• Chairman was informed IAAF Council members may gain been bribed
• London won battle for World Championships after paying for $7.2m prize fundEd Warner,the chairman of UK Athletics, has revealed a senior IAAF official warned him that Qatari officials were handing out brown envelopes on the eve of the vote for the 2017 world championships. London won the rights to host the event ahead of Doha after UKA agreed to stump up $7.2m to cover prize money but Warner wants an investigation into the bidding process to see whether its money can be recovered.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sportsweek, and Warner said: “The night before the bid a very senior person in the IAAF hierarchy told me and my bid team that they understood certain members of the IAAF Council were being called upstairs one by one to a hotel suite to be given a brown envelope.
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Source: theguardian.com