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The conclusions of the independent investigation – commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency – will be released on Thursday afternoon.

“It is increasingly clear that far more IAAF staff knew about the problems than has now been acknowledged”, claims the report.

“The corruption was embedded in the organisation”, the report says.

Coe responded decisively to the revelations about Russian Federation in the first WADA report, banning the country from worldwide competition, and has warned that other countries could also face bans. “I do. I’m dealing with it every day, and I’ve been dealing with this since – effectively – the first day I took over the role as president”.

France’s financial prosecutor has given an update on the French criminal investigation into corruption involving former IAAF officials.

“We have good relations with Russian judicial authorities”.

It is the second of two reports from Pound.

The accusation, which is mentioned in a footnote to the report, emerged when Turkish track officials appeared to record a meeting with Diack’s son, Khalil.

“Their actions allowed dirty Russian athletes to compete and alter the results on the playing field”, the report said.

“According the transcript the Japanese did pay such a sum”.

“We maybe only have examined the tip of the iceberg with respect to athletes who have been extorted”, McClaren said. Her suspicious blood values ahead of the London Games were later notified to Turkish officials.

It adds: “The operational failure of checks and balances within the IAAF functioned to give LD the ability to direct changes in the established practices of the Medical and Anti-Doping Department (the “MADept.”) and enabled contracts with consultants whose personal interests were not aligned with those of the IAAF”.

But Coe was adamant that it was “not a huge surprise that we were concerned about Russia”.

Dick Pound, the author of WADA’s second report detailing doping violations by Russian athletes and officials, wrote that corruption in the IAAF “was embedded in the organization”.

Outspoken co-author and former WADA president Dick Pound promised in November the report would have a “wow factor”.

Pound, a former WADA president, adds “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”. Of course there was cover-up and delay and all sorts of things.

The conclusions will raise fresh questions for current IAAF President Lord Coe as to what he knew during his seven-year spell as a vice president.

It was also particularly scathing of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, who stood down and was replaced by Coe after 16 years in charge. He did so to enable Cisse to manage and follow up Russian athlete biological passport cases.

The nine athletes, four of whom have won Olympic gold medals, all eventually received doping bans, though some were not banned until as late as January 2015. “We stress that VTB did not acquire the rights to the television broadcast of the 2013 World Track and Field Championships in Moscow. Quite obviously there was no appetite on the part of the IAAF to challenge Russian Federation”.

After the meeting, Papa Massata Diack had an arrangement with a leading Russian bank worth $25 million.

“We didn’t arrest Mr. Diack’s son because he didn’t come to Paris when he was meant to”. As the CBC said, “she named names”.

According to McLaren, Cisse and Papa Massata Diack put up a “formidable barrier to the effective operation” of the IAAF’s efforts to clampdown on doping. The so-called Red Notice is posted on Interpol’s website.

November 11 – Diack resigns as IOC honorary member and president of the International Athletics Foundation.

“With very few exceptions, I have not seen global sports federation presidents so involved in corruption, as opposed to moving money around like the FIFA boys”, he told The Times newspaper.