Life bans for three athletics figures over alleged doping cover-up

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Life bans for three athletics figures over alleged doping cover-up

7 January 2016 Athletics

The son of ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack is one of three senior figures given life bans from the sport.

Former IAAF consultant Papa Massata Diack and Russian officials Valentin Balakhnichev and Alexei Melnikov were last month charged with multiple breaches of anti-doping rules relating to Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova.

Ex-IAAF anti-doping director Gabriel Dolle has been banned for five years.

IAAF president Lord Coe said the bans "could not send a stronger message".

Diack and Balakhnichev, a former president of the Russian athletics federation and IAAF treasurer, face fines of £17,000 while Russian coach Melnikov could be fined £10,000.

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[mythology]

1. Good. Cheaters should be punished severely.

[joeybee12]

2. Is Lord Coe Sebastian Coe?

He really came across as a a d*ck at the London Games.

[bluedigger]

6. I was a big fan of his when I was a teenager.

Ah, well, clay feet, yada, yada, yada...

[joeybee12]

7. always had a favorable opinion of him. .

Until the Olympic games

[bluedigger]

3. There's a world athletic's chief?

How does that work exactly? Does he okay tee times and what not?

[Angleae]

4. The athletics federation deals with track & field events.

[bluedigger]

5. So he's mostly a world chief in his own mind?

I can totally identify.