Coe defends ban on athletes from ‘aggressor nations’

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, has mounted a robust defence of the organisation's ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes, saying "we couldn’t stomach the idea" of athletes competing for "aggressor nations".

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