IOC move on election rules puts up legal hurdles to Coe running for top Olympic job

The IOC has clarified its complex election rules in a move that could block Sebastian Coe running for the top Olympic job. The Olympic governing body has set a deadline of Sunday to enter the race. A letter published Wednesday was sent by the International Olympic Committee’s ethics commission to the 111 members. Those members including Coe and several other likely candidates in a March election to succeed Thomas Bach as president. The two-page letter doesn't name Coe but specifies reasons why the 67-year-old leader of track and field's governing body would be ineligible to complete a full eight-year IOC mandate.