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Ex-World Athletics boss Lamine Diack jailed

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By Reuters | Sep 17, 2020

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This file photo taken on August 21, 2015, shows outgoing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack speaking during a press conference in Beijing ahead of the 2015 IAAF World Championships. Former IAAF chief Diack was arrested for corruption, a judiciary source said on November 4, 2015. [AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER]

The former head of world athletics' governing body, Lamine Diack, was convicted in France yesterday of corruption in a Russian doping scandal and sentenced to spend at least two years in jail.

Diack, 87, was found guilty of accepting bribes from athletes suspected of doping, to cover up test results and let them continue competing, including in the 2012 London Olympics.

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