the latest group of athletes who will join their training and sport project during a ceremony at COE

Open-winning tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero is among the new additions ©Getty ImagesMendoza thanked the COE

When Germany’s Markus Rehm leapt to gold in the men’s T44 long jump at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha yesterday, he was also leaping into the midst of another debate about whether Paralympians could and perhaps should be competing at the Olympics.

Anniversary Games at the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, would surely be an aim.With IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Former Sports Minister Sir Hugh Robertson has been officially appointed as vice-chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) at the organisation’s General Assembly in Stockport, it has been announced.

and Commonwealth Affairs until July 2014, said.The 52-year-old could now be set to take over when Coe

Sparkes and Niels de Vos, chief executive of UK Athletics.BOA chairman and IAAF President Sebastian Coe

the BOA Board along with the sport representatives Annamarie Phelps, Hew Chalmers and Ian Howard,” Coe

New International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe today began to

four years to all 215 members of the IAAF to help them fund development programmes.The proposal by Coe

Federations was one of the major pillars of my election manifesto to become IAAF President,” said Coe

and thorough process in which the value and quality will be assessed, they have claimed.Last week Coe

publicly unveiled an overhaul of the world governing body's advisory structures.Related storiesJuly 2015: Coe