The former pole-vault legend Sergey Bubka is poised to leap into the driving seat of world athletics should Lord Coe fill the vacant chair at the BBC Trust, an appointment which would mean the man who masterminded Britain’s 2012 Olympic triumph having to abandon his bid to become president of the sport’s governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Coe is currently favourite to succeed the octogenarian Senegalese judge Lamine Diack in next year’s election, but the BBC role would rule him out, appropriately leaving fellow vice- president Bubka in pole position. It would also mean Coe losing his automatic place on the International Committee, where he would be strongly fancied to become the next president more
