Drugs in other sports and the media.

lostboysaint

Isn't this a bit of a problem for the current President, the previously untouchable Lord Coe, who had rather planted his flag at the feet of Diack and his regime for having been strong against dopers?

Anonymous

^ unlikely. Although it should be

sherer

it will all be blamed on the previous regime even though most of the top brass are probably still the same and where likely all aware of the problems.

Just look at the FIFA Exco to see how entrenched corruption can be in these organisations

RichN95.

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736507#p19736507]sherer[/url] wrote:

it will all be blamed on the previous regime even though most of the top brass are probably still the same and where likely all aware of the problems.

However, when looking for someone to blame for President Diack taking bribes, President Diack would seem to be a fair starting point.

Richmond Racer 2

Lame Diack also allegedly asked for half a mill to 'forget' Asil Cakir Aiptekin's ABP case...

There aint gonna be enough popcorn for this all unravelling

Richmond Racer 2

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736705#p19736705]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

Lame Diack also allegedly asked for half a mill to 'forget' Asil Cakir Aiptekin's ABP case...

There aint gonna be enough popcorn for this all unravelling

EDIT: uh-oh. More incoming....

iainf72

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736722#p19736722]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736705#p19736705]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

Lame Diack also allegedly asked for half a mill to 'forget' Asil Cakir Aiptekin's ABP case...

There aint gonna be enough popcorn for this all unravelling

EDIT: uh-oh. More incoming....

Is it wrong to smile when reading that?

Richmond Racer 2

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736801#p19736801]iainf72[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736722#p19736722]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19736705#p19736705]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

Lame Diack also allegedly asked for half a mill to 'forget' Asil Cakir Aiptekin's ABP case...

There aint gonna be enough popcorn for this all unravelling

EDIT: uh-oh. More incoming....

Is it wrong to smile when reading that?

No idea

r0bh

Posted by Dan Roan: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snq8kg

Statement by the Chairman of the IAAF Ethics Commission, The Honourable Michael Beloff QC

6 November 2015

Up until Friday 6 November 2015, the IAAF Ethics Commission has operated under rules which prevented any disclosure of its activities unless and until any disciplinary proceedings for potential breaches of the IAAF’s Code of Ethics were completed. This has led to an imperfect understanding of the Commission’s role and functions, especially in relation to the allegations concerning the Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova andconcealment of her doping violations. With the encouragement and support of the Ethics Commission, these restrictions have been lifted by the IAAF Council with effect from today and the Ethics Commission is now in a position to provide the following information.

The Ethics Commission received a complaint in relation to the matter referred to above and, in accordance with the procedural rules of the Ethics Commission, the Chairman, the Honourable Michael J Beloff QC, determined that there was a case fit for investigation and appointed the Right Honourable Sir Anthony Hooper, a recently retired Lord Justice of Appeal of England and Wales with particular expertise in criminal law, to investigate the allegations.

In the course of Sir Anthony’s investigations, he liaised with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in respect of the extensive and detailed investigation it has been undertaking with wider terms of reference and which is shortly to report its findings, and shared information with that agency.

Sir Anthony submitted his investigation report to the IAAF Ethics Commission in August 2015, recommending that disciplinary charges be brought against four persons, namely: Papa Massata Diack, former consultant to the IAAF, Valentin Balakhnichev, former President of the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF), Alexei Melnikov, former Chief ARAF Coach for long distance walkers and runners, and Gabriel Dollé, former Director of the IAAF’s Anti-Doping Department, for various alleged breaches of the IAAF Code of Ethics.

As required by the Ethics Commission’s rules, the outcome of the investigation and the investigator’s recommendations were reviewed and assessed by another member of the Ethics Commission, Kevan Gosper, a former Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee, who endorsed the recommendations.

Charges were sent to those four persons in September 2015 and a hearing has been fixed to take place in London over 16-18 December 2015, to consider the cases against them, including their defences and evidence to be provided by or on their behalf. The cases will be determined by a Panel of the Ethics Commission consisting of the Chairman of the Ethics Commission, Michael Beloff QC (UK), and two other members of the Commission, Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D., (USA) President Emeritus of the Hastings Center, a renowned research institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest, and Akira Kawamura (Japan), a former President of the International Bar Association. In accordance with the rules of the Ethics Commission, the hearing will be held in private. The Panel’s determination will be published as soon as possible thereafter. The Ethics Commission stresses that the presumption of innocence applies until such point as a disciplinary case is found proved against any person.

An investigation is also ongoing in respect of an additional person, and the Ethics Commission will also pay close regard to any further information emanating from WADA or any other source. If the ongoing investigation leads to disciplinary charges being laid against any other persons, the Ethics Commission will provide an update on the fact that such additional charges have been laid at that time.

In the meantime the Ethics Commission does not intend to provide further comment on the substance of the charges in this complex matter, which will be the subject of final determinations in due course.

joelsim

Looks like there may be a few hurdles to overcome.

rick_chasey

Meh, low paid sports, cycling & athletics.

The_Boy

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19737851#p19737851]Joelsim[/url] wrote:

Looks like there may be a few hurdles to overcome.

Serves me right for thinking it was safe to come back in.

*sigh*

joelsim

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19738136#p19738136]The_Boy[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19737851#p19737851]Joelsim[/url] wrote:

Looks like there may be a few hurdles to overcome.

Serves me right for thinking it was safe to come back in.

*sigh*

I thought I'd Cram one in before getting my coat. I suppose I should have nipped it in the Budd though.

shinyhelmut

Can't we just put this one to Bedford. I can barely Coep. All it does is Foster mistrust. This is as Farah as we need to go. No Mo.

joelsim

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19738294#p19738294]ShinyHelmut[/url] wrote:

Can't we just put this one to Bedford. I can barely Coep. All it does is Foster mistrust. This is as Farah as we need to go. No Mo.

