Sebastian Coe is a former athlete, and is now president of World Athletics and a member of the International Olympic Committee. He led London's bid for the Olympic Games in 2012, and chaired the organising committee.
I’ve always been a Spectator reader, so I’m delighted to be writing a diary about the Olympics from Tokyo. My first experience of an Olympic Games was probably the most political of them all — Moscow 1980. I wasn’t sure that I would be competing until a few weeks before the opening ceremony. The build-up
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Team GB has had a brilliant start in Tokyo – can the government learn lessons on how to pick and nurture talent? And looking to the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 – which foreign secretary Dominic Raab said he is ‘very unlikely’ to attend – should Britain boycott them? Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth
