World Athletics chief Lord Coe has said he would be open to the possibility of moving some indoor sports from the Summer Olympics to the Winter Games if he becomes the new president of the International Olympic Committee.

The double British Olympic champion in the 1,500m published his manifest, external Thursday morning alongside those of the six other candidates vying to succeed Thomas Bach next year.

“Innovation is key, we have to be open to new ideas,” he told BBC Sport.

Coe vowed to shake up the IOC, saying “too much power is in the hands of too few people.”

Describing the election as “a ball I just couldn’t be away from”, Coe said: “The question I ask myself as a member is, ‘What contribution have the other members and I made? -We ?’

“And the reality is that there aren’t enough of them. I’m not sure we’re making the most of the extraordinary talent around me. The IOC is not a broken organization but it can be much better and he needs change.”

In his proposals, Coe reinforces previous commitments to boost youth sport, introducing “clear, science-based policies” to protect the women’s category amid the ongoing debate in sport over eligibility rules on gender issues, and to listen to athletes.

He also says: “To support the Games, we need to grow – not just financially, but also in terms of reach and relevance. Commercial partners and broadcasters want modernization.”

Speaking at the Olympic Park in Stratford, Coe – who chaired the London 2012 organizing committee – added: “Climate change is fundamentally going to force us to think about the global calendar, where we hold our events and at the times of year we hold our events.

“And some have even suggested that we could think about the balance between the Winter and Summer Games.

“You have venues where certain sports are held indoors. You could in theory hold them at another time of year, perhaps during the Winter Games.

“So those are all the things that I would encourage debate on, because only when we have that debate can we eliminate the things that might not work.

“Just in collaboration with the winter sports and all these organizations. We have the Association of National Olympic Committees. We have the summer federations that are represented, and part of that has to be a collaborative approach. But I think that we should always be open to new and fresh thinking.

Last year, the IOC said research had shown only 10 countries would be able to host snow sports by 2040 due to the impact of climate change, and recognized “the need to adapt the Winter Olympic Games.

There are currently four indoor sports at the Winter Olympics: speed skating, figure skating, curling and ice hockey.

In a controversial move, World Athletics introduced cash rewards for gold medalists at Paris 2024 under Coe’s leadership.

“A lot of things I did at World Athletics sparked debate,” he said.

“It’s not something I fear. In a world that changes every five minutes, we have to be very open to analysis that doesn’t always match the way we see the world. And we should accept that .”