NETFLIX AND THRILL

Coe excited about what streaming service can do globally for athletics in new series

- KEITH WEBSTER

SEBASTIAN COE believes Netflix is about to do for his sport what it did for F1, golf and tennis, by spreading the athletics gospel worldwide.

With 80 days left before the Paris Olympics, the World Athletics president is buzzing for a new series that will showcase closer to the Games' opening ceremony.

The six-episode special was largely filmed at last year's World Championships in Budapest and will focus mainly on sprinting.

The sport has had to deal with the 2017 retirement of Usain Bolt, whose worldwide appeal was magnetic, but American Noah Lyles will star in the documentary and offer proof that there is life after the Jamaican.