These interviews are so good. I always feel like Rory asks the most stimulating questions yet Alistair is needed to keep moving the conversation along whilst adding in his own light-hearted quips. We really get to see the background of these people.
The reason we don’t value our skills in Britain on the world stage, is because we don’t value each other, the “class” system is not meritocratic and we learn to snear and put each others successes down. We do not nurture each other. Lets start to have compassion and offer opportunity to all, and bring on talent.
Interesting conversation, but his last comment was a bit idiotic. If he doesn't recognise the Tory party that is currently in as sharing his values, why on earth give them the oxygen of support? You don't vote for ANY party just because of the name, but because of the policies it is promoting. 'I'm going to vote Conservative because I'm a Conservative' is just stupid if you don't share the values of those that have highjacked the party, and just serves to prolong the time it will spend in the wilderness because the ultra-right junta that currently run it can point to the percentage they get and say 'Well these people agree with us' and that will include you.
I dont think it is idiotic, I guess he is saying that he still shares more values with the current Tory party than with the current Labour Party despite the Tory party not being what he wants it to be. Kier Starmer is not a charismatic leader, he is lucky because he is up against Rishi Sunak who has a similar lack of appeal.
What a great interview! So great to hear from Coe again. Cheers from America! I am your biggest fan here Seb! In 1986 my family was in London visiting my sister, and the meet at the old Crystal Pslace just happened to be scheduled. I was 20, and took a taxi to the meet, and the underground back to the hotel. I’ll never forget Coe winning the 800 in 1:44. A lot of other greats won that day as well in their events. But Coe was always my favorite, and always will be. The greatest middle distance runner of all time, by far. I ran the 800 and the mile, and Sebastian Coe was my inspiration.
The 2012 Olympics went 76% over budget compared to the original bid and we ended up having to practically gift the stadium to West Ham United just to keep it in use. It always left a bad taste in my mouth.
Also non-British residents/ tax payers were allowed to buy flats in the former Olympic village as rental investments. Given taxpayers subsidised the construction, and later the conversion of the athletes’ village into flats, sales of the flats should have been limited to British settled residents/ taxpayers, or preferably owner occupiers. To make it worse foreign investors buying London property as investments had already been identified as one of the main causes of the London housing market skyrocketing, and yet calls to restrict purchasers of tax-payer funded homes was ignored.
Another great interview and a great watch so thank you for that. I found everything he said to be reasonable and interesting right up until the very end. Speaking as someone who has no political party background and who is not a follower or member of any specific party the idea the because he is a conservative he must therefore vote that way, despite the appalling damage done to this country by repeated and appalling versions of this government, is frankly cowardly. The jocular way he says he doesn't like elements of his party currently is to abdicate responsibility of leadership in such a lazy and ludicrous way it rendered most of what had been said before as pointless. If 'reasonable' conservatives do not stand up and say 'this is not good enough, this is not ok' then they are just as responsible as those making the terrible decisions that have caused this country enormous harm. To be clear, I am not in anyway referring to Brexit in anything I just said.
The idea that you need to be on the inside to change a broken party isn’t something to be dismissed. Equally the biases he will have had engrained him over several governments shouldn’t be undermined. People are happy to excuse mining communities refusing to vote Tory because of thatcher years after the fact, but when it goes the other way…
@@stevenburton5850 Forgive me. I wrote a reply then realised it was several paragraphs and this is youtube. I have no interest in which 'side' did what and when. I am only interested in the situation we have now and it seems to me what we need now are people from all 'sides' standing up for what is right for the country and that surely, surely must mean integrity in office, simple things like not lying, upholding standards etc etc. I don't care that the 'side' currently failing to do that is blue. So when a member of the 'blue side' on a podcast about leadership doesn't stand up and lead on those fundamental issues I think that is wrong and I don't think that is changing anything from the inside. Again, I am not against the idea of voting Tory in the future should they change. My points are not party political, simply a point about a lack of leadership that I think all reasonable right thinking 'blues' ought surely to be doing and by refusing to do it they then become part of the problem.
