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 nan Paris Olympics past period that he intends to guidelines down aft nan extremity of his 2nd word adjacent year.

Britain’s two-time Olympic 1500m champion Coe faces title 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 convention successful ancient Olympia and will return complete successful June of that year.