Is Coe the right person?

Seb is master politician and knows what the sports needs and how to get it done.

Did he use drugs, probably so we can not prove it as little or no testing was done in the day. Will he submit to a polygraph test and answer the question, probably not. Did he cheat on his wife, yes, its a fact and yes married his girlfriend from the affair.

Credit the guy with running an Olympics that went without a major hitch, regenerated East London, benefited the environment went and to date has made a $75 million profit.

Do u know anything about Coe? Google the eightlane article on Coe and his business deals. He's no better than the current regime. I've already had a linked post to the article deleted today!

Op,I think you'll enjoy part 2 tmw. Coe comes across as very anti-PED. Here is a little teaser:

Coe says:

“Fair play starts at the very top of the sport... The tone and style is set from the top... It’s absolutely vital that people believe in our sport….The spectators going into those stadiums have to go to know what they are watching is real…We have to open about this… I’ve always, always preferred to the face short term embarrassment than the long-term genteel decline… This is not a war we can lose.”

Moving on.

No to coe wrote:

Do u know anything about Coe? Google the eightlane article on Coe and his business deals. He's no better than the current regime. I've already had a linked post to the article deleted today!

No one deleted your post. It was viewed as a cheapshot/promotion of an inflammatory article. Only one person responded to it and it quickly fell to page 2.

The article basically complained about the fact that Coe is rich and well-connected. I view these as huge positives for him. He doesn't need the IAaF job so he can have something interesting to do, get rich and hang out in Monaco, etc. He could potentially run the BBC or be Mayor of London but wants the IAAF job to help the sport.

The article also complained the Coe (and Bubka) are part of the current regime as a VP and very political people. Welcome to the real world. Each of the 213 federations has one vote. If you don't work the system, you don't get to head it.

We haven't endorsed Coe. We are simply presenting his views up. We do plan to follow up with an interview of him in a few weeks.

You know very little about that period in UK athletics. He was probably the most tested athlete during the 80's. All world records and all Championship medallists had to have a drug test from the very beginning of his career.

The BAAB were testing all international UK athletes randomly, out of competition and out of season, from the early 80's, long before the IAAF adopted the same protocol in 1989.

Blood doping was banned in 1985 after Coe and a former British government Sports Minister put forward a White Paper on behalf of the Sports Council. The findings and recommendations were put forward and taken up by the IAAF at the end of 85.

To suggest that, "Drugs were ignored in his time," is both wrong and irresponsible. It shows a lack of information and research on the part of the OP.

Here's another cheap shot then, this time during his time as 'ethics' coordinator at FIFA.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7056420.stm