Sebastian Coe

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said Friday the next athletics world championships, slated for August 2021 in Oregon, could be moved to 2022 following the postponement of this summer's Olympic Games for about a year amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Nobody saw this problem (with the ...

World athletics chief Sebastian Coe admitted on Thursday that the Tokyo Olympics could be moved to later in the year by the coronavirus outbreak, but said it was too early to make a definitive decision. Olympic bosses acknowledged on Wednesday there was no "ideal" solution ...

World Athletics ruled Friday that a shoe recently developed by sports equipment manufacturer Nike Inc., can be used in competition at this summer's Tokyo Olympics. The shoe, marketed by Nike as the Vaporfly, incorporates a carbon fiber plate fused with a foam layer that acts ...

Ace Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake has slammed global track and field chief Sebastian Coe for taking away track and field disciplines such as the 200 meters from next year's Diamond League. The IAAF dropped the 200 meters, 3,000 steeplechase, triple jump and discus from its ...

IAAF president Sebastian Coe on Sunday hailed Japanese sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown as a “phenomenal talent” following the 20-year-old’s sub-10-second run in the 100 meters. Sani Brown, a student-athlete at the University of Florida, became just the second Japanese runner to break the 10-second ...

Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva announced her retirement on Friday and claimed "God will judge" track and field's governing body for denying her the chance to compete at the Rio Games. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Isinbayeva, who was elected to the International Olympic Committee's ...

Mark Shearman has achieved extraordinary success as a sports photographer, specializing in track and field. He has a remarkable portfolio — containing images of Olympic legends such as Edwin Moses and Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and Sebastian Coe — that few can ever hope ...

The head of world athletics, Sebastian Coe, faced fresh allegations about his involvement in the controversial award of the 2021 world championships to the American city of Eugene on Tuesday, but insisted he had acted fairly throughout. In April this year, the hosting rights were ...

Hours after the World Anti-Doping Agency released the results of its exhaustive findings in a 323-page report on Monday about the wide-reaching Russian track and field doping scandal, Victor Conte was already weighing in on the matter. And even though Dick Pound, founding president of ...

Part of Sebastian Coe's new job as head of world athletics will be to shift the conversation about his "ostensibly clean" sport from doping to spectacular performances, he said on Sunday. The Briton will become president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at ...