It’s about Sebastian Coe, middle distance runner from Great Britain, or Sergei Bubka, the pole vault breaker that put no less than 35 world records as active and became the first in the world over six meters.
Any of the two is selected in Beijing as the new president of the International Association of Athletics Federations after the outgoing Lamine Diack, from Senegal.
Both thus has a solid track lists athlete with Olympic gold medals as its main asset. But this time it does not apply to run fastest, or jump the highest, now it’s about to convince enough countries to add their voice to right itself.
– We will vote on Sebastian Coe says Bjorn Eriksson, who is chairman of the Swedish Athletics Association and recently elected to the Foundation’s president.
– My feeling is that Coe is a little better. But it is a secret ballot, one can not assume what people say but how they spend their voices, says Eriksson.
Both go to the polls on seemingly obvious things like that work against doping but to no athletics branch thrown out of the Olympic program. Shot put is in danger there.
Sebastian Coe stands, however, the sharply in the doping issue – he has previously said it is for the lifetime ban.
Facts about the candidates:
Sebastian Coe: 58 years, and politically active in Parliament for the Conservative Party. Each campaign-General for the 2012 London Olympics and is responsible for the Games. Ennobled. Middle-distance runner who set a world record in the 800 m, 1000 m, 1500 and an English mil. Have included two Olympic gold medals and three Olympic silver.
Sergei Bubka: 51 years, and politically active in the
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