Defending an Olympic title might have been something that Seb Coe made look impressively easy but defending the indefensible, he discovered here in Monaco on Thursday night, is more difficult. Never has Coe looked more uncomfortable and never — even after agreeing to surrender the position at Nike that has so compromised the first three months of his presidency at the crisis-hit IAAF — has he appeared more arrogant. He said he had not stood down from his £100,000 ambassadorial role because of an email leaked to the BBC. It revealed that he had conducted what, to most observers, looked like a highly inappropriate conversation with the American sportswear giant in his then-role as the vice-president of his sport's world governing body.Lord Coe has stood down from £100,000-a-year Nike ambassadorial roleThe new IAAF President had a six-figure ambassador role with NikeCoe: 'It is clear that perception and reality have become horribly mangled'Emails suggested he lobbied on Nike's behalf for IAAF to award 2021 World Championships to Eugene, close to company's headquartersEugene were handed the event without a formal bidding process
He will go flanked by _ doping officers but they may not save him from another inquisition.