Athletics – World Anti-Doping Commission of the IAAF: corruption in the organization – Süddeutsche.de

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Unterschleissheim (dpa) – The Image of prejudicing the Athletics IAAF is widening. The independent committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) stands for information of the news agency AP serious accusations against the World Athletics Association.

“The corruption was rooted in the organization,” AP quoted in advance from the second WADA report to doping and corruption scandal in the world track and field, to be presented on Thursday in the Munich suburb Unterschleissheim.

But could not “a small number of rogue” be held responsible. “It can not act as a strange apostates who had acted on their own, ignored or dismissed,” says the 89-page report WADA. In addition, there is evidence that the IAAF had known about the systematic doping in Russia since 2009, and to have allegations that a large number of eye-catching blood concealed and not sanctioned.

The IAAF had already on Monday in a report to WADA the accusation of cover-up of doping back and stressed that there was no “system of corruption” in the world governing body and the allegations only “individual, formerly associated with the IAAF persons’ concerns.

The WADA -Commission came to their investigation to a different conclusion. It was no way for the IAAF Council members given not perceive the extent of doping and the non-observance of rules, according to the AP report.

Both the current President Sebastian Coe (since August 2015), as well the German functionary Helmut Digel and IOC member Sergey Bubka were in Diack era vice president for many years. The Briton Coe protested in the American TV channel CNN once again that the IAAF had covered up anything. He himself could not have known anything because of his job as a chief organizer of the London Olympic Games, what went in the IAAF.

The IAAF has fallen into disrepute because the former president Lamine Diack of the French judiciary because the cover-up of doping cases has been charged a fee. This allegedly allows Russian Athletes despite positive doping tests could go at the 2012 Olympics in London and at the World Championships in 2013 in Moscow at the start.

According to the AP information to the Olympic participation of athletes from Russia, whose collected for the athletes pass blood tests would point to doping, have been leveled by a suspicious deal. At a meeting in Moscow in front of the London Games, where, according to WADA report Diacks ​​son Papa massata and former IAAF treasurer Valentin Balachnitschjow participated, was not only the price of the TV rights to the 2013 World Championships in Moscow from 6 million negotiated. The Diack-Filius also returned with a doped with $ 25 million sponsorship deal from a leading Russian bank.

The independent WADA-Commission chaired by Richard Pound and Richard McLaren and the German detectives Günter Younger had already on November 9, 2015 has submitted a report of its investigations. It had been demonstrated that there has been in the Russian Athletics systematic doping and sporting fraud. The IAAF suspended then Russia Federation.