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By Ed Warner Seb Coe, newly confirmed as one of seven candidates for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is regarded as a serial vote winner. It wasn’t always thus. Witness his single term in office as the MP for Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall, ousted by Candy Atherton as Labour swept to power in 1997. At least he trounced Gary Glitter (see table below). The IOC election will play to Coe’s strengths, however. Not an appeal to the masses this time, but a man- and woman-marking exercise, getting up close and personal with each of the 111 voting members over the coming…

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