Sebastian Coe facing a cultural revolution in athletics

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.

It seems, at last, the sport of athletics has reached rock bottom.

After a summer in which its reputation was battered by a succession of doping storms, this week’s revelations about systematic doping in Russia and allegations of corruption at the highest level of the IAAF arrived with the devastating force of a tsunami, washing away the remaining vestiges of its credibility.