IAAF: Claim of blocked doping report ‘is not a new story

“No consultation was held within the AASSE regarding the choice of the future President of the IAAF, and this is not the goal of this Association to host such consultations, ” Bernard Fautrier, vice-president of the Monaco Athletics Federation, told insidethegames.

In much the same way as football’s world body FIFA has been torn apart by allegations of corruption, with Sepp Blatter agreeing to stand down as president as a result of the fall-out, the IAAF finds itself in turbulent waters.

The study was financed by WADA who told the newspaper it had given the IAAF the power to veto publication in return for allowing access to the athletes at Daegu.

The University of Tubingen in Germany, who conducted the study, said: “The IAAF’s delaying publication for so long without good reason is a serious encroachment on the freedom of publication”.

UK Athletics launched a review following allegations broadcast in a BBC Panorama programme in June that Salazar, the head coach where Farah trains, had violated several anti-doping rules.

Former London 2012 chairman Coe has pledged to increase resources in the “battle for the sport’s integrity” and has vowed to set up an independent anti-doping agency for athletics.

“The IAAF completely understand the importance of the credibility in competition”. Zero tolerance. We must protect clean athletes.

As the election campaign entered its final stages, Sebastian Coe timed his kick for maximum effect with the kind of us-against-them statement designed to galvanize support in his run for the presidency of track and field’s global governing body.

Though the IAAF are at present unable to call any of the 28 athletes to have delivered “opposed findings” as a outcome of authorized points, The Every day Telegraph has discovered that there are not any British names on the listing, which is known to function Russian rivals closely.

But that task will not be easy.

The revelations are another serious blow to the IAAF, which has faced a number of doping scandals and claim over the last 12 months.

“For me, it’s more important when it is a real vote”. But the eminent physiologist Michael Ashenden, who has made the fight against doping his life’s work, was left in no doubt that athletics has a widespread problem.

“We were first with biological athlete passports, we try to use scientific knowledge”.

The IAAF has repeatedly insisted that medals shall be reallocated within the occasion of anti-doping violations subsequently being confirmed. Of all those samples tested, the IAAF were responsible for testing just over 3,800.

Bubka admitted, however, that the IAAF had to “present more proactively on what is done and has been done”.

The 214 IAAF member federations will vote to decide who will take over from Diack, the 82-year-old from Senegal, who has been president since 1999.