@@phillippowell7905 but it’s completely utopian and fails to acknowledge context, history or biases. Your patronising stance that anyone on RUclips isn’t capable of a conversation points to either complete arrogance or naivety. The fundamental differences in ideology behind conservatives and other parties remain. There is also a nuance between voting for your local MP, voting for your ideology and voting for a party. If you’re a Tory that believes that the conservative ideology is the right one in the long term then voting to stop the party being destroyed completely and allowing it a platform to rebuild from is a very fair reason to vote for the tories
@@stevenburton5850 Forgive me but you have misunderstood (reasonably) my youtube comment. I simply meant trying to speak about a complex issue in youtube comments is very difficult and will take pages and pages of discourse. Which makes this not a suitable context for a discussion like it. I meant no negative comment about you or the people that use youtube, people that include myself. Forgive me, but as a British citizen I do not accept it is utopian to demand my political representatives, of any party/colour, live up to the offices they hold and follow the basic rules that have been in place. That is the point I am making. Everyone should demand that of any party they vote for and scream bloody murder if they do not. When you are a card carrying member of a party who are not living up to those standards and you do not speak out, you are failing the people of this country. All the people of this country, and you are doing so for self serving reasons. As I said in my first comment. I enjoyed the podcast, I enjoyed Mr Coe and his comments right up until, in my opinion, he failed to lead. You are of course welcome to disagree with me and I fully respect your views if I agree with them or not.
Anyone who saw Steve Cram float over the track knows Seb wasn't even the most graceful British runner. I saw them at the same meet and Cram looked super human.
Absolute rubbish. Coe was the Federer of his time, all gracefulness and elegant style - like Beckenbauer in football. Ovett was a great athlete but he was a bruiser who didn't stand any nonsense in the hurly burly of a race - which was fair enough in my view. Cram was also a great athlete but his style was different: more of a power athlete with those long legs stretching out. A great sight and a great athlete but there was nothing particularly graceful about his style of running.
I would disagree. Ovett was the 'Federer' of his time (if that is an accurate phrase) and visibly the most fluid and naturally talented (as Coe says in the interview) . Coe was exeptionally efficient and wasted no energy but still marvellous to watch. @@martydav9475
@@martydav9475 you haven't a clue, Federer would be a cart horse after 3 laps. Ovett was a kicker, he had sat on shoulders and would out pace in the finishing straight after kicking around 200m out. Which explains what happened at a Euro team meet 800m when Seb set off crazy fast, Ovett tracked him and Seb died in the home straight and the bad pacing meant Bauer overtook them both. No way they wouldn't have finished 1-2 but for that ugly piece of running where Coe engineered defeat for the British team. No bruisers can cruise fast, then kick off it.
@@KimTebrok seriously he was tall and fluid poetry in motion, Coe is shorter and didn't eat up the ground in the same way, it looked much harder effort.
Fascinating-Supreme athlete his training regimes were legendary, just disappointed in his politics considering he spent a lot of time in Sheffield. Needs to talk about his running more.
I was with him until he said he would vote for this lot to remain in gov't. I am afraid that statement undermined pretty much all the impressive work he had articulated up to then. It seems almost damned unpatriotic for someone with his knowledge and experience to say or even think to keep these people in power. Does he want this country to disappear round the U bend? I have never before heard Coe speak in a long form interview and I unexpectedly enjoyed it a great deal, and was greatly surprised by much of it. Shame about the last bit.
There are ten million or so in this country who are natural Conservatives and who will pretty much always vote Tory but it doesn't necessarily mean they support this particular version of the Tory party as some are on the left of the party, some in the centre and some on the right but One Nation Tories will still vote Tory. Coe by the way was, I think, a Remainer and was opposed to Brexit. Similarly with Labour: traditional Labour supporters will vote for Blair's Labour, Corbyn's Labour and now Starmer's Labour.
Like most tories these days, self centred and seems to lack conviction in his politics. Should stick to his athletics where he was a legend and has done a good job.
@@martydav9475If you vote for the tories, you're quite literally voting for this lot, though - there is not a single way you could endorse their actions more than voting for them to continue. Look at Canada post-Campbell, for example - conservatives don't have to permanently be loyal to one single party, and by continuing to do so, they're damning their own ideology to failure
Good interview. Coe's response to Alistair's last question was very disappointing. He unfortunately falls into the category of I will vote Tory because of some vision of what some future Tory party might be. He should vote based on the policies principles and direction the part is Now. Come on Seb you are better than tribalism.
