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Sebastian Coe

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  1. “Think the electorate do make a decision, and whether they've actually articulated it, whether they've even come to, but there is a moment. And I think this may be it.”

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  2. “I thought it was a rather benign response to that. Look, of course, I would vote conservative. I am a conservative, and that's not going to ever vary. I know what kind of conservative I am, and I Witness maybe as many of them around at the moment as I would. It's a different party from the one that I joined, but the Conservative Party has to remember that it has been at its most successful when it's been operating at the centre, as most political parties do. There are elements of the party that I don't find particularly edifying at the moment.”

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  3. “The people that you have trusted to get on with the job from derailing what they need to do. And that sometimes means taking one for the team. So, you know, in the Olympic years, it meant going on radio five on a four o'clock on a Friday afternoon and getting beaten up by taxi drivers because they weren't going to be able to access the Olympic lane along the embankment for two weeks. Why would your highly intelligent CEO spend his time rehearsing for select committees or doing those sorts of things? So I think find the people if they're world class, trust them to get on with it and remove all the inhibitors from their day that would Stop them from doing that and just find really, really smart people because if you do, then it's probably self-preserving as well.”

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  4. “And when you find them, trust them to get on with the job. Don't sit on their shoulders, which is exactly what I did in London. I did bring to the table the smartest people I could find. You know, Paul Dighton, who was my CEO, obviously politically people like Tessa, but if you look at that team that created and drove the London Games, I was very privileged to... Be sort of chairing it, but they were the most extraordinary people In a leadership role from preventing”

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  5. “What I've consistently done, and actually, interestingly, going back to my athletics career, the one thing I did learn, my father was my coach, but he brought probably the smartest brains of their generation into a backroom team. They tended to be American because at that point in Europe, were sport physiology was a very dry academic subject. The Americans turned that dry academic subject into something that was of practical application. How do you make the boat go quicker? How do you get people to cycle? How do you improve the cadence in competitor and athletics? And so from that funny little group that worked with me, I learned two or three things which I just applied. I'm not an MBA Harvard grad. The first was do what he did, although he was probably one of the most intelligent people I know, but do surround yourself with people that are far smarter than you.”

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  6. “And should not be confused with that. And the council made a judgment that the science around being able to have transgender athletes in that transitional phase, reducing their testosterone, the science was not clear whether that would have any impact on the residual effect of going from male biology and physiology to female biology and physiology. At this point, we've said we're not prepared to take that risk and it's for only the elite sports. So I will dine in a ditch over the ability of transgender competitors to be involved in participatory sport. We're talking about a very, very few at the elite level and I have to protect the female category.”

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  7. “Yes. Yes and no, and I'm trying not to oversimplify this or sound too brutal about it. My mandate gives me one very, very clear responsibility. Well, lots of clear responsibilities, but one overarching one, and that is protecting the female category. You have two categories in sport. You have gender and you have age, age because you assume it's better that you haven't got Olympic champions competing against 16 year olds in the Grassmere sports and gender because if you don't protect the female category, then no woman will ever win another event. So we have two issues that are quite complicated and complex. One is something called DSD, which is differences of sexual development, and that is one element. Trans is different.”

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  8. “Not in my sport, they don't. So the International Federation has primacy in deciding the eligibility of competitors. So we have said they will not be in Paris.”

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  9. “It's very interesting. So we created a task force. I appointed a guy called Runa Anderson, who probably knows more about this subject than anybody. And slowly but surely, we did get them back to a position where had it not been for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they had made the journey. So the athletic integrity unit do the testing. We have two or three independents inserted into their federation, the member federation for Russia, the athletics federation. And we felt that by process and by being tough and not by keeling over like other sports did and say, well, it's too big to deal with, we suspended them. And so for seven years, we wrestled with this, but we did get it back to a position. Of course, the next box set appears, and that's the decision that the council took around”

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  10. “So going back to your initial question about doping, yeah, I mean, Russia were at it, state sponsored, I mean, industrial scale. And it was a monstrous incursion into the integrity of the sport. And it was on my watch and I had to do something about it.”

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  11. “No, it's interesting. Three paragraphs into some big investigative piece on corporate greed. Most people are switching off. But if you've got names and you've got a sport and you've got football or you've got athletics and high profile names like mine or whoever come up, of course, they're the 50-pound notes of journalistic currency. I'm not saying we haven't had those, but of course we have. I know it from my own experience. You've only got to look at football. Yes, we have those problems. And one of the challenges is that most sports have been until relatively recently, very badly governed. No checks and balances. I remember as a sort of backbencher in the sport daring to suggest in one council meeting we might have an audit committee. You'd have thought I'd have announced the culling of the firstborn in every family.”

