Sebastian Coe makes bold claim for world championships to live up to
Athletics is ‘only one of two global sports and this is the largest sporting event of the year’, IAAF chief declares
25 September 2019 - 16:37
Organisers of the Cricket World Cup, the football Women’s World Cup and the Copa America may disagree but the IAAF World Athletics Championships, starting in Doha on Friday, is the biggest sporting event of the year, according to Sebastian Coe, head of the sport’s global body.
“We have a record number of countries. We have anywhere up to 40 countries that have a chance of winning medals. We are only one of two global sports and this is the largest sporting event of the year,” the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) told reporters. ..
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