New dope claims a declaration of war: Coe
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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 “suspicious” drug test results.
A day after the IAAF hit back at last weekend’s allegations by Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s ARD/WDR broadcaster, Coe made an impassioned defense of track and field, telling the BBC the claims were “a declaration of war” on the sport.
“I don’t think anyone should underestimate the anger which is felt in our sport in the betrayal of the last few days of our sport,” Coe, who won gold medals in the 1,500 meters at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, told the BBC’s World Service yesterday.
“That 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.
“We 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.”
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.
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