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August 21, 2015 shows outgoing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack gesturing during a press conference in Beijing, ahead of the 2015 IAAF World Championships. / AFP
The former anti-doping chief of athletics’ world governing body told a French court on Monday that Lamine Diack urged him to bend the rules on Russian doping cases to avoid “a scandal” that would scare off sponsors.
Gabriel Dolle is being tried in Paris alongside Diack, the Senegalese former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), who is accused of accepting millions of dollars to cover up Russian doping tests.
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