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Spectator sport

A World Championships that puts Sebastian Coe on the right track

Plus: the giants of rugby and their splendidly incongruous digs

5 September 2015

9:00 AM

5 September 2015

9:00 AM

Sebastian Coe’s new job as head of world athletics will be a heck of a lot easier thanks to the outstanding World Championships that just finished in Beijing. He has a chance to push athletics back to the forefront of world sport — after all, what is more thrilling than one human being trying to outrun another? The star was Usain Bolt, but even that unassuming giant of a man cannot go on for ever.

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