Berlin (dpa) – The former world-class runner Sebastian Coe ran out of time. Up to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Briton must lodge an intermediate sprint -. And the whole mission is likely to become a marathon
The WADA-Commission, in its second report new scandals and abuses within the athletics World Association revealed. IAAF President Coe is under pressure, each of his steps will now be closely monitored
The 59-year-old now has the “pigsty Athletics.” – It commented on the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” – mucking out, as ask chief reformer of Olympic discipline at the forefront. “I realize that the IAAF still has an enormous piece of work to do to restore public confidence,” admitted the two-time Olympic champion to. Following the discovery of systematic doping in Russia in the first WADA report and egregious abuses in the old IAAF leadership to Lamine Diack the eloquent Englishman is now called for, now deeds are in demand.
Coe needs new structures in the World Association create, especially in the doping control system, also manufactured credibility and acceptance again. That’s his only chance, even if the London Olympic organizer of IOC Senior and WADA Commission chief Dick Pound has received a credit for the future: The Canadian dares Coe to lead the IAAF out of the crisis: “I can not imagine better than Lord Coe, “Pound said. The scandal offers the “fantastic opportunity” to clean up the sport now.
Up to the Summer Games in Rio Coe has only seven months. In “showcase” Olympia athletics should then present again with a fresh image. And maybe with the aces from Russia. The currently suspended Russian Federation can not and will pave the way to Sugarloaf only since August 2015 incumbent President.
In the vast empire reform is under way, and in Moscow a new federation leadership is elected this Saturday. “We can not change the past, but I am determined that we will learn from it – and the error does not repeat,” said Coe. The most important race of his career has only just begun.
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