Coe oversaw the London 2012 Video games earlier than taking cost of World Athletics, and has additionally loved a profitable industrial and political profession.
Underneath Coe, World Athletics has banned transgender girls from competing within the feminine class at worldwide occasions.
He will even have the ability to level to his expertise, achievements and his willingness to ascertain the Athletics Integrity Unit – which has a robust repute for catching dopers – within the competitors to exchange Bach and turn out to be the primary Briton to move up the IOC.
“It is a motion I spent my complete life in,” he added.
“I really feel as if truly I’ve most likely 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 finest ready for.”
The brand new IOC president can be elected in March 2025 and can take over in June.
“I believe there are some adjustments that have to be made and basically round simply enabling the membership, the athletes, the Nationwide Olympic Committees, the worldwide federations, companions, broadcasters, to have higher pores and skin within the recreation and to assist construction the longer term,” he stated.
“This is not the efforts of only one particular person. I believe it wants a collaborative, team-building transition.
“It could be a mistake to conclude that every little thing is rosy, the purple carpet is out in entrance of us, however we do should journey down it. I am very eager to offer constructions, governance constructions, notably that permit gifted members to have the ability to form the course 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 alter.”
In a controversial transfer, World Athletics launched prize cash for gold medallists at Paris 2024 underneath 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 should recognise that some sports activities should not going to be finest positioned to create these budgets. That is why it is necessary that there’s a readjustment in the way in which sport is being funded, the way in which Nationwide Olympic Committees are being funded.”