When the results were made public Coe was nowhere, winning only eight votes out of 97 cast by the IOC’s members. Coe had lost the room. But then he never really held it.

The 109 IOC members gathered in Costa Navarino, Greece to vote Seb Coe was among the frontrunners but fell short Online smear campaign showed dark side to race for power ...

Princess Anne will celebrate her 75th birthday next Friday on a small yacht off the west coast of Scotland with her husband ...

PYLOS, Greece, March 20 (Reuters) - The biggest name in the field and one of the favourites, Sebastian Coe headed into the IOC presidential race exuding confidence, yet the Briton suffered a heavy ...

Coe's World Athletics broke an Olympic taboo by paying $50,000 to track and field gold medalists in Paris last year. Samaranch promised to relax strict IOC commercial rules and give athletes ...

Unsuccessful candidate Sebastian Coe speaks to the media after he failed in his bid to become the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western ...

Also in the race were four presidents of sports governing bodies: Track and field’s Sebastian Coe, skiing’s Johan Eliasch, cycling’s David Lappartient, and gymnastics' Morinari Watanabe.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41.