It was pathetic, no intelligent British person with integrity could even consider voting for this venal corrupt group of ignorant incompetents that have self-created a crisis then through poor leadership killed a huge number of us through their shambolic criminal negligence and arrogance.
Excellent. Until the very end when he said he woujld support the present Conservative lot. How can one.? The Conservative party possibly won't really exist for much longer.....
Difficult to say really. The moderate, sensible One Nation Tories have largely been replaced by appalling hard-right Tories but they might possibly come to their senses if they have a bad election. Or of course they might go even further to the right and elect someone like the appalling Braverman.
I live and vote in the Netherlands. Used to be a Brit. We have a multipartied PR system (approx 30 parties). So viewed from over here, the UK system appears confrontational, self defeating., limited, not representative and franlky not fit for purpose.........Dutch system not perfect of course......@@martydav9475
@@willrelf1377I'm not a Tory (lifelong Labour supporter) but that's just unnecessary prejudice - what about Tory MP David Davis who stepped in and stopped that thug who was kicking a homeless man near the House of Commons recently?
Great interview. Sad that Seb will vote Tory regardless of their current policies, principles and direction. He is misguided in voting for them with some personalised vision of what he would like the Tory party to be. A reality check needed Seb.
I'm not clear why he thinks only women's elite sports need protecting. Is that what he means? Is this just a 'get out of jail' ploy, to divert some of the fury?
missed opp to delve into global sports politics. Seb was up for it, and i think a little disappointed in his interviewers. Head of IOC for 12 years or 3 yeas as uk foreign sec? What are your views on balancing one nation one vote vs where the money sits? how do your square global sporting events vs climate change? tell me more how natioanal interests affect global sports? in your eyes what was the pivotal point when sports politics moved from gentlement to crooks, and now in its current form? how would you solve the common wealth games problem, or would you? however, they both wen back to the personal.
So London got it's levelling up. The south always gets all the investment. Parliament and the whole civil service needs moving to Manchester or things will never change.
Why Manchester? It already has better infrastructure than most fo the rest of the North. Why not Leeds? Yorkshire has a population the size of Wales but gets 10% of the infrastructure funding - or even the North East, which seems to be the 'real' forgotten North.
@@simonfrost7094 Prior to being broken up Lancashire had the highest population outside London and I assume it still does if we are talking about historic counties. The North East is too far away from just about everywhere else. Leeds wouldn't be a terrible choice, just not the best choice ;-)
The HS2 and Brexit disaster underlines why and how bad Britain can be at organising infrastructure projects. The British people make horrible, horrible political calls. Johnson is foul, no matter which way you cut it. He was a terrible mayor.
So the issue of trans people in sport is in Coe's estimation is that it should apply only to elite sports and there is no problem in "participatory" sports. That means 15 large hulking men can declare themselves female and take on an all-female rugby team in a local league. That would work out well for the biological females.
Well Rugby isn’t under coes jurisdiction, in England it’s governed by the RFU who have already ruled that people who have transitioned from male to female cannot play women’s rugby at all levels.
I don't think I can bear to hear him spout such insulting nonsense. Men are setting new world records in women's sport that no woman will ever beat. It's taken so long to get any decent status for women's sports and opinions like his are going to kill it. Why would even the most talented woman commit to a sport where the world record is unbreakable cos it was set by a man? It's cheating. All sports should have two categories: Open, and born female. That's it. Trans women can compete in the Open category along with non-binaries, trans men and natal men. It shouldn't be a problem for them. Heck, even natal women could compete in the Open category if they want to (they don't).
I really don't understand why you were so soft on Seb Coe over his I always vote Conservative line. When they are to the right of Genghis Khan, that suggests he supports those policies
After less than 5 mins in and I already get annoyed listening to S. Coe… Having listened to it all I am now convinced I was right in my first opinion of S.Coe 😂
He used to work at the University in my home town. As teenagers, friends of mine passed him and said 'Hi Sebastian' he told them to piss off. Nobody in the town liked him much
I never really liked Seb Coe, I guess it was simple political bias on my part.. But I really enjoyed that, he's a fascinating bloke and especially enjoyed his family history. thanks Rory and Alastair
Coe was a good athlete but his achievements off the track are mostly thanks to his connections to the privileged establishment . A working class athlete would never have been accepted in a leading role. His continued support for the Conservative Party exposes his lack of human decency and judgment.
