article_snippet: Lord Coe has warned against calls from the Ukrainian president to boycott World Cup 2018 in Russia over the conflict between the two nations.
article_snippet: Lord Coe, the former chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), believes sporting boycotts only 'damage competitors and athletes'.
article_snippet: Lord Coe believes that boycotts only serve to 'damage competitors and athletes' 'I will always oppose boycotts of sport, because I don't think boycotts actually achieve what boycotts set out to do,' said Lord Coe. '
article_snippet: The only people boycotts really damage are competitors and athletes.'
article_snippet: I think there has to be discussion of a boycott of this World Cup.
article_snippet: Conflicts have been ongoing between Ukraine and Russia, leading to a call for a 2018 this World Cup boycott . '
highlights_snippet: Lord Coe believes nobody should boycott the next World Cup in Russia .
  
highlights_snippet: Former LOCOG chairman says boycotts