That's a bit of a Bolt out of the blue.

Sorry I'll stop now and concentrate on finding Lame Dick a moggie.

Macaloon

Disappointing that Lord Coe has to deal with this pish. Hope it doesn't stain his spotless reputation. He must be shocked and disappointed. Let's hope this legacy doesn't become a liability in justifying all that Olympics cash in the teeth of all that austerity:

Lord Coe will:

Advise the Prime Minister on how to make the most of the Games in reaching the Government’s target of £13bn economic benefit as a result of hosting the Games
Act as a roving global ambassador to help win new trade and investment deals for British businesses who have helped make the Olympic Games such a success
Advise the Prime Minister on ways to ensure that legacy plans across the four key areas - economic, sporting, volunteering and regeneration - are put into action and the pace of activity stays high
Advise on the development of partnerships beyond government with organisations and individuals who can help achieve the Government’s legacy objectives, whether in physical infrastructure, international trade, volunteering and school sport
A new Olympics Legacy unit will be set up in the Cabinet Office.

Prime Minister David Cameron said:

Seb Coe has done a brilliant job delivering the best Games ever. Now I want him to help me deliver the best Olympic legacy ever.

joelsim

First move...appoint Francesco Conconi as Schools Advisor.

Macaloon

Always good to clean the kennels even if the dawg has boulted. A very public bucket of keech in the face is a good way to deter other prominent untouchable sports leaders from turning a blind-eye.

blazing_saddles

Released 2pm today:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/34758980

Richmond Racer 2

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19738637#p19738637]Blazing Saddles[/url] wrote:

Released 2pm today:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/34758980

Its going to be massive

Worth bearing in mind that WADA have been investigating the claims of doping in Russia across a number of sports, not just athletics - including cycling

Macaloon

Time to run this legislator, and amateur corporate shill, out of public life. Travesty.

The German reporter who sparked a doping storm engulfing athletics hit back on Thursday at accusations from Britain's Sebastian Coe, who is bidding for the sport's leadership, that his report was "a declaration of war" on athletics.

Hajo Seppelt, of German network ARD, teamed up with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper to produce a damning report accusing the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) of failing to investigate hundreds of what they called "suspicious" drug tests between 2001 and 2012.

The report raised new questions about the sport just weeks before the Aug. 22-30 world championships in Beijing and Coe, who is seeking to become the IAAF's new president, responded with an impassioned defense of athletics, attacking "the betrayal of the last few days of our sport".

Read more at Reuters

Enough is enough. The stench of institutionalised corruption is so nauseating, the sense of betrayal so complete, that the challenge to Sebastian Coe must be uncompromising, and expressed with brutal clarity.

He has 48 hours to prove he is the man to save his sport, to verify he is worthy of trust and reconciliation. He must address understandable accusations that he is part of athletics’ problem, rather than the answer to its existential crisis.

Lamine Diack, the predecessor to whom he pledged grotesque allegiance as “my spiritual president”, is alleged to have been centrally involved in what amounts to a protection racket, featuring the covering up of failed drug tests.

Richmond Racer 2

Coe's not the man for the job that SHOULD lie ahead.

My favourite bit of penmanship from the sports writers collective, this from Martin Samuel:

'Coe's default position was to be not just an apologist, but the champion of a regime that has smelt wrong for years. On Sunday, Coe said he sat beside Diack throughout his time at the IAAF and was unaware of even a hint of corruption.

Coe was the first chairman of FIFA's ethics commission but saw nothing untoward there, too. One imagines had he been sat on the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963, he might have popped over to the motorcade to ask what all the fuss was about.'

Yellow Peril

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19738698#p19738698]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

Coe's not the man for the job that SHOULD lie ahead.

My favourite bit of penmanship from the sports writers collective, this from Martin Samuel:

'Coe's default position was to be not just an apologist, but the champion of a regime that has smelt wrong for years. On Sunday, Coe said he sat beside Diack throughout his time at the IAAF and was unaware of even a hint of corruption.

Coe was the first chairman of FIFA's ethics commission but saw nothing untoward there, too. One imagines had he been sat on the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963, he might have popped over to the motorcade to ask what all the fuss was about.'

Coe's slippery and fairly Teflon, to continue the above analogy we'll find out in years to come that, at the relevant time, he was quietly packing away a rifle not far from the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building

Macaloon

Lord Coe escorts the first visitors to Nike Palace, The Mall, London.


With the sideboard in Nike Street


On Desert Island Discs

joelsim

One thing is for sure. Today WILL be the last day that Mr Teflon can be in denial.

ocdupalais

Seb Teflon and Dick Laminate star in a new (old) comedy.
It's a sort of Chuckle Brothers meets Only Fools and Horses...

lostboysaint

Not started well for Putin and his countrymen.

Yellow Peril

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19738898#p19738898]lostboysaint[/url] wrote:

Not started well for Putin and his countrymen.

I guess if they ban Russia from athletics they'll all compete under the annexation of the Ukraine...

gweeds

Link to the report:

https://wada-main-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/files/wada_independent_commission_report_1_en.pdf

The World Anti-Doping Agency has recommended that the IAAF suspend Russia from competition.

The review by Dick Pound, the former Wada president who has spent 11 months looking into claims of systemic cheating and cover-up within Russian athletics and the sport’s governing body, has also recommended that five athletes and five coaches be given lifetime doping bans. It also says that Moscow’s anti-doping lab should lose its accreditation.

lostboysaint

And there's sufficient evidence of bribery and corruption that the file has been handed to Interpol.