IAAF: Unbearable nepotism in the athletics world – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The World Athletics was located for years in the hands of a criminal gang. That is the finding that the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping (WADA) is the second part of its report, which it presented on Thursday at a hotel in Unterschleissheim near Munich to the public. Head of the gang was president Lamine Diack, the IAAF conducted until August 2015th Diack had therefore in 2011 its personal legal adviser Habib Cissé entrusted with the management of sanctions of blood doping cases in the Russian Athletics and thus allows the blackmail of the athletes with the participation of his sons Papa massata and Khalid Diack. There have been many governance structures with which the employees of the IAAF would be able to defend. The head of the Anti-Doping Unit, Gabriel Dollé, was bribed.

Author: Michael Reinsch, a correspondent for Sport in Berlin Follow:

Richard Pound, a member of the International Olympic Committee and founding president of WADA, who led the study together with the Canadian lawyer and law professor Richard McLaren and Günter Younger from Landeskriminalamt Bavaria, the IAAF accused unbearable nepotism and inappropriate structures. He was irritated by the attitude of the new IAAF President Sebastian Coe, that it was in the scandal surrounding the misconduct “individual, formerly associated with the IAAF persons”. The IAAF must finally acknowledge that she was concerned as an association; Diack was finally elected four times as president.

However, he praised Coe, who had appeared to the press, to restore as someone whose impeccable reputation of the IAAF could help her bruised reputation. That Coe lead the IAAF, is a fabulous opportunity for this. You must recover an enormous deficit of credibility, while her could someone like Coe only help. When asked if Coe lie when he claimed that he had noticed in eight years as vice president of the IAAF no tampering, Pound replied: “I do not think so.”

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The French prosecutor Eliane Houlette presented after the investigation before the French judicial against Diack, Cissé and Dollé. As long as they were not convicted, she urged the journalists, they would have to be presumed innocent.

“In organizational sense the scandal is not as serious as that of Fifa,” Pound said. “But what concerned us is that competitions even been touched.” Four Russian athletes who should have been locked, took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. About consequences he did not want to miss it. “The behavior (IAAF) was not good. But should the whole sport to pay the price? “

Wada press conference in Munich in full (English)

” LD was responsible for organizing and facilitating the conspiracy and corruption that took place in the IAAF, “it says on Lamine Diack in the report. “He seems sanctioned and personal knowledge of the fraud and the extortion of athletes to have had, which carried out the informal, illegitimate management structure, which he had set up. He explained his actions to hard-working, but rather naively trusting employees of the IAAF so that his hands were bound by Arrangement with Russia and others. “