So the response to the transgender question just demonstrated how out of touch the governing body is. The response was more about 'protecting' the misogynistic and ironically testosterone-driven opinion of the members (who's male athletes are concerned about being beaten by a transgender human being). The solution is simple, abolish 'gender' as a basis and have testosterone categories, much like we do with age-related categories.
That is, and I don't mean to be harsh, a ridiculous solution. Sport should remain sex segregated. Instead we should introduce an open category for trans athletes
Rory is an entitled posh kid who got annoyed when others didn’t think he was as brilliant as he himself thought he was. He was quite happy to go along with the tories and asterirty when he thought he had a chance of carrerrr progression and power. He only left when he finally realised that wasn’t going to happen. Alistair is perhaps the most unpleasant deluded narcissist I have ever seen on screen. He repeatedly bashes the tories deservedly for their lack of morals, whilst believing his own lack of morality, wide accounts of bullying, blackmail, etc are justified because he the one doing it and thus justified. Not to mention his frequent dismal of the Iraq, like he he didn’t actively pursue a war which killed millions. Despite this they do interview interesting people and cover topics frequently not discussed. The content is goods. The two hosts are abhorrent.
Coe comes across as a very likeable character. Campbell as ever shows flashes of charm, which seem still brighter against the clear reality of his brutally unpleasant character. I'd have liked a lot more focus on the future of the administration of sport from Coe but all in all a worthwhile interview.
Coe has become a lot less pompous over the years and is much more engaging than he once might have been. As for Campbell, he has mellowed and he's had struggles with alcohol and depression. We've all got our faults and he's alright in my book.
What do we think is going on here? The first example in human history of a "winner" who is tired of being reminded of their victory, or someone who supported brexit who now realises they were conned?
He was an excellent runner but his politics are naive and limited. For anyone who votes Tory has no credibility and no respect for the ordinary person. He really hasnt made any difference to sport in this country There is a lack of sports in schools and across the country this government closed all the sports centres. So for a sports champion I would say his influence has been poor.
These interviews are so good. I always feel like Rory asks the most stimulating questions yet Alistair is needed to keep moving the conversation along whilst adding in his own light-hearted quips. We really get to see the background of these people.
The reason we don’t value our skills in Britain on the world stage, is because we don’t value each other, the “class” system is not meritocratic and we learn to snear and put each others successes down. We do not nurture each other. Lets start to have compassion and offer opportunity to all, and bring on talent.
Interesting conversation, but his last comment was a bit idiotic. If he doesn't recognise the Tory party that is currently in as sharing his values, why on earth give them the oxygen of support? You don't vote for ANY party just because of the name, but because of the policies it is promoting. 'I'm going to vote Conservative because I'm a Conservative' is just stupid if you don't share the values of those that have highjacked the party, and just serves to prolong the time it will spend in the wilderness because the ultra-right junta that currently run it can point to the percentage they get and say 'Well these people agree with us' and that will include you.
I dont think it is idiotic, I guess he is saying that he still shares more values with the current Tory party than with the current Labour Party despite the Tory party not being what he wants it to be. Kier Starmer is not a charismatic leader, he is lucky because he is up against Rishi Sunak who has a similar lack of appeal.
What a great interview! So great to hear from Coe again. Cheers from America! I am your biggest fan here Seb! In 1986 my family was in London visiting my sister, and the meet at the old Crystal Pslace just happened to be scheduled. I was 20, and took a taxi to the meet, and the underground back to the hotel. I’ll never forget Coe winning the 800 in 1:44. A lot of other greats won that day as well in their events. But Coe was always my favorite, and always will be. The greatest middle distance runner of all time, by far. I ran the 800 and the mile, and Sebastian Coe was my inspiration.
The 2012 Olympics went 76% over budget compared to the original bid and we ended up having to practically gift the stadium to West Ham United just to keep it in use.
