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Monday, December 6, 2021

V 11 N. 83 Another Potentially Ball Breaking Report from the Guardian on Lamine Diack

Dec. 6, 2021

Reporting today in The Guardian  writer Sean Ingle never ceases to amaze us with his inside stories on the world of international athletics (track and field)  and other sports like football, weightlifting, etc.  Today's article implies that Papa Massata son of  the late Lamine Diack former head of IAAF may be ready to spill more beans on the kitchen floor of that august body with who was in whose pocket regarding selection of Olympic sites, doping cover ups, and on and on.  Even the Brazilians are now imprisoning some of their own people over the revelations of corruption in the selection of Rio for the 2016 Games.   Diack died recently with a four year prison sentence over his head and Massata is facing five years if he returns to France, although he is most likely sequestered in an air-conditioned mansion in Dakar, Senegal.  I doubt he will be deprived of Chateau Lafitte Rothchild while in exile.

Lamine Diack's Ghost

Comments:

The idea that Seb Coe was that disingenuous in taking over the mantle of what has become World Athletics simply doesn't compute.   Diack was dirty on so many different levels it would have to take a blind, deaf fool, who was not allowed to smell or touch Papa to imagine the guy was legit.   Coe has escaped the scrutiny he'd otherwise be treated to because of his storybook celebrity.  And the idea that he's little more than a version of a cuckold spouse isn't working over here.    Richard Mach


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