'It would be bizarre' – Sebastian Coe says UK Athletics parting ways with the London Stadium would be mistake

Sebastian Coe has warned UK Athletics that cutting ties with the Olympic Stadium would be detrimental to the sport in the country. UK Athletics have reportedly been offered £15 million to cut ties with the multi-purpose London Stadium, which also serves as the home to Premier League club West Ham.

Ad/> Coe believes that should the governing body take up the offer, it would be difficult for the UK to host World Athletics Championships in the coming years. AthleticsJackson sets meeting record with season-best time at Diamond League 200m in Rome09/06/2022 AT 20:06 The World Championships are a biennial athletics competition organised by World Athletics that London hosted once in 2017.

The stadium also hosted the World Para Athletics Championships the same year, making it the first time both events were hosted in the same stadium. 'Nobody wants to play against Serena' — Schett says players still 'scared' of 'rusty' Williams Kirby, Scott named in Euros squad, Houghton misses out Kyrgios smashes racquet, gives it to fan after beating Tsitsipas in Halle Coe, who formerly won four Olympic medals in the 1500m and 800m events, is currently president of World Athletics, having chaired the Olympics organising committee back when the city hosted the Summer Olympics in 2012.

“I’m very clear: we have to maintain, we should maintain, a really world-class presence for track and field in London,” Coe said in quotes reported by The Guardian. “It would be bizarre not to.

I want London to remain a stopping point for international athletics.” Should the deal go through, West Ham would be allowed to remake the stadium, which was built specifically for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, into a full-time football ground. However, the