Thursday, January 14, 2016

Overview: Five key points of doping WADA report on Athletics Association – NU.nl

The IAAF has completely failed in the fight against doping

Former President Lamine Diack is responsible for it, according to the inquiry. The 82-year-old Senegalese made the Athletics Association prone to corruption and gathered confidants around him to preserve the culture of extortion.

The union knew much more of the drug problems in Russia than is admitted .

The IAAF simply doing too little to solve the problems. Diack examined include the possibility to nine Russian athletes suspected of doping, yet part to let participate in the World Championships in Moscow in 2013.

That the current Board members deny knowing anything, can not really.

Members of the Board of the IAAF, including the current chairman Sebastian Coe, deny that they were informed during the reign of President Diack of doping in athletics. WADA states in the study that it is impossible that they knew nothing of it off. According to committee member Richard McLaren was perhaps in cases of criminal corruption.

The investigating suspected fraudulent behavior in the allocation of marketing rights and World Championships.

Therefore, the WADA calls for an inquiry into the allocation of the athletics World Championships 2021 at the American Eugene. That toewijziging is remarkably preceded no voting procedure, while the Swedish city of Gothenburg in the race for the organization of the global tournament. Coe was at that time an advisor to Nike, which is closely linked to the organization in Eugene.

Despite the harsh criticism of the IAAF, WADA maintains full confidence in chairman Coe.

Research President Pound finds the Englishman still “the ideal person” to assist the IAAF in the fire.

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