Vice-president Sergey Bubka leaves World Championships in Beijing — IAAF

That he should take charge of athletics at a time when it is in crisis as never before is not an accident. I have always done it together with you my friends.

In a congratulatory message on Twitter, Mr Cameron called him “an outstanding athlete who delivered the brilliant London 2012 Olympics“.

Bubka said that athletics in the future will grow, and become stronger and stronger. But few who voted at the IAAF Congress in Beijing can have any doubt as to whether they have found a man utterly committed to athletics and with a true determination to rebuild it.

One of Coe’s first tasks will be to deal with the fall-out from a series of doping allegations to hit athletics. Nothing changed in my life.

Athletics’ credibility is nearly shot. The naming of those athletes has been delayed due to legalities.

Last year, ARD, a German broadcaster, screened a documentary in which a Russian coach said 99 per cent of Russian Olympians are dopers.

“On the plane coming over here, three of them were asleep before the wheels left the tarmac”, he said, recalling the trip to Beijing ahead of Wednesday’s IAAF congress and elections.

The Indian team for the IAAF World Championships will be leaving in batches from different cities as per the itinerary of their events to reduce the effect of travel exertion and better recovery from travel.

“I have espoused the concept of an independent testing process”.

The IAAF continue to preach zero tolerance but one of the main attractions in Beijing is Gatlin who has been popped twice for banned substances.

He said creating new fans of the sport would be paramount in a world where many youths are becoming captivated by football and electronic games. “When I leave I can say that I leave behind me a sport that is marvelous with handsome performances throughout the 16 years that I’ve been leading this sport”. “We must resolve, of course, the problem of doping”.

The 58-year-old Briton beat rival Sergey Bubka, a former Olympic pole vault champion, by 115 votes to 92.

Coe has highlighted the need to overhaul the athletics calendar, increase commercial revenue, empower national federations and encourage young people into the sport.

Coe comes from a golden era of packed-out stadia and household names. If the sport’s reputation has not been transformed by then, his will be, and in the opposite way. Somehow, Coe needs to apply a sporting narrative to a dislocated season. Coe is contemplating central contracts and even a version of cricket’s Indian Premier League to solve that and rouse interest. “I went through the whole evolution of what happened in terms of doping”.

Tygart called the IAAF’s aggressive defence of its doping program, combined with its detailed denunciation of the news reports, “sort of a classic attack” that’s to be expected from a federation under fire.