Coe voices 'wrestling' fears for dope-hit athletics

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — Sebastian Coe warned Sunday athletics could be reduced from a sport to the 'entertainment' status of American professional wrestling if it doesn't win the battle to rid the sport of drugs cheats.

"We could end up with a situation like WWE wrestling where everyone knows it is fake and they don't care," Coe, the London 2012 Olympic Games organising committee chairman and vice-president of athletics's world governing body, the IAAF, told BBC Radio Five Live on Sunday.

"We have to hope we can turn it around, otherwise people will vote with their feet."

British middle-distance great Coe, twice the Olympic 1500m champion, is concerned that recent doping controverises, such as the jailing of American sprinter Marion Jones for lying about steroid use...