It always left a bad taste in my mouth.
Also non-British residents/ tax payers were allowed to buy flats in the former Olympic village as rental investments.
Given taxpayers subsidised the construction, and later the conversion of the athletes’ village into flats, sales of the flats should have been limited to British settled residents/ taxpayers, or preferably owner occupiers.
To make it worse foreign investors buying London property as investments had already been identified as one of the main causes of the London housing market skyrocketing, and yet calls to restrict purchasers of tax-payer funded homes was ignored.
Another great interview and a great watch so thank you for that. I found everything he said to be reasonable and interesting right up until the very end. Speaking as someone who has no political party background and who is not a follower or member of any specific party the idea the because he is a conservative he must therefore vote that way, despite the appalling damage done to this country by repeated and appalling versions of this government, is frankly cowardly. The jocular way he says he doesn't like elements of his party currently is to abdicate responsibility of leadership in such a lazy and ludicrous way it rendered most of what had been said before as pointless.
If 'reasonable' conservatives do not stand up and say 'this is not good enough, this is not ok' then they are just as responsible as those making the terrible decisions that have caused this country enormous harm.
To be clear, I am not in anyway referring to Brexit in anything I just said.
The idea that you need to be on the inside to change a broken party isn’t something to be dismissed.
Equally the biases he will have had engrained him over several governments shouldn’t be undermined. People are happy to excuse mining communities refusing to vote Tory because of thatcher years after the fact, but when it goes the other way…
@@stevenburton5850 Forgive me. I wrote a reply then realised it was several paragraphs and this is youtube. I have no interest in which 'side' did what and when. I am only interested in the situation we have now and it seems to me what we need now are people from all 'sides' standing up for what is right for the country and that surely, surely must mean integrity in office, simple things like not lying, upholding standards etc etc.
I don't care that the 'side' currently failing to do that is blue. So when a member of the 'blue side' on a podcast about leadership doesn't stand up and lead on those fundamental issues I think that is wrong and I don't think that is changing anything from the inside.
Again, I am not against the idea of voting Tory in the future should they change. My points are not party political, simply a point about a lack of leadership that I think all reasonable right thinking 'blues' ought surely to be doing and by refusing to do it they then become part of the problem.
@@phillippowell7905 but it’s completely utopian and fails to acknowledge context, history or biases. Your patronising stance that anyone on RUclips isn’t capable of a conversation points to either complete arrogance or naivety.
The fundamental differences in ideology behind conservatives and other parties remain. There is also a nuance between voting for your local MP, voting for your ideology and voting for a party. If you’re a Tory that believes that the conservative ideology is the right one in the long term then voting to stop the party being destroyed completely and allowing it a platform to rebuild from is a very fair reason to vote for the tories
@@stevenburton5850 Forgive me but you have misunderstood (reasonably) my youtube comment. I simply meant trying to speak about a complex issue in youtube comments is very difficult and will take pages and pages of discourse. Which makes this not a suitable context for a discussion like it. I meant no negative comment about you or the people that use youtube, people that include myself.
Forgive me, but as a British citizen I do not accept it is utopian to demand my political representatives, of any party/colour, live up to the offices they hold and follow the basic rules that have been in place. That is the point I am making. Everyone should demand that of any party they vote for and scream bloody murder if they do not.
When you are a card carrying member of a party who are not living up to those standards and you do not speak out, you are failing the people of this country. All the people of this country, and you are doing so for self serving reasons.
As I said in my first comment. I enjoyed the podcast, I enjoyed Mr Coe and his comments right up until, in my opinion, he failed to lead.
You are of course welcome to disagree with me and I fully respect your views if I agree with them or not.
Please can you provide time stamps for the segments of your podcast either embedded or as a comment. Love the podcast, keep up the good work.
Sep Coe , greatest runner I’ve ever seen . Watching him in Moscow got me into running for life !
Absolutely brilliant interview, even distracted me from my new year’s hangover!
Richard Tice in running shoes.
A very interesting interview. We had a great era in Athletics when Ovett, Coe and Cram competed at 800m and 1500m.
Wasn't this man in charge when we had all those scandals in sports and when questioned, he didn't know anything about it?
