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Coe the builder: Can he fix it?
IAAF president stands by claim he is the right man to lead athletics after being quizzed for almost three hours by MPs

SEBASTIAN COE boldly said yesterday that he is the right man to fix athletics, as a selection of MPs grilled him on the current state of the sport.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Coe was quizzed for almost three hours in front of the culture, media and sport select committee investigating blood doping in athletics following allegations made by the Sunday Times in August.

And when asked by Ian Lucas MP why, as an “insider” of the IAAF and Fifa — “organisations which have been bedevilled by corruption” — why Coe believes he should be leading athletics, he replied: “Because I have the experience to do that. I have the support of the sport to do that.”

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