Seb Coe elected President of IAAF!

damn

The Scot wrote:

Scoe wrote:

115-92!

Earlier on in his campaign it sounded like he was talking tough on drugs eg forming an independent body to do the testing. When his back was up against the wall all we got was 'so called experts' and 'the papers have declared war'. I suspect the latter are more indicative of his true feelings - protect the reputation of athletics at all costs.

On the other hand, maybe he was playing to the electorate?

If this link is not evidence enough that dark sith Lord Coe of Nike is as evil as the rest of them then I don't know what is.

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Iwastheresawthat wrote:

oh great!! now Paula will never be exposed!! F@#$%^ rats

pr100 wrote:

The Scot wrote:

Earlier on in his campaign it sounded like he was talking tough on drugs eg forming an independent body to do the testing. When his back was up against the wall all we got was 'so called experts' and 'the papers have declared war'. I suspect the latter are more indicative of his true feelings - protect the reputation of athletics at all costs.

On the other hand, maybe he was playing to the electorate?

I would love to see which countries voted for him. Was it the ones who already do a lot of testing? The only country I noted publicly coming out for Bubka was Kazakhstan. Were there any others?

I tried clicking on the Anti-doping tab on the Kazakh website and got a 'not found' error message!

Not like there were good choices - both were dopers (can't be a WR athlete without doping, simply not possible). One (Coe) is a smarmy politico, the other a commie. Bob Hersh would have been the better candidate if not for Hightower. Long for the days of enlightened people like Avery Brundage who ran an organization properly. Phil Knight should have put his hat into the ring as at least he would have had the sport's best interest in mind - what is good for Nike is good for Track & Field. Don't understand why any non-american would even be considered for the job, that's part of the problem right there - America is Track, so the IAAF should follow USATF, not the other way around.

jjjjjjj wrote:

The fact that he would even sell out his alleged convictions to win the election does not bode well at all for the prospect of him cleaning up the sport. His comments suggested he would not do so. Deanouk, don't let your admiration for his running get in the way here. He may turn out better. He is not off to a good start.

If he hadn't won the election then he'd have no chance of cleaning up the sport. He knows there is a problem, he has acknowledged that on numerous occasions, he was just angry that data was leaked the way it was and that the implication that the IAAF was corrupt and not doing anything to stop doping was wrong. I felt his choice of words were not helpful, but I don't see them being as an indication that he's not going to do anything about doping.

At least he was passionate about the issue and was prepared to put his head above the parapet. The responses from Diack and Bubka were pretty much non existent.

This is not true. Back in January, there was a big shake up at IAAF, including the resignation of Diack's son.

I think they all want to preserve the reputation of the sport and of IIAAF. Now, I agree with others hat that's not a good thing necessarily.

I hate Seb Coe and I hate his fücking strawberry jam too

What the world needs now is a rival track federation.

Let's get Burt Bacharach on that right away.

typical teen wrote:

Not like there were good choices - both were dopers (can't be a WR athlete without doping, simply not possible). One (Coe) is a smarmy politico, the other a commie. Bob Hersh would have been the better candidate if not for Hightower. Long for the days of enlightened people like Avery Brundage who ran an organization properly. Phil Knight should have put his hat into the ring as at least he would have had the sport's best interest in mind - what is good for Nike is good for Track & Field. Don't understand why any non-american would even be considered for the job, that's part of the problem right there - America is Track, so the IAAF should follow USATF, not the other way around.