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  12. “Well, I'm not saying British politics. I think British politics is in large part incredibly clean. Well, okay, but you compare it with models around the world, Alistair, you know, but sports, lesbian.”

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  13. “And what's going on? I'm not defending sport, although I probably by even starting off, I'm probably about to do that. I don't think there are any...”

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  14. “No, really not. Subsequently, it was pretty clear to me that there were just too much power in the hands of too few people. So I really then took a flamethrower to the sport. We rewrote the Constitution and we created something called the Athletic Integrity Unit. So we took the doping control out of the federation, away from politics where it is entirely independent and anonymously doped.”

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  15. “Allegations believed that, well, as it was subsequently proven in the French courts two years later, that there had been corruption on a fairly grand scale. And one element of it was that Russian athletes had been approached to have their tests either slowed down or disappear for extortion. And this had been taking place for some time. Then the circus starts, select committees, are you corrupt? Were you asleep? I was one of five vice presidents. 100, you know, you meet three or four times a year, but it doesn't matter. So I then.”

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  16. “Who was the senior prosecuting judge for cross-border corruption? And five hours later in a police station locally, I was advised that my predecessor had been arrested in Paris that morning. His son was on the run. The head of anti-doping had been arrested. The legal counsel had been arrested. the CEO a couple of days earlier had advised everybody who was going backpacking in Australia”

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  17. “Will you ever sort it out? Is it sorted out? Probably not. So I inherited a sport that I remember arriving having won the right to become president of the sport. I've been campaigning for two years for it. It wasn't a huge majority. But two weeks into the job. Somebody appeared. My receptionist came knocked on my office door. I'd only been in the building a couple of days. And he said, there are some people to come and see you. And I thought it was a nice local custom. There'll be a glass of champagne, a piece of cake. There were 17 French policemen, three from Interpol, and a mustachio guy who introduced himself as Judge Renault van Renbeck.”

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  18. “Brendan always tells me an interesting story. I mean, he imagined putting this into today's setting. Newcastle United would ring him up when he was organizing the Gateshead International meeting. And they'd say, Bren, are you going on Friday night or Saturday afternoon? And he'd say, well, why? He said, well, if you're going Saturday afternoon, we'll move our match to the Friday night. So the world has moved on. And it's not that athletics is really any less popular. It's just that you're in a very much more competitive landscape. And football is just, it controls everything.”

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  19. “Autopsy there, and they responded in a very different way. They created the Institute of Sport in Canberra, and it took 10, 12 years before it started to pay off. But Australian sport really did. We sort of thought, well, just one last heave will do it, and a few athletes will come along. Mercifully, they did. And in that period, I sort of... Came into view, Steve Ovett did a young Steve Cram, Daley Thompson Tessa Sanderson. And suddenly you had not just British athletes winning things domestically or even in Europe, you had them winning world titles, which outside of boxing we weren't doing in any other sport. And suddenly these were the Athletics was the backpage lead.”

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  20. “Athletics, we were lucky for one interesting set of circumstances. In the 70s, English football was not what it is now. We were banned from Europe. We had hooliganism and, you know, it was not a savory place to be. I mean, football fans still went, but you weren't that mad about your kids going. Are staple sports were really underperforming? We didn't have an Andy Murray in tennis. Cricket was sort of in and out rugby. you know, getting hammered pretty much. And then suddenly, off the back of the 76 games was a disaster. Brendan Foster was the only medalist in the British team on the track, and he got a bronze in the 10,000 meters. And, you know, we went back. And interestingly, Australia at that time had an equally disastrous 76. They didn't get really any virtually no, I don't think they got a single gold medal in swimming, which demanded almost a national.”

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  21. “Well, free to air television, of course. So you have only a handful of people relatively, in relative terms, are watching big title fights. They're watching it on pay-per-view. They're watching it on cable. It's not what it was. And this is one of the things that I've been really wrestling with and hopefully shifting a bit in terms of how athletics is seen, free-to-air television is really important for that. And everybody, you know, we talk a big game about all sorts of things. Television is still a very important medium for sport.”

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  22. “We'd got some momentum And Paris towards the end just stop making. They thought it was theirs to lose, which was fatal. And it allowed us to be very active right up to the last minute, including obviously the PM. And we just snuck across the line.”

