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Leaked email details corruption claims involving IAAF and Russian federation over doping cases
- Updated: November 25, 2016
An email reportedly sent from the former head of the Russian athletics federation Valentin Balakhnichev detailing a ‘total protection project’ doping cover-up has uncovered further claims regarding the involvement of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in the scandal.
Following research conducted by German broadcaster ARD and French newspaper Le Monde, ARD published what it says is a message from Balakhnichev to officials of the IAAF sent on July 30, 2014.
“We will not remain silent. It was not us who started this game. It was the IAAF project and the IAAF shall be the key victim of future scandal,” ARD reported Balakhnichev as having written.
Within the email Balakhnichev, who was banned for life from athletics earlier this year for his role in the cover-up of doped Russian athletes, accuses the IAAF officials of threatening to remove the country from the 2013 World Championships and “forcing” the All-Russia Athletic Federation into a “long relationship” of subverting anti-doping procedures.
“In 2011 when we faced shocking 19 ABP (athlete biological …
