Doha 2012 DL, photo by PhotoRun.net
The rumors have been there for some time. Papa Diack, the son of IAAF President Lamine Diack, and a consultant for the IAAF Marketing department, has been linked to several schemes to gain favor with the IAAF for payments of sizable amounts of cash. The denials have been already raised, and the IAAF Ethics committee is looking into other matters that concern the son of the IAAF President.
The story was first run in the Guardian UK, but taken down. Then, it appeared on SportsPortalNet, a site on sports in both German and English.
To read the entire story, please go to: Son of IAAF President Implicated in Doha 2017 bid scandal
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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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