Doping report: Corruption ‘embedded’ in IAAF with Lamine Diack running fiefdom
Far more staff at athletics’ governing body knew about the problems than has been acknowledged, wrote former Wada president Dick Pound
IAAF leaders must have been aware of the full scale of doping in Russia, but did nothing to stop it, and the track and field organisation itself was riddled by corruption, a report by a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) panel said on Thursday.
“It is increasingly clear that far more IAAF staff knew about the problems than has currently been acknowledged,” said the report, written by former Wada president Dick Pound and presented at a news conference in Munich.
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“It is not credible that elected officials were unaware of the situation affecting ... athletics in Russia. If, therefore, the circle of knowledge was so extensive why was nothing done? Quite obviously there was no appetite on the part of the IAAF to challenge Russia.”
The report added: “The corruption was embedded in the organisation. It cannot be ignored or dismissed as attributable to the odd renegade acting on its own.”
Pound’s commission found that former IAAF president Lamine Diack “was responsible for organising and enabling the conspiracy and corruption” that took place.
