Coe among seven candidates to be new IOC president

World Athletics president Lord Coe has been named arsenic 1 of 7 confirmed candidates to win Thomas Bach arsenic International Olympic Committee (IOC) president.

Bach announced astatine the Paris Olympics past period that helium intends to basal down aft the extremity of his 2nd word adjacent year.

Britain’s two-time Olympic 1500m champion Coe faces contention from Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, France’s David Lappartient, Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry, Japan’s Morinari Watanabe, Swede Johan Eliasch and Prince Feisal al Hussein of Jordan.

German lawyer Bach has been successful complaint since 2013.

The caller IOC president is expected to beryllium elected successful March 2025 astatine a league successful past Olympia and volition instrumentality implicit successful June of that year.