I had an exciting, if rather terrifying experience, today when called in to do a television interview on CNN’s World Sport programme about the weekend’s 100 metres showdown between Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin.

wrong to put the future of the sport on a single person’s shoulders, be it Usain Bolt, Sebastian Coe

Usain Bolt resisted the challenge of the world’s fastest man this year, Justin Gatlin, to retain his world 100 metres title here tonight in what he described as his “hardest race.”

regaining her world title ©Getty ImagesOn a day that began with the IAAF President Elect, Sebastian Coe

miss whole World Athletics Championships due to family illnessAugust 2015: Mike Rowbottom: Bolt and Coe

Mo Farah won his sixth consecutive global title here tonight to lay claim to being Britain’s best ever championship performer.

his preceding address, Lamine Diack, who will hand over his position as IAAF President to Sebastian Coe

Sergey Bubka, who lost out this week to Sebastian Coe in the race for the International Association of

The Ukrainian former pole vault world record holder, who was beaten 115 votes to 92 by Coe on Wednesday

and his family at this time".It comes at the end of an arduous period of travelling by both Bubka and Coe

still support" lifetime bans for doping but admits they are not legally realisticAugust 2015: Sebastian Coe

Association of Athletics FederationsAugust 2015: Bubka or Coe set to take up IAAF role that is

among most exclusive in sportAugust 2015: Coe enters homestraight of race to become IAAF President

It has been another of those weeks in sport when doping is the only real story.

Sebastian Coe has claimed that doping allegations levelled against athletics were "a declaration of war

International Olympic Committee (IOC), recalled his days as an Olympic athlete representative with Sebastian Coe

related to the current problem athletics has with doping allegations and how significant it would be for Coe

“You may know that Sebastian Coe and I have come a long way together and actually this was started with

am not only confident, this is why I am absolutely sure that the IOC and IAAF, with President Seb Coe

“But I had to learn from different courts and lawyers, like Seb Coe and others asking for this, that

“So Seb Coe takes the relay baton. He goes on fighting with the same transparency and strength.

As we, the summoned and assembled media, awaited the start of Usain Bolt’s press conference in a very large room inside the Nuo Hotel - a start which was by now delayed more than half an hour - it became apparent that the reggae which had been thumping and bumping away in the foreground during that time was on a loop.Bob Marley’s One Love did its thing once again. Meanwhile the long black leather sofa in front of us remained untenanted, flanked by dotted red and green spotlights trained on the crystalline ceiling.

conference was a strong message of praise for the Briton who has won the right to take his place, Sebastian Coe

That’s what it will be.”Bolt’s comment on Coe was far more wary, but as he pointed out - with another

think there a lot of athletes out there who are running clean.”What is true for Bolt is also true for Coe

running through the rounds will have more value for him than any other athlete out there.Sebastian Coe

The pressure of expectation can’t all be on the shoulders of Coe, any more than in can be on those of

Sebastian Coe will be able to serve only three four-year terms as President of the International Association

the United States.Lamine Diack, the 82-year-old Senegalese who will be replaced as IAAF President by Coe

to 58.Lamine Diack has served 16 years as President of the IAAF but will be succeeded by Sebastian Coe

opportunities for women as we move forward in our sport," said Francis.Sergey Bubka, who Sebastian Coe

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Sebastian Coe was today elected the new President of the International Association of Athletics Federations

Coe, the former chairman of London 2012, will succeed 82-year-old Senegalese Lamine Diack, who is stepping

Thirty-four years to the day since he set a world record for the mile in Zürich, Coe claimed his election

in any way rehearsed, first I would like to thank Sergey for a thoroughly good and long campaign," Coe

athletics in the future will grow, and become stronger and stronger," he said after congratulating Coe

Britain's Sebastian Coe addresses the IAAF Congress after being elected as President to succeed Lamine

Sebastian Coe will speak second after his rival Sergey Bubka when he addresses delegates in the campaign

metres champion as scrutineer for the election, called correctly in the toss of a coin and decided that Coe

technology will not let them down as it did at their last elections in Dageu four years ago.Sebastian Coe

press release from the Athletic Association of Small States of Europe claiming they were voting for Coe

denied backing Coe. 

“We’re working hard and we assume absolutely nothing,” said Coe.

Good luck to Sebastian Coe, a true friend - and passionate fan - of athletics as he goes toe-to-toe

Coe has needed to call on all his political in-fighting skills in his attempt to win election as President

latest, and disturbingly unremitting, drugs allegations.For the first time in his 45 years in the sport Coe

Let me make it clear that in my view there is no-one better equipped than Lord Coe to take athletics

election for a new Labour leader in the UK  - but it has had its moments.Britain's Sebastian Coe

It will be up to Coe should he win to persuade them otherwise.Manifesto teasers made by both Coe and

Sergey Bubka or Sebastian Coe will join a very exclusive roll of honour, for only five men have previously

The episode re-created in the film Chariots of Fire, and was also attempted by Coe and Steve Cram in

a charity race in 1988.Like Coe, Burghley was an Olympic champion.

Olympic Association and headed the Organising Committee for the London Olympic Games of 1948, just as Coe

Bubka and Coe have both promised a “zero tolerance” attitude to doping but like their five predecessors

The Sunday Times today reported that a study conducted among 1,800 competitors at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu indicated that 29 to 34 per cent had violated anti-doping rules in the previous 12 months, and added that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had sought to block its publication.

"IAAF 28" as Pavey stands by for 10,000m world medalAugust 2015: Non, je ne regrette rien, insists Coe

Voting to elect a new President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) here on Wednesday (August 19) will be conducted via paper ballot following previous problems with the electronic system. 

Lamine Diack, who is stepping down after 16 years, enters the homestraight with Britain's Sebastian Coe

President Bernard Amsalem today became the latest European governing body to confirm they are backing Coe

 Coe now has 37 public endorsements compared to Bubka's five.

 Coe, meanwhile, had been at the centre of problems with the voting system at the IAAF Congress

 Voting will follow five-minute speeches from the two candidates, Bubka and Coe.

Cycling is not spending as much as athletics to combat doping, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has claimed following accusations from two-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome they should be doing more.

IAAF 28" as Pavey stands by for 10,000m world medalAugust 2015: Non, je ne regrette rien, insists Coe