West Ham stadium stance could block London’s World Athletics Championships bid, warns Coe

• Club refusing to vacate stadium for three weeks in 2029

• Coe: ‘I do ask cities to try to accommodate us’

Sebastian Coe has warned that London’s bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships could be scuppered by West Ham’s refusal to allow their stadium to be used in September.

World Athletics has made it clear to bidding cities, which the Guardian understands also includes Rome, Munich and Nairobi as well as a mooted Indian city, that the world championships should be the grand finale to the athletics season.