IAAF Diamond League 2015 - Sainsbury's Anniversary Games - Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, England - 24/7/15. British politician and former athlete Sebastian Coe talks to the media Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs.
LONDON (Reuters) - Sebastian Coe, the former Olympic champion in the running to become the next president of the world governing body of athletics, said the sport felt angry and betrayed over accusations it failed to investigate hundreds of "suspicious" drug test results.
A day after the IAAF hit back at last weekend's allegations by Britain's Sunday Times newspaper and Germany's ARD/WDR broadcaster, Coe made an impassioned defence of track and field, telling the BBC the claims were "a declaration of war" on the sport.
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