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  23. “I just didn't want London to be embarrassed Because we'd had three previous bids, and I'm a great believer in regional cities, I was brought up in one, but we'd had two bids from Manchester that had really barely got double digits in terms of votes. We'd had one from Birmingham, perfectly good bids, but I just sensed that I'd always said if we throw London into the mix, then people will take it seriously. But we had had such a inauspicious start that I thought the most I'd be able to do was to make sure that the defeat wasn't an embarrassing one. It was only when we started to get into it that I realized that”

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  24. “Don't know. I don't think I probably think like that. Was it something that I thought could really make a difference? Yes. Did I wake up every morning thinking actually I have a purpose here? The first purpose was to... Actually, interestingly, when your boss asked me to take on the chair, if I'm being honest, the reason I took it on was I thought I didn't think we would win.”

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  25. “People's work. Look, he wasn't a bad mayor, and he did actually have some quite good people around him. And Neil Coleman Who was Ken's eminos? I actually persuaded Boris not to be tribal, not to get rid of people he thought were, you know, just sort of labor sturges. And Neil stayed on. And actually Boris and Neil worked incredibly well. I'm not, look, this is not an apologia for Boris Johnson, but I did see.”

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  26. “Putting out stuff that grows in. I don't know. I don't know, and I've never really met Liz Truss. I would slightly trim the Boris view. I did see Boris in the Olympic years. I saw him. He wasn't a bad”

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  27. “No, no, it's certainly not just the politicians, and it's certainly not just UK. I mean, I really enjoyed your book, and I enjoyed it on very many different levels and all the things that you've done. If I was able to trim in any particular direction, I think it is, I genuinely think politics is in large part an honorable profession. And I think it is in large part undertaken by people who genuinely do have an ethos of service and wanting to contribute. It's the different direction that you all take to probably come to pretty much the same landscape. I just, I sensed that your book was a little”

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  28. “If I'm being blunt here, I think political discourse in the last few years has reached an all-time low. And I don't think that is just.”

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  29. “No, I really didn't. Genuinely, I didn't. I mean, I was ambitious. I didn't want to be a PPS. I thought I could make a contribution. But I think if you've come from a background and sport is very objective, there's no subjectivity about it. In my sport, it was the stopwatch. It was a photo finish. It was, you know, you win all you lose. I think the thing that frustrates people that come into politics from different backgrounds, particularly if they're They come from very objective backgrounds, is just the ad hoc nature. Of preferment and the whip's office making judgments about abilities and talents.”

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  30. “That's where I'm going. That was never your. No, it really wasn't. And I know there's, you know, Michael Hesseltheim famously 25, 30, 40.”

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  31. “As the weeks pass, you realize actually how good he was. But we weren't a good government, and the electorate got it right. It was time for a change.”

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  32. “It's not whether it's a formidable Labour government, and at that point it was. I absolutely concede that you were all absolutely at the top of your game, your Chancellor was untouchable, Tony was... Teflon, you know, you'd got good people coming through. And look, the British electorate rarely make bad judgments. Well, a general election and a referendum are two entirely different things. I thoroughly disapprove of referendum. I really do. That's the abrogation of political responsibility doing that. But it was pretty clear to me that we were not, John Major was a thoroughly decent and a good guy.”

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  33. “So, my first role there was just to sort of connect things. And then I agreed to do two days. And then, of course, classically compromised on seven days a week for the next four years.”

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  34. “There was a clapped out fax machine, telephones that led nowhere. Yeah, we took the telephone. It was pretty clear that you had never been in there.”

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  35. “And you know what an election is like everybody lies. And we looked at the numbers and everybody was thinking that they got so many votes and James and I looked at it and went over there saying, well, so-and-so is going to support him. We're going, not in a million years. It doesn't matter what they've said. I remember him in the office. He used to lie then. I mean, so I ended up doing that. And then at the end of it, I said, right, I'm going off to do what I was happily going back to do, then I ended up as Williams deputy chief of staff. And then William said, look, could you do a few days? Because when you leave government after 18 years, there is no structure for opposition. We went into your old offices only to realize you'd never been in there because you ran the whole thing out of Millbank Towers.”

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  36. “Probably will get it. And he said, Well, who do you think it should be? I said, Well, if you're thinking long term, and I would go for something like William Hague. And I knew William a little bit. He was a Rotherham by Sheffield. Our paths crossed not politically, but as we were often on the same programs at the same, you know, calendar and Yorkshire television. And so I ended up, I actually got asked to introduce him at one of the election rallies. I think they were holding it up in Coventry. And then I did a little bit more. Went in there into the campaign team because of my background as a whit with James Arbuth, not actually who went on to become William's chief whip.”

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  37. “Yeah, probably. Yes, actually. Yes, that did bypass me at the time. And I said to him, I think there are two very different questions here. Who should it be and who”

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  38. “And that was slightly circuitous as well because it was Alan Duncan that came to me and said, who do you think should be the next party leader?”

