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William Hague talks to Seb Coe: Olympics, doping and the trans issue

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In his monthly episode for The Story, former foreign secretary and Times columnist Lord Hague sits down with Lord Sebastian Coe - gold medal winning Olympian, president of World Athletics, former Tory MP and William’s old chief of staff - to discuss how to tackle doping, should athletes from pariah nations be banned and finding a place for transgender competitors.

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Host: William Hague.

Guest: Lord Sebastian Coe, president, World Athletics.



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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:16.0

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 23% in 2023.

0:27.0

BP.com slash and not all.

0:30.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:36.2

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea.

0:39.5

It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:43.8

Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:46.3

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon

0:50.4

and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

0:56.1

2023 v..com slash and not all. From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

1:09.0

I'm William Haig. Hague.

1:15.0

My guess this month is my old friend.

1:18.0

Lord Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics and Gold Medal winning Olympian.

1:24.0

He's the man who brought the 2012 Olympics to London.

1:28.0

We spoke about how he got our late Queen to agree to that helicopter stunt with James Bond in the opening ceremony.

1:37.5

The first person I spoke to was the Princess Royal.

1:41.2

I had the challenge of explaining to her what was being

1:46.0

thought and Her Majesty would leave with James Bond and get into the helicopter

1:51.0

the helicopter would fly underneath the bridges and I would never in a

1:56.4

million years have guessed the first question I got.

2:01.8

We covered his recent visit to Ukraine to understand the challenges their athletes are facing.

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