• Dagbladet update this article with the latest news from the press conference.
(Dagbladet): Right now adds Dick Pound forward new shocking findings on the state of the internasjoale Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF. Pound has headed a commission set down by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after last year arrived shocking allegations of doping, and how this was hidden, in the media.
The press conference held by former WADA president Dick Pound in German Munich. Briefly, it is primarily harvested by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The report says among other things that the management of the IAAF must have known about the widespread doping in Russian athletics.
It is also said that the IAAF was reluctant to deal with what they had to know about the ongoing doping among several of Russia’s premier athletes, but failed to respond.
Coe in the audience
Pound warslet in his introduction at the press conference in Munich that it would also be uncovered criminal offenses. Including corruption.
IAAF received the report 24 hours ago, and President of the IAAF, Sebastin Coe, situated in the courtroom and witness the presentation of the WADA report. Sebastian Coe said on Wednesday that he was going to Munich to see the presentation.
WADA ascertained also that the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations Lamine Diack is responsible for having organized and facilitated the corruption that took place within organization. It means that corruption started at the very top.
– It started with the president of the organization. It involves the Treasurer of the organization. It involves personal Councilman president, acting on instructions from the president. It involves the president’s two sons, it involves the director of the anti-doping work in the IAAF, said Pound.
– We would like to thank the experts that they worked so closely with this issue, says WADA member Richard McClaren at the press conference.
Athletics Expert Vebjørn Rodal said this to NRK before the report was published:
– It is tempting to use terms like crisis. It is certainly a serious failure of reputation, and it will be tough to win back confidence.
Background:
Thursday afternoon with part two of the shocking report on doping in athletics. The Independent Commission lover explosives ahead of the release – more shocking than what we have witnessed in the International Football Federation (FIFA).
– It’s going to be a “wow” factor. People are going to ask how such a thing could happen. It is a complete betrayal of the people who manage the sport, has Dick Pound, chairman of the commission appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), previously stated.
President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Sebastian Coe, is among those who sweat before Thursday’s revelations. So does former and current IAAF-tops. In addition, Kenya’s athletics managers additional reason to tremble.
The first part of the report meant that Russia was banned from all athletics indefinitely. The report also contained information about corruption at the highest level of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
According to news agency AP will part two contain revelations about widespread corruption in the entire system – from national to international federations.
Putin was mentioned
The 89-page report has already leaked to the press, and on Thursday announced the news agency said that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been consulted in connection with a doping case that deals with some of Russia’s athletes .
According to the AP should IAAF lawyer Huw Roberts have signed an agreement with Putin when nine Russian doping suspects athletes did not compete in the World Cup in 2013.
The information comes from an anonymous source who allegedly had access to the report one day before publication.
The new report shall also proponents conclude that it is inconceivable that the leaders of the International Association of Athletics Federations was not aware of the widespread doping in Russian athletics. It also applies president Sebastian Coe.
The second part of the report is also expected to revolve around athletics in Kenya.
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