New dope claims a declaration of war: Coe
Print Edition
Sebastian Coe, the former Olympic champion in the running to become the next president of the world governing body of athletics, said the sport felt angry and betrayed over accusations it failed to investigate hundreds of 鈥渟uspicious鈥 drug test results.
A day after the IAAF hit back at last weekend鈥檚 allegations by Britain鈥檚 Sunday Times newspaper and Germany鈥檚 ARD/WDR broadcaster, Coe made an impassioned defense of track and field, telling the BBC the claims were 鈥渁 declaration of war鈥 on the sport.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think anyone should underestimate the anger which is felt in our sport in the betrayal of the last few days of our sport,鈥 Coe, who won gold medals in the 1,500 meters at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, told the BBC鈥檚 World Service yesterday.
鈥淭hat in some way we sit on our hands, at best, and at worst are complicit in a cover up, that is just not borne out by anything we have done as a sport in the past 15 years.
鈥淲e have led the way on out-of-competition independent testing, we have led the way on laboratories, we were the first sport to have arbitration panels, we introduced blood passports in 2009 because we wanted to elevate the science around weeding out the cheats.鈥
The two organizations making the claims said they had obtained secret test data from the vaults of the IAAF, supplied by a whistleblower disgusted by the extent of doping in track and field.
The 58-year-old Coe is standing against former pole vaulter Sergei Bubka of Ukraine to run the IAAF when long-serving current president Lamine Diack stands down later this month.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 娌狪CP璇侊細娌狪CP澶05050403鍙-1
- |
- 浜掕仈缃戞柊闂讳俊鎭湇鍔¤鍙瘉锛31120180004
- |
- 缃戠粶瑙嗗惉璁稿彲璇侊細0909346
- |
- 骞挎挱鐢佃鑺傜洰鍒朵綔璁稿彲璇侊細娌瓧绗354鍙
- |
- 澧炲肩數淇′笟鍔＄粡钀ヨ鍙瘉锛氭勃B2-20120012
Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
