Although Coe has been forced to reverse his position on Russia, his history and business interests strongly suggest he is part of, and an enabler of, the problem - rather than part of a solution. He was visiting with and lauding the very same Russians only a week before the damning report.
His period as number 2 in the IAFA shows him repeatedly defending the dopers through denials which at best look like a man wearing self imposed blinkers, or possibly a woeful level of ill informed incompetence, or an alternative less palatable interpretation. It is inconceivable he was unaware of his bosses wholesale criminal activity, or the evidence passing his desk routinely of athletes dodgy results, and national institutional corruption.
Meanwhile his international consultancy is at the heart of the commercialisation that drives doping, and relies on schmoozing the senior players and athletes doing it. His conflict of interests in this is glaring.
He is the perfect man to run damage limitation and whitewash for sure, in part because he has skilfully managed his own PR to appear rather different to the above picture. He is for instance admired for delivering the London dopers olympics, despite it having been apparently sabotaged by dopers and inadequate testing.
