IAAF ex-chief ‘organised conspiracy and corruption’ while officials

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack dropped his support for Turkish city Istanbul after it did not pay sponsorship money of up to $5million to the Diamond League or athletics’ world governing body, according to a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent commission (IC). If, therefore, the circle of knowledge was so extensive why was nothing done?

Lamine Diack, the former president of the IAAF was responsible for corruption that had embedded the body, the World Anti-Doping Agency said in their latest report on Thursday.

Twenty-four hours after Coe said there had been no cover-up by the International Association of Athletics Federations over the Russian doping scandal, he said: “We know that this has been a cover-up. For our part, WADA looks forward to working alongside the IAAF to strengthen its anti-doping activities and regain the confidence of its clean athletes worldwide”.

McClaren also revealed Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova was unlikely to have been the only athlete blackmailed by IAAF officials.

“You get to see how some scumbags operated”, he said in one interview.

As a result of the report, Tygart, disagreeing with independent commission chairman Dick Pound, said he did not believe the IAAF was in compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code.

Coe was effusive in his praise of Diack when he beat Sergey Bubka in an election to succeed the disgraced Senegalese in August. He did so to enable Cissé to manage and follow up Russian athlete biological passport cases.

Coe was present in person at Pound’s news conference in Munich, having insisted on Wednesday there had been no cover-up, and had no intention of standing down.

In a detailed, 30-page response to the earlier WADA commission report, the IAAF on Monday conceded that there were “unexplained and suspicious delays” in four doping cases brought to the IAAF but strongly denied that any doping case was ever covered up.

The report said WADA’s independent commission had “insufficient information to comment further on this matter” but suggested the awarding of the television rights could be linked to doping cover-ups.

“There is an enormous amount of reputational damage to fix and I can not think of anyone better than Lord Coe to lead that process”.

It is only the extortion allegedly masterminded by a small cabal around Diack, including two of his sons, which receives criticism, as well as the inability of senior IAAF staff to notice and react to this. We had reports from people seem to know what they are talking about.

IAAF President Lamine Diack (2nd L) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge (R) applaud during the opening ceremony of the IAAF World Athletics Championships at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Aug. 10, 2013.

“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, if you dope and you lie about it”, said Vitaly.

“We can’t sit here begging for trust”.

– Coe has performed a U-turn and acknowledged that there was an IAAF cover-up, but maintains he was personally unaware of any corruption and has vowed there can be no repeat of such a “horror show”.