Lamine Diack

Paris trial of ex-IAAF president Lamine Diack and son exposes dark backdrop of athletics' golden era

The grim picture emerging from the corruption trial of the Diacks in Paris shows how the thrilling era for track fans was poisoned behind the scenes by a father-son partnership at the top of the IAAF

Lamine Diack corruption trial: Former IAAF president says he should have been more vigilant

Diack is being tried on corruption, money laundering and breach of trust charges.

Former World Athletics head Lamine Diack says he slowed handling of Russian doping cases to save sponsorship deal

Diack, 87, said he had not sought to protect the athletes caught up in the scandal, some of whom later competed in the London 2012 Olympics, but to ensure the cases did not come to public attention all at once

Former IAAF chief Lamine Diack's corruption case trial to begin on 8 June in Paris

Prosecutors allege Diack solicited 3.45 million euros ($3.89 million) from athletes suspected of doping to cover up the allegations and allow them to continue competing, including in the 2012 London Olympics.

French judges postpone trial of ex-IAAF president Lamine Diack in Russian athletes doping corruption case

The trial’s opening came five years after prosecutors began their investigation into Diack, from Senegal, who now lives under house arrest in Paris. Investigators have described a web of corruption that was rife in world athletics, including bribes and extortion to cover up positive drug tests.

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack's trial for doping corruption involving Russian athletes commences in Paris

As IAAF president, Diack was one of the most influential men in Olympic sports, presiding over an era when Usain Bolt made track and field wildly popular. But Diack’s legacy, and the IAAF’s credibility, took a beating after he stepped down in 2015. He was arrested in France and investigators revealed accusations of athletes being squeezed for payments to cover up their doping cases.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino joins IOC, ends five-year period of no representation by football in Olympic body

Gianni Infantino joins International Tennis Federation chief David Haggerty and Japanese Olympic Committee president Yasuhiro Yamashita as the IOC’s latest members.

World Athletics Championships 2019: After corruption allegations over hosting bids, empty seats cast new shadow on Doha event

Qatar's conduct in bidding for the world athletics championships, first unsuccessfully for the 2017 edition, remains under criminal investigation in France

IAAF president Sebastian Coe says world governing body has made progress on Russian doping, leveling female playing field

Coe, who won 1500m Olympic golds for Britain in 1980 and 1984, beat legendary former Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka to take over as head of the International Association of Athletics Federations from the now-disgraced Senegalese Lamine Diack in 2015.

Legendary athletes Alexander Popov, Sergey Bubka deny taking bribes for backing Rio's Olympic bid

Sergio Cabral, a former governor of Rio de Janeiro, said at a court in Brazil that Popov as well as Bubka received bribes in exchange for supporting the city as host to the 2016 Olympic Games.