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Athletics great, Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 London Olympic Games, will visit Jamaica in late May.

Lord Coe will be the guest speaker at the Salvation Army's fund-raising dinner in Kingston on May 28. Lord Coe's presentation, and a silent auction with extraordinary bargains will be the highlights of the dinner.

Lord Coe is a double Olympic champion and 12-time world record holder in middle-distance running. He won Olympic gold medals in the 1500m and silver medals in the 800m at both the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.

More recently, he served as chairman of the London 2012 bid company, successfully winning the 2012 Olympic Games for London.

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Lord Coe is also vice-president of the Inter-national Association of Athletics Federations, and chairman of the Ethics Committee of FIFA, football's world governing body.

Jamaican Teddy McCook, president of the North American Central American and Caribbean Athletics Confederation, said, "It is a great honour for us to be able to host him here in Jamaica and we look forward to his visit."