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FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates winning the women's 800m at the IAAF track and field Continental Cup in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Caster Semenya's lawyers say the Olympic champion is &quot;optimistic&quot; of victory in her appeal against IAAF rules designed to control naturally high levels of testosterone in female athletes. The statement on Friday, March 22, 2019 came a day after the CAS said a decision in the pivotal case would be delayed until the end of April to allow for more legal debate. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, file)

Semenya camp lashes out at Coe for opening ‘old wounds’

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

In this Saturday Aug. 25, 2018 photo, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Sebastian Coe waits at the medal ceremony for the men's marathon during the athletics competition at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Coe says China and Japan are the two most improved countries in athletics over the last six or seven years.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ready, set, go. Coe expects Asian track and field to boom

By JOHN PYE - Associated Press

Coe confident of “full house” at 2019 worlds in Qatar

By JOHN PYE - Associated Press

Russia's Anzhelika Sidorova makes an attempt in the women's pole vault final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Britain, Saturday, March 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Coe says Russians could be stopped from competing in track

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IAAF head Coe accused of misleading UK parliamentary inquiry

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FILE - In this Friday, June 17, 2016 file photo, IAAF President Sebastian Coe speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the IAAF Council at the Grand Hotel in Vienna, Austria. The IAAF has again refused to lift Russia's ban from international track and field. Track's world governing body unanimously accepted a recommendation from its Russia taskforce not to reinstate Russia. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)

IAAF leaves Russia track and field ban in place

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A minute's silence is held in memory of the victims of the Manchester concert blast prior to the start of the Great CityGames at Deansgate, in Manchester, England, Friday May 26, 2017. ( Martin Rickett/PA via AP)

IAAF head Coe: Sports can help Manchester’s healing process

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

IAAF freezing nationality switches, upholding Russia ban

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IAAF: Ex-Coe aide lied over payment, can still work in sport

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Coe asked to give more evidence to British doping inquiry

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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt who is nominated for the International Athletic Foundation &quot;2016 Athlete of the Year Award&quot;, gestures before a press conference, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, in Monaco. The IAAF 2016 World Athletics Gala will take place tonight in Monaco. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Reforms put daylight between old and new eras in athletics

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo of IOC President Thomas Bach as he speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. With the Russian doping scandal still causing discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders will meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

Doping Discord: Olympic summit to seek unity in drug fight

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 14, 2016, file photo, International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF, president, Britain's Lord Sebastian Coe, speaks during the WADA Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs), in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Russia makes last-minute plea for readmission of track team

By Nesha Starcevic and Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo Sebastian Coe Chairman of the London 2012 Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, left, talks with Lamine Diack President of the IAAF as they look at a map of the site of the London 2012 Olympics in London. Former IAAF President Lamine Diack was put under criminal investigation last week on suspicion of corruption and money laundering amid allegations linking his sons to extorting money from athletes who tested positive for doping. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

IAAF gives Russia deadline to respond to doping report

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

**FILE** Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, surrounded by officials, visits the Sheffield football stadium in Sheffield, England on April 16, 1989, where yesterday, 108 supporters were killed in a crush, at the start of a cup semi-final. (AP Photo)

Margaret Thatcher death doesn’t move Britain’s sports world

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

Performers dance on a stage set with London landmarks during the Closing Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Olympics closing ceremony 2012: Games to conclude with pop-party extravaganza

By Paul Haven - Associated Press

The Olympic Stadium will be the stage for “Isles of Wonder,” which will depict Britain’s past, present and future but will make athletes the “real stars,” Mr. Boyle said. (Associated Press)

Olympic opening ceremony will be spectacular but far from secret

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

**FILE** Britain's David Beckham holds the Olympic torch during the May 18, 2012, ceremony at RNAS Culdrose, in Cornwall, England, to mark the arrival of the Olympic flame to Britain from Greece. (Associated Press)

Beckham fails to make Britain’s Olympic squad

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

Former England football captain David Beckham waves to spectators on Thursday, May 17, 2012, in the Panathenaean stadium in Athens, during a ceremony to hand over the Olympic flame that will burn at the 2012 Summer Games in London. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

David Beckham: Soccer star to light Olympic cauldron

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Princess Anne of Britain holds the torch with the Olympic Flame during the handover ceremony of the Olympic Flame in Panathenian stadium in Athens on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece hands Olympic flame over to Britain

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press