The French request was lodged last month.
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The All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) was subsequently suspended by the IAAF and the commission on Thursday stated that the sport’s governing body, including former president Lamine Diack, must have known about the doping. “Quite obviously there was no appetite on the part of the IAAF to challenge Russian Federation”.
“The corruption was embedded in the organisation”, said the report prepared by former WADA president Richard Pound.
The corruption within the IAAF “cannot be blamed on a small number of miscreants”, as the IAAF had widely claimed. “No advantage was taken of that opportunity”.
“It’s a fabulous opportunity for the IAAF to seize the opportunity and move forward but I can’t think of anyone better than Sebastian Coe to lead it”, Pound said.
“I can’t think of anyone better than Lord Coe to lead that”.
Coe was present in Munich, having insisted on Wednesday there had been no cover-up, and he had no intention of standing down.
Foster, who won European 5,000m gold in 1974, added: “The sport, today, will be unveiled as clearly unable to be governed by the regime that was in place before Seb Coe was appointed”.
Russian bank VTB has denied any impropriety after a World Anti-Doping Agency panel called for a “forensic examination” of its relationship with the scandal-hit IAAF. “It raises huge questions about governance at the IAAF that have to be addressed as a matter of absolute urgency”.
In terms of Davies, the report states he did not mention any knowledge of the delays in reporting doping violations when he was interviewed by the commission in June.
Diack’s son Papa and two Russian officials last week were banned from the sport for life by an IAAF ethics board for covering up an elite Russian athlete’s positive dope test and blackmailing her over it.
The report said corruption was “embedded” in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). “We stress that VTB did not acquire the rights to the television broadcast of the 2013 World Track and Field Championships in Moscow”.
“Their actions allowed dirty Russian athletes to compete and alter the results on the playing field”, the report said.
Houlette said French investigators are working with Russian authorities on the case and have also asked for help from Singapore. They had mastered the evasion, manipulation and sometimes destruction of urine samples of Russian athletes so as to not produce positive results but they had not yet learned how to do the same for the ABP.
The report also provides further details on the management of Russian athlete athlete biological passport (ABP) cases and the extortion of Russian marathoner Liliya Shobukhova and Turkish athlete Asli Cakir Alptekin.
“If this is new information that WADA’s independent commission has not already examined, it will need to be investigated”, he said in comments e-mailed to Reuters.
And shadow sports minister Clive Efford suggested there were no credible alternatives to Coe.
The report said the IAAF’s governance process was inadequate to prevent corruption, and the checks and balances of good governance were missing.
“I am pretty sure at the time it was said Lord Coe had not the faintest idea of these activities”, Mr. Pound said.
He said: “I’m very grateful for the personal endorsement of Dick but he’s not somebody that pulls his punches”.
But Coe was adamant that it was “not a huge surprise that we were concerned about Russia”.
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We’ve heard yesterday the president say there were no cover-ups. “We don’t – we have to win that back”.
