Seb Coe | "If I don’t protect the female category, no woman will ever win a medal again"

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4.6 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, we are joined by a double Olympic champion who went on to play a pivotal role in bringing the Olympic Games to London in 2012. From athlete to administrator, Sebastian Coe has been one of the key figures in the world of athletics for nearly 45 years.

A world record breaker, his career was marked by rivalries with Steve Ovett and Steve Cram which electrified the nation as they went on to dominate the 1980 games in Moscow and the 1984 games in Los Angeles.

Now the president of World Athletics, Seb joins the show to provide insight on the key issues facing the Olympic movement. From the banning of Russian and Belarusian athletes to doping prevention, the transgender issue and beyond.

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0:00.0	They're only two truly global sports.
0:02.1	I'm probably gonna get shot down for saying this.
0:03.8	It's football and track and field.
0:04.9	Why did you take so long to deal with the transgender issue?
0:07.1	We didn't, actually.
0:09.1	I walked out, there were about 20 people there.
0:11.2	15 of them were French police, two interpol.
0:14.7	Five hours later in a Monaco police station,
0:17.2	I'm being told that my predecessor had been arrested that morning.
0:24.6	There were conversations that coaches could have with athletes. Frank exchange of use.
0:25.6	That were frank. Yeah.
0:26.6	And now it's a very, very different.
0:29.6	It's a very, very different.
0:30.6	But that worries me.
0:31.6	The athletes have now got used to the fact,
0:34.6	you want to step outside, the rules you're going to get caught.
0:42.2	This is up front with me, Simon Jordan. I believe there are a lot of vacuous, uninformed,
0:46.1	unchallenged opinions out there. I want to get to the bottom line and cut through the nonsense.
0:50.4	So with this podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get people with strong views who think they can stand them up to proper scrutiny. There's a good chance I might learn something along the way,
0:55.0	and more importantly, so might you.
0:58.8	Joining me in today's episode,
1:00.4	a man who led the way during a rich period of British dominance on the athletics track,
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