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  39. “As reasonable progress, and then probably if I'd stay, you know, if I'd survived in the next five years, you'd have probably made it to junior or if you were doing okay, probably shadow. No, well, I wasn't, I didn't want to stay. I'm not very good in the rearview mirror, so I'd made the judgment that night when I lost the seat that I really couldn't. Bring myself to undying love to serve it in something.”

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  40. “Not really. And actually, the one thing I recognized, and it was probably from the athletic background, and you entered politics, it was an outlier time. The 97 election defeat had a massive impact, not just on a change of government. It took out one even two generations. So people got advanced far quicker. So when I went into parliament in 92, you did not expect to be, you know, if you were making sort of semi-decent progress, you were probably a PPS after a year and a half, which I was, I then did a year doing that. There was a resignation or a sacking I can't remember. There was a shuffle that ended up in the whip's office. And then for a period, ended up also as Michael Hesseltine's PPS when he became Deputy PM. So that was actually at that stage, that was seen.”

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  41. “Are you still dealing with money? I'm trying not to take it personally. In the land of our theory and legend, I honestly thought, like most people in politics, you know, at some point your time's going to be up. I didn't think I'd be taken out by a woman from Islington called Candy. Thank you, Alistair, for putting her in there.”

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  42. “Yes, at the end of a pretty traumatic night, I had the smallest swing against me in my constituency than any conservative constituency on the night.”

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  43. “It's a disadvantage. Yes, I do. And actually, interestingly, if I'd been a little harder nosed about it, I probably, because I wasn't an insider and because of that particular thought that, well, you know, he's only doing this because, you know, he wants to maintain a high profile and politics as a sort of secondary thought. It wasn't, it was the first thing I wanted to do. And I probably, if I'd been a bit cynical about it, would have gone for a safe seat. But I didn't want anybody to, I wanted a marginal seat. That if I won, I won off my own bat. Not because... I'd been parachuted into Kensington.”

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  44. “So that was a moment of candor from my agent. We've both had a few pints in the middle of the 92 election campaign. So it was an odd, I mean, I loved being in Cornwall. It was independent. It was a great streak of Yorkshire down there as well, where I sort of don't much like being told what to do. And it was a fascinating period, but you guys were untouchable in the 97th.”

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  45. “Inviting me to an interview on a Sunday morning in September and I had to pick up the phone to the chair of the association. So I'm really sorry, but I can't make that. And she said, well, what would be so important that you can't make that? I said, well, I'm running in the World Cup final in Barcelona. And she sort of, you could hear a sort of groaning on the phone. And she gave me an interview the following weekend at 9 o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in the Falmouth Hotel. I didn't actually make, as my agent subsequently told me, I didn't actually make the long list of 36. And it was only apparently two grandmothers in the constituency party that said, look, bring him down because we quite like to get autographs for our kids.”

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  46. “Well, no, the more interesting side of this is I went to see the candidates, Cecil Parkinson was chair of the candidates, and he had an old roller decks on his deck, and he pulled out and he said, you can try this one. I'd just got on the candidates list. You probably did the same thing the weekend in Slower, you know. Can you write and pick up a knife and fork? It's that sort of thing. And I went to see Cecil. And I'd known Cecil for a long time. Cecil is actually a good talented athlete. And he said, look, look at this one. It's Falmouth and Campbell. And he said, he said, don't worry. He said, you won't get elected there. They won't vote for anybody out of the county. But you can cut your teeth on this. And so I applied. I got a letter back.”

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  47. “Well, there have been a few. I mean, Ming. Actually, athletics had been well represented in the House of Commons because, of course, Christoway was postmaster general world 5,000 metre and a Commonwealth Empire Games champion, Amin Campbell. But yeah, it was an interesting experience. I mean, the whole process of politics is completely desirable.”

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  48. “We didn't because no, no, we didn't because one of the UK athletics officials realized this was not an ideal situation. So they sort of shuffled the pack around and we ended up sitting in different seats. And I don't think I saw him.”

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  49. “No, you didn't. I mean, the basis of athletics in my generation was very much club-based. So Steve's training partners were all from his club in Brighton. My training partners, because by that point, I'd moved to London. I was at Loughbury University, so I had training partners there. Then I moved to London and joined Harringay Athletic Club. So all my training partners were my clubmates.”

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  50. “On the flight going over to Moscow, I had arrived late and I sort of got onto the plane. The British team are all in the Hepworth suits. I remember I walked down the plane and I'm thinking please no. And somebody in the British Olympic Association obviously got a good sense of humour. It was the only vacancy next to Steve. We hadn't spoken, I mean, we didn't even really know each other.”

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