Coe pips Bubka to top athletics job, vows 'zero tolerance' on drugs

Sebastian Coe pipped Sergey Bubka in a tight vote to become world athletics chief on Wednesday and vowed "zero tolerance" for drug cheats, who have thrown the sport into turmoil. The British former Olympic champion runner received 115 votes to Bubka's 92, and will take over from 82-year-old IAAF president Lamine Diack with the fight against doping at the top of his agenda. Coe likened his victory, at an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Congress in Beijing, to celebrating