Sebastian Coe and Sergey Bubka, candidates for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Presidency, have made their latest appeal to the 214 Member Federations on the crucial subject of athletics development - with Coe promising more direct revenue, and Bubka vowing to create more individualised development programmes.

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International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Presidential candidate Sergey Bubka has promised to double the amount of administrative grants for National Federations, while also calling for the sport's world governing body to appoint a chief executive.

The celebrations which marked the 50th Anniversary running of Oslo’s Bislett Games offered many great athletes the opportunity to reflect on the days of their youth. As the cavalcade of classic open-topped Ford Mustangs made its slow circuit of the Bislett Stadium track before the main meeting began, the waving passengers – John Walker, Roger Moens, Javier Sotomayor, Jan Zelezny, Ingrid Kristiansen, Henry Rono - received warm waves of applause. For many of those rising in acclaim, these middle aged but still largely trim and athletic figures had created indelible memories on this oval patch of ground.

No one was applauding more warmly than Svein Arne Hansen, recently elected President of European Athletics, who has been involved in every Bislett Games since 1965 in various forms, serving as meeting director from 1985 to 2009.

On a special night that was supposed to belong to established names such as Mutaz Essa Barshim, Bohdan Bondarenko and Genzebe Dibaba, the 50th Anniversary running of the Bislett Games - watched by illustrious past performers such as John Walker, Ingrid Kristiansen, Roger Moens, Henry Rono, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram - will be remembered instead for three unlikely victors in Britain’s 1500 metres runner Laura Muir, China’s high jumper Guowei Zhang and Israeli javelin thrower Marharyata Dorozhon.

Sebastian Coe, one of the honoured guests here for the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Bislett Games, has today unveiled details of a 100 Day Plan that he would put in place immediately if he is elected President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on August 19.

Awarding hosting rights for two championships and a new structure for European Athletics’ commissions will top the agenda during a landmark occasion for the sport this weekend here when President Svein Arne Hansen welcomes the Council to his home town for its first full meeting since its election in April.

In a move that taps into one of his great passions but which should not impose unduly on his overcrowded schedule, double Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe has been invited to join the Board of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Two days after UK Athletics issued a statement saying it had “absolutely no concerns” about Britain’s world and Olympic 5000 and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah continuing to work with coach Alberto Salazar, who is the subject of doping allegations, the UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner has suggested it might be best if the relationship ended, at least for the moment.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Presidential candidate Sebastian Coe has spoken of Asia's "enormous untapped athletics potential at elite level" during a visit to China ahead of the continental athletics championships.

Brendan Foster and Sebastian Coe are among those who have welcomed the European Athletics initiative in launching a new set of guidelines for runners and organisers involved in the increasingly popular phenomenon of road races across its 50 member federations, entitled “Running for All”.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Presidential candidate Sergey Bubka claims more should be done by the world governing body to help to engage more young people in athletics.

Sebastian Coe has called for alterations to be made to the global athletics calendar and claimed taking the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championships to Africa within the next decade would be a priority, while his rival for the Presidency Sergey Bubka has called for the sport to embrace technology and believes they must promote their athletes better.