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Coe Calls For Event Changes Due To Climate

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has outlined changes he believes the sport will need to make in the context of climate change. 

During the 69-year-olds campaign to become president of the international Olympic Committee at the start of 2025 he outlined the opportunity for certain summer Olympic sports to have their Winter based events moved into the Winter games . Questioning whether indoor track and field championships could be held during future winter olympiads. 

Following multiple changes to the schedule at September’s world championships in Tokyo for extreme heat, where temperatures exceeded 30 degrees alongside regular stints of 90% humidity. Coe has proposed that the Marathon would more than likely need to be moved away from the traditional Championships Calendar.

Ahmedabad Lining Up for Commonwealth Bid

The Indian city of Ahmedabad has reportedly presented a bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games. 

India last hosted the Games of New Delhi in 2010 which were shrouded in controversy due to athletes complaints of poor conditions in the village and a collapsing footbridge built for the games which led to many high profile athletes such as Mo Farah and Geraint Thomas deciding to pull out of the competition upon arrival to the capital city. Usain Bolt also missed the games citing ‘conflicting schedules’. The 11 days of competition were set to be India’s showcase that they could eventually play host to an Olympic games but due to low attendances and a revenue of only $38 million compared to a cost of $4.1 billion to stage the games India has been unable to produce a bid to host the Olympics in the following 15 years.

There is hope from the Indian delegation that due to the reduced number of events and rise of Indian athletes such as Neeraj Chopra that there will be no repeat of 2010 in what would be a celebration of 100 years of the Commonwealth games in a time when its existence is more under threat than ever.

2022 saw Birmingham take over from the South African city of Durban who were stripped of the hosting rights due to an inability to showcase adequate funds. Birmingham would go on to play host to 22 sports but rising costs lead to the effective bankruptcy of Birmingham City Council in 2023.

The 2026 games were due to take place across the Australian state of Victoria but after costs ballooned to an estimated $7 billion dollars they decided to withdraw. The…