Coe beats Bubka to become world athletics chief

Heaven forbid Lord Smug, his Olympic Athletics Dividend, $100,000 of extra funding has Fifa been there done that bribery written all over it, the Justin Gatlin element of athletics could well have done there damage. The Diamond league is in need of official sponsorship. Athletics is in danger of losing public support completely unless it can deals decisively with the cheats, and ban them for life.

Seb Coe is a great appointment. He won't stand for any nonsense and he is passionate about clean athletics, so the cheats will be more worried today than they were yesterday.

Sebastian Coe was certainly one of the most gifted athletes of his generation, and a more appropriate choice over Sergey Bubka but the post needed a figure completely detached from the sport able to administer a more detailed agenda of change.