The former head of global track and field, Lamine Diack, told his corruption trial on Thursday (June 11) he had agreed to delay and stagger investigations into suspected Russian doping cases for the sake of the sport’s “financial health”. Diack, who served as the head...
The former head of global track and field, Lamine Diack, told his corruption trial on Thursday he had agreed to delay and stagger investigations into suspected Russian doping cases for the sake of the sport’s “financial health”.
Diack, who served as the head of the International Association of Athletics Federations for 16 years and was one of the most powerful leaders in Olympic sport, told a court in Paris he had taken the decision to delay bans after 23 Russian athletes failed tests."The financial health of the IAAF had to be safeguarded and I was prepared to make that compromise.”
Diack, an 87-year-old Senegalese, has admitted that bans were delayed in order to allow the Russian athletes concerned to compete in the 2012 London Olympics and the World Athletics Championships in Moscow the following year. The aim was to prevent the cases derailing talks with prospective Russian sponsors including state-owned bank VTB and the RTR broadcaster.
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