Sebastian Coe vows to root out corruption in athletics

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.

Last week French police revealed former International Association of Athletics Federations president Lamine Diack — who Coe succeeded in August — was being investigated over an alleged payment of more than €1m to cover up doping offences by Russian athletes.

It then emerged the IAAF ethics commission had brought disciplinary charges against four men, including the son of Diack and the former head of its anti-doping department.