Did an Epstein, racist smear campaign cost Seb Coe the IOC presidency?

You used to be better than this.

Man this belonged on the "Running Conspiracies" thread. Goddamn.

The "leaked" audio sounds like AI. That is nothing like his usual cadence when he talks.

Coe would have to answer the Epstein issue. Not a good thing for him to have logged that many flights to the Island. Of course, he is on a very long list with a lot of others who have been able to shrug off the association.

Given Coventry won and some of the sources, it looks like some Africans wanted to keep Coe out.

There is literally 0 chance Jeffrey Epstein was familiar with Seb Coe.

The clip is obvious AI too. He wasn't gonna win anyway but this smear campaign is pretty pathetic lol. Not that I think it had much of an impact (but if it did then people are dumber than I thought)

Seeing Coe smeared on X and mainstream media is outrageous. Coe-smearing belongs here. These people are infringing

This used to be rojo's role -- being the instigator.

Politics are always corrupt, but AI has made things so much worse.

Tale of the Tape

Age - Coe 68, Coventry 41

# Olympics - Coe 2, Coventry 5

# Olympic Medals - Coe 4 (2 gold, 2 silver), Coventry 7 (2 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)

Agreed. Very much read like a Robert post. I thought more of Weldon.

Newsflash: NONE of this matters.

swimming is nowhere close in competition vs athletics.

I don't know what kept Coe from winning but I'm glad something did.

I don't understand the downvotes at all. From the links provided it seems to be pretty clear that someone paid some random twitter accounts with a good amount of followers (133k and 378k) and even a Nigerian newspaper to push those made up stories (takes like 30 seconds to find out that none of this is true since there are no original sources). No idea if it had an impact on the election, but still good to know that apparently someone decided that this might be a good way to influence the (African) vote.

At first I thought u were an idiot for creating this thread.

But upon reading it, no… there seems to be something fishy.
If he indeed never went to Epstein’s island, and the audio is fake, then something in the milk ain’t clean.

and this time it wasn't Stephen Michael James Ovett... :D

It's wild that these message boards have been a race to the bottom for years now, and the fastest competitors are the site owners.