Coe won 1,500 metres gold in 1980 and 1984 and was in charge of putting on the 2012 London Games. He has been president of World Athletics for nine years and is immensely proud of the sport’s reach.

The United States has topped the medal table at the 2024 Paris Olympics with 40 gold medals, finishing above China by virtue of their 44 silvers. China also won 40 golds but managed only 27 silvers.

Sebastian Coe says his run to be IOC ... “You just have to accept that not everyone’s going to see the world in the same way,” said Coe, who won gold medals in the 1,500-meter race at the ...

Lord Sebastian Newbold Coe is the only two-time winner of the men’s Olympic 1,500 gold medal, a former member of Parliament, the man who rescued London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics and then ...

Burghley also presented a gold medal to Coe at the 1980 Moscow Olympics when a then 23-year-old track star won the first of back-to-back titles in the 1,500 meters.

“You just have to accept that not everyone's going to see the world in the same way,” said Coe, who won gold medals in the 1,500-meter race at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles ...