Sebastian Coe pledges radical reform in race to become next IOC president

Manifesto to share power and ‘safeguard’ female sport
World Athletics head highlights London 2012 track record

Sebastian Coe has promised to radically transform the International Olympic Committee if he is elected its next president in March – and says his track record of delivering at the London 2012 Games and at World Athletics shows he is the right choice for the leading job in sport.

In launching a manifesto that positions him as a reform candidate who will ensure the IOC does far more to innovate, protect female sport, allow more debate, and get more young people into Olympic sport, Coe invoked the early 2000s when he was able persuade the IOC to bring the 2012 Games to London.

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