Newsmakers

Elected Two-time 1,500-meter Olympic champion Sebastian Coe has won a four-year term as president of the governing body for track and field, beating Olympic pole vault champion Sergei Bubka in an election Wednesday and given the mandate to restore the image of the IAAF amid a doping contro- versy. Coe, 58, replaces Lamine Diack, who stood down after 16 years. Coe won the election 115-92. Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee, reportedly traveled 435,000 miles during the campaign.

Awarded San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan has been named the Twyman-Stokes Award winner given annually to the NBA’s teammate of the year. A panel of NBA stars from the past nominated a panel of six candidates. Then nearly 300 active players voted for the winner. Duncan received 72 first-place votes. Vince Carter of Memphis finished second and Atlanta’s Elton Brand finished third.

Staying Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen will remain at Ferrari for the 2016 Formula One championship season, partnering with Sebastian Vettel. The 2007 world champion renewed his contract with the Italian team ahead of Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.

Ailing Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and racing team owner A.J. Foyt will miss the final two races of the IndyCar season following surgery to treat a staph infection in his right knee. The 80-year-old had a triple bypass last November that caused him to miss the first five races. Foyt Racing fields IndyCar entries for Takuma Sato and Jack Hawksworth.

Out Founded by the two-time Daytona 500 winner, Michael Waltrip Racing will not run its cars on a full-time basis after this season. The team has also granted Clint Bowyer his release so that Bowyer can look for a job for the 2016 season. The decision comes after co-owner Rob Kauffman purchased an ownership stake in Chip Ganassi Racing. Kauffman bought 50 percent of MWR during its debut 2007 season to keep the team afloat.