The former star of the middle distance and succeeds Senegalese Lamine Diack, 82, who passes the baton after more than 15 years as president.
Sebastian Coe, double Olympic champion in the 1500 meters (1980 and 1984), is 58 years old. Ex-president of the organizing committee, it is the man who helped London get the 2012 Olympics Already vice chairman of the IAAF since 2007, Sebastian Coe insisted in his profession of faith on his expertise in sponsorship, heritage of experience of the London Games.
As compensation, Sergey Bubka, 51, was re-elected vice president, coming in first with 187 votes. Bernard Amsalem, president of the French Athletics Federation (FFA), which presented itself to one of the four vice-president, was readjusted (108 votes).
Fight against doping
The first fight of Sebastian Coe will probably wash athletics doping suspicion while the World Championships begin Saturday in Beijing. In support of 12,000 blood tests they submitted to experts, the German public broadcaster ARD and the Sunday Times have come to the conclusion that a third world or Olympic medalists between 2001 and 2012 would present suspicious values . Russia and Kenya are particularly targeted
Ironically, athletics. – Its leaders have repeated to the last breath – is the precursor sport in the fight against doping and remains at the cutting guard by the methods and financial resources committed in the fight against the “scourge”. It is also to ignore the many sanctioned medalists.
VIDEO. Sebastian Coe broke the world record in the 1,500 m in 1984
VIDEO. The final of the 1500 meters at the Olympics in Los Angeles 84
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