Anyone who saw Steve Cram float over the track knows Seb wasn't even the most graceful British runner. I saw them at the same meet and Cram looked super human.
Cram absolutely fantastic athlete & love him as a commentator too🙌
Absolute rubbish. Coe was the Federer of his time, all gracefulness and elegant style - like Beckenbauer in football.
Ovett was a great athlete but he was a bruiser who didn't stand any nonsense in the hurly burly of a race - which was fair enough in my view.
Cram was also a great athlete but his style was different: more of a power athlete with those long legs stretching out. A great sight and a great athlete but there was nothing particularly graceful about his style of running.
I would disagree. Ovett was the 'Federer' of his time (if that is an accurate phrase) and visibly the most fluid and naturally talented (as Coe says in the interview) . Coe was exeptionally efficient and wasted no energy but still marvellous to watch. @@martydav9475
@@martydav9475 you haven't a clue, Federer would be a cart horse after 3 laps.
Ovett was a kicker, he had sat on shoulders and would out pace in the finishing straight after kicking around 200m out. Which explains what happened at a Euro team meet 800m when Seb set off crazy fast, Ovett tracked him and Seb died in the home straight and the bad pacing meant Bauer overtook them both. No way they wouldn't have finished 1-2 but for that ugly piece of running where Coe engineered defeat for the British team.
No bruisers can cruise fast, then kick off it.
@@KimTebrok seriously he was tall and fluid poetry in motion, Coe is shorter and didn't eat up the ground in the same way, it looked much harder effort.
Fascinating-Supreme athlete his training regimes were legendary, just disappointed in his politics considering he spent a lot of time in Sheffield. Needs to talk about his running more.
I was with him until he said he would vote for this lot to remain in gov't. I am afraid that statement undermined pretty much all the impressive work he had articulated up to then. It seems almost damned unpatriotic for someone with his knowledge and experience to say or even think to keep these people in power. Does he want this country to disappear round the U bend? I have never before heard Coe speak in a long form interview and I unexpectedly enjoyed it a great deal, and was greatly surprised by much of it. Shame about the last bit.
There are ten million or so in this country who are natural Conservatives and who will pretty much always vote Tory but it doesn't necessarily mean they support this particular version of the Tory party as some are on the left of the party, some in the centre and some on the right but One Nation Tories will still vote Tory.
Coe by the way was, I think, a Remainer and was opposed to Brexit.
Similarly with Labour: traditional Labour supporters will vote for Blair's Labour, Corbyn's Labour and now Starmer's Labour.
Like most tories these days, self centred and seems to lack conviction in his politics. Should stick to his athletics where he was a legend and has done a good job.
@@martydav9475If you vote for the tories, you're quite literally voting for this lot, though - there is not a single way you could endorse their actions more than voting for them to continue.
Look at Canada post-Campbell, for example - conservatives don't have to permanently be loyal to one single party, and by continuing to do so, they're damning their own ideology to failure
Good interview. Coe's response to Alistair's last question was very disappointing. He unfortunately falls into the category of I will vote Tory because of some vision of what some future Tory party might be. He should vote based on the policies principles and direction the part is Now. Come on Seb you are better than tribalism.
It was pathetic, no intelligent British person with integrity could even consider voting for this venal corrupt group of ignorant incompetents that have self-created a crisis then through poor leadership killed a huge number of us through their shambolic criminal negligence and arrogance.
There is nothing worse than being 'good chaps' in an era of civilisational devolution.
Great person to hear talk but different questions posed to what I have heard before. Enjoyable.
That was the most enthralling interview with an inspiring guest hosted by two stalwart gentlemen 👏👍👌
Excellent. Until the very end when he said he woujld support the present Conservative lot. How can one.? The Conservative party possibly won't really exist for much longer.....
Difficult to say really. The moderate, sensible One Nation Tories have largely been replaced by appalling hard-right Tories but they might possibly come to their senses if they have a bad election. Or of course they might go even further to the right and elect someone like the appalling Braverman.
I live and vote in the Netherlands. Used to be a Brit. We have a multipartied PR system (approx 30 parties). So viewed from over here, the UK system appears confrontational, self defeating., limited, not representative and franlky not fit for purpose.........Dutch system not perfect of course......@@martydav9475
There’s no such thing as a Good Tory.
