Heute wurde der zweite Teil des Untersuchungssreports der unabhängigen WADA-Kommission (Dick Pound, Richard McLaren, Günter Younger) veröffentlicht und in einer Pressekonferenz vorgestellt.
Diack und sein engeres Umfeld werden schwer belastet, es wird aber auch ein generelles Versagen der kompletten Führungsebene der IAAF konstatiert.
Merkwürdig in der Pressekonferenz war, dass Pound zwar ausdrücklich betont, dass das IAAF-Council (also auch Sebastian Coe, Sergej Bubka und Helmut Digel) vom Ausmaß des Dopingproblems sowie den Vertuschungen gewusst haben muss, er aber dennoch der Meinung ist, dass Coe der richtige Mann ist, um des Problems Herr zu werden.
Ein paar ziemlich desillusionierte Gedanken zu Pounds Einlassungen bezüglich Coe von Ross Tucker
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Diack und sein engeres Umfeld werden schwer belastet, es wird aber auch ein generelles Versagen der kompletten Führungsebene der IAAF konstatiert.
Merkwürdig in der Pressekonferenz war, dass Pound zwar ausdrücklich betont, dass das IAAF-Council (also auch Sebastian Coe, Sergej Bubka und Helmut Digel) vom Ausmaß des Dopingproblems sowie den Vertuschungen gewusst haben muss, er aber dennoch der Meinung ist, dass Coe der richtige Mann ist, um des Problems Herr zu werden.
Ein paar ziemlich desillusionierte Gedanken zu Pounds Einlassungen bezüglich Coe von Ross Tucker
Zitat:Pound's verbal endorsement, of Coe, is so contradictory to the written IC report that it hijacked the whole report. To make that endorsement & defence, Pound had to abandon the factual aspects of the report and express opinion after opinion. Never good.
At one point, Pound even said that if Coe had known, I'm sure he would have done something about it,which is quite an astonishing 'guess'.
Pound also said the IAAF can't be said to be in non-compliance with the WADA code. This despite covering up & BRIBING doping athletes!
It was as though Pound was possessed by Coe's PR guy halfway through the presser. Astonishing, in that he ended up basically saying that the institution failed (a euphemism - it was corrupt), that the Council CANNOT have been unaware, but one of its members? He's the man! Makes you wonder what a sport has to do to be non-compliant, and what needs to happen to effect real change?
Ultimately, Pound took the sport to the precipice, where truth & real change might be possible, then pulled back. Joke is on us, I guess! Every doping scandal ever is not as disheartening as the realisation that the "police" are protecting the criminals - micro & macro level.
And consequence of this - less trust & credibility (if that was possible) than before. Now even oversight dances around accountability. So, when I watch T&F from now on, my default setting is not optimism, or even skepticism, but outright cynicism, because you had a chance! And all this has shown is that there is zero accountability, that sports governance dances to a different tune, & should not be trusted and I just hope that the media keeps chasing the truth, like they did to start this process in the first place.
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