Coe oversaw the London 2012 Video games earlier than taking cost of World Athletics, and has additionally loved a profitable business and political profession.
Below Coe, World Athletics has banned transgender ladies from competing within the feminine class at worldwide occasions.
He may even be capable of level to his expertise, achievements and his willingness to determine the Athletics Integrity Unit – which has a robust popularity for catching dopers – within the competitors to switch Bach and develop into the primary Briton to go up the IOC.
“It is a motion I spent my complete life in,” he added.
“I really feel as if really I’ve in all probability been in coaching for all times for this so sure, it would be an enormous honour. I do not know if it is the hardest race I’ve ever run, however it’s the one I am greatest ready for.”
The brand new IOC president shall be elected in March 2025 and can take over in June.
“I believe there are some adjustments that should be made and basically round simply enabling the membership, the athletes, the Nationwide Olympic Committees, the worldwide federations, companions, broadcasters, to have better pores and skin within the sport and to assist construction the long run,” he stated.
“This is not the efforts of only one particular person. I believe it wants a collaborative, team-building transition.
“It will be a mistake to conclude that every part is rosy, the purple carpet is out in entrance of us, however we do must journey down it. I am very eager to offer constructions, governance constructions, significantly that permit gifted members to have the ability to form the route of the motion, and their voices to be not simply heard however acted upon.
“There are some massive elementary challenges that [the Olympics] confronts. Geopolitically, commercially, the relevance of the Video games… you do not need to be so disruptive, however I do assume it wants to vary.”
In a controversial transfer, World Athletics launched prize cash for gold medallists at Paris 2024 beneath Coe’s management.
Requested if he would encourage different sports activities to do the identical if he turns into IOC president, he added: “Sure, however I additionally must recognise that some sports activities usually are not going to be greatest positioned to create these budgets. That is why it is vital that there’s a readjustment in the best way sport is being funded, the best way Nationwide Olympic Committees are being funded.”