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How Lamine Diack’s 16-year reign in charge of IAAF led to a jail term, by Sean Ingle/Guardian

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
September 19, 2020
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How Lamine Diack’s 16-year reign in charge of IAAF led to a jail term, by Sean Ingle/Guardian

Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations from 1999 to 2015, was found guilty of corruption in a Paris court.Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

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Sean Ingle is one of the finest journalists in sports.

There, I said it.

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Sean Ingle writes for the Guardian UK. His writing is clear and crisp. He does his homework. He has a cadre of supporters who understand that, while they might not agree with Sean Ingle’s comments, he does give both sides of the story and lets the audience think for themselves. When someone wants a story to be told with honesty and clarity, Sean Ingle is on the shortlist.

Great journalism is a painful, laborious process. One can not assume anything, and surprises come around each and every corner.

 

Such is the case in the following piece regarding Lamine Diack and the foul smell he added to the sport of athletics. Sean Ingle, in the article noted below, explains how corruption changed the sport.

How should one think of Lamine Diack and his son, Pappa Masatta Diack?

Like additional characters in a Joseph Conrad novel, the Diacks smelt of old-school cronyism under cover of a global athletics federation and introduced a level of corruption that almost sank the sport. They have not been the only ones, but their actions were the most egregious. They were so bad that many did not comprehend the level of corruption.

Perhaps there was just too much easy money.

I recall working in the Berlin Hilton during the 2009 World Champs and noting that Pappa Diack was sure busy. He met perhaps 30 people in 5 hours while I edited copy at the bar and enjoyed endless espressos and tomato juice. I noted that he knew everyone in the sport.

In London in 2012, whispers began about the payoffs. By 2015, many thought the Diacks’ time was over, but the investigations had just begun.

In 2012, Pappa Diack attempted to sell the sponsorship of the Kenyan athletic federation to Li Ning, taking a $4 million payment. Just one issue, an American brand had a long-term, paid contract with Athletics Kenya and a cadre of lawyers. Was these the Keystone Cops? Nope, this was the greedy son of Lamine Diack, who reluctantly returned the money to a very confused Chinese brand.

The mess is not over; one wants to know when Pappa Diack will sit in a French prison, content to make athletic equipment. In the prison system in the 5th Republic, many prisoners make athletic equipment while being incarcerated in the République française. How much karma is too much karma?

I can only dream.

How Lamine Diack’s 16-year reign in charge of IAAF led to a jail term

Diack’s corruption, covering up Russian doping cases for bribes, was discovered after police raided a Paris hotel

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Lamine Diack, pictured in 2015, was in charge of the IAAF for 16 years from 1999. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

Thu 17 Sep 2020 06.12 EDT

The unmasking of Lamine Diack as one of the great sinners in the history of sport began with a police raid on All Saints’ Day in 2015. At this point Diack, the head of global athletics for 16 years and a distinguished figure at the International Olympic Committee, had yet to be implicated in a growing scandal involving the Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova, who had secretly paid €450,000 to senior figures at the International Association of Athletics Federations to hide a doping violation.

But everything changed on that unseasonably warm November day. When police arrested Diack in his room at the Sheraton hotel at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, they also uncovered his computer, which housed a treasure trove of secrets. Nearly five years later, this finally led to Diack—along with five other former senior figures at athletics’ governing body—being convicted of corruption.

Link to Sean Ingles’ complete piece: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/16/how-lamine-diacks-16-year-reign-in-charge-of-iaaf-led-to-a-jail-term

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    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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