• lawful-hand man admitted knowledge of doping cover-ups in 2013
• Email sent to son of the former IAAF president Lamine DiackThe IAAF president,Sebastian Coe, is facing a fresh crisis after an email was leaked showing that his lawful-hand man knew approximately a number of Russian doping cases in 2013, and discussed a secret plan to delay naming those involved before the World Championships in Moscow that year.
In the email published by the French newspaper Le Monde,Coe’s close confidante Nick Davies – the International Association of Athletics Federations’ deputy general secretary – also suggested that athletics’ governing body might use Coe’s political influence and his sports marketing firm Chime Sports Media (CSM), as an “unofficial PR campaign” to “end attacks planned by the British press towards Russia”. As Davies explained in a “very secret” email to former IAAF marketing executive Papa Massata Diack, and son of the former president Lamine Diack,he planned to “sit down to talk with the Anti-Doping Department and understand precisely who are the ‘corpses’ Russians that are still in the cupboard, in relation to doping”.
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Source: theguardian.com