The IAAF president, Sebastian Coe, has commended WADA Independent Commission for uncovering the face of corruption in athletics which has clearly been put together into its report.
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Interpol said Thursday it has issued a wanted notice for Papa Massata Diack, son of Lamine Diack, the disgraced former president of world athletics’ governing body the IAAF.
“As far as the ability of Lord Coe to remain as head of the IAAF, I think it’s a fabulous opportunity for the IAAF to seize this opportunity and under strong leadership to move forward”, Pound said.
Pound said the IAAF governing council, which included Coe, had to be aware of the corruption.
“There is no anti-doping movement in athletics, in Russian Federation it is the completely opposite – it is a doping movement and everyone around you says that is the only way to succeed… you dope and you lie about it”.
The ROC are also supposed to be leading on the Interim Coordination Commission, set-up in association with the All-Russian Athletics Federation, to oversee the return of Russia to global competition after they were banned from the IAAF following the publication last November of the first part of the WADA Independent Commission.
Hamersley’s position mirrors that of other national athletics bodies, including Australia’s and the United States. But, oddly, Thursday was a day of relief for Sebastian Coe.
Russia’s track-and-field athletes should not be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics in August as there’s not enough time to prove compliance with doping rules, a top US official said.
She said the Games were awarded to Tokyo because the city “presented the best bid”, adding: “The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee considers that the note in the report is beyond our understanding”.
“This deal was struck around the time that IAAF and Russian officials allegedly met to discuss a “problem” with a “$6 million price tag” surrounding television rights for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.
At the time, French prosecutors said Massata Diack would also have been arrested for his involvement in another bribery case – blackmailing atheles.
He has insisted he knew nothing about the corruption and that there was no cover up even though internal IAAF correspondence indicates athletics leaders expressed concern about problems in Russian Federation as far back as 2009.
The report’s co-author, Professor Richard McLaren, made clear that it had by no means offered a full account of the scandal, telling the news conference in Munich: “We may have only examined the tip of the iceberg in respect to athletes who may have been extorted”.
“There is an enormous amount of reputational recovery, and I can think of no one better than Lord Coe to lead that”.
Pound said the IAAF should not be disbanded.
Pound said the IAAF should not be disbanded.
Reedie also said he would like to thank “the courageous whistle-blowers and investigative journalists” who brought evidence of corruption to WADA. He recommended that more investigation was needed on those suspicions.
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Coe has denied suggestions that he tried to influence Diack to award the event to Eugene.
