Of whether the World Championships could be moved to August or July to accommodate a London bid outside of the football season, Coe said: \u201cI can\u2019t speculate. That would be a [World Athletics] council judgment. We have a pretty clear, stated position that we want our world championships to finish as the conclusion of a season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did we do that? For a lot of our fans it was confusing. They didn\u2019t quite know why somebody would come out of a world championships or an Olympic Games and then go: \u2018OK, I know they won whatever it is, in the world championships, and then four days later they\u2019re in the Diamond League final.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd particularly when you have a very cluttered sporting calendar across winter and summer sports, we just felt we needed to do everything just to make our sport a little more understandable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Final submissions from bidding cities are required by early August, with a decision then made in September. The London bid has the support of the Government and London Mayor\u2019s office. Talks are ongoing and a West Ham statement earlier this month said: \u201cWest Ham United remain in a constructive dialogue with London Stadium regarding the potential dates for the proposed bid and await further information.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny decisions remain subject to the club\u2019s overriding priority clause, a contractual right ensuring West Ham United games take priority during the football season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of whether the World Championships could be moved to August or July to accommodate a London bid outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49288,133958,218,84747,160075,388,221,217,101,5438,56,54,55,157732,10091,54657,49084],"class_list":["post-496682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-athletics","tag-east-london","tag-football","tag-keely-hodgkinson","tag-live-priority","tag-london","tag-premier-league","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content","tag-west-ham-united-fc","tag-womens-sport","tag-world-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}