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Pressure is expected to grow for Russia to be expelled from world athletics after the publication of a key independent doping report in Geneva on Monday.
The 325-page review by Dick Pound, the former World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) president who has spent 11 months looking into claims of systemic cheating and cover-ups within Russian athletics and the sport’s governing body, is expected to call for remedial action against its athletics federation. Sebastian Coe, the president of the International Associations of Athletics Federations, said on Sunday that these were “dark days” for the sport and admitted the IAAF should have done more to prevent the alleged cover-up that emerged last week.
French police last week arrested Lord Coe’s predecessor, Lamine Diack, the IAAF legal adviser Habib Cissé and Gabriel Dollé, the former longstanding head of the IAAF’s anti-doping unit. Prosecutors said they would have arrested Diack’s son and former IAAF marketing consultant, Papa Massata Diack, if he had been in France at the time.
Diack, the IAAF president for 16 years, is accused by French police of accepting more than €1m in exchange for covering up positive drug tests. “I’m just angry, bloody angry,” said Coe, who was elected IAAF president in August but had previously been vice-president under Diack. “I’m angry about the position our sport is in today. I’m shocked, I’m angered and dismayed.”
On Monday morning, Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics minister, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she believed Coe would be ruthless in dealing with the alleged problems inside the IAAF, “because it’s absolutely clear that there is something that’s very wrong”.
The 325-page review by Dick Pound, the former World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) president who has spent 11 months looking into claims of systemic cheating and cover-ups within Russian athletics and the sport’s governing body, is expected to call for remedial action against its athletics federation. Sebastian Coe, the president of the International Associations of Athletics Federations, said on Sunday that these were “dark days” for the sport and admitted the IAAF should have done more to prevent the alleged cover-up that emerged last week.
French police last week arrested Lord Coe’s predecessor, Lamine Diack, the IAAF legal adviser Habib Cissé and Gabriel Dollé, the former longstanding head of the IAAF’s anti-doping unit. Prosecutors said they would have arrested Diack’s son and former IAAF marketing consultant, Papa Massata Diack, if he had been in France at the time.
Diack, the IAAF president for 16 years, is accused by French police of accepting more than €1m in exchange for covering up positive drug tests. “I’m just angry, bloody angry,” said Coe, who was elected IAAF president in August but had previously been vice-president under Diack. “I’m angry about the position our sport is in today. I’m shocked, I’m angered and dismayed.”
On Monday morning, Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics minister, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she believed Coe would be ruthless in dealing with the alleged problems inside the IAAF, “because it’s absolutely clear that there is something that’s very wrong”.
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Anything other than a ban for Russia from all international competition for at least one Olympic cycle, would be a whitewash. They'll moan about the innocent athletes, but I haven't heard a single voice of protest or condemnation from any big name Russian athlete such as Isinbayeva, Chicherova etc against what their own federation has been up to for many years.
The handing of the 2013 world championships to Moscow, was as big a scandal as giving Russia or Qatar the FIFA world cup, but nobody seems to care or be bothered about that. Also, and there's no easy way of saying this, the ex-IAAF boss Lamine Diack has lived up to every negative stereotype of an African being put in charge of a big organisation. Corruption is in their blood. Yes that sounds racist, but the comparison to the national FA heads across Africa who took regular payments from Blatter for their support, is too obvious & inevitable. |
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I find it strange that lord Coe never heard anything..
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lord coe might live in the same world as his mate mr cameron who,s just told the cbi he cant think of a better country than the uk to hold a conference on fraud and corruption in the world,as a laymen myself wouldnt,
banking collapse ppi miss selling mp,s expenses jimmy saville hillsborough etc,etc preclude you from holding this conference here,but there again one mans corruption is another persons chance to line his pockets |
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Rotherham
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Which part of Africa is Sepp Blatter from, Danno?
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wonder how many of ours were doped funny a lot of them retired after
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lord coe might live in the same world as his mate mr cameron who,s just told the cbi he cant think of a better country than the uk to hold a conference on fraud and corruption in the world,as a laymen myself wouldnt,
banking collapse ppi miss selling mp,s expenses jimmy saville hillsborough etc,etc preclude you from holding this conference here,but there again one mans corruption is another persons chance to line his pockets The above just scratches the surface ... the Public Sector is rife ... NHS Purchasing ... buying stuff not needed from suppliers at prices that would make your eyes water MoD and its very, very cosy relationship with the major Defence Contractors, e.g. Arms Sales to Saudi and related contracts DEFRA and the major supermarkets and the Food Industry generally ... got away scot free selling us horsemeat ... Govt said criminal investigation at the time ... but nothing happened Why don't journalists investigate ... any guesses ... ???  |
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Not a chance they will have the backbone to kick the Russians out , looks like even more medalists from 2012 are going to get the boot.
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why should they be kicked out? Its a russian bashing excercise......no mention of China, US and Britain......walofs
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The Greeks have had Achilles and Hercules running the womens hurdles for donkeys years...
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Lord Coe is an ineffectual, complicit clown leader. Needs getting rid of straight away.
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drugs are rife in sport
russia's got a dilemma bombing continues |
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Does anyone have a link to the website where the WADA report can be found, or a PDF download available?
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.https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/world-anti-doping-program/independent-commission-report-1
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Thank you Degsy.
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putin = Kgay GB thug
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They should be kicked out because they are a corrupt kleptocratic nation run by a kgb thug and his odious cadre. hth
as opposed to the nation who shouldn't be kicked out because they are a corrupt kleptocratic nation run by a Etonian thug and his odious cadre?  |