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World Athletics President Sebastian Coe holds a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters in Rome, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Sebastian Coe says his run to be IOC president might not be such a longshot after all

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Gymnast Simone Biles, 3rd left, with her parents, sits next to IAAF president Sebastian Coe, and artist Snoop Dogg to watch an athletics session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Asked about seeking IOC presidency, track head Seb Coe says ‘of course I’m going to consider this’

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe listens to a journalist's question during a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Olympic sports bodies criticize track and field’s move to pay $50,000 for Paris gold medalists

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - Lamont Marcell Jacobs, of Italy poses with his gold medal following the men's 100-meters final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Track and field will pay Paris medalists prize money in Olympics first

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

FILE - Lamont Marcell Jacobs, of Italy poses with his gold medal following the men's 100-meters final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

President of World Athletics, Sebastian Coe gestures during a press conference ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday Aug. 17, 2023. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP)

Seb Coe as IOC president? ‘Haven’t ruled it in, haven’t ruled it out’

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, left, World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon, center, and Head of the World Athletics Russia Taskforce Group Rune Andersen attend a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee headquarters in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Track and field leaders signaled Thursday, March 23, 2023, that it will be nearly impossible for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics next year if the war in Ukraine continues. The World Athletics Council kept its ban on Russian athletes in international events in place “for the foreseeable future." (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

World Athletics bars post-pubescent biological males from female track-and-field contests

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe listens to a journalist's question during a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Russians face major hurdles for return to Olympic track

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Fans watch during the World Athletics Championships on July 22, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. The running mecca that embedded Nike into American culture was an easy choice to host the first track world championships on U.S. soil. It will take time to determine whether Eugene, Oregon lived up to expectations. They say sagging viewership totals and flat revenue across the broader Olympic world make it critical to bring the cornerstone sport of the games back to its glory days in the U.S. before they return to Los Angeles in 2028. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Track leaders look to reboot U.S. fans’ interest ahead of LA Games

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2020, file photo, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, wearing a protective face mask, speaks to media as he inspects at the National Stadium, the main stadium of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo. With no Usain Bolt on the track and no fans in the stadium, Coe still believes his sport is in good shape heading into the track and field program at the Tokyo Olympics. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Coe sees track and field healthy ahead of Olympic program

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, listens to a reporter's question during a press conference as Coe visited an athletics test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games at National Stadium in Tokyo, Sunday, May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Two Tokyo Olympics: Inside and outside the National Stadium

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

A security guard stands with a note calling for refraining from watching a half-marathon to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in Sapporo, northern Japan, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The half-marathon was held as a Tokyo 2020 test event three months before the Olympics open. (Masanori Takei/Kyodo News via AP)

Coe gives stamp of approval to Tokyo Olympic test event

By KOJI UEDA and STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe wearing a protective face mask inspects at the National Stadium, the main stadium of Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

Coe supports athletes’ right to take knee on Olympic podium

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, file photo, Sebastian Coe leaves the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. The date of the next world track championships is in limbo until the International Olympic Committee decides on a new schedule for the postponed Tokyo Games.Coe, the Olympic great who is now president of World Athletics, said Friday, March 27, 2020, there are plenty of options for rescheduling next year's world championships in Eugene, Oregon, but at the moment they all depend on the IOC. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Track worlds in limbo until new Olympic dates are set

By CHRIS LEHOURITS - Associated Press

IAAF President Sebastian Coe speaks during the opening ceremony for the World Athletics Championships on the Corniche in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Coe addresses low turnout at worlds, heat and doping scandal

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

Sofiya Palkina, competing as a neutral athlete, competes during the women's hammer throw qualifying round at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

IOC president promises ‘fresh look’ at Russian doping

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

A giant air conditioning cools the Khalifa International Stadium prior the start of the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

New sponsor but Russia doping woes linger for re-elected Coe

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2019 file photo, IAAF President Sebastian Coe, attends a press conference ahead of the Doha IAAF Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. IAAF President Sebastian Coe discusses the impact of Usain Bolt's absence from the upcoming world championships in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, and expresses his hope that emerging young athletes will make their own mark at the Sept. 27-Oct. 6, 2019 event. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

AP Interview: IAAF head Coe discusses Bolt, Coleman, Semenya

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 2, 2019, file photo, IAAF President Sebastian Coe attends a press conference ahead of the Doha IAAF Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. Officials of track and field’s world governing body - the IAAF - said before a news conference on Friday, May 10, 2019, in Japan that president Sebastian Coe would not comment further on the landmark legal case involving two-time Olympic gold-medal winner Caster Semenya. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Coe declines to say more publicly on Caster Semenya ruling

Associated Press

IAAF president Coe cleared of misleading British lawmakers

Associated Press