He's been tough on Russia, led the charge to put prize money in the pockets of athletes and pushed for a definitive but much-derided resolution in the longstanding debate over transgender athletes.

Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Coe has announced he will run for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) presidency. After taking the BOA top job, Coe vowed to play a key role ...

But maybe not the toughest. Coe grew up in northern England in the steel and coal town of Sheffield. As he tells the story, if your name was Sebastian and you lived in Sheffield in the 1970s, you had ...

Sebastian Coe is being urged to run for London mayor after polling suggested he could lead a Tory revival in the capital. Private polling conducted for Tory backers found that the former Olympic ...

A common observation about Sebastian Coe’s lifetime of going against the grain is that it makes him more of a thorn in the side of the International Olympic Committee than an ideal candidate to become ...