The commission was delivering in Munich on January 14 the second part of its report, whose first instalment in November led to the banning of Russian Federation from athletics for state-sponsored doping.
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Russia’s athletics federation is set to elect a new president on Saturday.
A World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report said Thursday that corruption was “embedded” at the world athletics body, piling pressure on its new leader Sebastian Coe.
Cisse, who is said to have been assigned by the former president in November 2011 to specifically deal with doping cases regarding Russian athletes, is described in the report as being “at the heart of the schemes for disrupting IAAF results management by intentionally delaying results management and interfering with the pursuit of prosecution of Russian athletes”.
When Coe took over the presidency in August, he was lavish in his praise of Diack, who led the IAAF for 16 years. According to its website, Interpol has also posted a wanted person’s alert for Papa Massata Diack, Mr. Diack’s son who had served as a marketing consultant to the IAAF.
SYDNEY, Australia-Australian athletics chiefs Friday backed Sebastian Coe to clean up the sport, which it said had been massively compromised by doping scandals with the trust and confidence of all stakeholders “exploited”.
Coe was present in Munich, having insisted on Wednesday there had been no cover-up, and he had no intention of standing down.
It certainly looks like it. When that was put to Pound, he said Coe should not carry the can for the failings of a whole council and the organisational failings at the IAAF.
– The independent commission say corruption is “imbedded” in the IAAF and there is no way the governing body’s Council could not have known about doping in athletics. “We are also working with Singaporean anti-corruption authorities”, she added.
An Independent Commission of World Anti-Doping Agency has confirmed widespread use of doping substances among Russian athletes. “There’s enormous amount of reputational recovery that has to occur here and I can’t… think of anyone better than Lord Coe to lead that”.
Diack also “created a close inner circle … ultimately functioning as an informal illegitimate governance structure”.
Speaking on the BBC, he said: “I find it very hard for Lord Coe to say he has got absolutely no clue – the only way is if a vice-president is a titular position that has no real contact with the sport”.
When asked directly if Coe was the right man for the job, Pound replied: “This is a fabulous opportunity for the IAAF to seize control under strong leadership”.
Dolle was banned by the IAAF’s ethics committee for his involvement in a corruption scandal that saw a Russian athlete blackmailed to ensure a positive doping test was “lost”.
“Nor am I aware of any doping case that was not brought that should have been brought, or of any doping ban that was not published when it should have been published under the IAAF Rules”.
The IAAF suspended Russian athletes from all competition in the wake of last year’s WADA report but left the door open for a possible return in time for Rio.
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The investigators suspect athletes from other countries may also have been blackmailed and they may only have so far examined “the tip of the iceberg” of efforts to blackmail athletes, McLaren said.
