News of his passing was confirmed by Senegalese football club Jaraaf de Dakar where Diack was club president. A statement posted on the club’s social media channels read: “Jaraaf de Dakar has learned with deep sadness of the death of Lamine Diack. “A founding member of the club, he will […]
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Senegal’s former World Athletics president Lamine Diack during his corruption trial in France in 2020 The disgraced former head of world athletics’ governing body Lamine Diack has died at home in Senegal, aged 88. Diack, who was convicted of corruption last year, was president of World Athletics (formerly the International […]
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The unmasking of Lamine Diack as one of the great sinners in the history of sport began with a police raid on All Saints’ Day in 2015. At this point Diack, the head of global athletics for 16 years and a distinguished figure at the International Olympic Committee, had yet […]
Lamine Diack, the former president of what is now World Athletics, has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined €500,000 (£455,000) after being found guilty of corruption by the French courts. Diack, who led what was then the International Association of Athletics Federations between 1999 and 2015, was […]
Lamine Diack, the disgraced former head of athletics’ world governing body, has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of them suspended, after being found guilty of corruption. The Senegalese, 87, faced corruption and money-laundering charges linked to the Russian doping scandal. Diack was convicted of accepting bribes from […]
FILE PHOTO: Former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diack, wearing a face mask, gestures as he arrives for his trial at the Paris courthouse, France, June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) – Lawyers for former world athletics chief Lamine Diack, who is on […]