The second instalment of an investigation into bribery and doping in world athletics said the behaviour of the sport’s governing body “went beyond sporting corruption and may have been criminal in nature”.
An investigation published yesterday by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) found that corruption was “embedded”, was not due to “a small number of miscreants” but extended to the top of the governing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The initial part of the Wada investigation, published in November, led to Russia becoming the first country in history to be banned from all track and field competition, a suspension that will last until Moscow can prove its athletes are clean of performance-enhancing drugs.