Seb Coe knew about everything as VP

Obama had the CIA out Russia.

Now the FSB will out USA.

And if he didn't he's incompetent

Either way he should go

To stand so close to a barrel load of rotting fish and not catch even the faintest whiff of something unpleasant is remarkable, to say the least!

What now needs to be done (and I doubt that Coe is the right person to act as figurehead for this process is;

1) a similar investigation that was done on Russia needs to be done on other nations with, shall we say, dubious records on doping - eg, Kenya, Jamaica, (USA? UK?)

2) as well as nations, companies with tainted athletes on their roster should be subject to similar investigations. If it costs a few hundred thousand dollars/euros/pounds to get the IAAF to cover up a positive test such sums would easily be hidden in the annual budget of our leading sportswear companies.

3) ALL the suspicious blood values listed in the original media reports that triggered off this scandal should be openly and rigourously investigated.

4) Nations should be banned from international competitions; perhaps individuals could be allowed to compete under the IOC/IAAF flag if they agree to relocate beyond the borders of the nation involved and be subjected to weekly (?) drug tests carried out for the whole process (collection, testing, publishing results) by WADA?

See this interview on British TV.

http://www.channel4.com/news/lord-coe-these-allegations-came-as-a-shock-to-all-of-us

Can you ever see the cowardly sycophants of the US/Canadian media conducting such an interview.

Seb Coe is the KING of BS. He is Lying though his teeth!

He will be questioned in Parliament over links to Nike.

You know nothing Jon Snow!!!

Jon Snow is very good in this!

IAAF is going down and hope SC and his good friend PR are going to fall too.... EPO cheats out! I hate these sacrosaint anti-doping hypocrits!

GrownupSlow wrote:

No way this is something new to him. BS!!!!!!!

I thought I'd use this post as a suggestion to the Brojos about the transcription of the British English. It seemed clear and rather intense and astonishing (underscoring it, in fact) that Jon Snow was talking about

"scouring of" as in cleaning and polishing and upkeep, of regular housekeeping duty and moral character, as opposed to reconaissance activities of "scouring the joint out," as might be more natural to American parlance.

Jon Snow is creating a false dichotomy. Coe is both incompetent AND corrupt.

My take on Coe is that he's everything.

Corrupt, but in a way all good old boys are in upper crust British society.

A great beer buddy and social guy.

Pragmatic, will make tough decisions, to make it work, whatever one can get away with.

Heart of a champion.

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Given the full package, Coe is an exceptional person however flawed.

Who's better??

I doubt anyone of supreme ethics and wit would survive dodgy world of athletics bureaucracy. Probably would not enter the rat nest in the first place.

Growing up as an 800 m runner and Seb Coe holding the WR at the time, he obviously always commanded some respect.

But I have to say, it is VERY hard to imagine someone being a council member since 2003, and VP since 2007 (8 YEARS!!) , knowing NOTHING about all the nonsense going on during all those years.

Who knows, maybe he just waited it out and had a big master plan to eradicate corruption once Diack is gone, but that seems to be a very unlikely scenario.

Used to look up to this guy wrote:

Growing up as an 800 m runner and Seb Coe holding the WR at the time, he obviously always commanded some respect.

But I have to say, it is VERY hard to imagine someone being a council member since 2003, and VP since 2007 (8 YEARS!!) , knowing NOTHING about all the nonsense going on during all those years.

Who knows, maybe he just waited it out and had a big master plan to eradicate corruption once Diack is gone, but that seems to be a very unlikely scenario.

Nothing will really change unless they rebuild WITHOUT Seb Coe!

A year ago, Coe was being considered as the next Chairman of the BBC Trust

This from a newspaper comment at that time:

There are, however, further reasons why Lord Coe is an inappropriate appointment. First, he is believed to earn a very substantial amount from his senior executive positions at Chime Communications, where he is executive chairman of the sports division. Chime Communications is an advertising and PR group that enjoyed contracts worth £30 million from the Olympic Games, which Coe ran.

Lord Coe could earn up to £12 million by 2017 from his own contract at Chime.

Add to this the fact that he is a special adviser to Nike and a consultant for Chelsea Football Club.

The BBC is a major purchaser of sporting rights, and there is no avoiding the fact that Lord Coe would confront an unacceptable conflict of interests were he to chair the BBC Trust. He can run Chime's sports division, or he can chair the BBC. He surely can't do both.

There is also a second problem.

This concerns Lord Coe’s record as head of Fifa’s Ethics Committee in 2007. Allegations of Fifa corruption were swirling around even then. BBC Panorama sought to question Lord Coe as to what the ethics committee, which he chaired, was doing about it.

He refused to answer or even detail his responsibilities.

I urge anybody wishing to assess the suitability of Lord Coe as Chairman of the BBC Trust to watch him avoiding questions about Fifa’s corruption scandal when Panorama's Andrew Jennings door-stepped him.

Had Coe had adopted a more transparent and forceful approach as chair of the ethics committee, Fifa might not be in the mess it is in now.

He clearly failed to instill a culture of honesty at Fifa, as the sordid tale of bribery associated with the later Qatari World Cup bid shows.

As the chairman of the BBC Trust, one of Lord Coe’s central obligations would be to set a moral framework at the BBC.

His record at Fifa suggests that this would be beyond him. Lord Coe's Conservative backers, who include George Osborne, would be extremely well-advised to withdraw their runner from the race before the starting gun is fired.

(FIFA incidentally has turned out to be even more corrupt than was thought a year ago)

#cleansport wrote:

Seb Coe is the KING of BS. He is Lying though his teeth!

No he isn't. Don't you know that? I know that.

Used to look up to this guy wrote:

But I have to say, it is VERY hard to imagine someone being a council member since 2003, and VP since 2007 (8 YEARS!!) , knowing NOTHING about all the nonsense going on during all those years.

You would probably think differently if you knew the responsibilities, powers and duties of an IAAF Vice President. Knowing that, it's very easy to see how this was entirely outside his scope. Bob Hersh was a Vice President for years and never lived in Monaco. This organization is set up with nearly all the power at the top so it's not hard to see the president get away with murder.

Augusto E. Perez wrote:

Used to look up to this guy wrote:

But I have to say, it is VERY hard to imagine someone being a council member since 2003, and VP since 2007 (8 YEARS!!) , knowing NOTHING about all the nonsense going on during all those years.

You would probably think differently if you knew the responsibilities, powers and duties of an IAAF Vice President. Knowing that, it's very easy to see how this was entirely outside his scope. Bob Hersh was a Vice President for years and never lived in Monaco. This organization is set up with nearly all the power at the top so it's not hard to see the president get away with murder.

OK, so, what are the responsibilities etc of the IAAF VP? Please detail it, I think a lot of people would want to know. Does it not at least involve some input into monitoring doping or getting updates (yearly or 6 months??) on the number positive tests and bans?

What does the place you life have to do with anything? Does that mean that if you don't live in town you are incapable of travelling to meetings, or receiving phone calls and e-mails?

I admit I don't know the first thing of how the IAAF runs, but just thinking about how any ordinary business runs, I cannot imagine how a VP of 8 years knows nothing of what is happening in the company he works for - which seems to be what you are implying.

IAAF Vice President is an honorary position (the constitution makes this clear) and they vote on matters like all the other members of the council. The main difference is that one of the four is the senior vice president and he is allowed to preside over the council in the president's absence.