If last night's grilling of International Association of Athletics Federations president Sebastian Coe by Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow was anything to go by, the organisation headed by the former British Olympic gold medalist is in the eye of the storm as track and field deals with a massive doping and corruption scandal.
But is Coe the right man to ride out a storm which has already seen his predecessor Lamine Diack placed under investigation on corruption charges related to a doping cover-up?
"He's right when he says the sport has quickly united behind him. He's managed to carry this idea that there wasn't much he could do as a vice-president," said The Guardian's chief sports correspondent Owen Gibson.
"You can't really equate being the vice-president of an international sporting federation to being deputy executive of a company. Coe wasn't in the room when all the alleged activities were taking place and yes, he should have been more furious. Yes there were various allegations in the air that he would undoubtedly have known about.
"And the question as always with people who are involved in these slightly bizarre, international sporting bodies is you have to recognise the reality of the world that it is. These are global bodies, it does include the whole of the world you have to get to vote for you if you want to take power and yet there are ways of doing business and ways of behaving within a sporting context that are clearly not acceptable if you want to be a sport that's going to retain the trust of the watching public. So he has to walk that line and I think too often recently, he's been falling the wrong side of the line. He's been talking to his sporting constituency and forgetting there's a whole world out there who are pretty outraged and aghast at what they've discovered about athletics."
Gibson also discussed the criticism Coe has been facing over his role with his ties to sportswear brand Nike.
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