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Fear and Gibson train at the Ice Academy of Montreal, where many of the top couples practise and whose skaters account for nine of the past 10 World Championship gold medals in ice dance.

Foreman won the heavyweight gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, aged 19, before turning pro and winning 37 consecutive matches.

At World Athletics, Coe had taken a tougher stance than the IOC on Russian doping and gender eligibility, and introduced the idea of cash for gold medals at Paris 2024, a move that antagonised Bach.

His surprise move to award cash for gold medals at last year's Paris Olympics also antagonised the IOC.

The IBA banned the fighters midway through the 2023 World Championships saying they had failed gender eligibility tests, but the IOC allowed them to compete and both won gold medals in their weight classes.