@@willrelf1377I'm not a Tory (lifelong Labour supporter) but that's just unnecessary prejudice - what about Tory MP David Davis who stepped in and stopped that thug who was kicking a homeless man near the House of Commons recently?
@@martydav9475 Homelessness has increased175% since the government that David Davis is part of got into power.
Great interview. Sad that Seb will vote Tory regardless of their current policies, principles and direction. He is misguided in voting for them with some personalised vision of what he would like the Tory party to be. A reality check needed Seb.
I'm not clear why he thinks only women's elite sports need protecting. Is that what he means? Is this just a 'get out of jail' ploy, to divert some of the fury?
He means women need separate category in elite sport because if they were up against men, they would lose because men are faster and stronger.
As a runner, top notch . . . but, shall we leave it there. I certainly will.
And then this introduction from Alastair, truly sickening . . . turns the milk.
Don’t forget Steve Ovett😨🙌
Seb and Steve had a great rivalry on the athletics track.
Thoroughly enjoyable conversation.
Mildly unsuited to being PM🤔😂😂🤣
missed opp to delve into global sports politics. Seb was up for it, and i think a little disappointed in his interviewers. Head of IOC for 12 years or 3 yeas as uk foreign sec? What are your views on balancing one nation one vote vs where the money sits? how do your square global sporting events vs climate change? tell me more how natioanal interests affect global sports? in your eyes what was the pivotal point when sports politics moved from gentlement to crooks, and now in its current form? how would you solve the common wealth games problem, or would you? however, they both wen back to the personal.
By the way I checked out Seb Coe's family tree, he has got some serious history on his mum's side. Very impressive!!
Sorry, but he has so many questions to answer with regards to the corruption in the Olympic movement.
Sadly, I’ll never get over him being a Tory MP. Impressive, as he might be as an ex-athlete & leader of sports etc.
Wait till you find out which party Rory was a part of.
I’m aFalmothian this block was a crap M P
So London got it's levelling up. The south always gets all the investment. Parliament and the whole civil service needs moving to Manchester or things will never change.
Why Manchester? It already has better infrastructure than most fo the rest of the North. Why not Leeds? Yorkshire has a population the size of Wales but gets 10% of the infrastructure funding - or even the North East, which seems to be the 'real' forgotten North.
@@simonfrost7094 Prior to being broken up Lancashire had the highest population outside London and I assume it still does if we are talking about historic counties. The North East is too far away from just about everywhere else. Leeds wouldn't be a terrible choice, just not the best choice ;-)
He reminds me of Michael Palin. 😊 Can you invite him?
The HS2 and Brexit disaster underlines why and how bad Britain can be at organising infrastructure projects. The British people make horrible, horrible political calls. Johnson is foul, no matter which way you cut it. He was a terrible mayor.
"I would trim the Boris view" hmmmmmmm.
Sorry Seb. Johnson was an atrocious mayor.
So the issue of trans people in sport is in Coe's estimation is that it should apply only to elite sports and there is no problem in "participatory" sports. That means 15 large hulking men can declare themselves female and take on an all-female rugby team in a local league. That would work out well for the biological females.
Well Rugby isn’t under coes jurisdiction, in England it’s governed by the RFU who have already ruled that people who have transitioned from male to female cannot play women’s rugby at all levels.
I don't think I can bear to hear him spout such insulting nonsense. Men are setting new world records in women's sport that no woman will ever beat. It's taken so long to get any decent status for women's sports and opinions like his are going to kill it. Why would even the most talented woman commit to a sport where the world record is unbreakable cos it was set by a man? It's cheating. All sports should have two categories: Open, and born female. That's it. Trans women can compete in the Open category along with non-binaries, trans men and natal men. It shouldn't be a problem for them. Heck, even natal women could compete in the Open category if they want to (they don't).
That is not, in fact, what it means
give over
No corruption involved in winning the Olympics Seb??
I really don't understand why you were so soft on Seb Coe over his I always vote Conservative line. When they are to the right of Genghis Khan, that suggests he supports those policies
What's up with the 'polticial discourse' typo in the video thumbnail? That's a whopper!
