Organisers of the 2017 World Championships in London are in talks with athletics’ world governing body about dropping ‘IAAF’ from the event’s branding.

Sebastian Coe has received crucial backing to remain as IAAF president despite another damning report on athletics’ doping scandal and admitting that he leads a “failed organisation”.

IAAF president Sebastian Coe insists he does not underestimate the seriousness of the doping and corruption crisis engulfing athletics’ world governing body.

IAAF president Seb Coe is in favour of erasing world records in international athletics set by suspected drugs cheats, according to UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner.

A FAMILY held together not by love but by habit are at the uncomfortable centre of this thoroughly well-written novel.

AUTHOR Jonathan Coe introduced his readers to the ghastly Winshaw family in his 1994 novel What A Carve Up!

IN THE depths of a mid- career slump, the great baseball player Babe Ruth was taken to task in public. Jimmy Walker, a New York politician, pointed some cutting remarks at Ruth when both attended a social function in Manhattan.

After the worst week in the history of the sport, IAAF president Seb Coe faces the unenviable task of guiding athletics through crisis and ending the doping culture, writes Cathal Dennehy.

Sebastian Coe has stressed his determination to “rebuild and repair” athletics by leading the sport through the “dark days” of the crisis currently engulfing it.

Coe v Ovett. Unless you were hung up on some British class divide thing, or had a bit of a Brideshead Revisited phobia, you had to be a Coe man, didn’t you?

Outgoing athletics chief Lamine Diack admits his sport is in crisis because of the doping allegations leveled at it over the last month, but still believes “99%” of athletes are clean.

Sonia O’Sullivan narrowly missed out being elected to the IAAF Council on the day Sebastian Coe was elected the new president of the international athletics governing body.

FROM an Irish perspective, there is bitter irony in the fact that China is where former Olympic 1,500m champion Sebastian Coe won the race to be president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the body that governs world athletics.

The outgoing president of international athletics has defended the organisation’s record on drug-testing and called the latest dopingallegations “a joke”.

Sebastian Coe has backed the International Association of Athletics Federations to issue a “robust and detailed response” to a Sunday Times report alleging widespread doping in the sport.

Usain Bolt is back in old London town and that is usually good reason to be cheerful, not fearful. 

A former British boxing champion has appeared in court accused of helping two men flee to Syria to fight with Islamic State.

Athletics is at the centre of fresh claims about doping after it was alleged the sport’s world governing body the IAAF turned a blind eye to suspicious blood tests involving 150 athletes including from the UK.

Ireland’s bid to host the 2023 World Cup has been given a huge boost after IRB chief executive Brett Gosper described the country as “a wonderful candidate”.

The vote to elect the most powerful man in world sport takes place tomorrow after a campaign that has descended into controversy and acrimony.

Sebastian Coe and Sir Chris Hoy have thrown their weight behind British Cycling chairman Brian Cookson’s bid to become president of the UCI, the sport’s world governing body.

Team-mates, managers, politicians and fans queued up to pay tribute to the retiring David Beckham yesterday, a fitting reaction to the exit of a player who transcended his sport.

Chairman of the British Olympic Association Sebastian Coe has said that it's up to Rory McIlroy to decide what county he declares for at the next Olympics.

Sebastian Coe and Pat Hickey have expressed confidence that Rory McIlroy will tee up at the Olympic Games in 2016, despite the Ulster man’s suggestion last year that he may opt out of the event.

The London 2012 Olympics closed last night with IOC president Jacques Rogge proclaiming: “These were happy and glorious Games.”

Seb Coe hailed the London 2012 Olympics a big success today and said thank you during the nation’s final farewell to the Games.

Sebastian Coe insists that Usain Bolt is already a legend – despite the president of the International Olympic Committee stating the Jamaican sprinter will need to star at even more Games before he can attain that status.

Kenya’s David Rudisha has won gold in the men’s 800 metres in a new world record time of 1:40.91.

London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe will look into why 100 metres world champion Usain Bolt was prevented from taking a skipping rope through security.

London Games chairman Sebastian Coe hailed a golden night at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday as his country’s greatest for athletics.

Sebastian Coe has refused to call Michael Phelps the greatest Olympian of all time — despite the American winning more medals than any other athlete in history.

Olympic organisers scrambled to quell a backlash over images of half-empty stands at the London Olympics as a government minister said an urgent inquiry had been launched to identify who had failed to show up and why.

Chris Hoy is set to be named later today as the flagbearer for Team GB at Friday’s opening ceremony of the London Olympics.

London 2012 chairman Lord Coe has played down talk of transport problems after Olympic athletes and officials experienced some travel delays yesterday.

London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe will offer David Beckham a role for the Games after the midfielder’s dreams of playing for Great Britain in the Olympics were dashed.