New IOC President Kirsty Coventry and Sebastian Coe (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP/File, Kyodo via AP Images)

Coventry elected first female IOC president as Coe beaten

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Sebastian Coe’s bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee has ended in defeat, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe winning the vote. Coe, 68, had said occupying the Olympic Movement’s highest office was a role he had been “training for for the best part of his life”, but a majority of IOC members instead…

Will Coe be elected to 'most powerful position' in sport as president of IOC?

Will Coe be elected to 'most powerful position' in sport as president of IOC?

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Sebastian Coe delivered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, restructured and reinvigorated athletics’ ailing governing body, took on Russian state doping cheats and on Thursday hopes to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It is a role viewed as the most powerful in sport, a role that not only shapes the…