Best interview yet. Wish you'd not interupt him every question though.
After less than 5 mins in and I already get annoyed listening to S. Coe…
Having listened to it all I am now convinced I was right in my first opinion of S.Coe 😂
He used to work at the University in my home town. As teenagers, friends of mine passed him and said 'Hi Sebastian' he told them to piss off. Nobody in the town liked him much
Came across as a honest man .
I never really liked Seb Coe, I guess it was simple political bias on my part.. But I really enjoyed that, he's a fascinating bloke and especially enjoyed his family history. thanks Rory and Alastair
Coe & Campbell are the same age
"Polticial"? Thumbnailed it.
I don’t remember there being a coe-bot… there may have been an ovett ovation though.
Still, he did alright I guess.
Coe is wrong. Mrs Thatcher wasn't a centrist but she was a winner. He's forgotten his history.
Coe was a good athlete but his achievements off the track are mostly thanks to his connections to the privileged establishment . A working class athlete would never have been accepted in a leading role.
His continued support for the Conservative Party exposes his lack of human decency and judgment.
I’ve always disliked Seb…but after listening to him for ten minutes I realised I’m an 😊idiot!
So the response to the transgender question just demonstrated how out of touch the governing body is. The response was more about 'protecting' the misogynistic and ironically testosterone-driven opinion of the members (who's male athletes are concerned about being beaten by a transgender human being).
The solution is simple, abolish 'gender' as a basis and have testosterone categories, much like we do with age-related categories.
I'm sure Nigel Bradshaw has all the answers...
No. The solution is two categories: Open to anyone, and Born Female. There's more to sex-based advantage than T levels.
That is, and I don't mean to be harsh, a ridiculous solution. Sport should remain sex segregated. Instead we should introduce an open category for trans athletes
"......what are you worried about?" Says a bloke that wont have to foot ANY of the massive cost overuns and only has to watch it on TV.
How the heck has an awfull spin doctor, a failed politican and a runner got to the level of comment on anything.
Lovely cuddly people!
Because they're all interesting and intelligent people capable of having thought-provoking, interesting conversations.
Rory and Alastair are heads and shoulders above most commentators. Who would you suggest listening to?
How about nobody
@@martydav9475 who's thoughts and who's ideas.
Rory is an entitled posh kid who got annoyed when others didn’t think he was as brilliant as he himself thought he was. He was quite happy to go along with the tories and asterirty when he thought he had a chance of carrerrr progression and power. He only left when he finally realised that wasn’t going to happen. Alistair is perhaps the most unpleasant deluded narcissist I have ever seen on screen. He repeatedly bashes the tories deservedly for their lack of morals, whilst believing his own lack of morality, wide accounts of bullying, blackmail, etc are justified because he the one doing it and thus justified. Not to mention his frequent dismal of the Iraq, like he he didn’t actively pursue a war which killed millions. Despite this they do interview interesting people and cover topics frequently not discussed. The content is goods. The two hosts are abhorrent.
HS2 will pay off, and it will make sense. Just you wait.
It doesn't really exist anymore, so...
@@alan_davis Well, that's sad...
dreaming
Coe comes across as a very likeable character. Campbell as ever shows flashes of charm, which seem still brighter against the clear reality of his brutally unpleasant character. I'd have liked a lot more focus on the future of the administration of sport from Coe but all in all a worthwhile interview.
Coe has become a lot less pompous over the years and is much more engaging than he once might have been.
As for Campbell, he has mellowed and he's had struggles with alcohol and depression. We've all got our faults and he's alright in my book.
Completely soft ball
yet again AC has to get Brexit in the discussion. Sore loser? Give it a rest please.
No, screw you.
What do we think is going on here?
The first example in human history of a "winner" who is tired of being reminded of their victory, or someone who supported brexit who now realises they were conned?
A national disaster - we should still be talking about it and being outraged
Rory's asides .. need editing out
He was an excellent runner but his politics are naive and limited. For anyone who votes Tory has no credibility and no respect for the ordinary person. He really hasnt made any difference to sport in this country
There is a lack of sports in schools and across the country this government closed all the sports centres. So for a sports champion I would say his influence has been poor.